Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-06-10
Public Schools Formally Closed
for Session Yesterday.
WORK HAS BEEN SATISFACTORY
Exceptionally Large Number of Pupils
Promoted and Many Distinctions
Earned-Entlre Senior Class of High
School NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. For Boys.

The public schools OF this city were
formally CLOSED for The session OF
19O4-05 yesterday morning at 1e
o'clock, when the pupils gathered a;
their various rooms in the school
buildings and received their promotion
, cards and certificates of distinction.
which were given out by the teacher;
and several CT tho members of the
school board
Shortly after 10 O'clock the pupil;
left the schools for their homes ami
they will return no more until the
doors are thrown open for the session
of 1?05-06, the second Monday in Sep
tcmbcr. The reports of the teacher;
in the pubisc schools on the work done
hy the pupils were received by Super
vising Principal Willis a. jenkins. The
supervisor stated yesterday afternoon
that the work done by the pupils dur.
ing the present school session has
been unprecedented in the history of
The schools as there have hccn cxcep.
ticnally few failures during the year
and Il large number of the pupils were
promoted to The next grades with dis
tinctior.
Taken as whole" stated the s,i.
pcrvisCr. "thc work in the schools lhi.
year has shown an advancement of It.
per cent over that OF prcvio,S years
and all nf the reports upon the pupils
work lave hccn most gratifying to ME
and MY corps of teachers"
In the lIish school ;hc showing has
Leon even better than in the grammar
school. TIC entire senior class of six.
teen pupils graduated and number
graduated Will. distinction In the
bird scar class there was only ono
failure and one conditional promotions
which is u record unprecedented in
the history of the school. In the see
end year class Of about 80 pupils there
wc,c only four failures and In the first
year class Of about 40, there was about
the same number of failures
Professor w. C. Morton. principal of
the High school stated TO Daily Frcs.;
reporter yesterday that he and thu
faculty of the High school We're highly
pleased will, The fine showing made Ivy
the High school pupils during the ses.
sion.
In my honest opininn. | believe we
owe tn the system Of semi-anmlal pro-
notiuEsi. in Il great part the success al;
taine'! i'll the work this year. The sys.
ten Is Il great and good thing and has;
du!ic more for eur public achCols than
any ono thing ever introduced before, :
sail! The principal
Mr.. Merton seemed to he very cnthu
Siajtic over the senior class of the
High schurl this vtar and he stated
that he believed it is the hest class
that the local High school has evc!
turned out. here arc 16 pupils in
The class. twelve young ladies and four
young men. This is the first senior
class Of tie High school to have more:
than nne male )nemher. or the four
hoys. two of them won class honors.
Mr.. a. o. Loomis won first honor am,
Mr.. w. A. Graft third honor. Mis-
Clara Smith was awarded second hon
CT in The senior class.
Today the teachers in the schools,
Will pack up their bpnks and clos,
their desks for The summer vacation
ami a number of them will leave tho
city carly next week, tn sperd hard
earned vacation in ether places.