OF EDUCATION II 



very part which I have been unable to bring under 

 the normal plan. 



The principal of the high school has, for years, assumed 

 the right to admit into and exclude from the high school 

 such scholars as he chose, and rather than bring on a con- 

 flict with him, such as is now agitating the district, commit- 

 tees have abdicated their legal duties. 



I have always understood perfectly the duty of the 

 committee in regard to transferring scholars from one 

 school to another, and have never assumed the right 

 to admit into or exclude from the high school any 

 scholar and never have transferred a scholar without 

 the direction or consent of the committee. The com- 

 mittee have sometimes desired me to do it, but I 

 have refused to take the responsibility. 



Your committee then sent to him, a request in writing, to 

 admit those five scholars. He admitted four of the five and 

 one other whom he was not directed to admit, but excluded 

 one of the five — Janies Hanrihan — whom your committee 

 deemed particularly worthy of admission. Upon applica- 

 tion to him to state the reason why Hanrihan was not ad- 

 mitted, he said he had no seat for him. 



In this paragraph, and all that follows to the end 

 of the committee's report, nearly every sentence is full 

 of error. It is strange that a man can warp the truth 

 so constantly. I will insert verbatim the first order 



from the committee. 



