Foreign Language Press Service

About two years ago a member of our editorial staff, who at that time was also Mechanic's Institute, advocated the erection of a polytechnical school in Illinois. The Institute adopted the detailed recommendation, and in 1859 Representative C. Butz introduced a proposal to the state legislatu

In the meeting which the School Board held last evening, Inspector Brentano read a proposal of the Chicago Turn Gemeinde, requesting that gymnastics be included in the regular schedule of all public high schools, and that teachers be engaged to instruct the children in that branch of physical

According to reliable reports, a plan is being considered to transfer the high school which is now located on the West Side of the city of Chicago (and thus is practically inaccessible to people who live on the North Side) to a place where it can be reached from all three parts of the city wi

Schintz read an invitation for the peace festival (Franco-Prussian War) and moved to close the schools on the day of the celebration. Stone opposed the motion, because, as he said, there was no peace as yet in France. Walsh said it would hardly be sensible to send the chil

The strangest concession which recently has been made by the American press to German spirit and solid vigor we find in an editorial of the Chicago Evening Post under the headline "The Restoration of Germany". After pointing to the elements of a higher civilization and genuine popul

The more I look at American life, the more do I become convinced that the American needs the compulsory school system... A German teacher's Association is planned for Chicago with the aim of mutual education and also discussion of the various methods of instruction. In order to start on this

Some American papers still confess their fear and anxiety at being Germanized.. But just what they don't want to be, they already partly are...Take, for example, the question of compulsory schooling. That is a "German idea". When it was first agitated here, only ten German-Americans went to b

If the next president of the United States - or the next presidential candidate of the Republican Party is named Schulze or Muller, Grant, or Trumbull, Piefke, or Purzpichler - that is not so important as that the program of the Republican Party be a progressive one. Under a progressive progr

The St. Louis German papers justly rejoice about the partial introduction of the German teaching method( so-called "visual instruction") into the public schools of their city. It has, been ordered that every week one hour of physics shall be taught with Hotze's "First Lessons of Physics" as a

The instruction of many years, one sees, has been less useful than no instruction at all would have been. But that at last the evil is being recognized by the Americans themselves is the first step toward an improvement. In San Francisco and California a man is going to come to the helm (name

A sad spectacle are the churches, chapels, and other prayer houses lying in ruins. The German churches, in every case, were connected with elementary schools. The most urgent business of the Germans as a nationality in Chicago is the providing of temporary school rooms. We saw the ruins of ma

The plan of civil service reform which the President has adopted finds in the press of both parties on the whole, a favorable reception............. ....The Philadelphia "Democrat" expresses an opinion that has been uttered before by both the Anzeiger des Westens and the Illinois St

German is now given in all the schools which were not burned down and where German was taught before the fire. An average of 2,359 pupils in eight schools are taking German. These schools are Washington School, 182 pupils; Carpenter, 328; Wells, 298; Moseley, 282; Cottage Grove, 187; Haven, 3

Let us all get together and get the thing started. It can be done and we are certain that many parents will endorse it.

To the President and the Trustees of the Sinai Congregation. Chicago, Illinois June 8, 1873 Gentlemen! I have carefully read the Cincinnati Call for a Congregational Conference for the purpose of establishing a Jewish Theological Institute, and respectf

There is hardly to be found in Illinois a city as saintly, as much addicted to the Bible, as pious as Evanston, If in a city wish as many churches and prayer houses, halos of saints do not as yet grow on the skulls of its inhabitants, for that, wicked Chicago is probably responsible. Sham, sa

"If the Illinois Staats-Zeitung can see no practical value for America in our article entitled 'State and Church,' it need only read our today's article about Catholic public schools in Saint Louis. [Translator's note: Verbatim. No doubt, the author uses the word public in the sense of free,

In Germany to be radical meant, and still means, to apply all one's strength and resources in opposing and trying to overthrow the existing form of government [(Monarchy)]. Most of the so-called "Forty-eighters" were radicals in this sense of the word. [Translator's note: The author refers to

The fear of Catholicism expressed by the Westliche Post, now affects even the Anzeiger of Cleveland. A few days ago the latter paper wrote the following nonsense: "The City of Chicago has a Democratic administration and the Board of Education has many Catholic members. These members

At the session of the Board of Education last Tuesday, a resolution was adopted--without fuss or appeal to prejudice--which nips in the bud all complaints about religious instruction in public schools. Without debate and without a dissenting voice, the resolution forbidding the use of the Bib