Show EXERCISES teachers and pupils of schools have pleasant afternoon i from saturdays standard tho members ot the board of education who were present at the meeting of the board last evening were much interested in the report of superintendent allison on the christmas celebration in the public schools ot the city yesterday yeste iday sir alason said that in every school in the city exercises had been held and that the teachers and pupils seemed to enter into the spirit of the occasion in a manner that spoke strongly 0 the cordial feeling existing between them and that every ono seemed to have had a good time superintendent joyce said that a good deal of time and money were spent in teaching the children who discovered america and what other celebrated men in history had done but that the children knew who santa claus was without being told and that he thought that tho exercises hold yesterday in the schools were a good thing the exercises were held in tho school rooms and were attended largely by an fn ends and parents ot the children who were greatly interested the teachers provided candy tor their charges and christmas songs and carols were sung during the past term tha decorative art work in the schools has been directed toward making an exhibition at i the christmas exercises and these together with other school work were on exhibition in the different rooms |