Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-14
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM
TEACHERS GETTING READY FOR
WORK OF COMING YEAR.
Examinations Of Pupils for Admission
Changes in Corps of Instruc-
tOrs-Repairs to Buildings.

various high schools tomorrow. as follows:
Central High School, 3 pm; Eastern High
School, pm; Western High School and
Business High School. o'clock: Colored
High School, 3 pm. All teachers are ex-
pected to be present at these meetings, at
which instructions for the work of the
opening year of school and the organization
which follows will be issued.
The examination Of conditioned" pupils
will occur at o'clock Monday September
II, in each high school Pupils from other
than public schools seeking admission to the
first-year class will be examined Tuesday
for admission to the white schools at the
Central High School building at am. !:
for admission to the Colored High School
at the high school building list and M streets
at the same hour.
On the opening day of school pupils in the
advanced classes. second, third and fourth
years, will be admitted at o'clock. All
first-year students will report promptly at
II am.
Requirements for admission to the first
year classes are as follows: English gram
mar end composition. United States history
and Constitution, geography. arithmetic al
zebra through factoring. Examinations in
these subjects are given to pupils who have
attended private schools in the city hereto
fore to such as have made Washington
their residence during the summer. No
pupils who attended the eighth grade during
the last year are permitted to take these
examinations except on written authority Of
the supervisor of the district In which the
pupil attended.
Changes Authorized.
There have been numerous changes in the
corps OF teachers during the summer. By
the transfer of Mr.. johnson to the super
visor's work of Anacostia the Eastern school
opens under a new principal, Mr.. NJ. F.
F. Swartzell. Dr. B. B. Bracket, the in
structor of physics in this school. resigned
during the summer to engage in the work of
exploiting the new telegraph invented by
Prof. Rowland of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. This vacancy is to be filed by DR.. j.
]. Rothermell from the high school in
Hanover Pa. The new teacher is finely
prepared for his work by Johns Hopkins
training. where he was fellow for two
years. During the past summer he has con-
tinued his studies in Columbia University.
New York His experience in teaching has
been limited to the Hanover school.
Mr.. Percival Padgett. who for many years
has been a teacher of the classics in the
ST Paul School. Concord. n. H. will I'M
dertake the work formerly in the hands of
Mr.. Swartzell.
Prof. Colliere. who is widely known in
the city French instructor of high
standing. is to have as his assistant Mr..
Rene Samson, who returned from France
the present week in order to engage for
the first time in public school work. Mr..
samson mas given private instruction III the
city for the past few years ana mas also
been teacher in the night school CONDUCTED
by the Y. NJ. c.. A.
Mr.. Paul Finckel. teacher in mathemat-
les has begun the practice of law. leaving
a vacancy which has been filled by Miss
Mabel Halves of Hartford, Conn. Miss
Halves is a college-bred woman. with sew
en- years experience as teacher.
Two Additional Teachers.
In the Business High School the increase
in the number of pupils has m-lde two adj
dition&! teachers a necessity. Miss L. S.
Hay of Chicago University will teach CON-
mercial geography and English; Mrs. NJ
D. Merrill, stenography Both these ladies
have had experience in the schools of
Washington; Miss Hay as Il Substitute in
the high schools and as a regular grade
teacher; Mrs. Merrill in the High School
School.
DIR. II. c. Cheston of the Central Higa
School has been appointed to a position as
instructor In physics in the Dc Witt Clin-
to be filed by C. K. Edmunds a graduate
of Johns Hopkins, who during the summer
has been engaged in Kansas in work upon
the magnetic survey. conducted by the
United States coast survey. Miss SaSah
Simons. who has been for the past rear
studying in Leland Stanford University, will
return to her work. Miss Mildred Dean Of
the Woman's College of oll.imore Will be
added 10 the force, to teach Latin AID L n
glish.
In the Colored High School there are fe W
changes. Miss o. Cromwell, who mas pec,i
for seven years a teacher in the grad.
schools of the District has been transferre 4
to the High School. Mr. J. p. QuantIer las
resigned.
The various buildings have received gen.
erous attention from the committee on
buildings and repairs. Plumbing, pa mt
furniture and fittings have I'LL been let
RpnOrfS ma nf h
ers show that the opening day will fn1 a
full force present, promising for the high
school pupils a speedy initiation into the
work of the coming year