The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-11
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
PROFESSOR HANEY TO
START LECTURE SERIES.
Large Evening Drawing and Cooking
Classes-Thirteenth Avenue Addition
Not to Be Finished Until January.

York University School of Pedagogy,
and director of the Burnet street
School, tomorrow afternoon, from )
until 4 O'Clock.
About thirty-six teachers have reg
istered for the course and ASSISTANT
Superintendent David b. Corson ex-
poets several more applications. ihey
will receive practical classroom WORK.
as if they were students, so nat tnes
may apply the lesson to their class
rooms. There will be fifteen lessons IN
the course. and for the first hour OF
each will be devoted to lecture WORK.
and during the second hour Professor
Haney will criticise the work which the
teachers will bring up.
The rest of the lectures VIII pc sisen
october 26, November 8 and %, December
7 and q January 4 and 16, FEBRUARY l. 10
and 20, March Ia and %, April Ia anu .,
The certificate for these lectures VIII De
accepted by the Newark, Board o. nA-
aminers for drawing in the examina.ion
for promotion. =,
the College Extension course have nor as
vet been definitely arranged. They VIII De
held i'm the Free Public Library, ana the
srhiects will be Educational Psychology
s.Method'' and american History
rbo teachers' drawing classes In the
Central Evening High School have proved
very popular, and Miss Eva Struble, the
drawing supervisor, who Is III chafee' 10
nleased at the large attendance. Sne Is
giving instruction in method and practical
classroom work, and on Monday evenings
tho principles are applied to grammar
school work, while on Thursday evenings
the primary work is considered.
The attendance at the evening SCHOOLS
is considerably heavier than last year.
and is still on the increase.
II is expeoted that the addition to the
Thirteenth Avenue School will be ready
for occupancy about the first of January.
After that the Parents Association, the
scboo, city and the various school CLUBS
will be reorganized.
, In the supervisors room at the Board
of Education are several metal capIhets
containing specimens OF the work OF ,he
grades Of all of the Schools lhese a.
added to from time TO time, so that on
very short notice a comprehensive exhlpit
could be arranged. They will be shown
to visitors at any time, :
The German-English school building on
College place has been abandoned anu mas
been rented by the Board Of Education 10
10 ,,sad az an annex to the Morton Street
school. to take the place of the william
street annex. and will be under the charge
IF principal Otto IL. Schultz, the Morton
street school principal. This will do away
with the Morton street dalf-day classes.
ss,s+snt SUPERINTENDENT David B. Cor
ION and the school principals of the
northern section met in the Normal an2
Tra,ning school Wednesday afternoon TO
discuss many subjects pertaining to scnool
matters. Mr.. Corson talked In a genera
yav Of the subjects taken up with the
teachers at grade meetings.
r,ho nrincipals of the southern section
mot in the Avon Avenue School ASSEMBLE
room wednesday afternoon to listen to a
talk by Assistant Superintendent j. VIII
mer Kennedy, who outlined his views reia-
tive to supervision.
The following circular has been lssueu
to the local principals:
..pIease nroyide each half-time pupil, ex-
osnting kindergarten pupils, with a card
certifying to the time when sueh pupil
should be at school. Please, also, direct all
such pupils to carry this card in their pock-
OTIS wien not at school. These cards are to
be collected from the pupils and DESTROYED
when the pupil attends a full day. Inc
necessity for this card arises from the fact
that a number of children who falsely
claimed to be half-time pupils have been
found on the streets by the attendance Off
GERS.
.Tbese cards will be sent TO all schools
having halliday classes. An additional sup
ply can be had upon application to this Of
flee
Lectures in the popular course for the
people will be given next week as follows;
october IA, North Seventh Street School,
.HThe Heart of the Yosemite" by Arthur
K. Peck; Fourteenth Avenue School,
''Greece. the Land of Myth ana no
NANCE" by Minna Eliot Tenney; OCTOBER
tx Greece the Land of Myth and Ro-
nance" by Miss Tenney; Free Public
library. storm Heroes of Our Coast"
Arthur K. Peck; October 16, Alexander
Street School,, 1.-The Merchant of Venice,
reeited by J. Woodman Rabbit; Belmon
Avenue School, High Water Marks or
the Rebellion" by William IL. Morgan,
Hamburg Place School, "Storm Heroes of
Our Coast" by Arthur X. Peck; Frank
lin School, Greece, the Land of Myth and
Romance by Miss Tenney; Elliott Strees
school,. benjamin Franklin by the
Rev. Henry r. Rose; South Eighth Street
School, General Lafayette" by G. cas-
tegnier; October n; Bruce Street school,
storm Heroes of Our coast, Dy Arehuf
X. Peck; First Presbyterian Church,
Greece. the Land of Myth and Ro-
nance by Miss Tenney.
The following grade meetings will be
held next week: Monday, October IA, third
wear teachers, with Miss Louise West
wood. the music supervisor, and Charles
w. Slocum, the supervisor of writing, and
.SBr teachers, with andaH d. Warden,
the physical training director; Tuesday,
kindergarten teachers, with Miss Nc
Closky, the general supervisor, and Miss
Westwood, and IA teachers, with Mr.
warden; Wednesday, fourth year teachers,
with Miss Westwood and Mr.. Sloeum, and
IN toachers. with Mr.. Warden. and Thurs
dav afth year teachers, with Miss West
wood and Mr.. Slocum, and SB teachers,
with Mi. Warden.
The Rev. Henry r. Rose, pastor of the
church of the Redeemer, was the speaker
al the morning exercises OF the south
street school. yesterday. He talked of
the value of good work, and told stories
Of the life of Abraham Lincoln TO mus
trate his text. Assistant superintendent
]. Wilmer Kennedy will he the speaker
next Thursday morning.
PRINCIPAL Evan Z. Edwards expects 70
%reorganize his school orchestra IN the near