Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
The High School Graduates.

The boys and girls who are graduating
from the Washington high schools these
| days are starting on their careers excep-
/ tionally we'll equipped for all sorts Of
| work They have been given training
along academic. technical and commercial
lines that is accorded 70 the young people
| of few communities. comparable in some
respects with college work. and without
| cost to their parents. 1t has been an
nounced that, including the midyear grad
uations in February, there will be over
aoo certificates issued this year to high
school pupils in the District OF Columbia.
a remarkable number and an eloquent
evidence of the confidence which is felt
by the citizens of the District in the eff
cheney and value of the high school
courses
Some Of these young people are study
ing to become teachers. and will pass
into the normal schools and thence to
the local teaching ranks. to return in
abundant measure the valuable training
given to them in their future work in
the graded schools. Others will go to
college. perhaps to At themselves for
higher educational work or technical or
professional careers. Some will go at
once into business pursuits and some
chiefly girls, will remain at home await
ing developments, in the case Of the lat
ter largely OF matrimonial nature in
the course of time. But all of them.
whatever may be their immediate OBJ
jectives, will be infinitely the better quail
flied for whatever they have to do by
reason Of the years they have spent in
the high schools. If they go to college
they will find that their certificates of
graduation from the local system will
command for them the highest consid-
GRAFTON given to the products of any pub
lie school system in the country. In their
normal school work what they have done
within the past two years will be of a
directly preparatory nature. In business
or in any industrial pursuit the specific
| technical training of those schools which
are devoted to such lines will prove in
| valuable. II they are going back home
| they will be reader for whatever may
| develop In their lives by reason of these
| years of study and association with am
| bilious, Industrious, conscientious young
| people.
The high school system in Washington
has grown in the past quarter OF CEN
| fury from two schools, one for the col
ored and one for the white pupils to
seven splendid institutions, three of a
technical and four of an academic char
acter. comprising membership of thou
sands and under the supervision of a
| corps of highly efficient directors and
teachers. In point of equipment these
schools are fortunate. Congress having
| been fairly generous during the years Of
high school development in the matter of
buildings 1t is to be regretted that
greater progress was not made in the
framing of the current District appro-
priation act in providing more specif-
| cally for the Central building. for which
| site has already been acquired. The
| bill as II stands, however. effectively as
| prise. inasmuch as 1t provides for the
| preparation of plans. II is to be ex-
pected that the District bill of next year
will carry an appropriation for this con-
struction, and thereby insure the early
1 rounding out of the high school equip
ment with a practically complete series
of modern buildings.
/ The best wishes of the people of Wash
/ ington are extended to these hundreds of
/ young people who are so soon to take
i their places in the ranks as workers for
the moral and intellectual and practical
| development of the community. The Dis
/ trict is richer for these annual gradua-
tons, and IL hopes that the years of study
will be rewarded by success In life