The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-09-21
PUBLIC schools
Open TODAY With
BIG ENROLMENT
FULL AND ABLE CORPS OF
TEACHERS GREET HUNDREDS
OF BRIGHT FACES.
SUCCESSFUL YEAR IS PROMISED
A Better System Has Been inaugural
ed This Year, Planned to Fit Pupils
For Life Work and at the Same
Time Prepare for Higher Education.

This morning at 8 o'clock the public
schools opened their doors to pupils
from all over the city. No event in
the history of the, city is of more i'm
portance than the opening of these
public schools, although many people
do not realize that fact But it is here
in the public schools that the young !
minds are trained and diverted and at /
the same time the bodies are trained /
too as well as the associations of the !
pupils formed perhaps for life. The !
coming generation depends on the
home influence but the school intlu-
ence. too. reaches to the grave, and,
looking al the young faces, the visi-
tor was made to realize this.
At the Hardy street school. the
principal. Mrs. Snumaker, was BUSY
1--tShie Mrs Grace Christian was the
energetic principal at the Court street
school. in the Third Ward school,
Miss Rebecca May is principal and
Miss Leech of Columbus presides over
the Boue street school.
All of these schools We're we'll hlled
this morning, old pupils going to their
rooms, while new ones were assigned
to their classes by the teachers as
quickly as possible. There was little
useless ceremony anywhere, the
teachers greeting the pupils briefly
after the long vacation and then 60
ing to work organizing classes in or
der to begin lessons as ssoon q posi-
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At the High schools ~ 4
At the High School tcinporary5 quar-
ters on West Pine street in the Hart
field building. the rooms were over
lowing with pupils, for other grades
are located there, too.
Promptly at o'clock Prof. f. b
Woodley, superintendent of the city
schools. called the pupils to order
reading the LIST division of Psalms
and giving fervent prayer that th'
& students might spend godly' uselu
< and happy year, take advantage o
tha opportunities which are golhi
noet them now, never more to return
and praying especially that God ~oul
not let teachers and pupils fail in Tn
mission intrusted to them,
There were hundreds OF brlgh
vounq faces. gathered before him all
teachers and pupils were fresh ate
the long vacation; each greeting SON
now conner quietly, perhaps, or cha
ing softly, but gradually the seriou
oss of the occasion quieted them,
pecially some of the new ones who'
first day at school it was
Mr. Woodley explained the unit sy
4n, in,nressing upon the pupils u
necessity of getting the required hu'
hor Of units for promotion or Tor II
o,o. when transferred to oth
schools. VII;
,rbe elective courses in the nj
.oboo, we're explained also, MT "o'
n Low saving that English will be co
rnlsory and always will be IN tne n
t;esburg schools, He gave 'ne
,nooments and said that pup
would he required to study ho'
aoch day at home\ nd they ought
study four. "Roys and girls can
;n tbo streets all afternoon
evening and expect to pass '"e Il
school course required by THIS s'"o'
Il he warned them ..l
I Mr. R. c. Morrise the principal
1>So man who made the High soD
! a,roIetics So successful last year :
smoke and his plea to the Stu0'
Be- .,s for a red letter yea: III '''--'-
=. we'll as lessons. I'VE were p'
' ,., atoletics last year.Vne sad
.oI among other things the
csnizine OF a basket ball team do :
as possible .no+ ha he
Mr. Morris declared that ne ne. Oe :
81 in giving a credit of one unit
Yo ,ors' Pc Years good athletic rec0r'
the High school c,mu
' Wa ntroduced Mr.. S. R. Slmi
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