The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-09-03
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN.
All Teachers Present, Rooms Full
And Classification Completed -
Good Prospects for Good Work.

The public schools OF San Angelo
opened Monday morning. Every
te acher was present and they greeted
the hundreds OF beaming countenaa-
ces of the rising generation with
smiles, kind words and general en-
couragement. All the rooms are full,
the classification of those who pre-
sented themselves entirely completed
and the intricate and complex but
we'll planned and organized educa-
tional machinery started on its nine
months run Of resutful work. BY the
end OF the week 1t is expected that 500
pupils will have enrolled TO receive
benefits OF the magnificent education
al provisions of the great Lone Star
OF Texas, and, later, to reflect credit
upon the State, and bring honor to
themselves and parents. The rooms
secured in the Justus Academy build
ing will largely relieve the previ-
Gus congestion OF the main school
building on the hill, and 1t is proba-
BILE that one full grade-perhaps the
sixth-will be located in this "annex. ;"
The largest number of pupils under
one teacher will probably be about 10
and the prospects now are good for a
sessions work productive OF desira.
BILE results
The assignment of teachers to
grades is as follows:
Miss Anne Ker, two.thrds OF first
grade,
Mrs. u. d. Gafford, one-third OF
first and one-third of second grade.
Miss Mae Foreman two.thirds OF
second grade.
Miss Nan Jefferson, third grade,
with Miss Myrtle Meers assistant.
Miss Birdie Dean, low fourth.
Miss Mary Lard, high fourth.
Miss Grace Kelly, fifth.
Miss Rosa Aro2ena, sixth.
Miss Rosa Rowland assistant in
Justus Academy building.
Miss jameson, seventh grade.
The high school will be supplied as
follows: j. S. Abbott, superinten-
tendent, Mathematics; Miss Mary
Murphy, principal, history; Miss FL
la Robinson, Latin and English; Miss
Anna Dobbs, science,
Mexican school, Mrs. Ella Balen-
cia For the first week or two or I'M
Til cooler weather prevails, there will
be only halliday sessions--avery wise
provision.
Book dealers will make no exchange
unless endorsed by Superintendent
Abbott, a measure that 1t has been
, found necessary TO adopt on account
OF some acts OF "kleptom aniacy" dis
: covered, books having been offered
by others than those having right
to do So
School hours will be from to II
a. m. and / to 4 p. m.
= There has been no change in text
books, as has been enormously re-
ported.
| Superintendent Abbott and his en-
tire care fully selected and able corps
: OF assistants have the best wishes of
The Press in their burdensoms,
) mutifarious and complex duties Of
, instruction and discipline. With the
! encouragement and aid OF patrons
} these duti es may, to limited extent,
, be lightened, certainly because TO
rebound to the pupils better in
. terests, greater and more marked pro-
8 gress.
Let us "hold up their hands," be
slow to criticize for fancied wrongs
or errors and when they apparently
manifest themselves, confer with them
in the proper spirit. In q schoo
s where hundreds OF children are con
: gregated, every conceivable trait, anc
| characteristic and weakness OF hui
Z man nature manifests itself, and 1t Is
g huge task to create order out of choa'
and maintain it, to secure and keep
discipline established, to harmonic
all the discordent elements.
q "Speak gently--'tis better, far,
:, To rule by love than fear.
y Speak gently-let no harsh word
, mar
The good we might do here, "