The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-12
PLANS EXTENSIONS
IN NIGHT SCHOOL
Principal Pickell to Add
Technical Branches
Next Year.
DEBATE CLASS LARGE
Enrolment Exceeds 600 In
Guiding Foreigners Eager
to Learn English.

With the policy of making every
course of work in the night school
practical, the school has become the
most successful night school in the
state and has an enrolment or BOB
compared with 1875 at the Indianapolis
public night school. The system used
under Principal Pickell is also said to
be proportionally better than that
used in many other public night
schools in the state.
Twenty-fOur studies are taught and
plans for a number of other practical
subjects are under way, Mr.. P1ckell
announced today.
The night school furnishes an OPP
portunity for more than 500 persons
of the city who work during the day
to advance in learning.
Millinery Course Popular.
While it has been said that the
millinery instruction work Is the most
popular with the students, this is true
only to a certain extent. The class IN
millinery has the largest enrolment,
being composed of eighty-fOur women
and girls of all ages and from all
classes of society.
The classes in cookery and sewing
are just as popular with the pupils.
but fewer can be accommodated. A
class of sixty is studying the Gull
nary art while seventy are learning
the fundamentals of sewing.
The quality of debating to sharpen
the intellect, is appreciated by num-
Der who belong to the class under
Prof. Conrad. The art of debate is
explained by the teacher, and mem
bers of the class try to follow out in
structions in short, snappy debates in
which each team is given five min
uteS.
Foreigners Seek knowledge.
Probably the most difficult class to
teach is that Of English to foreigners,
under Prof. Kelly. There is a repre-
sentative of every nationality in the
city. The class has an enrolment OF
4. Eirty, but the instruction given eX-
sends beyond that number as most OF
the pupils in beginning English take
their books home to teach their wives,
sisters or brothers.
While many foreigners are quick to
learn and profit by the instruction,
they are also very sensitive and a
smile or gesture of Impotence on the
part of the teacher might cause them
to feel that they were being made
sport of.
At present the pupils are reading
simple little stories. They are now SO
advanced that they can remember the
meanings of words which come in tho
lessons. However, the pronunciation
bothers them and Prof. Kelly is very
careful to see that each pupil is able
ynh
to pronounce each word correctly.
Other Glasses.
There are classes in wood turning,
ca binet making, pattern making and
forging. The men who are members
of these classes are actually being
taught the fundamentals % trades
In the pattern making class, the pu
pills are progressing rapidly and are
able to turn out almost perfect work
While they cannot work as speedily
rs those who are working at the
Trades, this will be acquired by prac
ice, Mr.. Mays, the instructor stated
number of very difficult pieces OF
work have been turned out by mem
berS of the class.
In connection with the vocational
education courses, Mr.. Mays and
Principal Pickell have plans for eX
tension work which will be taken VI
next year. The instructions next
year will be for experienced carpen
tiers and woodworkers as we'll as be
ginners. Although blue print read
ing, knowledge of the square and 9th
err techniCalitieS are taught to some
extent this year, the work will be eX
tended to include estimating and cos
figuring next year.
Next Years Plans.
Courses in the principles of bushes:
efficiency and craftsmanship are plan
ned as part of the commercial worl
for next year. At present the CONNER
cial department Is teaching short
hand, typewriting, bookkeeping, com
mercial arithmetic, penmanship ant
Stenography.
A local plumber is a member of tn,
physics and chemistry class. Exteu
sion work in these studies is ais,
planned for next year when the sChoo
will be able to give to the pupils
practical knowledge of electricity
teach them to find the number of hea
units in gas and a score of othe
things.
Teachers Get Busy.
One of the features OF the physlca
training course is the class of sixty
four grade school teachers who ar
learning calisthenics and other exel
cises which may be practiced in tn
class rooms of the city schools Be
side this class, there are other classe
for the night school pupils.
The enrollments in the variou
classes follow:
Millinery, S4; English and debating
70; sewing, 20; commercial arithmt
tic, 60: cookery, so; bookkeeping. 40
mechanical drawing, 40; physics
training, including teachers class, so
typewriting, 40; penmanship. 80
shorthand, 40: algebra, II: geom,
try, -; music (chorus work.. 20
German, IA; beginning English, 80
physics and chemistry, 20: free han
drawing and charcoal work. 20: for,
ing. "a; pattern making wood turn
ing and cabinet making, 80.