Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-06-01
THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL.
SCHOOLS OF CITY AND COUNTY
CLOSE FOR SUMMER.
Different Pupils Look Forward To
Vacation In Different Ways
Yearly Standing Of Pub
lie School Pupils.
A LONG VACATION AHEAD FOR
THE BOYS AND GIRLS.

The public school of Annapolis, and
those OF Anne Arundel county closed
yesterday Tor long vacation. The chill.
dren are certain OF three months holiday
and perhaps longer if September be a
very sultry month. which II usually is.
Little was done al the Annapolis school
yesterday but to read the final average
of examinations TO the various grades,
and to promote accordingly. Those who
had passed successfully were promoted a
grade in advance. The work OF promot-
ing and OF making the change from room
to room. and. in some instances. from
building to building, consumed most OF
the day.
The standard o. &c school has been
very much raised this year and the pupils
are bene6tted thereby. although it has
appeared severe to them. A new system
of marking has been established. and
each pupils standing is on merit alone,
A large number of pupils are glad vaca-
ton has come. The boys especially.
The boy with bicycle has been count.
ing the minutes and hours until school
should "break up, and he looks forward
to three months vacation as one glorious
picnic.
The boy who adores swimming is ac-
cordingly glad and SO is the boy who
can now put on his old clothes, and there
won't be any girls around to keep him
on his good behavior. With the country
boy il is different. He knows that his
summer vacation will involve more or
less OF pulling weeds. picking potato
bugs, heIding the cows. carrying water
TO the men in the field, "tTamping down"
hay in the NOV. feeding the Pigs, pump.
ing water for the stock, currying horses,
milking, splitting wood, etc.
When he looks forward to three months
of such hilarious diversions he realizes
that it isn't such hard work after all to
sit in a shady schoolroom and read about
the difference between a peninsula and
an isthmus. No wonder so many of the
boys in the country are anxious to edu-
cate themselves. Some OF them would
be willing to attend schooltwelve months
in the year. The chief blessing OF the
summer vacation is that it gives the
teachers a chance to rest and forget their
troubles. The school teachers OF Amer
ica receive the smallest pay. in proper
ton TO the labor they perform and re-
sponsibility they assume, of any class in
the whole population.
1t is said that the president of an in
surance company in the City New York
draws a salary OF 500, 900 a year.
Taking this salary as basis tor compari-
son, every school teacher is entitled TO
$500, 900 year, because il requires more
intellect, tact, perseverance. patience and
judgment TO manage fifty children than
it does to direct the affairs of an insur-
ance company. Besides. the school
teacher knows more. The mention of
vacation and the "last day of school
no doubt arouses very dear memories in
the bosom OF every man or woman who
has served time in our public schools.
The last day of school is a confusing
picture OF white dresses and pink ribbons
against background of Sunday suits
and soapy hair combs.
II is memory fragrant with old-fash-
ioned roses, lilacs, "pinies" mot peonies)
"snowballs' and evergreen. On the
last day of school all the little boys and
girls are converted to a sudden goodness.
Every gitl is an innocent lambkin in
fossy white and the meanest boy in
school shows up with his nose polished
| and wearing his mothers necktie. This
is the one day in the year when the long
suffering teacher is addressed as dear
teacher. The incorrigible flock has
pestered and worried and provoked the
poor woman for nine months, but on the
last day OF school they line up and call
her "dear teacher" and tell her how
! they love her and then, perhaps, they
present her with an autograph album and
she forgives them and cries little and
tries hard TO believe that they mean II
Now, it is all over, and the children have
raced home for three months liberty
The responsibility has been transferred
from teachers to parents. and the mother:
already wear troubled look.
GRADE PROMOTIONS.
In the promotions OF the children il
the different grades of the public schoo
yesterday morning, the numbers pro
NOTED were as follows