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PUBLIC COMMON SCHOOLS IX CINCINNATI IN 1837. 



These are under the government of trustees and visitors. 

 who are Peyton S. Symmes, President; George Graham, jun- 

 ior; Elam P. Langdon; James R. Baldridge; William Wood. 



These visitors examine and employ the teachers, carefully 

 inspect the schools, adopt rules for their government, and 

 finally, do every other act proper and necessary to be done, in 

 execution of their high trust. Thus far they have acted wise- 

 ly and efficiently in the management of these noble institu- 

 tions. 



The city council have a board of education, whose business 

 it is to raise the funds wherewith to build school houses, pay 

 the teachers, and keep the buildings in repair. They have 

 erected ten large edifices, at an expense of about one hun- 

 dred thousand dollars. This sum includes the cost of the lots 

 on which these splendid buildings are erected. Each of these 

 buildings is divided into four rooms thirty-six feet in breadth 

 by thirty-eight feet in length, two in each story, besides the 

 basement rooms. The building is two lofty stories in height, 

 above the basement story. In these buildings forty schools 

 are taught, by about eighty instructors. The number of 

 schools for males and females is equal, in which, about two 

 thousand five hundred children are instructed during the 

 whole year, except two vacations of two weeks each. The 

 wages of the teachers are seven hundred dollars annually, 

 for principals, and three hundred, for assistant male teachers; 

 and only two hundred and fifty dollars for female principals, and 

 two hundred for assistant female teachers! All these sums are 

 paid by the city, for the instruction of the children who have 

 no parents, or those whose parents are poor. 



So much we can say, for the benevolence, wisdom and char- 

 ity of Cincinnati. 



The instructors of these public schools are all well educa- 

 ted. The principals of the male schools, are graduates of 

 eastern colleges, and the female teachers are educated ia 

 the best manner. The teachers in their department, are per- 



