Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-21
Totals of Yesterday Believed
to Have Been Correct.
LISTS MADE AT OPENING
Large Increase Expected Later in
the Season.
TESTING THE STUDENTS EYES
Experts Engaged in Discovering
Defective Vision-Changes in
Course Of Study.

just to show that nobody can point a
finger Of scorn at the school officials and
| say they do not know how to estimate
the number of incoming pupils, the fig
| ures given In yesterdays Star will stand
| The total enrolment for yesterday was
II. 1872 That, however. was for the open
| ing day only. The figures for all the
children that went to school at various
times last year reached 5000. Before
this school year ends it is confidently ex-
pected that there will be about 21s pei
| cent more than that enrolled.
To get down to dry facts, the total en-
rollment in the white high schools yes
first day a year ago. The total for the
against 1.019 year ago. The two norma
schools shine with increased brilliance
! owing to total increase of forty-mostly
! girls-over last year.
| The school authorities state that in the
graded schools there were %, 134 chill
dren entered yesterday. Opening day a
| year ago saw exactly $50 more than that
| The colored graded schools fell down
| to the tune Of little over a thousand
but still have 1O.93S. and more to come
| In this connection is noted that Wash
|
States In regard to number of coloreo
students in the high schools as COM
pared to the total number of colored stu
dents in the public schools
Total in High Schools.
The total Of all high schools yesterday
was Ali, normal schools. $40. and the
great army of children in the graded
schools amounted to 1852.
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nifies nothing, it is declared by the Off.
breaker and bulges the sides Of the
school buildings outward Supt. Stuart
said today that there are many
| admission cards out yet, representing
| school children. perhaps. who have not
returned to the city. And every one knows
| families who do not return to the city
| until October. When Congress opens
| and the great retinue that follows in sthe
train of the legislators settles down
| there is usually an increase in the en-
| rollment that is surprising.
About ten young women were picked
yesterday in the Normal School at the
Franklin to do bit of practice teaching.
Miss Anne NJ. Cooling, who is the prin-
cipal Of Normal No. 1, did not think 1t
would be advisable to publish the names
of these girls. She did not say why,
but perhaps all the other girls might be
disappointed; they will all have chance
to ''practice teach" before they get
| through.
Test of Students Eyes.
Miss Cooling volunteered other inforna-
ton, one portion Of which was that
chap was going through the school today
| testing the eyes Of the Normal School stu
dents. This man had an armful of little
skeins OF yarn in colors vartegated
o,,oI, To
famous coat Of many colors which Joseph
| wore. When he placed a dark green skein
next to a light green skein and the girl
declared they were exactly alike. he at
once decided that there her eyes were de-
fective. He also had funny-looktng pair
Of eyeglasses, with many scientific look
ing attachments screwed to them. When
the girls wore them It gave them an ODD
and machine-like look-something similar
to what the Man in the Iron Mark must
have worn.
The several practice schools in the
Franklin building and elsewhere are
worth looking in on. They are run for
the one purpose of giving normal school
girls actual teaching practice. and they
are SO conducted that the youngsters who
are taught cannot by any means be con-
sidered as getting the short end of the
bargain. Each room is presided over by
the finest expert that can be found. she
is. Of course. fitted for the job better
from the Normal School are assigned to
her room and teach the children under
her supervision. 1t is a safe guess that
those children get all the simon pure ed
ucation that can be crowded into the
room before the year Is out.
Make-Believe Pupils.
There are several of these practice
| schools, but sometimes 1t become neces-
sary for a part Of the Normal School
girls to make believe they are wee small
children again and let one Of their mum.
Der stand up before them and teach them
| reading, or writing, or nature study. or
whatever is called for. Miss Cooling as.
sured The Star reporter that the young
ladies behaved just like children, but, OF
course, very good children. She also
said that there was class going on down
stairs, and one might learn something by
| hiding behind a cloakroom door and
| listening.
There have been several notifications
| in some of the studies this year.
The notifications are in the courses OF
geography, history, physiology and nature
study or physics. 1t frequently occurs
| that the arrangement of study which
seems best in theory does not work out
| best in practice. Certain courses become