Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
The Y. N. C. A. INSTITUTE
REGULAR WORK BEGINS EVEN
ING OF SEPTEMBER Is.
Day Courses Will Be Featured and
Foreigners Taught English
This Year.
G Street

Expansion of the department of day
courses is to be one of the distinctive fea-
lures of the work of the Y.M.C.A. Asso-
citation Institute this fall and winter. Day
classes for men and boys who work at
night were tried as an experiment last
year for the first time, English mathe-
mates and drafting being taught. This
season, besides these courses, stenogra-
ply, bookkeeping and business correspon-
dence have been added. The teaching of
English to non-English speaking men will
also continue to be a feature of the asso-
citation work.
The regular work Of the Association In
stitute begins upon the evening of Sep
first year of it's work in Washington. Last
year the total student body numbered 721
and a larger number of ambitious young
men are expected to take advantage of
the advantages offered this year
officers Of the Institute.
The institute is under the supervision of
the department of education of the
Young Mems Christian Association, which
is Offered as follows: Committee Of man.
agement, s. w. Woodward. president:
Merrill E. Gates, LID. chairman: Will
liam H. Baldwin, H. Bradley Davidson.
John B. Larner, Charles F. Nesbit, George
Otis Smith. Ph.D., and DR.. William P.
Thirkield. Myron j. Jones, MA, Is d.
rector of the institute; Edwin D. Bald
win, secretary: Clifford l.. Johnson, as
sistant institute director and employment
secretary, and Ralph Mcneil Dunbar, IL
brarian.
The staff of instructors includes many
of the most experienced instructors in the
District, whose speciality Is teaching men
and boys employed during the day. A.
M. P. Maschmeyer enters upon his nine
teenth year as instructor in mechanical
and architectural drafting and machine
design. Since his work began in 1890 he
has had more than 1000 different men
under him in the Y. M. G. A. E. +.
Hanna, solicitor of the Navy Department,
who so successfully taught Pitman short
hand in the institute, is still an advisory
member of the shorthand department. al
though the teaching work is In the hands
of Clifford L. johnson. Mr.. Hanna taught
stenography for twenty years In the asso-
citation classes, and only retired because
Of pressure of official duties.
Members of Teaching Staff.
Among other members of the teaching
staff of twenty-six in the institute are
L. E. c. Colliere, in French: s. P. Coale.
electricity; B. s. Couch. electricity; Man.
uel Fraile. Spanish; James c. Fernald,
Lid. English; Clifford l. johnson.
istry: H. r. Hoover. vocal music 1. W.
Huntzberger, mathematics: Donald B.
Macleod, orchestral music; Percival
Padgett, Latin: Jesse E. Potbury, COM
mcrcial law; p E. Medford, assistant in
mechanical drawing; w. w. Rogers,
bookkeeping and accounting: A. w. Span
hoofd, German; Luther F. Speer, mathe-
matics: William WEIGH. freehand draw
ing and design; John N. Dawson. type
writing; Walter T. Holt. mandolin and
guitar: E. N. Kirby. public speaking and
debate; A. w. Potter. English and mathe-
matics: Howard n. Jenness. general
tutoring; Otis G. Stanton. elementary
English and rhetoric; Arthur Cults Will
lard, day drafting and mathematics; j. c.
Hatton, penmanship.
Among the other educational features Of
the institute are lectures, practical talks
by prominent men. the clubs including the
Law Club for graduate lawyers who want
moot court work; the Camera Club for
kodak fields, the Giles Club, Twentieth
Century Club and the Round Table Club.
The total membership of the central as
ISOLATION is now about 5000.