The Washington times., 1901-09-21
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Preparations Made for the Annual
Resumption of Studies.
Arrangements for the Examination
of Pupils Wishing to Enter the
High schools Numerous Changes
i'm the Teaching Force Announced.

A delayed meeting of the Board of Ed
ucation, postponed from last Tuesoay as
mark of respect to the dead PRESIDENT
was held last night at the Franklin sehoO-
building Plans for the reopening OF the
schools next Monday. appointments oi
teachers to fill the vacancies created b!
designations, and the matter of examina-
tions was the business discussed.
There are two new school buildings
completed since the closing of the schoo'
term last June, which will be opened dur
ing the coming week. Appropriate exer-
cises will mark the occasion in each IN
stance. The Dent school, situated at Sec
ond Street ana South Carolina Avenue
southeast, will be opened at IL O'Clock
Wedno sday, and at / O'CLOCK the same
day the new Webb school will be opened
In the hall of the Fifth Congregational
Church, Eighth and l Streets northeast,
kindergarten school will be opened on
October !. The teachers who will take
charge of the kindergarten have not yet
been named. Mrs. J. Daniels has been ap-
pointed janitor.
The following announcement was made
by the board:
On Monday the second, third, and
fourth-year pupils, white and colored,
will report for enrolment at o'clock, as
will also the second-year pupils of the
Business High School. At IL o'clock pu-
pills transferred from the eighth grade
and other members of the first year class
will be admitted.
The conditioned examination" for de
ficfent pupils, will occur at O'Clock Mon
day, the sd, in the several high school
buildings. The entrance examination,
which is for the admission of pupils not
heretofore members of the public schools
of the District of Columbia, will take
place at the Central High School. for ad-
mission to all white high schools. at 9
o'clock on Tuesday, the 24th instant. The
examinations a dhe NJ Street High School
follow the same schedule. The require
ments for admission are as follows: Eng
lish grammar and composition, United
States history and Constitution, geogra-
ply, arithmetic. algebra, through factor
ing. Entrance examinations are given
only to pupils from other than the public
schools. Proficiency in each of the above
named branches is required.
1t will prevent considerable delay and
annoyance to parents and pupils to report
promptly at the time set for these ex-
aminations. Pupils who are candidates
for admission should understand that it
will require the time from to for the
examination, with brief interval for
lunch.
There have been many changes in the
corps of teachers as the result of resig-
nations, leaves of absence, and new ap-
pointments. At the Central High School
Prof. Camille Fontaine, for many years
the director of French and Spanish in
struction, will no longer be at his post.
His loss to the high schools will be keenly
felt by officials, fellow teachers, and stu
dents alike. Miss Staples and Miss Cush-
ing have been granted a years leave for
q much needed rest. Miss Hartmann, Mr..
Minnick, and Mr.. Mattern have been
transferred to the Manual Training
School. At the Eastern School David Lat
tmore will no longer meet his Latin
classes. His work from the present fall
will be in the Imperial College at Shang-
hal, China. Mr.. Gerry has been trans
ferred to the Manual Training School
The crowding of the Business School,
which was extreme and beyond remedy
during the opening weeks a year ago, is
anticipated again this fall Whatever has
been possible to forestall this condition
has been arranged. The difficulty, how
ever, cannot be rectifed until new build
ing is erected. An appropriation for this
purpose during the present winter is ex-
pected, as the District Commissioners and
the Board of Education are already pub
licly committed to the policy which will
urge this before Congress.
A y special course will be inaugurated
this year for pupils who have successfully
complete ed three years or more of some gem
eral course in another high school, wheth-
er IN this city or elsewhere. This has been
planned in response to a demand from
business men for the specialized studies of
the present two year business course, and
also the additional maturity and broader
general training which come from the or
dinary high school, Students of seven
teen or eighteen years, who have covered
the requirements of three years or more
Of general high school work. can readily
DO the two years specialized business
course in single year. That this is not
theory on the part of the teachers is
proven by the fact that this has been
done repeatedly by individual students II
Is expected from requests already made
that class of from twenty-five to thirty
in number will be formed from this
source.
The manual training schools, white and
colored, Will open the school year in the
high schools. The buildings which are be-
ing erected are not sufficiently advanced
for occupancy. School No. 1 will be or
ganfzed at the Central High School. as
a school within a school, with its full
force of teachers and Independent pro-
gramme. Though this may cramp both
schools. temporarily. 1t will not seriously
impede the work of either Possibly by
January the transfer to the splendid new
building at Seventh Street and Rhode ISL
and Avenue can be effected. School No
2 will be organized in the Douglass build
ing, In the rooms heretofore used by the
business department of the NJ Street
School. Until the p Street building is
ready, instruction will be given there ex-
cept in science, which will be taught in
the laboratories OF the NJ Street building
Teachers meetings will be held on Sat
urday in every high school at 3 p. m. with
the exception of the Business High School.
teachers ed Ia af
O'Clock The principals of the various
high schools Will be at their desks on
Saturday from s to 10 and again from 4
TO g.
Examinations for teachers of cooking
will be held Tuesday at a. M; sewing
on Thursday at 8 a. m; and drawing on
Saturday at a m. These examinations
will all be held at the Franklin School
building.
The Board passed upon the following
designations, promotions and appoint
merits:
High School-C Fontaine, teacher of
French, resignation accepted; Edward
Launce, appointed at salary of 81 200;
Harry English, promoted from 1920 to
81 500. Moss Rose Stutz. transferred from
fifth grade to English at 500.
Second Division-Miss NJ. (. Mcvee,
transferred to fourth grade lexington,
vice Miss NJ. A. Carmody resigned; o. NJ.
Fletcher promoted to third grade;
First Diviston-Josephine Burke, pro-
NOTED from sixth grade TO seventh grade.
NJ I.acirey promoted from fifth TO sixth
grade: f. E. Foster, appointed TO the NTH
grade.
NOTED from fourth grade to fifth grade.
A. B. Dillon, promoted from third grade
TO fourth grade. S. A. Moore, second
TO third grade. Iheresa Schoehporn hrst
pointed to first grade. A.. b. Lewis pro-
NOTED Grant Road School to principal of
Military Road School. vice A. Q. Stafford,
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