(From the Savannah Morning News.)
The scholastic year of the Beach Institute, which closed yesterday, was made the occasion of interesting school exercises in the examination of the several classes of the Institute, and an exhibition of the scholars in recitation, declamation, reading and singing.
The Beach Institute is one of the educational institutions under the control of the American Missionary Association, whose headquarters are at New York, and whose operations in the South have been directed to the moral and educational advancement of the colored people. The Southern work is under the superintendence of Dr. J. E. Roy, whose headquarters are at Atlanta, and who was present yesterday, a gratified spectator of the progress made at the Institute in the education of the colored race.
The school here is, as we learn from the Superintendent, Prof. J. K. Cole, in a prosperous condition, nearly 300 scholars having been registered during the scholastic year.
The Institution is divided into five grades, under competent teachers, as follows: The first grade, or normal class, under Professor Cole, the Superintendent; the second grade, Miss Partridge, teacher: the third grade. Miss Bailey, teacher; the fourth grade, Miss Burgh, teacher; and the fifth grade, under the supervision of Miss Willey.
The examination yesterday evinced the faithfulness of the instructors in their departments and the aptitude of the pupils, and we were particularly struck with the examination of the normal class in introductory Latin exercises, the pupils showing a remarkable proficiency in their recitations from Harkness’ Introductory Latin Lessons.
At 12 o’clock, the whole school assembled in the chapel, when the programme was successfully carried out, to the pleasure of the large number of friends and parents of the pupils present.
The school will re-open on the first Monday in October.