The sun., 1919-09-08
$4,000 EXPECTED
IN SCHOOLS TO-DAY
No New Buildings in Manhat-
tan to Accommodate In
creased Enrolment.
BROOKLYN TO SHOW GAIN
Return to Ante-War Basis Will
Tax All Institutions
Barnes Makes Plea.

Public schools will open to-day with
an estimated enrolment Of 7s5,ooo and
return to an ante-war basis both in
attendance and teaching personnel.
Despite the increase of $4,000 or more
in the number OF pupils the Board Of
Education will be able to offer no new
buildings and few new facilities, for the
war brake on construction was not se-
leased in time to complete contemplated
expansion.
Evening schools. still embarrassed by
a scarcity of city funds, will resume
sessions with record patronage, at
tributed largely TO the war bred feeling
that vocational preparedness is a peace
time necessity. The curicula offer
courses in about every conceivable trade
and hold out the choice of still more in
case the demand warrants.
The teachers desertion to other more
remunerative fields of endeavor was
checked to some degree by the increase
in salaries granted by the State Legis-
lature last winter. and the return of
many from war service has replenished
the diminishing ranks. Registration in
the training schools shows an improve
ment, ascribed to the higher compensa-
ton rate now effective.
Last June when the schools closed
10000 pupils were enrolled. and 10000
NJ these were on part time attendance.
With the lack of additional accommoda-
lions, 1t is expected the part time at
tendance will greatly exceed that figure
now.
In Brooklyn 2s5, 900 in the elementary
and $4,000 in the high schools are ex-
pected, large gain over war days In
1917 Brooklyn had 2S,o47 high school
pupils, and that number dropped TO
26,540 in 1918. The same diminishing
attendance, owing to war drains, pre-
vailed IN all high schools.
Brooklyn will open two new inter-
mediate or Junior high schools to-day.
making a total of six. These schools
offer the ninth grade courses and first
year of high school. and also have rapid
transit classes for exceptionally pro-
gressive students.
The college youth Of the country is
pa cking up his most colorful sartorial
possessions preparatory to the reopening
Of universities. Registration Is likewise
higher in these institutions from which
the army and navy drew heaviest. Reg
istrar Milton E. Loomis. announced that
a record has already been established at
New York University.
=. So great is the demand at Dartmouth
that President Hopkins issued notice
that the college would be obliged TO
stop further enrolment. All available
rooms on the campus and In Hanover
are engaged. so that no more men could
obtain quarters. The return at Dart
mouth to an ante-war basis SHOWS an en-
rolment of about 1,40o. 1875 = . Il
In a statement issued by julius II.
Barnes, chairman of the Institute for
Public Service, supervisors and teach
ers are urged to make UP this year
for the enforced Interruptions and handi-
caps resulting from the war by assisting
In the school survey to develop better
methods and results.
Much interest is aroused in educa-
t.onal circles by the opening OF the new
evening high school in Brooklyn. the
first in the history Of New York to give
courses the equivalent of the day high
school. The new institution will have
staff of sixty teachers and may in
time have a separate building. At pres
ent II will be In the Boys High School.
Putnam and Marcy avenues.
Granting by the Board Of Regents
of the only academic charter ever
given an evening school, opened the way
for this Innovation. which offers thu
usual diplomas upon completion of a
four and half year course, and the
accompanying privileges of entering ad-
vanced schools.
Applications for the usual evening
classes in the Brooklyn high schools
thave doubled this year. according to
school officials, and II results warrant
the same complete high school course
may be introduced next year in all
these institutions.