The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-18
WORK Of COMING
SCHOOL YEAR
SUPERiNTENDENT RICHARDS OP-
TlMlSTlC OF GREAT GOOD TO
BE DONE EXCEPTIONALLY.

The prospects are very flatterinS
for great year in our schools next
! year. The work of the schools Will
| be enlarged in many respects. DurinS
the year the new 500, 600 High School
building will be finished and when
completed will be second only to the
! High School building in oklahoma
! City in the entire state. 1t will con-
! tain the most modern ideas in struc-
! ture arrangement and equipment
| which will enable the pupils of the
| High School to do much more work
than they have ever done in the past
| in the same length of time.
The work of the schools in the past
has been very gratifying indeed, and
| the Ardmore schools have been known
| far and wide for their excellence. But
without doubt the work in the schools
next year will excel anything that has
ever been done before.
At the opening of the school year
course of Domestic Science and Arts
will be opened for young ladies in the
! High School and the girls in the Sey-
enth and Eighth grades This course
! is designed to give the girls of today,
who are the home makers of tomOr-
row. an intellectual understanding OF
the responsibilities that will rest up
on them. No calling is higher or
more sacred than that of motherhood
and home making, and up till this
made in our schools for training along
this line No doubt, the majoritv
Also at the opening of the school
year a commercial course will be
opened to the pupils of the High
School. This course will include com
mercia arithmetic, commercial law.
commercial geography, commercial
banking and bookkeeping and type
writing and stenography, The schools
of today has become the people
college and must meet the needs of
each separate community. This com
mercial course will prepare the boys
and girls who desire to engage in
commercial work to take it up imme-
diately after leaving school in an in
telligent and efficient manner.
As soon as the new building is ready
to be occupied a course in manual
training, including clay modelling, bent
and sheet metal work, lathe and
bench work in wood, etc.
Another great addition to our school
next year will be another year added
to the high school course. Heretofore
we have only had three years of work
above the eighth grade. Next year
there will be four years of work above
the Grammar school Another year
will be added to Mathematics, Science,
History, Latin and English, so that
when pupil completes the work in
the high school, he will be able to
enter any eastern university or any
other standard university withou'
anv conditions. Already large num-
her of eleventh grade graduates OF
last year have determined to take this
Fa into i1h-
ards hopes to nave majority o.
them in this class
Prof. VIM. A. Erdman, who has
been superintendent of the city
schools of Woodward, Oklahoma viii
be the high school principal next year.
Prof Erdman arrived in the city
Thursday afternoon and has been
busy securing a location for house
keeping. His family will arrive
week, and he will begin his work as
principal at once.
Supt. Richards has been very busy
for some time preparing his annual
report and the course of study for
the CITY schools which will be p''
lished before the opening of the
schools. When the course of stud
is completed, it will be one OF the
best ever seen and will enable the
teachers to systematic their work
as they have never done before. He
also confidently expects the Wort
the teachers to be fifty per cent bet
ter next year than it has ever been
in the past. Already the mothers !
clubs and the patrons are talking and
planning for a successful year.
Let us all put our shoulder TO the
wheel and put the Ardmore schools
at the top Of the very best in the
country.
Mr.. w S. Gunsalus, farmer liv-
ing near Fleming, Pa. saws he has