Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-22
SCHOOL ENROLMENT
HIGHER THAN EVER
ON EVE OF OPENING
Various Educational Institutions
Devoted to Special Training
Report Glasses Filling
to Capacity
IMPROVED IN EQUIPMENT

rcrollment at the various educational in
..ttutions OF the city is running higher than
aver before for the opening week of the fall
term. and classes are rapidly being filled to
their capacity.
iorst school year in the new building into
r,vhtch IL moved last January. This, II Is
eheld By its management. is the most COM
fpleteiy equipped school OF its kind In the
country. with the exception Of the Packard
school, in New York, which has the ad-
vantage Of an endowment fund from its
founders II has its own restaurant, run
fbv Bernard Knight, formerly of Knight &
Martin; lavatories on every floor. lockers
sly feet high for the boys, cloakrooms for
tthe girls with coat-hangers for coats and
tsheiyes for hats. instead of hooks a library,
rest room and all conveniences.
The enrolment OF the college to date Is
said TO be larger than at any corresponding
time In the last ten years.
Athletics are to be well taken care of
nj the Friends Central School this ALL To
insure this ]. Martin Kelchner has been
engaged as all-round coach for the football,
basketball. baseball and track teams Mr..
tKelchner comes direct from Susquehanna
College, where has has coached the various
< teams for three years. He Is himself an
experienced player, for after having played
football at Albright College for three years
at end and halfback, basketball for four
, at Forward, ana DaSeDall Tor IOur
years at shortstop and third base. he Joined
the professional ranks. playing on the Ber-
wick professional football team, the Clear
feld profes sional basketball team and the
professional baseball teams at Roanoke,
: Va, and Brockton and Fitchburg. Mass J
new fence has been put around the
famous charter oak" of the University of
Pennsylvania during the summer, to replace
the improvised and more less RAM
shackle one which preceded 1t. This is an
offshoot Of the original charter oak of Hart
ford, Conn, into the hollow of which the
Connecticut charter was hidden when King
James II ordered 1t revoked 1t is a
memorial given TO the University by the
class Of 1866 Medical. When II was planted
seven or eight years ago II had just three
leaves, but watered at the fount of knowl-
edge II has now sprouted quite a number
Of branches. It. Is located on the campus,
near the Thirty-fourth and Woodland ave-
nue. entrance.
The work of remodeling the Mary A.
etotesbury Hall of Residence for Women,
given to Temple by friend of the uni
verslty is nearing completion so rapidly
that II is fully expected to be occupied by
October l. II will accommodate from
eighteen to twenty students. and the gen.
eral appreciation of II is shown by the fact
that every room in it is already engaged.
In addition to the bedrooms that have been
Installed, the dining room has been greatly
enlarged, and to comply with the fire regu-
lations a fire tower has been built into the
building Stotesbury Hall is located in the
same block as College Hall on North Broad
street
The course in chemistry at Friends Select
School is to be modified this year so as to
be less abstract and more concrete in it's
application to everyday affairs. 1t is the
feeling of Walter W. Haviland, principal of
The school, that chemistry as theoretical
science Is or should be a thing of the past
and his ideal for the course this year is to
have II made efficient in meeting the life re-
Quirements, not merely the college require
ments, of the students.