The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-06
SCHOOL BEGINS.
Over 10000 Children Enrolled for
Study-Hieh School Crowded.

over 2U,UOO Chlloren Enrolled TOR
Study-Hieh School Crowded.
These are days when the schooIboy
and his sister, with shining faces and
halting steps, meander unwillingly to
school.
After two months vacation, teach
ers 8nd Pupils returned to school yes
terday, and today the work of the ,-ear
will begin in dead earnest.
Superintendent C. F. Carroll is ex-
ceedngly pleased with the fact that hs
has 90 more rooms this year in which
to accommodate scholars than he did
last year. In ALL while he had no di-
rect figures at hand yesterday, he csti-
mated that there must be fully 10000
children enrolled for study in the com
mon and high schools of the city. The
number IS likely to increase, too, for
there are a large number of children of
school age who have not yet received
their certificates.
The corridor OF the city hall presented
an animated scene yesterday morning
1t resembled a huge kindergarten or a
children's congress. Parents with little
tots by the hand stood in line, patient
~ waiting their turn at the superin-
tendcnt's office where the certificates
were being distributed, emitting the re-
cipients to attend school and assigning
the districts.
1t was hard to say, from the personal
observation of The Spy reporter, which
showed the most anxiety, the superin-
tendent and his force of assistants, or
the Tho inv
those that were assisting him, were
kept or the continual jump from 3
o'clock in the forenoon until afternoon
TheS- worked like beavers, but the
work of giving out the certificates be-
ing formal, methodical piece of work.
progress was necessarily slow.
Tic parents had their troubles, for
the children in line, like the little ones
of every age and cline, evinced more
interest il play than they did in the
subject Of study. Now and then some
of them would run away from their
mothers ana this would break the line,
for the mother, of course, would chase
after their disappearing charges In a
multitude of several hundred, the work
OF finding missing child is not an
easy task and many gray hair, it is
likely, began to take root in the heads
of parents as a result of yesterdays
experience at the city hail.
In some cases a couple of boys, with
the instinct of a Miles or a Dewey,
would get together and punch one an
others little faces, but scenes like this
were so rare as to pass unnoticed save
by few. For the most part it was a
fairly decorous crowd, as orderly as a
crowd of children can ever be made an
der ike circumstances.
The new school buildings relieve the
congestion in marked degree, but
there is still some difficulty in finding
room for the pupils in the high schools.
The English high school and the
Classical high school are crowded to
their utmost capacity and large numbers
OF first year high school pupils are to
be accommodated at Belmont. Millbury
and Gates lane schools. Last year there
was q first year high school class at
Ledge street, but this has been aban-
doned owing TO the demands upon that
building for the accommodation of the
common school pupils.
There was but little work done in the
schools yesterday. The greater part of
the day was given up to the distribu-
ton Of books, and instructions from The
teachers and principals. BY today,
however, the work of study will be in
full blast
There has been considerable obiec-
ton raised to the continuing of the sys-
TEN of vertical script in the schools,
largely from business men, who main
tain that it robs penmanship of signs
of character, makes all people write in
a uniform style and thus renders for
gerry a comparatively easy task This
matter must be decided, one way or the
other soor by the school committee,
where there are advocates and oppon-
ents of the system.
The majority of the teachers, it is
believed. favor the retention of the YER
teal script system because it teaches
pupils to write legiby. A slanting
style they argue, tends to bring on ler-
vousness, and is in every way unnatur-