The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-13

dfller, dollar, O'Clock scholar,
Oh why do you look so glum?
Your rest of the summer has made you
the GUNNER.
Now try to do this sum.
Why does one boy plus the day school
let's out look one hundred times more
healthy and happy after long school
year than the same boy plus the day
school opens looks after Il long restful
vacation?
For the answer don't look In the back
of the book,
You never will find 1t there;
But begin in the middle to work out
this riddle,
Ger which wise men have spent Time
and care.
All of which is apropos of the very
significant fact for thousands of New
ark boys and girls that this is the first
day of school. From every quarter Of
the city, with freshly washed and
shiny faces, their school books under
their arm, legions of them in answer to
the clarion and strangely unfamiliar
notes of the school-bells, trooped
toward the great brick-and-s
descendants of the little red scheol
house in their own district
1t is estimated that $4,000 f1tu e
American citizens, and the girls are
included In this number adylsedly, in
the light of the great strides which the
suffragette and suffragist movements
are making, today sought GU the places
of instructions furnished by wise and
generous city that they might be fash
ioned into bulwarks of the nation by
the latest and most advanced methods.
The actual registration figures viii
probably not be available for q week.
so great is the task facing princiI ais
and their staffs of teachers in all OF
the schools.
| IT mas been announced tits probable
that a great many of the pupils viii
have to be put on half time until the
rapidly increasing facilities of the city
have caught up with them. 1t Is said
that there will be no material change
in the curriculum of the schools from
that of last year.
DR.. Poland, superintendent of schools.
spent the day in the main building of
the Board of Education. Warning and
requests had apparently done nothing
to check the tendency of fond mothers
TO register their children in person on
the first day of school. For several
years past it has been pointed out that
the registration on the last three days
of the week preceding the opening OF
school, which teachers would like to
see large, has been held down because
OF the desire of mothers to get per-
sonal note in the proceedings by bring
ing young hopefuls to school on the
first day i'm person and turning them
over 10 the tender mercy of their future
instructors. This tendency is particu-
larly noticeable among parents of for
eign birth.
Another significa ut fact in connection
with opening day lies in the fact that
the lib class in the High School is the
largest on record. All High School
! facilities will be taxed to the utmost to
accommodate It, 1t is not unusual fcf
primary classes to break records ir
point of registration. but when Did
marks are beaten in the High School ii
is taken as a sign that more pupils
are seeing the advantage of going the
! full public school route. In the High
School class organization will occupy
the time of the students for the first
week In the grammar schools order
must be brought out of chaos before
instruction begins, and it is impossible
today to discover Just when such a re-
suit may be effected.
The fall number of the School EX~
change will be issued the middle Of
next month The general subject will!
be Language" and there will be articles
by State and city educators.
The Rev. Dr. II w. Stebbins, Of Bos-
ton, will give brief talk at the as
sembiy exercises of the Eighteenth
Avenue School tomorrow morning.