Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-16
SCHOOLS ALL READY
Sessions Begin Monday With
Enlarged Facilities.
REGISTRATION THIS WEEK
Tomorrow. Friday and Saturday Are
to Be Busy Days.
NEW BUILDINGS PROVIDED
Board of Education Spends SITS 900
During Recess-Report to
Be Submitted.
REGISTRATION THIS WEEK
NEW BUILDINGS PROVIDED

The public schools of the city will open
Monday.
Every needed repair will have been
made and every arrangement for the
| work of the school year will have been
| completed. ~Several buildings have been
| enlarged. So inspite of increased enroll
ment pupils will not find themselves sc
| crowded as last year.
The $4,000 spent by the board of edu-
| cation on new buildings this summer has
provided a four-room addition to the
Gage School, four-room addition to the
Brightwood Park School, an annext to
the Petworth School and an addition to
the WOODBURY. School.
Three schools are being built, the Mott
School on NJ street between Sd and 4th
streets southwest, the Henry T. Cooke
School on Columbia road, and the Bryan
School, 18th and B streets. The Van Ness
School (colored) is ready for occupancy.
A special appropriation for plumbing
has been expended during the summer.
Also $1,000 has been used toward fire
PROBING, substituting steel staircases for
wooden ones. placing fire escapes on
buildings, fireprOotins school furnaces,
etc.
Board Meeting Tomorrow.
In order to present a complete report to
the board at the meeting tomorrow, Supt
Stuart, President Oyster and Vice Presi-
dent Cox have been making complete
inspection of the schools. Capt. Oyster has
said that a great improvement is shown
over the work of last summer. The re-
port to the board is expected to be emf
nently satisfactory, especially regarding
sanitation and tireproofing.
IL 80 lv,,ic IN
and graded schools will be issued by the
principals Of the respective buildings Fri
day and Saturday of this week between
$50 and 10 o'clock In the morning and 4
and 6 in the afternoon. Parents are d.
rected to make application to the prin-
cipal of the school nearest their resi-
dences. Every pupil entering the public
schools must present certificate show
ing he or she has been vacc1nateL.
Applicants for admission to the high
and manual training schools who nave
not been pupils in the public schools OF
the District must confer with the board
of examiners for admission to the hlgh
schools at room "a, Central High School
building 7th and o streets northwest
Thursday, Friday or Saturday between
o'clock and noon and $50 and 4:1O
o'clock in the afternoon.
The examination for admission TO ad-
vanced classes in the several high and
manual training schools will occur at
the Central High School building Mon
day at 8 O'Clock. The requirements for
admission to such classes are the studies
of the preceding year or their equivalent.
Examinations on Tuesday.
The examination for admission to the
first year class will occur at the Central
High School building Tuesday at y
o'clock. The requirements for admission
to the first-year class are English gram
mar and composition, United States his
tory and Constitution, geography, arith-
metic and algebra through factoring.
Pupils formerly enrolled In the severa
high and manual training schools will re-
port Of those schools Monday morning at
o'clock:
All pupils transferred from the eighth
grade schools to the high schools Will re-
port at their respective high schools Mon
day at IL o'clock.
The teachers of the first nine division:
will meet their respective SUPERVISING
principals at their Offices Saturday at l.
o'clock.
The teachers of the tenth. eleventh
twelfth and thirteenth divisions will NEE
at the NJ Street High School building Sat
urday at IL o'clock.
Teachers of the first nine divisions who
have been appointed in the first second
third or fourth grades since September
1907 will meet Miss Brown, the director
of primary instruction, in the norma
hall at the Franklin School building Sat
urday at o'clock.