Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-19
COMMITTEE MEETING
Consideration of the Charles
Against Arthur U. Craig.
NORMAL SCHOOL MATTERS
Opposition to Suggestion That Exam
nations Be Held.
LOCAL SITUATION EXPLAINED
Order for Company Competitive Drill
Of Regiment Of Cadets at
Base Ball Park.

meeting Of the committee on teach
ers and Janitors Of the board Of education
was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon for
'he purpose OF continuing its considera-
t'on OF the charges preferred by Superin-
tehoent Chancellor against Arthur U.
craig. colored. q teacher at the Armstrong
Manual Training School The committee
IS not supplying any information as to the
proceedings before It,
superintendent Chancellor's recommended
ton that examinations of normal school
pupils shall count one-half in the rating on
the eligible list for appointment as teachers,
which met with storm Of opposition on
the part of Normal School and other teach
ers. parents and pupils. and which was re-
terred to the committee on normal and
high schools. Is still the chief topic of con-
versation In school circles. There Is such
firm belief on the part of those concerned
directly with the white Normal School that
Dr. Chanceisor's plan would work the great
est injury to the school that no relaxation
Is noticed in the efforts to pursuade the
board members to disapprove it.
Pride in Local Situation.
Much pride is taken in the local Normal
School by its teachers and pupils and by
school officials generally. The professional
atmosphere Of the school is maintained, it
is claimed to the highest possible degree
and any step that might result in cram
ming for examinations is not well received
1t is pointed out by those interested in
maintaining present methods that the nor
NAL school course of the Washington stu
dent actually begins when he or she enters
the high school. Then a decision is made
and the course shaped with an idea of en-
tering the normal school The NOR
NAL course in the high school is an in
tegral part of the curriculum. At the con-
al, rcio 90 fIA
nation Is conducted for admission to the
normal school. If such is passed the pupil
is supposed to devote time to the more adj
vanced and broader aspects Of the life Of a
teacher and learn such things as how to
win the attention and respect of pupils.
how to instruct by personal contact, how
to handle the hundred and one little prob
lens that arise In class of children
things for which. 1t is said, no amount of
examining for examinations could fit per-
son. and of which an examination could
not be test.
Such things are learned by actual expert
ence as teachers under the guidance or So
called model teachers" At the same
time the pedagogical studies are not neg
lected. but 1t is said they are not given
undue prominence. it being kept In mind
that the purpose of the course is to make
teachers and not theorists.
As to Conditions Here.
1t is felt by many persons in close touch
Wltil tne normal SCHOOLS tndC CnanCel-
lor ought not to have prescribed so-caled
reforms without informing himself more
fully as to the conditions here. 1t has again
been asserted, as it was several months
ago. that the superintendent has not Wis
tied. in his educational capacity, the classes
of Normal School No. 1, although his office
is In the same building.
The first of series of six lectures on
psychology by DR.. Chancellor was given
at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the
Business High School. The remaining lee
lures of the series will be given at the
same hour at the Business High School
succeeding Mondays.
Assistant Superintendent Hughes has an
nounced that the order for the competitive
drill Of the High School cadet companies
will be as follows:
May 81, Companies I, g. A, E, B. in the
order named May %, Companies D, c. K.
F. H. in the order named.
Through the courtesy of President Noyes
Of the Washington Base Ball Club. the
drill will be held in American League Base
Ball Park.