The evening Republican., 1902-08-27
SCHOOLS
TO OPEN.

Superintendent George W. Twit
myer of the Public Schools hat
everything in readiness for the
opening of the schools on Monday
September 2.
The total number Of pupils enroll
ed in the public schools last year
was eleven thousand two hundred
and3O, as against eleven thousand
and nineteen, the preceding year,
a gain of two hundred and one,
and it is expected that this years
enrolment will also reveal gain
in numbers. In the colored schools
the total number enrolled was one
thousand and two, as against nine
hundred and eighty eight, the pre-
vious year.
l., The Wilmington High School will
open with more than one thousand
students including boys of the fifth
grammar grade, all of the sixth
grammar grade, and the high school
proper. The school last year enroll
ed seven hundred and thirty-six,
and the year preceding, six hun
dred and eighty-nine students,
showing a stoady increase in the
number attending. Every room in
the building will be seated except
one which will be- used by the su-
pervlsor of sewing for instruction in
that branch. 1t has been necessary
to open the room designed for the
library as a class room, and sixty
five seats have been occupied by
the senior boys and girls have been
placed there. By thus centraiizing
the upper grammar grades in the
high school, and the upper primary
grades in the grammar schools, it
will be possible to seat every child
of school age in the city, this would
not have been accomplished in any
other way without tho building Of
at least ten school houses, so that
the present arrangements Of classes
fully justities the eypendiency of
the new high school. A new course
of instruction in reading and arith-
metic has been adopted and will be
placed in the hands Of the teachers
as soon as it is received of the
printers.
The Wilmington Teachers Train
ing School will epen with eight
teachers in the practice department
and sixteen in the theory depart.
ment. A class of four will also be
trained at the Howard School MAX
ing this the largest number of pu-
pill teachers to receive their training
at one time since the Inauguration
of the course.
As authorized by the Board Of
Education Superintendent Twit-
myeris planning for teachers i'll
stitute to which he expects to bring
the best in modern educational
thought
The first principals conference
will be held on Monday afternoon
next at o'clock, at the Wilmington
High school, at which time the su-
pelintendent will outline the inaug-
uration of the terms work, and
discuss matters pertinent to its
success. Ills also expected that
Professor A. H. Berlin will meet
the faculty of the high school on
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, to !
assign classes, and discuss the out
look for the term. There will be !
twenty-siX classes exclusive of the I!
manual training, and the faculty
will include Professor Berlin prin-
cipal; J. Wesley Connel, Miss Eliza !
beth Hopes, Miss Alice Mercer, !
Miss Grace Smith, Miss Mary j. /.
Wheeler, Miss Anna Lewis, Miss
Eliza Craig, Miss Sara Tomlinson. !
Miss Florence Ramo, Miss Gather !;
inc Rider, Miss Sallie Hare, Mis-
Mary Latklen, Madam Umbrecbt.
Mrs. Ella D. Semple, Mrs Cahoon, !
Miss Grace Sayers, Mr.. Norris, ;
Glenn Brown, John Schenck, Miss ,
Elizabeth Carlisle, Miss Annie
Raudnitzky, Miss Elizabeth j. Pat
ton, Miss Nora Stuart, Miss Mary
Balance and Miss Nellie i. Sawin. !