The Washington herald., 1913-02-09

city conditions are more SATISFACTORY
than at the beginning OF the school
year. Numerous changes have been
made in the assignments OF teachers,
special emphasis being placed on the
particular fitness Of each teacher 10
meet the requirements OF the position
TO which she has been assigned. To
meet the exigencies of organization last
fall, several teachers consented to
teach a grade below their accustomed
rank; most of these have been restored
to their former grade through :he
changes attending reorganization. This
in no way effects a teachers salary,
but makes the administration Of school
affairs sufficiently flexible to meet the
requirements of an ever-shifting popu-
iation.
At the request of Superintendent W.
NJ Davidson the rule regarding text
books has been waived to give ad-
ditional opportunity for consideration
of changes in text books, and no re-
port will be made until June. Many
members of the Board of Education
regard with favor the proposed plan
of extending the free text book SYSTEM
into high schools.
". T. Stuart. director of intermediate
instruction, is expected at his Office to-
morrow morning. The postponed grade
meeting Will be held next week,
Miss Helen Taft presented the diplomas
to the girls in the eighth grade gradu-
Eting class of the Sixth division last
Friday at Douglas Memorial Church
The boys received theirs from Assistant
Superintendent e. L. Thurston. Miss
Taft is greatly i:terested in the girls of
the Northeast and has taught a class of
girls at Noel House for several months
past.
Height. weight. and general physical
fitness are the points considered by DR..
Arthur Murray in his examination Of the
pupils of what is known as the fresh
air. school. The main difference between
such a school and the many hundred
others in the city is that school sessions
are carried on with windows open wide;
children are warmly clad and wrapped in
blankets and arc given nourishing food
at 1880 in the morning. The most sat
isfactory tissue-buildlng food so far ex-
perimented with a cup of cocoa and
a roll. The general average of the forty
children in Blake School has been found
TO be slightly aOove that of the pupils
in what is termed the school of con-
troll regulation graded school. Fhe
pupils of the fresh air school are not
children afflicted with tuberculosis,
though some especially delicate children
have been admitted there, but an aver
age sixth grade school. doing regulation
sixth grade wOr under fresh air Condi-
tons. DR.. P. P. Claxton. commissioner Of
education is investigating these schools
all over the conutry, and with increased
appropriation for providing equipment
the fresh air schools will be extended
in the District.
Miss Lara Shackleford teacher Of
the sixth grade at the jefferson Build
ing. has been promoted 10 teacher Of
physical geography at Central High
School. Miss Sha ckIefcrd is a graduate
of Chicago University.
4 r. Hussander. officill architect and
inspector Of public school buildings for
the EOard of Education of Chicago. was
n visitor 10 the schools last Thursday
lie states that school buildings are being
constructed in that progressive city ag-
SresatinS 100000 in cost. Three of
rnese are high schools. the estimated
'ust of one Of them rounding cut the |
81. go no mark
Teen crew. of tho Analostan Boat
club was hest a. an Informal dance and
general good time at the clubhouse last
evening This crew Is COM
posed entirely or Teen ne1, and has woa
n reputation for handlin;: the oars. On
July 4. 1912. il finish ID second in the peo-
les regatta in Philadelphia The men- |
Ders of the crew are A. Gibson, Nash, |
White. Rice. Thrall. Burnside, p. Gib3nn.
Hahn, Hardie. Mckinney. Roberts, and |
Chase
DR. Pollock of Johns HOPKINS Cniver-
ity. who will deliver 4 Iecture before the
Medical Association on Tues |
day evening, Will speak TO the young
ladies' Of the Normal School Wednesday
morning Un the Three Stages Of Wom- |
anhOod."
The Camp Fire girls of Eastern High
School went for a cross-country hike"
in the crisp, wintry sunshine last Fri |
lay afternoon. They camped near
kHngle Ford and built fire, and |
,assers-by remembered they had appetltes |
when the odOr of sizzling bacon and |
toasted dogs" reached them while out |
Tor an afternoon spin or gallop.
Maeterlinck's "Bluebird" was the
.heme Of Miss Majorie Barnes address,
With selected readings from the master
piece, before the Philamathean Society
IF Central High School Thursday after
noon. Miss Barnes won laurels as a
public speaker during her high school
course and is now a student at George
University, having won a
University scholarship.
New blanks have been issued by the
lealth office for the reports of medical
Inspectors in the schools. Recommended
ions are made TO parents by the in
ipectors regarding the care of eyes and
eeth, special ailments, and general
lealth. These blanks are forwarded to
PARENTS, and when the recommendations
lave been complied with the blanks are
to the health office, enabling
he health officer to compile reliable sta
istics regarding the physical condition
# school children.
Ralph ogle was elected president of
he German Club of Eastern High
school at a special meeting last Thurs
lay.
The Ross School is now a grammar
there being no school below
fth grade holding sessions in the build
ne. The lower grades are housed in the
ew normal school and serve as critic
chools" for practice work by normal STU
ents.
At the annual meeting Of the Visiting
;urses' Association, held Wednesday in
he old Corcoran House. at 1911 H Street,
iiss F. NJ Hendley, supervising princi-
al of the Sixth division, gave an outline
the valuable results accomplished by
he nurse, provided by the association for
york among the people of the Northeast
ection of the city. She told how the
chool attendance was bettered through ;
he intelligent ministration Of the visiting I