The Washington herald., 1914-09-27
Notes OF THE SCHOOLS.

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easily into motion last Monday morn
| ing. Judging from the almost perfect
attendance of teachers. the European war
| has brought teacher tourists home rather
| earlier this year than usual only three
absentees having been reported to the
] superintendent. Miss Wilhelmina Hart
mann. of Mckinley Manual Training
School, is still in Germany: Miss Marie
| Siebert, teacher of German at Central,
has reached New York, but is reported
| ill there following her strenuous efforts
to get out OF the war zone: Nine. Bi-
mont. Of Western. will probably remain
/ in her native land and join the French
nurses on duty in Paris.
Superintendent E. L. Thurston states
that this will be an educational year"
The business system Of accounting has
been perfected, the course Of study COM
pleted, organization is adjusted, and text
books have been distributed. giving off,
cials and teachers unfettered Opportuni-
ties for purely educational work.
The public schools point like an index
finger to the shifting centers of popula
ton, making it apparent that the ten
dency is toward the northwest and the
suburbs. Downtown schools are almost
deserted and in many sections colored
I
able schools supply temporary accommo-
dations in all the crowded centers. pend
+ ing the enlargement of old buildings or
the construction Of new ones.
High schools show an increased en-
rollment over former years. Business
reports more than 1900; Tech. over LOO;
Central. LIS. and Eastern and Western
all that their limited quarters can ac-
fa A.. irIu
number the boys: at Tech there are only
one-fourth as many girls as boys: Cen
\ trail nearly splits even with a slight pre-
| dominance of girls, while at Eastern and
Western the girls are in the majority.
OF the sixty-four graduates of the
normal class of 1914. three from the kin
dergarten course and eight from the reg
ular course have received appointments
to the District public schools.
The Teachers Aid and Annuity Asso-
citation held its first meeting Thursday
afternoon at the Franklin. Three deaths
were reported since the close of last year.
DR.. Roberts, of Business High School,
Mile. LeibschUtz, OF Central. and Miss
Victoria Nourse. for many years an
eighth grade principal in South Washing
ton. Willoam Lee has been appointed to
the position held by DR.. Roberts. and
Arnold W. Belmont TO the vacancy caused
by the death Of Mile. Leibschutz.
kindergarten teachers will be expected
to cooperate with the child welfare bu-
reau this year and to facilitate the4nove-
ment. Miss Catherine Watkins, director
of kindergartens, will introduce a course
covering the following activities: Mothers
meetings, parent-teacher associations,
juvenile courts, child labor laws, the
school as a social center. Fairgrounds,
Sunday schools. social settlements and
day nurseries, and the children's depart
ment of public libraries Reports will be
made after investigating conditions in
the city and plans formulated for their
general Improvement.
Night schools will open October 8.
Tickets of admission will be issued on
Friday and Saturday preceding opening.
MG. Wallach A McCathran, the new
military instructor of high school cadets, |
spoke in behalf of military training at
the boys rally at Business High School |
Wednesday morning. Other speakers |
were Fred D. Connor, captain of the |
winning company of 1914, and Paul |
Cromeline, president of the Alumni As |
sociation.
Western High School is using the mu- !
nicipal grounds in the Mall for an ath- |
letic field. They have also the use of the !
baths. The range at Center Market will |
be engaged for rifle practice. The girls !
play basketball. tennis, and hockey on |
the fine site fitted up last year. II ad- |
joins the Western High School campus |
and was in no way damaged by the |
fire.
Business High School has such teem-
ing overflow of young people anxious to
prepare for business life that Principal
Allan Davis finds IL necessary to operate
a double-shift session with two corps of
teachers. AS many pupils as can be ac-
commodated attend the morning session
from 9 to / o'clock, reciting continuously |
through five school periods" and are
then dismissed for the day.
The second shift reports at 12:45, over
tapping for a quarter of an hour the
early comers and during that fifteen
minutes the school is alive with ka-
leidoscopic panorama of young Ameri-
cans. In this school entering freshmen
are given first choice, 30 all new pupils
attend the morning session, the more eX-
perienced students taking the afternoon
hours.
An enterprising typewriter company
with an eye for business has loaned the
school 160 machines ribboned and ready
for use, which added to the eighty owned
by the school. provides ample equipment
for practice Of large classeG i