The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
READY FOR SCHOOL
Will Open Tuesday After Weeks
POstpOnement.
New School Buildings Are Nearly
Ready.
HIGH SCHOOL CHANGES
Trade Feature Will Be Tried for
First Time.
Large Enrolment Is Anticipated
by Teachers.
[IGH SCHOOL CHANGES

The city schools will open next Tues
day. The children are buying their
books, and most of the teachers who
have been away for the summer have
returned and are hard at work plan
ming their work for the fall.
Many changes have been made since
the schools closed in June-changes in
| the teaching staff, and around the
| buildings in the way of improvements.
/ The additions to the Monroe and
| State street schools have not been COM
pleted but will be in readiness for oc-
cupation within a very short time.
| The $4,000 addition to the Monroe
| building, according to J. B. Belts, the
contractor, will be completed the mid
die or last of next week. Consequently
for two or three days the pupils of the
school will be crowded into the old por-
tion of the structure. There are six
new rooms in the addition, which will
allow for the growth of the school in
enrolment for several years to come.
The $4,000 addition to the State
street school building which is being
erected by Moore & Vickland, will
probably not be finished for two weeks.
In that time the overflow from the old
portion of the school will be accom-
modatel in a room of the Seward Ave
nue. Baptist church. When completed
the State street school will be one of
the most modern plants for educational
purposes in the city.
A number of parents have inquired
as to whether or not their children
must be Vaccinated before entering
school. No order has been issued by
the city health department for the
vaccination of the school children, and
on account of the improvement in the
situation it is hardly probable that it
will be necessary for the children to
be scratched" At any rate pupils
need not stay out of school Tuesday
g. I. /
vaccinated.
Changes in High School.
In the high school several changes of
Importance have been made. The sub
freshmen will not be required to attend
afternoon sessions as was the case last
year, as through a Encouragement of
the rooms additional class room ac-
commodations have been found.
This plan of having most of the
recitations come in the forenoon will |
to consultation. Each afternoon of the |
week one group of teachers or another |
will meet pupils at from 2:30 to 4:30 |
o'clock Monday afternoon it will be
the English teachers who will hold con-
ferenceS with their students; on Tues |
day the foreign language teachers; on |
Wednesday the mathematics instruc |
tors; on Thursday those teaching his /
tory and commercial subjects, and on |
Friday those teaching science and |
manual training.
The last two years of the commercial I
course will be established, and Geo.
Dougherty of the Dougherty Business
college will give instruction in stenog-
raphy and typewriting in the office of
the manual training building the last
two hours of the school session.
The arrangement of classes in this
building has been materially changed
Rooms IS, 10 and 20 on the second
floor which have been used for manual
training work will be utilized as recita-
ton rooms. The rooms on the south
will be used for manual training.
Room 16 will accommodate the. classes
in clay modelling and free hand draw
Ing A door has been cut between the
woodworking rooms which will be a
great convenience to students.
This year Miss Lydia Bolmar, who
had clay modelling, will spend part
time in the clay modelling and do
nestle science departm ents and will
give art instructing to the classes in
sewing.
The room formerly used for me-
,hantcaI drawing will be occupied by
Il. T. Jett and his pupils who take the
business course. Miss Kathleen Nc
Mutt has moved to room 16 on the
same floor.
In the new normal training course
which will be installed, Miss Effie Gra-
lam will teach review and psych o1ogy;
Miss Lou Nash, American history; E.
:. Hickey, civics; DR.. w. H. Greider,
physiology; r. w. Coppedge, physics;
:. H. Wilmington. agriculture.
Miss Carmie Wolfe and Miss Nina
Gillette will take the places of Ward
H. Green and Miss Eva Schley in the
English departm ent
DR.. w. H. Greider will teach physics
md physiology on full time.
All botany classes will be taught by
Mss Abigail McElroy. c. H. Withing-
on, who has made decidedly good as /
teacher, has been transferred from /
physics to zoology and agriculture i
In the new industrial course English, t
mathematics and commercial geog- t
Apply classes will be held in the fore
loon, while the shop work and me- r
hanica1 drawing will be done in the +
.fternoon. I
Twenty-six pupils have already ex-
ressed the desire to take this course.
Enrolment for high school except
AXE place at O'Clock Tuesday morn
ng. The latter will report for enroll /
aent at IL o'clock.
Principals to Meet. :
At 10 o'clock Monday meeting of .
II PRINCIPALS will be held at the high
chool building, and at o'clock in the
fternoon of the same day all teachers
ill meet for final instructions and the
ssignme ent to buildings.
In the high school buildings a num-
er of improveme have been made.
windows have been put in the class /
DOM doors leading into the halls, and
he walls of the halls have been paint
d a light color which gives the large
assageways a brighter appearance.
ii desks in the building have been J
astained f
Repairs and improvements have .
cen made at practically all of the t
ehool buildings f
At the Harrison school new paper a
lg has been put on the walls of the
scond floor; at the Lincoln building t