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Originally published in 1907
THIS WEB VERSION COPYRIGHT 2003 GET NJ
THE public schools of this city rank among the best in the
State. They comprise two primary schools, six grammar
schools, one high school and one training and model school.
The school property represents a value of $850,000. During the
past year there was an enrollment of 10,362 pupils with a teaching
force of 215 teachers.
A thoroughly equipped and up-to-date kindergarten is connected
with each primary department. Here, children from four
to six years of age have their work so arranged as to lead to a
proper development of their young minds through the proper
training of the senses.
The primary department aims to give a thorough preparation
for more advanced study. The work in numbers and arithmetic
receives the most earnest attention, quickness and accuracy being
the results aimed at. The methods employed in teaching
reading have attracted the attention and endorsement of the educational world.
The grammar department offers to all students who have completed
the primary department the advantages of a good, thorough
substantial education. The course of study for the primary
and grammar grades covers a period of eight years.
MANUAL TRAINING
THE regular course in manual training begins in the fifth
year and continues through the grammar grades and one
year of special work in the High School.
In this work the first aim is to relate the work intimately to the
life and interest of the pupil. Closely connected with all work in
manual training are the production and use of working drawings.
This work is not confined to the boys alone. The girls get a
training in domestic affairs which will enable them to make their
homes more attractive. All of the manual training work, with
the exception of sewing, is carried on in a commodious and well
equipped building located in a central part of the city. While
the boys are receiving instruction in wood carving, modeling in
clay and all forms of joinery, the girls are taking lessons in sewing
and domestic economy, such as cooking, table setting and
marketing.
HIGH SCHOOL
THE High School prepares voting men and young women
thoroughly for the best colleges, for scientific schools and
for mercantile pursuits. In order to attain these very distinct
objects it prescribes three courses of study, the classical, the
scientific and the commercial.
The classical course is especially designed to prepare young
amen and women for entrance into the most advanced colleges;
and the work of this course is shaped in accordance with the requirements
of the best of these higher institutions. In several
colleges the diploma of the Hoboken High School is accepted in
place of an entrance examination, notably by Cornell, Rutgers,
New York University, Lafayette, and by the Regents of the
University of the State of New York, for entrance to professional
schools. It is also accepted in lieu of an examination by the
New Jersey State Normal School and the State Normal School's
of the State of New York.
The scientific course is especially arranged for those voting
men and women who do not intend to go to college but desire
to take a course in a technical school such as Stevens Institute
of Technology. The trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology
offer to the graduates of this course twelve free scholarships as
rewards of merit. Three of these scholarships arc given each
rear and are awarded by competitive examination. None
but bona fide residents of the city of Hoboken are allowed to
compete for these free scholarships. In both of these courses, in
chemistry and physics, suitable and sufficient apparatus is supplied
to illustrate fully the principles and methods of these subjects.
The chemical laboratory has been enlarged and is well arranged
for effective work. In chemistry and physics, each student
has his place at the laboratory 'table, and in both subjects he
must perform his own experiments under the guidance of an instructor.
The commercial department aims to provide a training which
shall be broad and liberal in its character; and at the same time
acquaint the student with the principles and technique of commercial
transactions. To this end the course of study includes
not only the so-called commercial subjects such as bookkeeping,
stenography and typewriting, but also modern languages, mathematics
and economics. No greater tribute can be paid to the
thoroughness of work done by this department than the fact that
the demand from business houses for graduates is far greater
than the supply.
TRAINING SCHOOL
THIS school was established in 1897 for the purpose of training
teachers for the schools of this city. Graduation from
High School with an approved course of study is the standard of
admission.
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