Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-09
ROOM FOR TEACHERS
Good Prospects for Normal
School Graduates.
INCREASE IN THE CLASSES
Supt. Stuart Says Old Custom Of Re-
curing Entrance Examination
May Become Necessary.

Supt. Stuart, who presides over the des-
TIMES of the public schools from ms
pleasant corner room in the Franklin
School building, told a Star reporter yes
terday afternoon that there is still no
doubt about the graduates of Normal
School No. 1 getting appointments 10
teachers places this year. This was
made plain in the course of converse
ton about school affairs in general.
However" said Mr.. Stuart. there
may come a time when we will have to
revert to the old custom of requiring
entrance examinations to the Normal
School. The flood gates were opened a
few years ago and any girl that mad
high school diploma could enter the Nor
NAL School. With an entrance examina-
ton required, / believe it would be pos
sible to hold down the number OF en-
trants to just about the number OF
teachers that we require.
Increase in the Glasses.
The Normal School classes have
jumped from forty very few years ago
to fifty and sixty, and this year the
graduating class of Normal No. 1 is
the biggest we have ever had. eighty
girls. Now, with only thirty new teach
ers allowed us this coming year, we are
counting on the designations and changes
of that sort to make vacancies for the
class of graduates The appointments
are made by a hard-andfaSt rule of class
standing. Girl No. l gets job No. /, and
SO down the line. So the first thirty
girls will get the first thirty appoint
ments
These appointments cannot be an
nounced now, but may be announced to-
ward the end of the month, and again
they may not be announced until spe-
cial meeting of the board. which may be
called after school is closed on June 80.
There is nothing definite about the an
nouncements for positions as teachers
The Matrimonial Question.
Mr.. Stuart was asked whether or not
any of his Normal School girls or teach
ers contemplated matrimony in the near
future, the query being made to find out
whether any gaps in the ranks made
in this manner by Dan Cupid and the
marriage license clerk could be filled by
aspirants of the Normal School gradual
ing class. who otherwise might have to
wait little longer for jobs. Supt. Stuart
smiled one of those characteristic smiles
and replied. thoughtfully:
We'll, there is always some mortality
among the teachers owing to the sting
of the matrimonial bee, and I believe
there are several Normal School girls
who are quite likely to be stung with il"
Just at that moment an apparition in
lavender lawn went by the door.
rs she a Normal School girl?" Mr..
Stuart was asked.
Yes"
AS an exhibit of those likely to be
stung, this lavender lawn vision was
quite a good proof that some Of the
young women are in grave danger of
being taken away to join the newlyweds
just on looks alone
You see," the superintendent started
to say. 1.-The list of teachers"
An apparition in white looked in at the
door.
rs that another Normal School girl?"
Yes. that's one Of the plain ones-that
is, comparatively plain
We'll. really. Mr.. Stuart, if there are
any more disturbing elements like that
around. lets lock the door till this inter
view is at an end" 1t looked very much
as if these two samples showed that the
class of 1910 Normal School No. 1 was
in grave. very grave. danger of being
decimated by Dan Cupid.