The Washington times., 1903-09-20

tenn there. Superintendent Stuart has
decided that hereafter the halliday class
system shall be applied to the higher
grades when necessary. as it is thought
bad policy to abridge the time OF The
pupils in the lower grades.
Manual Training Popular.
superintendent. Stuart, In recently
speaking OF the situation. said the young
people OF Washington could not be
blamed for turning to the business High
School and the Manual Training Schools
but he thought 1t would be more wise
for many of them TO take up the regular
courses in the high schools. He thought
at the present time there was too great
a movement toward the trade education
He did not wish TO belittle II In the
general system, but the facilities are
now so crowded. especially at the Nc
Rinley School, that the education OF
that class of pupils must necessarily
suffer for the next few years, II the
pupils elect those courses now. Within
few years the new Business High
School will be built. and Mr.. Stuart
hopes for large addition TO the McKin-
ley School. but these projected improve
ments will not release the tension this
year. and his advice is for as MANY
pupils as possible TO go to the high
schools instead OF to the manual train
ing departments. Better results he was
sure would follow. Mr. Stuart said i,
would be impossible TO accommodate 500
pupils in the Mckinley School without
renting quarters for at least 200 OF them.
as the larger enrolment of the Central
High School Will preclude the use OF that
building The only way out of the diff
Guilty appears TO be to divide the school
into halliday classes. and work one sec
tion at the shops while the other is busy
as It's classroom exercises.
With the additions to the suburban
school buildings mentioned there will be
an important departure in the instruc-
ton in those sections Of the Distric,
The halliday classes will be abandoned
almost entirely. and the educational
advantages in Brookland, Takoma, and
at other points will be the same as those
| enjoyed in the city schools There has
| been shifting of the responsibility OF
supervising principals by the addition OF
one, the new twelfth division. and this
will enable the men in the suburban
/ schools to devote the same time and
energy to the schools there as in the
city. The policy of the board is to
afford the same facilities to the re-
mote schools as are now enjoyed with
in the cities of Washington and George
town. This has been. in a measure, i'm.
possible until the present time
One of the most significant improve
ments added to the schools this summer
has been the installation OF the tele-
phone service in all the buildings within
the fire limits OF the District There
will not be a telephone in every school
building in the District. but almost all
of them will have one. and the trouble
that has been experienced in. former
years of communication between the
various school buildings will be OBJ
Waited. Hereafter the school buildings
will be not only in communication with
the Superintendent. and the supervising
principal. but with one another. and
with the outside world. The telephone
} service will be a much appreciated I'm
provement in the management OF the
schools hereafter. Congress in the last
appropriation act provided $1,000 fol-
the installation OF the service.
Another addition to the school build
) ings will be the fire-escapes. The sum o.
$1,000 was appropriated to begin tn;
work Of putting steel fire-escapes OF
these buildings. This step was taken OF