Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230041384
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Private Schools Volume 4 by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Handbook of Private Schools Volume 4 written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...Eugene C. Alder, a graduate of Kansas and Harvard, is the principal. Friends School, 112 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn, is a day school for boys and girls with a large elementary department. The school has been conducted by the Society of Friends under a board of trustees for half a century. Guy Wilbur Chipman. A.M., is the principal. The little children and some of the older classes recite on the roof in the open air. Friends Academy, Locust Valley, L.I., was established and incorporated in 1876 by Gideon Frost. It is a prosperous boarding and day school with an enrollment of about one hundred from nearby towns. Intermediate and college preparatory work are taken up under the principalship of S. Archibald Smith. The Staten Island Academy, New Brighton, established in 1884, is a large day school which offers an advanced progressive school program under the most capable auspices to over two hundred boys and girls from the kindergarten grades upward. It is maintained by a corporation for the good of the community. Frank R. Page, Harvard, is the head master and his faculty are college or professionally trained. The educational value of the Boy Scout movement is recognized and utilized, and there is also a group of Camp Fire Girls. The enrollment of two hundred and fifty is chiefly in the elementary departments, but over one hundred boys and girls have entered the leading colleges. Roger Ascham School, White Plains, was established about seven years ago by Mrs. Joseph Allen (Annie Winsor), a sister of the Winsors of Boston. Mrs. Allen is an able woman with sound and clearly defined ideas on education of children, and author of an inspiring book, "Home, School, and Vacation." The Roger Ascham School was established to put these views...