Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-21
NEXT MONDAY MORNING
The Regular Term of tho Public Schools
viii Begin.
Meetings Held Today-su-
perintendenh Powell Make. Many
Addresses Eor Manual Training.

Although the condition of the atmosphere
would Indicate to the contrary. vacation,
SO far as it applies to the public schools
Of the District OF Columbia, is at an end.
Monday morning next at o'clock the
pupils will assemble for the first time since
June. and without delay the session for
1S95-88 will be running smoothly, to con-
tinue, with but few brief Interruptions,
for nine full months.
The teachers have returned to town,
some from Europe. some from the noun
tains, some from the seashore and others
from as many different places. 1t Is
characteristic of school teachers to leave
the city during the summer months. and
there is probably not one member of Su-
perintendent Powelrs force who did not
Indulge in an outing Of some sort since the
closing. However that may be, they are
all on hand today, Drowned and greatly
refreshed. and in complete readiness to
begin and to continue the training Of the
young idea.
Teachers' Meetings.
Activity to an unusual degree has been
apparent about the school buildings since
0 o'clock this morning. and in some places
1t Is to be kept up until late this after
noon. This was the day set apart for
teachers meetings, the fifth division being
the first to assemble, that gathering taking
place at the Curtis school at am, the
others following at the Dennison, Frank
lin, Seaton, Gales, Wallach, Tyler. Jeffer-
son, Sumner and the colored High School
in the order named at intervals of half
an hour. Considerable time was devoted
to an exchange Of greetings and hurried
during the holiday. now matter of his
tory. Each supervising principal presided
over the meeting of his respective divi-
sions. the teachers being addressed by
C,n tint Nyhn
to expend not a little energy in success
fully making the rounds of the several
meetings.
Superintendent Powelrs brief remarks
were very practical and really able efforts.
being to the point and readily impressing
his hearers. He referred to the last school
years as more successful than any other
school whose system is apparent at first
and. among other things, declared that
school uhose system is apparent at first
glance Is poor school. Superintendent
Powell urged the teachers to permit more
liberty and not confine themselves to hard
lines. He also set forth the advantages
secured by the abolition of rule and enjoin-
ed the study Of the individual pupil by the
teacher.
Tickets for new pupils were issued to
several hundreds of applicants last even
Ing and this morning The principals of
each building will be on duty this after
noon from o'clock until O'clock, and
tickets OF admission and Information rela-
tive to the schools may be obtained at the
time mentioned.
Manual Training.
An additional Instructor Of manual train
Ing has been eecafed for the coming year.
as well as an instructress of cooking and
two Of sewing. A new manual training and
cooking school has been established in
Mount Pleasant, and a new cutting school
at 3lO4 P street northwest. Five new
forges and a like number of new lathes
have been added to the equipment of the
manual training school at 622 street
northwest. >, -
But slight changes have been made in
the plan Of study for the High School. The
alterations include the making of the study
or French or German and physics or chem
istry In the third year Of the technical
course. which were prescribed last year.
elective for the coming session. Trigo-
nometry and surveying has been added as
an cleo tive study for third-year pupils pur-
suing the technical course. French and
German have also been added as elective
stucies in the fourth year of the technical
course.
1t would seem that every person con-
nected with the schools or having auy bus
mess bearing on the same visited ,.e office
OF Mr.. Joseph G. Falck, the secretary of
the board of school trustees, today To
MIN Is due great portion of the credit for
the smooth running of things at this most
busy season of the school year, as his fore
thought and attention to details are what
are most needed.