Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-14
.CUP|D'S DULL YEAR
Few Teachers Became En-
gagged During Summer.
SPENT VACATION STUDYING
Young Women Took Special Courses
at Universities.
PREPARING FOR THE SESSION
Pupils of Graded Glasses Will Report
Monday Morning-Supt. David
son Gives Views.
SPENT VACATION STUDYING
FOR THE SESSION


the school teachers this year, for care
full inquiry at the Franklin School this
morning revealed the fact that few of the
teachers will fail to return to their class
rooms on account of some handsome man
with solitaire diamond ring in his vest
pocket. This year will be marked as the
year when hardly any school teachers be-
came engaged during the summer vaca-
ton.
And why? The answer is not hard to
get at. There was such an Unsuitable
thirst for higher learning on the part of
even those who might possibly be induced
to be married that Cupid did not have a
chance these last three months. The
teachers come trooping in to the city
from Oxford, Harvard Chautauqua and
other places where learning and brains
| are stacked high and thick.
So many teachers studied philosophy
and literature and pedagogy and mathe-
mates it would make ones head swim
to take it all in. Last year there was
another story to tell. and consequently
many new positions were opened. because
once married a teacher steps out of the
schools-a woman teacher, that is. A
man has the privilege of being teacher
and a husband at the same time.
| While a Star reporter was cleaning
these facts at the Franklin School this
morning a young woman who appeared
TO be brought up on matinees and eclalrs
dropped in to tell an official that she
had not spent a minute on the sands at
the seashore, but had just eaten up a
little six-week course in literature at
Harvard. Another one said she had been
| finding out things about philosophy at
Oxford. The only chance she had with
Cupid was on the steamer going and
| coming and her books kept her busy dur
| ing that time also.
Must Get Tickets.
Otherwise, all is well with the schools
DR.. Davidson, superintendent Of public
schools, has announced that all ,pupils OF
the graded classes will report to their
last year room at . o'clock next Monday
morning, and will be transferred from
| there to higher classes. All children not
on the rolls of the public schools at the
close of last year will make application
for admission tickets at the schools near
est their homes. To get these tickets
!; parents should visit the schools some
| time tomorrow or Saturday. between $50
| and 10 o'clock in, the mornings, Or be-
tween and o'clock in the afternoon.
Vaccination certificates must be pre-
scented.
| Candidates for admission to the Cen
| trail, Eastern. Western and Business
| high schools and the Mckinley Manual
| Training School who did not attend the
eighth grade last year must report al
| the Central High School, 9TH and y
| streets northwest. today between and
| > o'clock pm. or tomorrow or Saturday
| between 8 and y o'clock or between
| and ) O'Clock Pupils then will be as
signed, an examination to be held Tues
day, September 11. at . o'clock am, at
the Central High School:
All candidates for ADMISSION to the
M Street High School or the Armstrong
Manual Training School not transferred
from the eighth grade of the District of
Columbia schools must confer with the
principal of the school they desire to
enter.
and heads of instruction departments
yesterday afternoon, dividing his remarks
into two general heads, one being his
indea of how to turn the machinery of
proposition and the other being his idea
of what sort of a person a teacher must
be.
Under the first head he told his aids
that he believed every one OF them
should take an active interest in making
his department or division perfect and
should be able to defend any and all
requests for new supplies, new teachers
or new buildings.
Talks of Ideal State.
DR.. Davidson talked at great length and
with much enthusiasm on bringing the
teacher to the ideal state, where he or
she will represent to the pupils the high
est type of optimism in the work. DIR.
Davidson said this morning that he Is
still a great believer in educating the
child along the line of the three HIS
head hand and heart, and he looks to the
teacher as the greatest unit In this ideal
condition
The teachers of the public schools
will meet DR. Davidson at two meetings
that have been arranged, one for Satur-
day at 1880 O'Clock a-m in the NJ
Street High school, where the colored
teachers and principals will be present,
and one for Wednesday, September 20.
at 4 O'Clock pm, at the Central High
school, for the white teachers.
The organization of the schools is
practically completed. and there will be
very few announcements of changes and
transfers and, designations tomorrow
afternoon when the board of education
meets. The reasons are that the or
paniZation was made up last July, and
there have been few designations dur
ing the summer, for the reason men,
toned.
MANY inquiries are being made ~ the
Franklin school these days about the
tuition fees for nonresident pupils.
Oddly enough, the tuition fees for
lkindergarten child are much more than