Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-23

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The streets were thronged this morning
with boys and girls progressing in certain de-
fined directions, each one happy faced, bright,
animated, sending greetings to companions
they CHANGED to meet until they Individually
came in sight of their respective and various
school homes and then their faces were
dimmed for q moment a. they cast mental
glances down the dim perspective of nine or
zen months, lined on either side with "reading,
'riting and 'rithmatic," with geography and his
tory. algebra and geometry, essays and decla-
nations, botany and -, and ON and on until
| the lines converged For this ia
THE FIRST DAT OF SCHOOL,
and at o'clock this morning hundreds Of call
| bells tangled forth their sharp commands for
| attention, thousands Of desk lids were banged.
twice as many feet shuffled over the floor in
| uneasy expectancy and the same num-
Der Of eyes sobered down and gazed
| at the school marm." The scholastic sheep
that were taken into the pedagogic fold this
morning were only those whose feeces have
| already been shorn by the educational shears,
while the new comers-the eve lambs-those
| that have never before been instructed in the
ways and means Of browsing in the fields of
knowledge embodied in the Washington
system. were not received. Their turn will come
tomorrow, when they, too, will make the pill
grimage to the buildings to which they have
been assigned by the tickets which were issued
last week. Thef it is that the work of the year
1889 80 will be begun in earnest.
THE WORK OF ORGANIZATION.
Notwithstanding the fact that there has never
been such a crowded attendance upon the
schools the operation Of organizing and start
ing them is progressing smoothly. The teach
ers were given pointers last Saturday as to the
programs they should follow and they carried
them out today with the regularity and pre-
cision of clock work. At Supt. Powelrs Office
quiet reigned that was rather remarkable in
view of the occasion. few parents who have
grievances sat in patient waiting for their turn
at the ear of the head of the schools a new
teacher occasionally Fitted in, asked Secretary
Gurley question or two about how she should
start her roll book and then fitted back to her
flock again. and in the sactum Of the superin-
tendent conferences with teachers. principals
and parents combined occupied the morning.
Owing to
THE NEW METHOD OF ISSUING TICKETS
TO pupils from each building in vogue this year
it Is at present impossible to learn the exact
number ofpupils that will be returned to the
superintendent. Last year there we're upward
OF 81, 900 in all of the schools and the chances
are that this number will, before the end of
September, be swelled to about $4,000. The
reports from the buildings will be received In
tanned is very apt to grow considerably in the
coming week.
Today little or nothing was done in any of
the schools beyond the assembling of the pupils,
short talks of welcome and advice by the teach
ers, the giving of few instructions in regard
to the morrow, the assignment Of the first les
sons, and their dismissal. which, in nearly
every case. occurred at about noon. Tomorrow
the new pupils will be admitted and by We'd
nesday the schools will be in good working
order.
At the High School.
At the high school the entire day was pretty
well occupied. Everything was in motion from
before o'clock, as the stream of pupils kept
pouring into the building and separated to the
proper quarters according to signs standing in
the corridors. In order to make an organiza-
ton possible Principal Lane had
instructed the first year pupils
noon, and hence only the second and third
year classes to the number Of about 800. re-
ported for duty at o'clock, except few
stragglers from the new ranks, who did not get
the notice and came early to avoid the rush.
There were
HAND-sHAK1Nds ON EVERY SIDE
as pupil and pupil, teacher and teacher, and
teacher and pupil renewed acquaintance and
asked about the vacation. As a rule the hands
Drowned by the sun, their owners faces were
in harmony, and there was a general
aspect of good health spread all over
the building. The workmen engaged
in constructing the new wing to the north oil the
old building had erected barriers at the passage
ways leading into the unknown regions, strewn
with short pieces of lumber, shavings, tools
and blue-bloused artisans, and the pupils
thronged at the openings and specialized on the
time it will take to finish the work. This, ac-
cording to the fastest estimate, is about six
weeks, but DR.. Lane does not expect to get
fairly started in the new quarters until after
Thanksgiving, the end of the first quarter of
the school year. Until then he will run the
school on
THE HALLIDAY PLAN,
including both the first and second-year
classes, as announced in The STAR last week.
All of the new teachers have reported for
duty and this morning the faculty had a most
imposing look as its members filed upon the
platform in the large hall where the school
was assembled.
THE NEWCOMERS
are as follows: Miss Welles of Smith college,
class of 1888, to teach Latin and history; Miss
Laney of Cornell, to teach Latin; Miss VOL
happier of the high school itself and later Of
the class OF 1887, Boston university, to teach
German and mathematics; Miss Leech, to in
struct in English; Miss Reynolds, Au-
| rora, n. Y, normal school. English; Miss
| Ditto, history; Miss Weddell, mathematics;
Miss Ulke, normal school, German and mathe-
| matics; Miss Denham, normal school, botany;
Mr.. Wheat, Dartmouth, business training; Mr.
Priest, history, and Mr.. Meier, German. This
makes faculty Of nearly forty teachers, but,
with the 1.450 pupils expected, they viii be
none too many.
| DIR. LANES OPENING REMARKS
When the school had assembled in the hall
DR.. Lane, who was greeted with an outburst of
hand clapping, gave a short talk, dwelling
| principally on matters connected with the
| organization of the school, He urged
| upon the pupils the necessity of
| their active and earnest cooperation with the
teachers in these days of chaos while the school
| is waiting for its new quarters, ard expressed a
| hope that the time would not be long before
| everything assumes its normal condition. After
this address, which did not last long, the old
| pupils were dismissed, their lessons for tomor-
row having been announced in the rooms
| below.
| THE NEW PUPILS,
numbering over 600, came at noon and were
taken Immediately to the hall, where they were
given their lists Of studies and books, and afte1
few pointers as to their future careers al
high school pupils they were also sent home
| with instructions to return. some in the morn.
ing and some in the afternoon. This half -day
plan Of working will necessarily delay the
| complete organization Of the school rather
longer than usual, and although lessons will bt
| recited tomorrow the school will practically
not be in good working order before mex