The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-08

M 1Vul, naS discussed at cOnSlQefaDl DIG
 length this phase of the high school sit
 uation. Dr. Ballet says:
 The most striking fact about the public school system of the whole cOun
 try for the last ten years has been the phenomenal increase in high school en- rollment This increase for the country al large has been nearly 100 per cent
 the increase for the state of Massachu- sets has been in these ten years GLE per cent, while the increase in popula- ton has been only little over 20 per cent. The increase in population of Fitchburg from 1890 to 1900 was only 4a per cent, while the increase in high school attendance was 102 per cent. The population of Worcester increased dur ing the same period little less than 40 per cent. and the high school enroll ment increased 1241a Der cent. The population of Springfield increased 40lA per cent, while the enrolment in the high school during the same period in creased 108 per cent. There is no req son whatever to assume that the in- crease in high school attendance from 1900 to 1910 will be less than it was dur ing the decade just passed"
 During this period the increase in the population of New Haven was about s per cent, while the increase in the high school enrolment was 70 per cent. THE NEED OF ADDITIONAL
 SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
 Additional school accommodations are already needed in the Webster, Win chester, Eaton Wooster and Strong districts, and the erection of new school buildings, or, where practicable, the en- largement of the old buildings, must be considered in the immediate future.
 Webster District.--The most pressing need for additional accommodations is in this district Every seat in the three buildings of the district has been oecu- pied all the year; early in the school year so many young children, who could not otherwise be accommodated, ap- piled for admittanee to the Webster school that the children of the first grade were organized into two sets or rooms and each set was given half day session, one in the forenoon and the other in the afternoon, More than sixty children, furthermore, who live in this district are obliged to attend school in the Dwight district. The sit uation is worse this year than it was last and will doubtless be worse next year than it has been this Either new building should be erected on the site of the present Oak street building or the present building should be en- larged by an additional story The lat ter would probably be the more prac- ticable plan. If this should be done four additional rooms would be pro vided. Later four rooms more could be provided for the district by an addition to the Davenport avenue building. These changes would probably provide for the children in the Webster district for several years.
 Winchester District.-In the two large buildings of this district the Winches- ter and the Shelton avenue, the lower grades have been crowded all the year, and it has been impossible to accom- modate all the children who applied for admittance. In the Winchester school two basement rooms have been occu- i pied, one by the kindergarten and one by class of first grade children. Tn the vicinity of the Shelton avenue school several classes of children occupy three rooms in a dwelling house leased for this purpose A large addition to the present Shelton avenue building would be the most practicable method of relieving the crowded condition of this district
 Eaton District-In this district the lower grades in both the Eaton and the Skinner schools are overcrowded. In the latter one basement room is occu- pied. When the high school is trans ferred from the old to the new building the present high school building will be-