Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-19
THE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
Over 1.s0O PUZZLE Expected--The Corps OF
Teachers for the Year

The Washington High School will contain in
the neighborhood of l.s5o pupils, as against
l. 40 last year. This increase is the normal sd-
vance in numbers that comes from the increase
in the population Of the city and the added ten
denotes Of parents to send their children to the
excellent institution that has grown MP. The
Central School, on o street, will hold 1000, the
Capitol Hill school, 80; the Georgetown
branch, 125, and the business school. s25. Two
years ago the Central building held over 1. 400.
thousand is all that can properly be accom-
modated, and the extra ninety this year may
cause some little embarrassment
Beside the departure from the school Of the
assistant principal Miss Lathe. there " i'll be .
vacancy in the principals Office. Mr.. Fred
Fishback, his clerk having resigned to accept
q position in the Offices of the West Virginia
Central and Pittsburg railroad in Baltimore.
The building for the Capitol Hill school Is
now well under way, but il Is no. expected that
1t will be finished before March. This building
viii afford all the room that can be taken by the
school Tor some wears. and is admirably adapted
to the purposes of the school. 1t is planned
upon the Central High School, and is in a minor
degree a reproduction of that structure. which
has been found to be we'll nigh perfect as far
as school purposes are concerned. In the new
building there will be better laboratory accom-
modations and larger and better drill room.
THK COURSE OF STUDY.
There are to be few changes in the courses
of study for the school. The study of logic,
which formerly formed an alternative in the
third year with mathematics, will be dropped,
ard the time taken by il will be devoted TO the
study Of the advanced branches Of pure Eng
ilsh literature. afording high course OF train
ing In the art of expression. Greek. which was
reintroduced last year for = small class
OF boys who wanted TO enter college.
basis, and will be studied in both the
second and third years. There will be more
manual training given in the third year and
the work will be pushed upward SO as to give
the students better view of the higher prin-
ciptes OF metal working and the more advanced
mechanics. The course of the cooking schools
will also be improved by the introduction OF
new lines of special study and the application
OF better apparatus.
The teachers of the school return to their
work refreshed by the summer vacations and
are ready to go on with the new year more
vigorously than ever. Five OF them took
European trips this summer. One Of them has
had trouble with her ticket for return passage
and has encountered the denominations of the
foreign system Of bookings" As result she
Is now detained on the other side waiting for a
chance to get passage, and it may be some
time before she returns There are other than
golden Innings to the summer trip abroad. The
experience of this lady brings to mind the
years ago and spent eleven weeks in a London
fever hospital There was another teacher
who went over this summer who near to
death In Germany. She has recovered now
however. and has returned.
The list Of teachers for the coming year Is %
follows:
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Principal, DIR. F. r. Lane; assistant principal,
Miss Nellie Reynolds: assistants, DIR. Wilhelm
Bernhardt, Mr.. Percy NJ. Hughes, Mr.. G. s.
Fellows, MIR. Z. S. Burgess, Mr.. G. J. Smith,
Mr.: Harry English, DR.. ". A. Hedrick, Miss II.
E. Morgan, Miss Z. NJ. Pitts, Mr.. ". f. Priest
Miss A. 5. Rainey. Mrs. Nora Hoegelsberger
Miss A: Z. bradbury. Miss Charlotte Smith,
MRS. Mary R H.@esae . Miss e Wsa MAyss
II. c. Cheston, Mr.. Z. ID. Sherburne Mr. l.. ID.
Mullen, Miss NJ. s. Wolhaupter, Miss H. NJ.
Gushing. Miss ]. l.. Ditto Miss Marie Siebert.
Miss {. W. Orr. Miss E. G. Brosius. Miss ID. T.
Mussey, Miss Il. G. Jochum. Miss Anita Ulke
Mr.. j. c. Mills, Miss NJ. A. Downing.
WESTERN HIGH SCHOOL.
Principal, Miss E. C. Wescott assistants, H.
B Ofiey, Miss A. C. Robinson, H. ]. Buchly.
EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL
Principal, Mr.. c. NJ. L. Sites: assistants, Miss
E. E. Garrigues, Miss Blanche Caraway, Miss
Cor" Allen, Miss E. A. Glover, Mr.. S. E.
Kramer. DR.. C. NJ. Buchanan, Mr.. NJ FF
Swartzell, Miss Phoebe Holmes, Mr.. E. W.
Williams.
BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL.
Principal, Mr.. C.. A. Davis; assistants. Miss
Ellen Golden, Mr.. A. A. Wheat. r. C. Ballinger
Miss NJ. L. Godfrey, Miss L /. Summerscales
F: v. Baldwin, Miss A. NJ. Graham, Miss Maud
Watson.
NEW TEACHERS.
The new teachers employed this year are:
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eighth grade principal; Miss Charlotte Smith,
returning from years leave Of absence; Miss
E. G. Brosius, a graduate Of vassar. and Mr.. J.
c. Mills. graduate Of the school and recently
o teacher ut the Western Maryland College.
Western school-Miss II. b. Ofiey, an eighth
grade principal in the Curtis building, and Miss
II: j. Buchly. The latter graduated from the
High School in 1885.
Eastern school-Mr MF.F. Swartzell. for
merly a teacher at the Central but for year
engaged in outside work; Miss Phpbe Holmes,
a graduate Of the school and for the past three
years student in Germany; Mr.. E. W. Will
Jams, another ex-pupil and also a graduate Of
Columbian, where he was an instructor in the
preparatory school in 1880.
Business school-Miss A. NJ. Graham Of Phil
adelphia.
For the convenience Of pupils the following
announcements for the opening Of the high
schools are made by Principal Lane:
To save confusion and annoyance pupils are
requested to follow carefully the assignments
to buildings and to assemble only at the hours
indicated.
Ali pupils promoted to the second and third
year classes will report at their respective
buildings on Monday (21st instant) at O'Clock
All pupils properly transferred from eighth
grade schools will report at their respective
buildings at ii clock, as follows:
Transfers from Georgetown, the Grant and
Weightman buildings will report at the Curtis |
All third division transfers and those from
the Gales and Arthur schools will report at the
Peabody.
Pupils transferred to the High School from
the eighth grade schools of the third division
and Arthur and Gales buildings. also those
from Anacostia,. will report at the Peabody
building at II a. m. Monday.
All eighth grade transfers intending to enter |
the business school will report at the Franklin |
at II o'clock. |
All other transfers will report at the Central |
School at IL o'clock. |
Conditioned pupils" of the Central High |
School will report for examination at 9 o. m. |
Monday, 2lst.
All former pupils will assemble at the Pea |
body building Monday morning at 9 O'Clock. |
Those who have examinations to take will come |
prepared to take them at that time.
Pupils coming from other than the public |
schools OF Washington will be examined for ad- |
mission to the first year class. including the |
business course, at d. m. Monday. 21st, at the |
Central school.
Candidates for odvo;.s;ov n xl,. liz, II; 4