East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-02
Students Face 10 Months Ses-
sion for First Time; Days
Will be Longer Cutting Down
Need Of Home Study.
SUPERINTENDENT HAS
PRAISE FOR CORPS
Twenty New Teachers Among
40 Employed in Local Sys-
tenn; High School Gains in
Students Enrolled:

Nine hundred and ninety-seven
Pendleton boys and girls faced the
cold dawn this morning with books
under their arms and made tracks for
their respective school buildings. For
the next ten months they viii renea
the process five times a week their
number augmented by some 200 or
800 more who were expected but fail
ed TO appear this morning for regis
tration.
Pendleton's hopefuls face The ten
months year for the first time Ex-
cept for the few vacations called for
by holidays. school will be In session
continually until June 1920. The
longer year is one evidence of the
tendency toward better utilization of
the time allotted for education
throughout the country.
Days Longer.
Not only longer year but longer
days are the order The grade
schools will open at in the morning
and close at in the afternoon, with
"A noon hour extending from I2 until
l:l5. Efforts are being made 10 de- |
vote portion of the time each day
10 supervised study under the direc- /
ton OF the teacher and thus depend /
less upon home study. The hours |
Tor the high school had not been def
initely decided upon today.
Twenty New Teachers.
Twenty new faces greeted the ss7
students who filed into. their .respec-
tive class rooms this morning. or
these. IL are special and high school
instructors while there are but nine
new teachers in the grade schools. In
all there are 45 instructors employed
by the local school system, one more
than was employed last year.
New books were also in the lime
light today. this year being that in
which virtually all texts used in the
state were changed. Parents were
more interested in this phase !
OF the opening OF the schools than
were the sons and daughters, for IL |
appears that among the high costs of I
living, textbooks took their station. {
too. Many OF the texts have failed
10 be delivered and until they arrive. |
texts will be used. q
Registration this morning did not {
come up TO expectations because of I
he many diverting influences. A f
large number OF boys employed to 4 II
stand in the Roundup ticket sale line G
we're among the missing expected TO c
make their appearance tomorrow, n
while n few on vacations with their
have not yet returned from =
'eashore resorts. At least 900 more
Students are looked for by Wednesday [
afternoon.
High School Gains.
The high school made the greatest
yain in enrolment, according to es-
imates by II. Il. Inflow principal. At
'oon he reported registration of,
rs. which is 1 more than were en-
oiled at any time last year When :,
chool closed in May there were but :
rs in the high school. The enroll ;,
nent is large owing to the goodly "
lumher from out of town schools.
The corps of teachers which will di-
ect the destinies of Pendleton's ?
lchool children Is characterized by Il
,ity superintendent Il. p. Austin as
,apable and very satisfactory. Mr.
,ustin addressed the assembled in
tructors at the county library audito-
um yesterday afternoon, following c
which principals of the respective y
choos met their teachers and un- u
olded their working plans. Work
will be begun in earnest in all the d
chools with the openng'b bell tomor- a
ow morning. =
Vacations Curtailed. W
Vacation periods for the year, as
ow known, will probably include n
and Friday of Roundup G
peek, September IS and 10, one week h
or Thanksgiving and the County d
'eachers' Institute in November and
christmas and New Year. about 10 u
lays. Except for the possibility of b!
me day preceding Easter Sunday lt
birthday and Memorial w
lay, there are no vacations between ri
yew Year and the end of school of
more than one day. R
The figures turned in by the various I.
ity schools today were as follows; w
Iigh school, 275; Lincoln, 240; WASH 81
ngton 2S5; Hawthorne, 200; Field, in
Z. Total. s9T. at