Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
SEMESTER ENDS AT ?. H. 5.
 PROGRESS G00D
Closed Periods To Be Made Up In New Semester Urge Boys To Return To School.

The ending of the first semester of the school year at the Phoenix Union High school last Friday found work at the school less behind than had been expected with the prospect of the schools finishing the year, barring more closing. on a basis little less than normal. The school was in session but 2 weeks of the semester. being closed fourteen weeks on account of the influenza epidemics.
 According to the statement of Prof. D. F. Jantzen, principal of the school, nearly all of the students who took the correspondence courses inaugurated during the closed periods completed the semester in very good shape. More than 80 per cent of those who attended school while it was in session and who took the eight weeks correspondence work ended the semester with pass ing grades, none the worse for their enforced long vacation Attendance during the time school sessions were held was three fouths normal, Pro- lessor Jantzen said.
 The second semester of the school year, which will open tomorrow morn- ing. will be little affected by the re- cent periods. It will contain fourteen weeks. instead of the usual sixteen The regular full year classes of the school will be continued during the se- mester. and new classes will be formed in almost every subject as well as in the usual half-year subjects, such as business arithmetic, civics, and the like.
 The second semester. with the new and continued classes, said Prof Jant- zen, will afford the students who lest the first semester's work an oppor- tunity to get back into school. Stu dents who attended during tho first semester and took the correspondenee courses will have no trouble com pleting the year.
 Urges Boys to Return
 In connection with this arrangem5n 70 permit all students 10 return 10 school. whether they completed the first semester or not. Professor Jant- zen emphatically stated last night that all boys. as we'll as girls of school age should now return to school to take advantage of the offer. When the flu ban closed schools, the principal pointed out. many boys went 10 work, not returning to try to complete the ' school now will, in addition to finish ing their own schooling, leave openings of positions, which may be filled by returned soldiers. thus aiding in tie employment problem.
 Many of the leading business men i of the city have also recently expressed ! themselves in favor of the return of ! the boys to school and the filling of their places with soldiers.
 The 1919 graduating class of the high school. Prof. Jantzen estimated will contain about. and probably more 1 than a hundred students. This is ample evidence of the schools quick ] recovery after the lost time, as the class will be surpassed in size only by last years, in the history of the school
 Night School Doing Well 1 Night school is now also in full swing Prof. Jantzen stated. Glasses have been formed, and are holding sessions. in all the usual business and ! elementary courses, as well as ir French. spanish. mechanical drawing ! auto repairing. telegraphy and other 1 vocational lines The classes can find room yet for more students. No tui- ton is charged. and no deposits arc required.
 In connection with the night schoo work. the educational committed CT Americanization is anxious to oper a class, or classes for foreigners ir
 nationalization and Americanization
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 eigners are enrolled. The course l;
 open to all foreigners who have |
 working speaking knowledge of Eng
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