The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-08-05
FOR ARDMORE
SCHOOL WORK
CITY SCHOOLS WILL OPEN MON.
DAY SEPTEMBER ~.
Meeting OF School Board Plans Vast.
ly improved Work. Not Alone
Win Teachers. bot With Pu-
pills Of all Grades

At meeting Of the school board !
yesterday afternoon O. was 9etermin.
cd. amo.g other things that the city
schools would open Sept 18th. The
year lying Immediately before us
seems likely 20 he marked with as
much educational entertainments as
could well Doe planned tor thrifty
city.
Two splendid buildings u course
of erection In second and fourth
wards will be finished by December
lst These buildings will put Ard
more Ca an equal footing with the ad-
vauced cities Of the Southwest in
school accommodations.
A motion was made and CARRIED
| Friday at the meeting OF the trustees
to fit up two more rooms I'm the third
ward building for a seventh grade
and a division Of the first grade. This
IS step toward relieving congestion
in certt'n grades in the city, and what
is better to give every ward com
plete number Of grades from first to
eighth. Heretofore children OF the
seventh grades. west Of the Santa Fe
railroad have been forced to center
in the first ward building.
The opening Of the new buildings
the first Of December will be marked
by the use Of two extra teachers In
each building. thus favoring In the
highest degree efficient work and nor.
NAL progress Of pupils. The trustees
Increased the rumber OF teachers this
year over Lest, by SIX 4 teacher
Of division Of first grade IN the third
ward. an eighth grade teacher in the
FIRST. second aud fourth wards.
grade teacher In either second or
fourth wards, where most needed
and a supervisor Of drawing and vocal
music. The public will rejoice IN
the strength impaired by this iu.
crease OF faculty and the council of
the city is TO be heartily commended
for making It possible.
! From the report put forth b. Super.
intendent Evans Il as understood that
all Of these things that made the
schools strong In scholarship and dis
cipline last year will be- used this year
and some more good things added.
Some elements OF manual training
will be introduced this year prepara.
tory for that early time when In
central high school building, Ardmore
will have what she wust have for her
boys and girls q fine department OF
manual training Drawing and vocal
music will be under competent super
vision and IL nothing else was done
this year than make this addition TO
the schools II would mean that won.
derful progress had been made and
Ardmore would have a right to hold
it's head among the best Of systems.
The boys and girls may rest as.
sured that from the first days much
more stress than ever will be paid
to athletics Athletics under com.
petput management has come 10
mean better Drawn, better brains and
better Christian character. At Ok
lahoma University 80 per cent OF
their winning athletics belong to the
~. NJ. c. A. and the church. A good
racer cannot smoke cigarettes. 4
fine vaulter cannot have his head
dizzy with strong drinks. A tobacco
user cannot get his muscles tense
enough for a winning jump You
must be clean II you would win. An
athletic field adjacent 20 the High
school will be secured early and the
work carefully planned.
There will be two courses in the
High school this year instead of one
as heretofore. An English Latin
course as the one OF old and an Eng
lish scientific, stressing the science
rather than Latin in connection with
English. Both OF equal length and
strength. both will bear the same
honor. Merely a chance to do what
many high school boys and girls wish,
90 choose some ways leading In Ger.
tain directions OF their tastes
| With an increased attendance, with
a larger faculty, with better plans
and higher aims, there is no doubt
that Ardmore will have school
work second TO mono I'm Oklahomn.