New-York tribune., 1918-09-09
War Time Classes
To Start for Women
AT N. Y. Schools
Clearing House Has Fixed
Courses to Prepare for
Real Helpful Work
Locations Announced
Bookkeeping, Drafting and
Other Useful Studies Are
To Be Taught

The clearing house for Maritime
training for women, which has just
completed survey of the wartime
courses to be offered in New York City
this winter. calls attention to the
classes which viii open this week. The
need for girls and women with train
ing in bookkeeping, stenography. type
writing. drafting. mathematics and
sciences is urgent.
Columbia University offers a course
the change in the social order. which
has been planned in cooperation with
$he National League of Women Work
ers it IS hoped that this course will
help 70 meet the growing demand for
trained recreational leaders,
All women who are eager to offer
their trained abilities to the country
in this emergency are urged to watch
the announcements of opportunities for
training, which viii appear in The
Tribune on successive Monday morn
irgs.
Some Of the courses arc as follows:
Industrial Art Course
Washington Irving High School. 40
living Place. Subjects: First year,
IngliSh. arithmetic, French or Spanish,
drawing, domestic science and art,
physical training. biology, music, decla-
nation and voice training. Second
year: Art, English. physical training
modern languages or music, dcclama-
ton and drawing. Third year: Draw
ing, color theory, principles of design
and commercial design, or costume
illustration.
Admission requirements: Grammar
school graduation.
Credit: Diploma. No fees. Scptem-
be- to June 80.
Commercial Course (Day)
Bay Ridge High School-Fourth Ave
pue and Sixty-seventh Street, Brooklyn.
Bryant High School-Wilbur Avenue,
Long Island City.
Bushwck High School-Irving Ave
rue. Brooklyn.
Curtis High School-Hamilton Ave
nue. and st. Mark S Place, New Brighton,
Staten Island. Annex-Public School
90, Broadway, Port Richmond, Staten
Island.
Eastern District High School-Marcy
Evander Chiids High school--Ran-
dolph, St Lawrence and Beach Ave
nues, The Bronx. Annexes - Public
School 46. 196th Street and Briggs Ave
nue; Borough Hall Annex, Olinville
Avenue and Magenta Street; Public
School 10. Carpenter Avenue, pear
240th Street, Wakefield; Public School
Sc. Castle Hill and Blackrock Avenues,
Tnionport; Public School 8, Moshulu
parkway and. Briggs Avenue, The
Bronx
Far Rockaway High school-state
Street, Far Rockaway.
Flushing High School-Broadway and
Whitestone Avenues, Flushing.
Girls High School Nostrand Avenue
and Halsey Street. Brooklyn.
Jamaica High School-Hillsdale Ave
nue.. Jamaica.
julia Richman High School - so
West Thirteenth Street Annexes-
Public School 81, Amsterdam Avenue
and Seventy Street; Public
School Q, 225 West Eighty second
Eighty eighth Street; Public School as,
124 West Twenty eighth Street; Pub
lie School III, ITO East Seventy-sev-
euth Street
Morris High School l66th Street
and Boston Road. Annexes Public
School 81, Broadway and Academy
Street; Public School 81, Mott Avenue
and Hath Street.
The Newtown High School-Chicago
Avenue and Grove Street, Elmhurst.
Annex-Public School 80, Brittdn Ave
nue., Elmhurst.
Richmond Hill High School-Stoot-
kotf Avenue. Richmond Hill. Annex
Public School 81, Church Street, Rich
moad Hill
wadleigh High school-114th Street,
near Seventh Avenue. Annex-Public
Washington Irving High School-4o
Irving Place
Subjects Required) English, com
mercial arithmetic, penmanship, bust
ness forms, elementary bookkeeping,
history, American institutions, civics.
drawing, music, physical training.
tElectives) Spanish, French, Science
commercial biology and sanitation,
chemistry, physics, domestic science;
shop work., commercial geography and
transportation, commercial history,
commercial law, local institutions and
industry, mathematics, commercial
algebra, stenography and typewriting,
bookkeeping and Office practice, ac
counting and economies. advertising.
salesmanship.
Credit Diploma No fees; 3 or a
years at Bushwick High School, Girls
High School in Brooklyn and julia
Richmond High School Three years
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June 80.
Cooperative Course
A student at the Washington Irving
hlgh School, 40 Irving Place, may ar
range to take a cooperative course, in
winch she spends one week in school,
ana the next week is regularly en-
poyed IN industry, doing work for
Mn'en she is paid. She alternates in
s.ls way throughout the year, or is
.'hployed for the whole time during
'Ae summer The course of study she
pursues IN school is as follows:
NVnJects FIRST year: English. ma
menat!cs, general science, including
iogy drawing, technology (theory
S Snu practce), physical training, music.
oSeeoho aSo year: English, mathematics,
tne"llS'ry, tooly, social sciences. drawing,
ssg;on1hoiogy s;oa1 theory and practice), ply
IVA, framing, music. Third year:
,,+"salsh' mathematics. physics, social
sv'ghces' drawing. technology (theorv
,.a vaa,' p'"e, zee >, physical training. Fourth
nrao,; E"gish physics, business
nnJ ~Jtlce and elementary bookkeeping,
c',,' gp''eG electricity, drawing, technol-
~ ss 'heory and practice), physical
such students are employed
m ihachlne shops, chemical nlants
iV"er in, plants; also in drafting. print
.eiegrapAy, business.
tjon "'''.sslon requlrements-G -Gradua-
vo vn from grammar school Fomr
FebrS,, beginning September 9 or
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