Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-15
THE CALL TO BOOKS
Army Of $1,000 Pupils to Begin
Studies Monday.
SCHOOL OFFICIALS BUSY With DETAILS
instructions Issued Concerning Ad-
missions of Nom Residents.
LETTINGS TEACHERS

An army of $4,000 school children will
march through the doors of Washington S
public educational institutions Monday
morning when the scholastic year of 1899
1900 formally begins. During the past
week the various school buildings through
out the District have been thoroughly
swept and busted and everything put in
good shape for the reception of the schol-
ars. The commencement of school days is
the sole topic of talk among the small girls
and boys, while their oder sisters ana
brothers of high-school rank are preparing
for the final campaign with text books,
looking forward to an early graduation
The many hundreds of teachers who will
command the capital city's army of chill
dren students have all returned to Wash
ngton from vacation trips to mountain
and seashore, refreshed and reinvigorated.
All have been busying themselves in shap-
ing their school matters, that everything
may be in readiness for Mondays opening.
Very little time will be lost in prelminaries.
result of this careful and thoughtiui
foresight and within a few days after the
class rolls are completed in the different
grades the children Will be well started III
their studies for the coming session.
Washington children, In the exuberance
of their youth, return to school with the
same light and happy hearts with which
the summer vacation is welcomed early In
June. Vacation days, with their juvenile
joys and sorrows. drag heavily When sep
TENDER sets in, for chilly mornings and
ey enings do away with many of the sum-
mer pastimes. such as swimming, barefoot
Iamblings, picnics and games. There is
Eovelty in the reopening of the school. Old
acQuaintanceS renewed and teachers
are heartily. greeted by their small charges
Even those who failed last spring to stand
sufficiently high to merit promotion and
who left school with the knowledge that
another year must be spent in the same
grade, return gladly to school, buoyed by
the determination to do or die this time.
The Preliminaries.
There is much preliminary detail con-
nected with the opening of a school year.
and just now the educational authorities
OF the District are deep In work. Supern-
tendent Powells office this morning was
thronged continually teachers, parents and
principals calling to consult the head of
the school system upon divers matters con-
corning their duties.
No especial ceremonies mark the inaugu-
ration of the new school year, and this
fall there are no schools to be ded1-
Gated or thrown open for the first time.
Teachers bells in the various departments
of the graded or grammar schools Will ring
promptly at 8 o'clock Monday morning, and
the energy-enthused little ones brought to
order. assigned to their desks and furnished
with supplies The High School sessions Will
also begin promptly at o'clock. the en-
tire school system being set in operation
simultaneously.
Examinations for entrance into the High
Schools. which must be taken by all schol-
ars desiring admission and not regularly
promoted from the graded schools OF the
District WILL be held at the Central High
School building. These examinations are
for the benefit of the children who have
but recently moved into the District and
also for those who have received their
primary education in private schools. 1t
is expected that a large number Of nom
residents will take advantage of the scheme
of paying a nominal fee for tuition in the
institutions, which are Tree TO RESIDENTS OF
the District.
Cards of Animation.
Cards Of admission for children who will
this year attend the public schools for the
first time or who have been absent for
some time will be issued at the various
graded school buildings this afternoon be-
tween the hours of 4 and o'clock. To-
morrow the cards will be issued from to
10 O'Clock in the morning and from to y
O. clock in the afternoon. The principals OF
the High Schools are to be found IN thelr
offices during the same hours. Parents
and guardians should apply to the school
building nearest their place OF residence.
High School Notes.
Pupils who have attended other than the
public schools of Washington. who desire
admission to any Of the four high schools
Eastern, Western, Central or Business
Will be examined at the Central High School
Tuesday morning. September 10. at .
o'clock, in the following subjects: Algebra.
through factoring; United States history
and the Constitution, geography, grammar
and composition and arithmetic
The examinations are written under the
supervision of the High School teachers
and will be begun promptly at am the
day designated, instead OF MONDAY the
opening day, heretofore.
The CONDITIONED" examinations for High
School students will be held Monday at 8
a m. in the respective schools.
1t is announced that pupils entering the
High School from the eighth grades should
report to their respective high school build
ings at II am. Monday. Pupils OF adj
vanced standing should report at . am
The teachers of the Eastern, Western ana
i've schools tomorrow at o'clock p m, and
Business High School teachers Will meet at
pm. at the Business School.
Meetings of Teachers.
Preliminary to the opening Of the schools
will be the teachers meetings called for to-
morrow. These meetings are particularly
important, and much good has resulted
from such gatherings in the past. Tomor-
rows schedule Of these conferences is as
follows: Fifth division, at the Curtis
School. am; first division at the Denni-
son School, 10 am; seventh division. at
the Franklin School, 1890 am; second di-
vision, at the Seaton School, II am; sixth
division at the Gales School, 1880 am;
third division, at the Wallach School. 100
pm; Eighth division. at the Tyler School,
2 pm; fourth division. at the Jefferson
School, 3 pm; ninth, tenth and eleventh
divisions. at the colored high school, IL a.
m. r.
A meeting of the teachers of the Western
High School is called for 3 o'clock tomor-
row afternoon in room l of the Western
building.
AT the Western High School, the follow
ing order for the assembling of students
has been promulgated for Monday morn
ing: Third and fourth year students will
assemble at o'clock. second year students
at 10 o'clock, and first year students at IL
o'clock. This exception to the general rule
of assembling all at o'clock. 1t Is believed
by the western authorities, WILL do away
with any possible confusion Western
High School examinations for all "condi-
toned students will be held Monday morn
ing in room 10 Of the building. beginning
promptly at 0 O'clock Many Of the stud
ents who failed of promotion, but who were
favored by extenuating circumstances,
were conditioned" Upon their showing
Monday morning will depend their promo
ton.
Kindergarten Grades.
The feature of this years school history