Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17
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Washington Pupils Re-Enter
School Tomorrow.
ADDITIONS TO ROLL
INCREASE BETWEEN 2ls AND 3
PER CENT.
High School Enrollment-Technica
overrun-Superior Advantages
offered This Year.

| Tomorrow morning. the first school MORN
| Ing of 1866 will be rung from all grade
! buildings at $40 o'clock. Woe TO the
teacher who reaches the building after s:45
or the pupil who shows up at 9;o5.
High schools, normal schools grammar
| primary and kindergarten schools all open
| doors for the 53,OU0 students whom tho
public has undertaken to educate. Accord
ing to the clerks who have had charge Of
the returns OF supervising principals and
| directors. the increase in attendance for
| the ensuing year is estimated as between
21s and per cent. In June. 1904. there
were 1879 pupils in the public schools OF
| Washington. BY the following spring the
| number was 51,l16. The enrolment for
| the opening session of 1905-19o.i. IL is con-
! fdently conjectured. will be 1.J0O In ad-
vance oc that OF last June
| To take charge OF this aggressive army
which is scaling the fortreSses of knowl-
| edge. 1,336 teachers have been employed.
| Of these officers the primary schools re-
| quire about 90, the grammar schools 420
| more, the kindergarten schools about 100,
| and the remainder are taken up by the
| high and normal schools. TO act as field
! marshals and division commanders.
| Advantages Offered.
| Many additional advantages are open to
| the school boy and girl tn year. both by
| way of equipment and instruction. Not
| only are there three new schools soon to
| be ready for occupancy the business High
| School and the Blow and the Ross. grade
! buildings, but there new kindergar-
tens and two entirely ne wtranlng schools
Tor E-nder"arten teachers.
IN the various courses offered there aro
also aiinrements, The Business High
School. as soon as it gets into its new
bullding-Which will be time in De-
| cembeT-will probably enter upon its career
as true commercial institution. Courses
| IN the languages regarded best suited
| for business purposes, Spanish and Ger
man. VIII probably be offered and elab.
| crate work in physics and chemistry in
| au%urated. 1t IS not commonly uncer-
| stood that a knowledge of the chemical
composition of the soils is very necessary
| If the peculiar advantages of section
| over another for the production of exports
l or imports is to be realized. There was q
| tme when the business man wanted q
| cheap stenographer; he demands an
expert in commercial law or an authority
upon all matters contributing to finance
The Business High School in the near
| future will have TO meet the demands of a.
new business world, and for such is en-
larging its curriculum.
AT the normal schools the classes are
growing, There will be fifty seniors and
sixty freshmen in Normal No. l. thirty-nine
seniors and forty freshmen In Normal No.
= Both schools are open 10 college gradu.
ates without competitive examination.
Value of Normal Training.
The normal training is considered to be
so valuable that many young ladies who de-
sire pedagogical instruction and practice
work enter the normal school for a course
of one year. Ii is one of the anomalies OF
the system, i: is said. that while a college
graduate may obtain an appointment in the
tINh .hnn Fh..I,F
thing is never heard of in the grades there
no teacher is ever appointed who has not
had special training or experience in teach
ing.
In the kindergarten training school
attached to Normal School No l there will
be senior class of seven young ladies'
taken over from the Phoebe Hearst School,
which is closed. Three other students
admitted with satisfactory credentials
make up the total class. At Normal No z
there will be no second-year class for pres
ent year unless admitted from Howard Uni
versity. AT both training schools the girls
entering the normal school will be allowed
to elect either the kindergarten primary
training. Those electing the kindergarten
course will. with the eligibles provided by
special competitive eXamn alton, constitute
the freshman class. Il is not yet known
how many that may be.
AS previously stated in The Star, Miss
Grace Fulmer will have special charge or
the white students and Miss c. NJ. Hunter
the colored.
Enrolment at High Schools.
At the High Schools a large enrolment is
expected. Increases are noted at all the
schools except the Mckinley Manual
Training. The Mckinley has been over
crowded since it opened, and II is one
Of the problems of school administration
what to do with the surplus. Conveniently
il will accommodate about 80 students.
There will be Geo on its rolls this year.
Rooms at the Central High School and at
the Henry Building have been In requist-
ton for its use, il is said, to their great dis
comfort. The appropriation asked for re-
peatedly has not yet Eeen granted, and
were ii allowed this year, the addition could
not be made in less than :wo years.
In spite of these conditions and the gem
eral understanding that pressure has been
brought by the supervising corps to prevent
students being transferred from the grades
to elect the manual trimming courses, the
popularity of the work is such that the
attendance at the school w II be largo
and perhaps even larger than last year.
At the Armstrong, the coiored manual
training school. the total enrolment will
probably be over 500. In all, at the seven
schools-Centra,, Eastern. Western, Busi-
ness, Mckinley, NJ Street and Armstrong
there will enter. the irst-year course,
about l. 100 students. These frSt-year stu
dents usually number a little less than half
the entire enrolment. Such is the number
of Withdrawals that seldom more than 20
per cent remain through the four years
and are graduated The total enrolment
of secondary schools will be about 300.
Care of Health.
One of the most significant signs of the
greater care which is given TO the health
of chi dren while in school is the attention
paiG. 10 ventilation. lighting, heating and
plumbing. In some sciNols the entire sys-
TEN of plumbing has been modernized.
Forty thousand dollars has been expended
on the install ton OF new plumbing and
more than S . coo on repairs. Wooden
staircases have been replaced with iron
and furniture of the most approved type
has replaced much that was unsightly and
insanitary.
Young Court Martial Postponed.
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