Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-06
NO. 35.
OPENING OF SCHOOL
TWenty-Seven Tuition Pupils. En-
rolled in High School
Senior Class officers Elected-Enrolmen
in the Grades Not as Large as Expected
Work We'll Under Way.


Work Well Under Way.
The Brattleboro high school opened
Wednesday morning under auspicious
conditions. BY the first of next week II ia
expected that everything will be in a
thoroughly settled condition and the work
gong on as well as at any time in the
school year. Principal E. Burr Smith was
well pleased with the promptness with
which the routine Of school work was es-
tablished and looks forward to a very
successful school year
The enrolment showed 75 girls and IS
boys, total of 14O. This is about the
same number as last year There are AZ
members in the entering class. The most
significant thing about the school opening,
Is the number of tuition pupils Twenty
seven have been enrolled from outside
towns. This Is not much Of an advance
over other recent years but in the quail
ity of the pupils there is decided gain.
owing to the system of examinations in
triduced for the first time this year. Here
tofore all pupils who wished to attend
the high school were accepted although
many of them proved to be united to
take up the school work and subsequently
dropped out. The rigid examinations un-
der the supervision Of the district SUPER
intendents have resulted in a picked lot
OF tuition pupils who are in no danger Of
dropping behind. The new system showed
its worth at the very outset.
The classes began to organize and plan
their activities as soon as school opened.
The seniors held a class meeting the first
day of school and elected the following,
officers: President, Howard Brown; vice
president, Miss Margaret Barber: secre-
tary, Miss Una Rice; treasurer Ralph
Howe; assistant treasurer Miss Ellen
Sherman. These officers and James Per-
ry constitute the executive committee
will
OF arrangements for all the high school
dances this year.
The sophomore class held a meeting
yesterday morning but postponed organ
ization until later.
Wednesday the children of the graded
schools gathered from all sides and the
teachers had a busy morning in getting
them to work. There was only one
teacher unfamiliar with the Brattleboro
system, which in some measure accounts
for the promptness with which a satisfac-
tory start was made. The bad weather
made the enrolment in the primary
grades small, but this morning many
more little folk came in to start their
school life. The enrolment yesterday
in the grades at the high school building
was 269 and 210 enrolled at the Canal
street school. In the four primary
schools the enrolment was about 100.
The number of pupils is somewhat less
than last year instead of being more as
expected. This is in part due to the
unusual number of families who have left
town, but more especially to the number
of children, both boys and girls, who have
left their school al the expiration Of the
time required by statute. This was
shown in the falling off in the entering
class in the high school, About so were
enrolled in the ninth grade last year,
but only 30 from the school district en-
tered the high school. 1t is known that
number of these have gone to work.