The Metropolitan School Board held its first meeting in the
Guildhall on Thursday. Miss Garrett, though at the head of the poll, was not invited to take the chair pro tem., as cour- tesy would have required,—but Alderman Cotton was called to the chair, on the thin excuse that gratitude should be shown to the City for lending the Guildhall to the School Board, and that that gratitude would best take the form of a compliment to an alderman. Professor Huxley proposed that before choosing a chairman they should decide against giving him any great powers, or giving him a salary, but should trust to a paid secretary to do the work, supporting his motion on very questionable and flimsy grounds, which we have criticized elsewhere. That proposal, however, was carried by 32 to 14, more than two to one,—a self-denying ordinance of most unfortunate augury for the Board.
