The Washington times., 1911-10-02
REGISTRATION FOR
OPENING OF NIGHT
SCHOOLS IS HEAVY
More Than Four Thousand
Names on Rolls-Sessions
Begin Tonight.

With more than 1900 pupils already
registered, the night school sessions
viii open this evening. 1t is expected
the total will exceed 800 before the end
Of the week. At the close of the last
school year, the night enrolment was
%S7O, of which 1884 pupils were colored
Vocational work for boys and girls
Wall be the keynote of all the courses
In night schools this year. Cooking,
millinery, and sewing viii be taught
girls, while the Gull technical training
equipment at Mckinley, including work
IN wood turning, electricity. and forg-
ing, Will be given at the same high
school for boys. Carpentering and
woodwork also will be taught in several
industrial schools.
night schools, declared r. w. Murch
director of this branch of public instruc-
uon, and with that in view great care
mas been exercised in the selection of
teachers. Economy of time always is
a problem in the school room, but it be-
comes even a greater one in the night
schools, because the pupils there cannot
Snord to waste minute"
White Night Schools.
There will be but two white night high
schools open, the Mckinley, where me-
chanical and scientific courses will be
given, and Business, where pupils will
be trained to enter the business world.
This year Frank Daniel, principal Of
Mckinley will have charge of the night
classes, while Emory Wilson, who in
the daytime is principal at Central, will
preside over the business courses at
night.
One of the most interesting phases of
the graded school work, will be found
n L.
speaking classes are conducted. Already
more than fifty pupils, who have an i'm
perfect knowledge of English, have en-
rolled there, and work with them will
be begun tonight under the direction of
Principal Finckel
The night schools this year are being
run on an appropriation of $S,750. If
the request of director Murch is grant,
ed, a sum of $4,000 will be expended on
night school work next year and the
courses heightened. In his report to
the Board of Education Mr. Murch says
Since 1t Is possible toward the close
OF the term to consolidate a few classes,
the present available appropriation will
permit the schools this year to be kept
open about sixty nights. feel it
should be possible to keep all the grad
ed schools open about seventy five
nights, and the Business, Mckinley, and
Franklin Schools about ninety nights"
MI. Murch, also, asks for an increase
In the pay Of night school teachers. AT
present they get but 81 night.
Courses for the Pupils.
Courses in the night schools are
practically the same as the correspond
ing day schools, save that they are
not elaborated so much, and all work
Of a supplementary nature must be
abandoned. They start with the fourth
grade, and the first aim is to give
pupils ground work in English gram
mar. spelling. and simple arithmetic
After that the pupil is encouraged to
begin work at once along the special
lines of their life work.
THE night schools are not intended
as culture factories declares Mr..
Murch, but are designed to afford
pupils practical training in their pro-
fessions or vocations"
The graded white night schools are
the Franklin, Gales, Wallach, and JEFF
ferson. The cooking schools are To-
Gated at 212 H street northwest, COG
Massachusetts avenue northeast, Four
teenth and Q streets northwest, and
1888 H street northeast.