The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09
AT WASHBURN SCHOOL TUESDAY
Teachers Meet This Afternoon
to Discuss Work.
High School Enrolment viii
Be Large.

Tomorrow will be a blue day indeed
for hundreds of Topeka boys and
girls, for tomorrow morning the fall
term of Topeka schools opens and
reriod the little folks will begin por-
ing over their books. Tomorrow
morning also the Topeka high school
term begins, registrations having been
made this morning. The enrolment
promises to break all former records,
being expected to reach 1000, or 100
more than last year. Half of the in
increase in enrolment represents stu
dents who recently have moved TO To-
peka.
This morning A ]. Stout, principal
of the high school. was busy with the
enrolment of high school students,
various grade schools in the city was
held at the office of City Superinten-
dent c. c. Starr, at the high school
building. This afternoon at 4 o'clock
be held at the high school auditorium
and the assignment to the various
schools will be announced.
There will be several changes in the
high school faculty this year. Miss
Lita Batty of the department of Eng
lish II the Hutchinson high school,wiU
teach English here. Miss Louise
Fleming, who has been teaching in the
Dickinson county and Mankato high
schools, Will teach mathematics. Miss
Helen Ingham is a new instructor in
English, having taught at Faribault
Mimi, and Marquette, Mich. Miss
Nora Z. Frederick, English instructor,
comes from the Salina high school.
Miss Ethel Frizell, English instructor,
has been teaching in the eighth grade
at the Harrison and Clay schools. Miss
Caroline Morton, who will conduct the
classes in domestic science, is recent
ly from Columbia University. where
she has been studying the subject.
Miss Mary K. Murphy comes from the
high school at Ogden, Utah, where
she has been teaching German. She
will teach the same subject here. She
has spent considerable time abroad
studying the language. c. H. Hep
worth, formerly principal of the Gar
field school, will teach business meth
DDS and mathematics and will have
charge of the athletics. w A. Turner,
for number of years head machinist
on a United States battleship, will
have charge of the manual training
departm emit
Although the term will be regularly
opened tomorrow, there will be two half
holidays for the grade schools this
week, and one for the high school.
Thursday and Friday afternoons have
been designated as half holidays for the
grade schools to enable the students
to attend the state fair. Friday morn
ing will be given the high school stud
ents for the same purpose.
Several new text books, adopted by
the state text DOCK commission, were
announced today. These books will be
used in the high school and grade
schools during the coming term. The
list includes:
misunderstanding Topical primary
and Smiths Topical advanced: book
keeping-Williams and Rogers Modern
Illustration; geography-Tarr and Nc
Murray's World; grammar-Scott
Southworth's Lessons in English,
history-Foster's of the United States;
physics-Millika and Gales; physiology
and hygiene-Krohn and Crumbine's;
reading Wooster's first. second and
third; Searson Martin Studies in Read
ing, fourth and fifth; writing-O. z.
Barnes New System.