The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-19
NIGHT HIGH SCHOOL To
HAVE A RUSH" COURSE
Ncil-Qualifed Students to Bc Put
Through Sfenography and Type
writing In Record Time.
MANY SUBJECTS TAUGHT
John Marshall Offers All Who Cannot
Attend school During Day to Sc
cure Education at Night---pupils
Now Being Enrolled
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y special and hitherto untried
course is being offered in the John
Marshall High school this year Que
to war conditions. The work will not
be new and Will be in the regular
studies of stenography and typewrit-
ing but It viii endeayor To fit the pu-
pa in these classes in from one-fourth
to- one-haIf the time required under
ordinary conditions. Only pupils wh3
are ntted in English and other sub
iects will be allowed to take this
special course The regular course
takes TWO years training. but those
pupils deemed capable Of undertak.
ing the work will be put to the test
of mpleting the course in a term
of -four months or a session OF six
and one half months,
Principal W. Clyde Locker, of the
John Marshall Night High school.
says in regard to this course; If
we are training the people to take
the positions of those who are going
TO win this war for us we must do
1t in less than two years, Hence
the experiment of the shorter course.
May Continue Summer Courses.
Letters have been sent all of the
students of the Woman's Office Re
serve corps notifying them that II
they have not already accepted po-
sitions they may continue their sum
mer courses In the night school.
The courses offered at the John
Marshall Night High school this year
viii include: stenography. typewrit-
ing. business, English. arithmetic,
bookkeeping. commercial law, law,
rapid calculation, and the regular
high school subjects. All courses
are open to students over fourteen
years of age and are free except to
out town pupils who pay IS a ses-
sion. Beginning october the school
is conducted Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday nights from 1880 to 9:3Q
o'clock. closing the session April 80
The session Is divided into two terms
Books are not given free
Pupils are now being enrolled al
phahetically. All OF the old students
have signed for the coming year and
new students, whose names ranged a
to t. enrolled last night. Tomorrow
night pupils whose names run through
r TO X will register, September -. /
from I, to Q. and September 70. from
r to Z.
Register in Vocational School Tonight.
The Vocational Might school. wal
lace II. RlIEtFs III lfltil'Fti chki3f0N''NS"' &C.
new course in telegraphy, to be con
Quoted under the supervision of the
Western Union. This school has the
same entrance requirements, hours
and nights as the high school and
the classes are conducted in the John
Marshall building. Registration be
gins tonight from 1890 to $50 at SOS
East Marshall street and continues
through September 2S.
The vocational school offers classes
in trade extension for carpenters, ma
Chinists, plumbers, sheet metal work
ers boiler makers, electricians, mould
ers min men and other groups of
workers and viii be organized II
sufficient number apply to form
class.
Glasses in mechanical, free-hand
snd shop drawing. show card writing.
advertising. telegraphy. journalism,
Coking, sewing, millinery, dietetics
music, violin. first aid to injured, and
English for foreigners will also be
organized.
Graded School Wrk.
Regular classes in graded school
work and a few classes in stenography
and typewriting, cooking and dress
making. will he given at Bellevue
Junior High Binford Junior High,
cambridge Junior High on the South
Side, and al Robert Fulton school
Social Ccnters.
Another interesting feature this
year viii be the social centers at
Franklin. Madison. Fulton and Fair
mount schools where, one night each
week, there will be special games for
boys and girls. classes in knitting.
embroidery. crocheting. sewing and
cooking.
fUt0TCT1 wight schools,
Night schools for the colored peo-
Pie, offering practically the same
courses as the dav schools and the
white night schools. win he opened
in Armstrong High school Baker
George Mason. and Webster Davis
schools
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