Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-20
SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS
Halfa Hundred Thousand Pu-
pills Return to Study.
THE TEACHERS BUSY
SCARCITY OF ANTHRACITE COAL
FOR HEATING PURPOSES.
Buildings Occupied This Year for the
First Time-TEe Training
Schools.

| The long and happy days of summer vaca-
| ton ended half hundred thousand school
| children of the city will return to their
| books Monday morning at o'clock. For
| the past six weeks the repair corps of the
| District government has been working in
| defatiga bly, to put the various school houses
! of the District into the very best possible
| condition for the reception of the army of
| pupils. The Commissioners Of the District
| were until recently much perturbed over
| the question Of coal for the school furnaces,
| but have now secured 1900 tons of btu
| minous coal and coke, which will keep the
| fires going from the first touch Of Jack
| Frost until the time of Thanksgiving, the
| last of November.
| A very persistent rumor has been going
| the rounds to the effect that the schools
| would not open until after the encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic, which
| Is to be held here the second week OF Octo-
her There has never been any foundation
for this talk, however, and the schools will
open schedule time and continue open
throughout the encampment. 1t is probable,
however, that the educational authorities
will follow the lead of the President of the
United States and the District Commission
ers in closing the departments October s,
| the day of the great parade, and VIII close
| the schools also in order that the children
may witness the mighty pageant of the
| patriots of '6165.
Teachers Very Busy.
The school authorities have been occupied
| of late preparing for the annual fall open
| ing. School books and supplies have been
pretty we'll distributed at the various build
| ings throughout the District, and the teach
ers have all been assigned to their respec-
tive stations. Each year there num-
Der of changes in the large teaching corps,
but in the main the teachers will again go
over the fields with which they are SO ia
miliar and through which they so ably con-
| duct the little men and women of the COM
munity. Cards of admission have been is
sued by the thousands during the past
| week. The children who have been to
| school before, take on new duties this fall
as result of promotions to the next higher
| grade. few in each section remain behind
| their comrades to make up the delinquent
| cies of the last season. These have new
| determination to do their best and if pos
! sible to overhaul those who now leave them
behind.
grades of the grammar schools the tmid
| little boys and girls who just beginning
their school career will Monday mora
ing make acquaintance with teacher"
whom each and every one of them will learn
to dearly love Before the session is month
old
| At the high schools the graduates of last
June will be missed. But filling out the
the heavy installments from the eight
| grades of the graded schools, who are just
beginning their four years of the higher
training granted by the public system.
In the manual training schools the finest
and most magnificently equipped institu-
tions the city has ever known in it's public
school history, the workers with muscle as
well as with brain will take up their la
bors amid surroundings and convenienees
such as any community might well be
proud Of
The Authorized Schedule.
| The school authorities have made out
| schedule which 1t is desired that the chill
dren shall follow Monday morning. 1t is
important that all the children should be
made acquainted with this schedule, and it
! is herewith given in full:
All pupils in advanced classes will re-
port for enrolment at am. All pupils
amined at their several schools at Gam
AT the same hour all persons from out
| side schools desiring to enter the advanced
classes OF the high schools will be examined
at the Central High School; those for the
Mammal Training School at the William
| Mckinley School.
An pupils entering the high and manual
| training schools from the eighth grades
will report at their several schools for en-
rollment at IL a. m.
Tuesday. September 23. at am, an
examination for entrance to the several
white high schools, including the Business
School will be held at the Central High
School. 18th and o streets northwest All
candidates for this examination are required
TO confer with the director of high schools
at his office in the Central High School on
or before Monday, September %.
At the same hour like examination for
| entrance to the NJ Street High School will
| be held IN that building All candidates
! must confer with the principal of that
| school on or before Monday September %
| AL the same hour, am, Tuesday Sep
| TEMPER q, examinations for entrances to
| the William Mckinley and General Arm
| strong Manual Training Schools will be
heid IN the building of those schools. All
| candidates for these examinations must
confer with the respective principals on or
| before Monday, September -. No pupils
| who have been attending the graded schools
| of the city Will be permitted TO take these
examina tons without written order from
the superintendent Of the schools"
| Teachers meetings being held this
| afternoon in the various high school build
| ings, where the STATS are being organized
/ and the work of the school term being map
| ped out according to the curriculum pre-
| scribed by the board of education.
| The School Enrolment.
| The enrolment in the schools last year
was in the neighbofsood Of 1900 pupils.
| 1t is estimated that there will this year be
| an increase of about 800 pupils. All in
/ crease Of between 500 and 900 was noted
| last year, and is about the normal increase
! expected from year to year in a growing
| city of Washington's size.
| A number of new school buildings viii be
| occupied this fall for the first time. Among
| these is the Mckinley Manual Training
| School, located at Ith street and Rhode ISL