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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 3171 - 3175
SCHOOLS & SEMINARIES (Cont '0)
3171 - L Apr. I: 1/4 - Dedication exercises were held yesterday at the new
High school building on Euclid st. The building was opened for public
inspection, and in all its arrangements and 'l.ppointments it is the most
perfp.ct and complete in this part of the country. The upper hall was
filled with spectators long before the exercises started.
George Wiley compared the new building with the first in the city and
those of primitive days. He "Iso presented some facts regarding educntion
in the state. Charles Palmer, a member of city council, gave a brief talk.
Various songs were sung, after which the Rev. R. B. Claxon pronounced benediction.
(19)
3172 - L Apr. 9:3/2 - At the city council meeting last night the committee
on public buildings was authorized and requested to repair all damages done
to the fifth ward schoolhouse while it was being used for election pur-
(I)
poses.
3173 - L Apr. 16; ed:2/1 - When our attention was called to an article in
the PLAIN DEALER of Apr. 14. charging Senator Griswold wi th trying to
abolish the office of state superintendent of common schools, and to mutilate
and destroy the system generally, we made an investigation to ascertain
whether the charge was true; acd, as we expected, when we first saw
the accusation, the charge was made without any foundation. Griswold did
not vote to abolish the office of state commissioner, nor did he, on any
occasion, favor the project. He believes the office a necessary one,
though now poorly filled.
Griswold did not vote to abolish the school library tax, but he did
vote to suspend it for the present year, and we judge from what we have
heard him say upon the question, that, unless this branch of the subject
can be put in cbarge of some one competent to mdl{e a better selection than
the present commissioner has done, he will vote the same way next winter.
On these questions Griswold occupied the same position as all other
senators from the reserve, except Mr. Canfield of Medina, and we think no
one but the editor of the PLAIN DEALER can discover in the views he entertains,
or his course in the senate in relation to them, any evidence of
hostility to common schools, or of a desire materially to change our present
system. (7)
L May 5: 1/4 - See Books & Authors
3174 - L May 28: 3/2 - At the ci tv counci 1 meeting last night the issue of
bonds for $10, 000, for the pm"pose of erecting a school house in the fifth
ward. was approved. (1)
3175 - L June 4:3/2 - At the city council meeting last night the city
auditor was authorized to make a draft on the treasurer for the amount
approbated for the payment of interest on the school house bonds. (1)
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