The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-07

Furniture Ordered Some Time Ago Has
 Not Arrived-Final Instructions to the
 Teachers Yesterday-Entrance Exams
 Begin To-day-Principal scudder's In-
 structions to High School Pupils.
 The city schools will open to-day with the exception of Roger sherman school, Ezekiel Cheever school, Dwight school, Eaton school and Davenport school, the first four rooms in Hallock school, room 2 of Lloyd school and rooms and of Edwards street school. These build ings and rooms are not ready for the reason that furniture for them, which was ordered some time ago, has not yet arrived.
 It is thought that when all the schools are open about 15,000 pupils will be in attendance, with 425 teachers. Circulars of instructions to teachers re- garding the opening of schools and the arrangement of school work have been issued to the teachers by Superinten-
 dent Kendall, but the office of the Board of Education was visited yester-
 day by large number of teachers.
 many young teachers just beginning
 their first term, seeking additional ln-
 formation and instruction.
 The entrance examinations for the
 two high schools will begin at two
 o'clock this afternoon and will continue
 tomorrow and Thursday and Friday.
 These examinations are for those pu-
 pills, about thirty-fve in number, who
 attained stand of between 70 and 75
 per cent. at the entrance examination held in June Seventy-fve per cent. is
 the percentage required in order to
 admit pupils to the High school, and
 this second examination is held to give
 those who fell below this standard by only few points a second chance. The examination. to-day will be in ge- ography, tomorrow in arithmetic and spelling, Thursday in United States his tory and Friday In grammar and lan- guage. Principal Scudder desires that those just entering the High school
 present themselves at 10 o'clock this morning instead of at the usual hours. The principal changes of text books for the schools this year are the substi- tuition of Southworths arithmetic for
 Franklin's in the fifth grade and l Walsh's arithmetic in place of Frank lin's in the seventh grade, while Frye's geography has been adopted for use in the fourth grade. A number of addi- tional books have been placed on the list of reference books.
 Superintendent Kendall announced yesterday the following additional ap- pointments of teachers for the ensuing year:
 Miss Lillian Daniels to be principal of the new Ezekiel Cheever school on Lombard street, and Miss Harriet B. Comstock to be assistant teacher in room 12 of the Shelton avenue school. It is now expected that Eaton and Dwight schools will be opened about October l and that the other schools and rooms for which furniture has not yet arrived will be ready for opening in about two weeks.
 Principal Scudder of the Hillhouse
 High school has leased from c. H Webb, the real estate dealer, the Cotton house at the corner of Orange and Humphrey streets, which was recently acquired by Yale university. MT
 scudder, with his family, will occupy the place during the coming year The New England Journal of Educa- tion in a recent issue, speaking of the
 change in the principalship of Hill house High school and the appointment to the position of Myron T. Scudder says:
 New Haven lost her high school
 rincipal-Thomas, at the close of the school year, and Superintendent Ken dall has put in the best part of the
 summer in looking up every available candidate that the school may rank with the best in the land. AS one New Haven man stated the case: We propose tC have all educators speak of our high
 school as they do of MT Atkinsons of Springfield, and MT, Sanford's Of
 Brookline' It is high honor con-
 ferred upon Myron T. Scudder, state inspector of high schools in New York that he should have been selected and given a unanimous election. MT. Scud- der is a nephew of Horace E. Scudder of the Atlanta Monthly, and is one Of a remarkable family of boys, all of whom are eminently successful in pro- fessional life. His position in New York state has been highly honorable and every way successful. At the Clark university summer school he was
 one of the most prominent, profession- ally. among a grand array of eminent professional men. He will do for the New Haven hig school all that her proudest citizen can desire"