Evening star., 1915-09-12
WASHINGTON IS RATED
EDUCATIONAL CENTER
Institutions Meeting Every Re-
quirement Found in the Ma
tional Capital.
Fall Terms Soon to Begin-Arrange-
ments for Reception of Students
Practically Completed.

With the middle Of September now at
hand the great educational institutions
of the District of Columbia are ready
to open for the fall term. Washing
ton. recognized educational center of
prominent school cities of the world,
is ready for another year of education.
Arrangements for the reception of
pupils are practically complete in both
the private and public schools-using
the term schools, of course, in its
broadest sense. In the public schools
more than $4,000 boys and girls are eN-
pected to be entered during the week
of September 20, the opening period.
1t is not possible to estimate how
many students will be enrolled in-the
private schools, but it is confidently
schools to be found in the District and
its vicinity will have more than the
usual number of students this fall.
Effect of War in Europe.
Because of the war in Europe. Ameri-
can students cannot go abroad to
study. But a large number of foreign
students have recently come to the
United States to continue their educa-
ton. Washington as the capital of the
nation, offers peculiar attractions for
these students. Here are to be found
men and women of all nations having
international regulations. Here, like
wise, are to be found the great govern
mental institutions of the nation.
In Washington and it's vicinity are to
be found educational institutions to fill
every need Here are to be found in
abundance graduate and preparatory
schools, business and commercial
schools: institutions which fit for the
professions and sciences; schools in
which music may be studied from the
ground up and where technical, aca-
demic, domestic science and all other
branches of education may be followed.
Special studies and special courses, as
well as regular subjects and regular
courses, may be taken up. A school is to
be found to meet the need of every person.
whether it be child who has just reached
the kindergarten age or whether it be a
man or woman who has received in
Vulnerable degrees and wishes to continue
studying.
Commentator of Washington.
The United States bureau of education
in a recent publication recommending col
leges and univerities in the United States
to foreign students, said Besides being
the capital of the country. and hence OF
peculiar interest to VISITORS from other
nations, Washington, city of 34S,077
inha bitants, is also one or the leading
educational centers.
Washington has great educational ad-
vantages even outside the walls of its
schools, it's universities and it's colleges,
however To prove this 1t is only neces-
sary to call attention to the fact that
each year thousands OF students from
Philadelphia, New York, Richmond, Bos-
ton, Buffalo-in fact, from practically
every point in the east and south, as we'll
as from many parts of the middle west
come to visit the National Capital. Con-
gress, the White House, the National
Museum and Smithsonian Institution, the
government departments, the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress.
the National Geological Park and scores
of other places, including many of great
historic interest, such as Mount Vernon,
offer an educational field not to be found
between the covers of books.