The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-23
Many Of Glasses Range From
100 to 900 Pupils.
NEW MANUAL SCHOOL.
One VIII Probably Be Built
Very Soon.
Room Will Have to Be Made
For Students.
Supt. Davidson and Mr.. Wilson
Favor the Plan.

Topeka will soon have to add another
high school to the present system Of
public schools. The high school is now
crowded TO its utmost capacity, and the
enrolment is increasing year by year
instead of diminishing.
There are 1856 pupils enrolled at the
high school In January the mid
winter graduating class will number
p, and at the same time there viii be
$50 pupils to seek admission from the
ward schools The teachers at the high
school now have to look after classes
ranging in size from 100 to zoo. Every
biz OF available space in the building
is occupied. 1t was predicted in the
State Journal at the close OF the term
last spring that the high school would
soon have to be relieved. The most
popular idea is to have a manual train
ing high school. Such schools have been
Instituted and tried with great success
in other cities, and they do not detract
from the classical high school The
board Of education made a trip to kan
sas City and inspected the manual
training high school there. They We're
greatly pleased with it.
We should have a manual training
school said NJ. II. Wilson, president
OF the board OF education this morn
ing a county manual training school
ght be the best We should have q
first-class school Of this kind wei
equipped, and with an efficient corps Of
crowded, and it will be but a short time
until it viii be utterly impossible to
enroll more scholars. This condition
viii continue and grow more serious
from year to year. This condition must
be relieved and within a few years l
believe the remedy is a manual train
ing high school There are many fam
lilies who would be glad to give their
children the benefit of a manual train
ing course in connection with a class
zeal course. I believe any number Of
people who have no idea of their
daughters applying themselves would
be glad to have them receive q thor
ough course in domestic economy, and
for their boys to learn something prac-
teal in a mechanical line
n do not favor building an addition
to the present high school building.
Such an addition would only relieve
the crowded condition for few years.
In other cities the manual training
schools have been q great success, and
have not detracted from the classical
high schools. There are a great many
pupils who stop their educational work
when they leave the ward schools who
would enter manual training school
Topeka needs a manual training high
school to relieve the present high school
and to keep the educat ional standard
in the city abreast of the times.
In speaking of the present conditions
and the needs of a manual training high
ne cify Schools said: There are two
plans under discussion for the relief OF
the present building and the other is 70
erect a separate building for a manual
training high school me Lhlns 70 do;
II my nllne + 19 tbeV have
been established attendance on the CLASH
cal high school has not diminished, Dut
the attendance on the manual training
school has been large. showing that there
is demand for such 4 school The eS-
tabl ishment Of a manual training scfaool
would not injure the classical high school
but would relieve the crowded condition.
"a he f-41y7
manual training school would have forge
and wood work and all phases Of mechan-
iral and lnduSt-lai draNi1t9- COOKING sew
ing and dressmaking in addition to good
classical course
"A high school Of this kind should not
training should be supplemented by a /.
classical work 20 make a strong four
before such high school can be built +
and in the meantime the nigh school here }
is growing. the buildings is crowded 70 /
overlooking ana relleI must soon pc mao
Principal l.. -. Whittemore of the high +
school IN spea king OF the crowded conal- 4
ton of the building. said. The sub-fresh- /
20, which is more than We Anticipated I
OF those who were III school last year I
We have 80 pupils enrolled nat IS more /
than the capacity of the building, and We F
have not laboratory room Tor the classes
in science We nave no accom- i1odAtt 2IAs /
for drawing and we have no instruction /
i'll drawing. and every pupil should have a 1
chance to study drawing The rooms are /
the teachers have TOO many Pupils 20 look |
after have had to divide two classes or /
IL accountable for 2Q7 pupils. In another /
class las scholars are heard by one tea cher
900 pupils. In English there are $50 and III I
Latin 29e There are 140 pupils to take /
physics in a room that Will accommodate /
25 There are constantly BOD and 40 pu- /
nile sre 10 As