Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-11-10

All our schools are in session once
more, and have been during the week.
Some of the schools have missed five
weeks, but they hope to make it all up
by hard study. The Seniors will be eX-
amined on next Thursday in definitions
and spelling, and all through the city
anxious ones arep repairing as best they
can for this test. The Seniors have al
ready passed finally in photography,
physiology, geography, history and
reading, and this year they must
pass in fourteen other studies. Our
boys and girls who finish the course Of
study with credit to themselves are well
prepared for all the general business Of
life, and parents should see that more
Of their children finish the course; espe-
cially should more boys be kept in
school. Our boys are complaining that
the girls are taking all the positions and
that ii is impossible for them TO get
anything TO do. IL this be true-and
there is q great deal Of truth in tit is
the fault of the boys themselves, from
the fact that they will not prepare
themselves to fill the positions they
speak Of There is not boy graduate
in the city Of Wheeling to-day but has
a position, ii he has made the proper
effort to secure one. This is a fact
worth the attention CT both the boys
and their parents. But suppose the
boys do not get positions; at least, such
as they think they ought to have. Is
il not enough to have the pleasure OF
knowing through life what they can
learn from their preparation during
school life? What is needed in our
land to-day is a generation Of men and
women who do their own thinking. II
our public schools do their work well
they turn out just this kind Of a gen
Grafton. and in a short time there Will
be a great change in the intelligence
of our people.
The principals met at the Office Of the
Clerk of the Board Of Education on
Thursday afternoon Of this week, and
various subjects were talked over. A
union entertainment was suggested,
and the sentiment seems to favor 1t;
and why not? The patrons OF the
schools should now and then be per-
mitted to compare what the different
schools are able TO do. We say, let's
have the entertainment
Some one has said that $4,000 will
supply the pupils of Wheeling with
text books. This much more tax would
be paid by our taxpayers without their
scarcely knowing that they had paid 1t,
and hundreds of pupils would attend
school who are now running our streets.
Let us have free text books by all
means and then have a law compelling
all children to attend school at least a
part of the school year.
The President of the Board Of Educa-
ton. DR.. Ulrich. viii in the near future
visit all the schools in order to see
for himself what kind of work is beine
done. This will be q great help to both
teachers and pupils; at least 1T Will be
an incentive to them to do their very
best work.
The enrolment in none of our schools
is equal TO what it was at this time last
year. no doubt owing to the smallpox
scare. The Eighth ward enrolment is
nearly 100 short of what it was then,
but now as the disease has almost en-
tirely disappeared the enrolment Is IN
creasing daily.
The entertainment to be given at the
Opera House on Monday evening next
for the benefit Of the Home for the
AGED and Friendless Women will no
doubt be we'll patronized and it is a
very comendable thing for the pupils
of Clay school to do to repeat for the
benefit of the Home. y.