Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
SCHOOLS.
Arrangements for the Annual
Closing Exercises.
The Address at the High School Gradu
alton to Be Made BY Well Known
Boston Educator.

The committee on evening schools has
begun preparations for the closing ex-
ercises Of the public evening schools
which occur on Thursday and Friday
evenings of next week, March 18th and
18th. DR.. Flynn, the chairman of the
committee, made reference to what was
intended in remarks at the meeting of
the school board last Tuesday evening.
At that time he took occasion to high
ly praise the work of the schools and
strongly urged the members to attend
the exercises and examine the samples
of work done in the different classes
and what 1t is proposed to put on exhi-
btion.
Thursday evening, March II, will be
given over entirely to exercises for the
lower and grammar grades, while on
Friday evening, March IS, will occur the
regular graduation exercises of the eve-
ming high school. In connection with
these exercises there will be an eXten-
sive display of school work which will
include samples from every class of
pupils, and which Is sure to prove in
teresting. 1T includes work per-
formed at different times during the
year and shows progress made in each
month of the term. This exhibit is sure
TO attract attention and will indicate
better than anything else can, the sys-
tenn pursued in the schools of teaching,
not only the advanced classes, butas well
the beginners learning TO speak Eng
lish. 1t will be presented for inspec-
tion from to s o'clock on Thursday
evening and also on Friday evening and
Saturday morning
The formal closing exercises of the
lower grades take place in the hall of
the English high school building on
Thursday evening a o'clock Especial
interest attaches to these exercises
from the fact that this is the first year
when these schools have been brought
together for a graduation program. 1t
is the first time that the pupils of the
different buildings have had an oppor-
tunity to meet each other or that the
committee could gaze into the faces of
Of all the pupils at one time and it will
furnish good opportunity to observe
the makeup Of the schools. DR..
Flynn. chairman of the committee on
evening schools, will preside and de-
liver the Introductory address. He will
later in the evening offer words CT ad-
vice to those promoted into the high
school and announce their names, de-
livering their certificates of promotion
to the committees in the different build
ings, who in turn will hand them over
to the principals for distribution. In
addition to DR.. FIynn's address, there
will be speaking by Prof. Hodge of
Clark University, Supt Carroll and the
members of the committee, including
John j. Heron, James Forsstedt, Mrs.
Helen A. B. Morse and DR.. John f. Nc
Gillicuddy. The singing for the evening
will be by Mrs. H. NJ. Johnson and
Eugene A. O'Connor, principal of the
.eafr zohnn1 There
will be an orchestra in attendance to
furnish a program of music during the
exhibition of school work.
For these exercises attendant upon
the closing of the elementary schools,
the supply of tickets to outsiders will
necessarily be limited The pupils will
need all the room in the body OF the
hall except the seats reserved for MEM
bers of the school board, so that It
will leave only the galleries for specta-
tors and the seats here will be largely
occupied by friends of the pupils.
On Friday evening will occur the reg
ular graduation exercises of the high
school. when there will be better op-
portunity for the public to be present.
Tickets will be sent to interested per
sons for these exercises, the pupils being
given the privilege of inviting thelr
friends in greater numbers than those in
the lower grades, since not so much
room will be made for the school itself
The lists of pupils in the various de
partments have not yet been announced
as they will depend somewhat on the
final results of test work which will be
done in all classes during the coming
week DR. Finn, chairman of the COM
mittee. will act as chairman. of the eve
ming, and will deliver the opening adj
dress. He will also present the diplo-
mas and certificates to be granted tC
successful candidates.
The other speakers of the evening will
be Mayor Dodge, Prof. Alden, chairman
of the school committee Superintendent
Carroll and Isaac F. Paul of Boston The
singing will be done by the school under
the dictatorship of Seth Richards, who
has taught singing to the pupils of the
| high school during the past term. Mrs
May Sleeper r-Ruggles will assist as solo.
! ist.
Isaac F. Paul of Boston, who is to de.
| liver the principal address, is a Boston
! lawyer of extensive practice, and is par
| ticularly prominent in educational mat
! ters. He is a Dartmouth College grad
uate, and was a teacher in the Bostor
! evening high school under the principal
ship of the late Edward c. Carrigan
4 who built up the Boston evening higf
| school and made it the prominent fea.
! ture that 1t is today. He succeeded Mr.
! Carrigan as principal, and proved
worthy successor. maintaining the higf
standard set by his predecessor. Abou
| five years ago, owing to pressure O
business, Mr.. Paul found it necessary
4 to resign his principalship. and was il
the same year elected a member of the
Boston school committee For most o
the time he has been chairman of tn,
committee on evening schools. position
he occupies at the present time. Mr.
Paul was the president of the Bostor
school committee during the year 1895
and has been one of the most prominen
members of that body.
His address here, upon the 18th, will
be on What an evening high schoo
stands for in the community, and tn,
opportunity it affords for advanced ed
ucation in the evening" From his Ions
and intimate association with evening
/ high school work, both as a teacher an(
a committeeman, Mr.. Paul is peculiarly
! fitted to give valuable suggestions II
regard to this work. Worcester's even
ing high school has already obtained fa
vorable consideration from the people a
large, and Mr. Paurs address win M
doubt add increased interest to it.