New-York tribune., 1900-09-25
BROOKLYN NEWS.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS OPEN.
ATTENDANCE AT POLY" BIGGER THAN
EVER BEFORE-CHANGES
IN FACULTIES

Rrooklyn's large private schools started yester-
day on their years work at the Poiytecnlic -
was said that the attendance OF students ne" anu
old both in the institute and the academic i scuooI
was larger than in any other year In the history
of the Institution. and President snow oeeie
that the registration yesterday was entFeiy sauS
factory to the faculty. The number In tne enc
ing class will be known TIL the iee"i' u '
fall examinations IL announced
Three new members of the faculty VINO were
appointed this year Professor j. q. CfhItehue"'
who will have charge IF the department Oh rna'Ie
mates. Professor J. c. Ohlsen, assistant III tne
department OF chemistry, Professor M g I'M
seng in the department OF mechanical eh8lneeilne,
Francis Xavier Carmody. B. A, OF the CnIVeIsi'S
of Michigan has been added to the new stan VI
teachers A new labor tory OF hydraulic engineer
ine has been added the department of electrical
engineering has been enlarged. and large ainouli,
Of new apparatus for instruction in telephony anu
electric light and power Transmission has been put
in Laboratories for the use of classes III physics
and chemistry have also been added.
The Packer Collegiate Institute reopened yester-
day morning with exercises in the chapel ana uur-
ing the day classes were organizing IN larger mum
hers than last year, under the supervision OF the
president DR. Truman ]. BacBus. MISS EnzaoeIh
Haight has been added TO the Latin department
Miss Florence BTistow will be In charge OF the
French department, and Mrs. Goodaie VIII .eacii
English in the first academic grade MISS Mar
garet Blossom, after a years leave OF absence at
Barnard College will teach chemistry heclta'onS
will begin regularly this morning.
The doors of Adephi were thrown open yester-
day morning for the beginning OF the ran tellh'
although entrance examinations were In progress
for college and academy last week. Dr. Levermore
said the new enrolment altogether amounted 20
about one hundred and in the college there were
about thirty-fve Elmer FL Stall has besp appointed
head of the department of English literature: ana
q VOkening takes Cle chair or chemistry III
place of Professor shore absent on year 5dd
course in art metal work, including chasing, en-
craving die sinking and enameling. II VIII pc at
Facbed 10 the department Of fine arts ana the m
struction in drawing, designing and modellng WI VII
be given by special instructors Chasing ore sH m
ing engraving and enamelling will be taugnI Dy
Joseph Aranyi, expert in the employ or IiHahy
& Co. ..-.4 .-oz.or5a,.
,,,orntng with the addition of forty scholars
10 the roll which will make the enrolment for the
vear more than three hundred. Several changes
have been made in the teaching force. From tne
oVerfow of the academic department a new grace
has been formed. which will be in charge OF M MISS
AIiegra e. Seelye A. B., a graduate OF Cornel
I1niyersity She will assist in the French de-
nartment for which she is well equipped by reason
of snecial courses in the Romance department at
Cornell and a long residence in Paris Miss MA
beth Mascord. graduate or the Pratt institute
will be in charge of the intermediate grade