Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-06
2,677 ENROLL AT
SCHOOL OPENING
Rock Island Youngsters Gather
Up Their Books Today At
ter Summer Vacation.
SEXES EVENLY DIVIDED
Expected There Will Be 500 Pupils at
High School for New Term
Figures by Buildings.

The youngsters all over the city
gathered up their long-neglected school
school houses this morning for the first
time since the close of school in the
spring. OF course, many of the chill
dren were glad to get back to their
studies, but there were just as many
who would have preferred to wait an
other month or so at least before TAX
ing up the task of learning lessons, es-
pecially as there are still a number OF
baseball games TO be played. How
ever, the most of them made martyrs
of themselves and went to school and
the enrolment throughout the city in
dicates that school is just as popular
as ever. The largest class in the his
tory of the high school was taken in
this morning and the other classes
seem to have shrunk little during the
summer. In the incoming class there
are at least $50 pupils, and it is ex-
pected that this number will be aug
mented before the week is out by a
number of late corners.
sexes Evenly divided.
The registration in the grade schools
of the city shows a total of 2,677, and
almost an even half of this number is
boys. This total is exclusive of the
high school, which will have an en-
rollment of nearly 500, making some
thing over 5000 public school children
in the city. The registration in the
public schools is as follows:
Hawthorne = Boys, 224; girls, 247;
total, All.
Neutrality-suspicious. 60; girls, so; to-
tai, 119.
Kemble-Boys, "a; girls, IS; total.
169.
Lincoln-Boys, 215; girls, PIP; total
427.
Eugene Field-Boys, 147; girls, 1874;
total, 2S1.
Irving-Boys, 1874; girls, 1872; total.
GAG.
ongfellow-Boys, 1872; girls, 1914 to-
tai, 346
Horace Mann-Boys, 173; girls, 1876;
total, 500.
Grant-Boys, 70; girls, 20; total, 147.
Total boys, 1887; total girls, 1.340;
grand total, 2,677.
Teachers Meet
Yesterday afternoon Superintendent
Hayden held a general meeting for the
teachers of the city and practically
all of them gathered in the assembly
room at the high school to receive in
structions and to make plans for the
coming year. There was chorus sing
ing under the direction of Professor E.
oI
led by Rev r. B. Williams, after
which DR.. w. H. Ludewig gave an ex-
haustive address to the teachers on
defects of vision and especially upon
errors of refraction. His talk, which
was illustrated by charts, was for the
purpose of acquainting the teachers
with the structure of the eye and with
the laws of light which determine the
action of the eye. He told them of the
different symptoms of diseases of the
eyes which the teachers might notice
in their pupils and test cards contain
ing different sized letters were dis
tributed The teachers have been in
structed to test the eyes of the pu.
pills at stated periods and if the tests
show any defects in visions. the child
parents will be notified and recommen
dations will be made that the family
physician be consulted.
After the conclusion of the physi
clans talk, A. J. Burton, new princi
pal at the high school, spoke, as, did
Miss Lydia E. Koenemann. who was
formerly supervisor of penmanship
here and who is back to take up work
along similar lines after course Of
Ndvanced study.