Evening star., 1921-10-02
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.


ments in these schools are expected
to break all previous records.
All plans fuf .reniaG ;ue SCHOOLS
have been completed hv Walter b.
Patterson, director of special schools,
and other officials. Approximately
$50 teachers have been appointed to
instruct the night school students.
Virtually all of these teachers have
taught in the night schools for sew
eral years or longer. .s
The night schools which will open
are Business High School. Tech High.
Eastern High, Wallach, Park View.
Smallwood, Northwest Industrial at
21s Sd street, Jefferson, and Henry.
For colored students there Will De
open the Armstrong and Dunbar Hlgh
schools, the Garnet-Patterson School,
the Randall School. the Love1oy
school. the Cardoza Vocational SchooI,
the Deanwood School and the birneS
School.
open for three nights week this~ year
instead Of six. as heretofore. Ihe
other night schools also will be
open for three nights a week.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou. superintend-
ent of schools. inspected the new John
Burroughs School. at 18th and Mon
roe streets northeast. Monday The
John Burroughs School was opened
for the first time at the beginning OIL
the present scholastic year.
Boys in the high schools are mani
Testing more interest in the cadet
corps this year than ever before, II
their enthusiasm to join the orSanlza-
ton can be taken as criterion. Hun
dreds of boys already have enlisted in
the soldier-student body, and before
the end of the week it is expected
that twenty-five companies will have
been organized. There were twenty
one companies last year.
The reduced cost of the uniform IS
said to be partly responsible for the
enlargement of the cadet corps TINS
year. However. many novel features
which will be introduced by Lieut..
Col. Wallace NJ Craigie. u. s. A.. pro-
fessor of military science and tactics
in the high schools, have attracted
some of the boys. These include the
organization of bands at Central and
Tech High schools and battalion
competitive drill. which is designed
to populariZe the cadet majorshtp
Meetings of clubs and organiza-
lions at Eastern High School Will be
deferred pending the enforcement OF
the board of education'S ruling de-
signed to eradicate secret societies IN
'hc high schools. it was announced
last night by Principal Charles Hart.
Students at Tech High School were
urged to take advantage of their edu-
rational opportunities by Frank W.
Eolgiano at general assembly at
the school Wednesday. Mr.. Rolgiano
expressed surprise at the crowded
conditions he found at Teen: more
than 400 students crowded into the
auditorium of the school. built to
accommodate 500, to attend the as
Sembly.
A number of boy students at Bust
ness High School are taking the
bookkeeping and accounting course
this year.
Parents of children who have been
placed on the afternoon shift at Cen
tral High School are requested by
Principal Robert Maurer to meet with
him and the teachers at the school
tomorrow night at 8 O'Clock.
The enrolment at the Robert
Gould Junior High School has grown
from 40, three years ago, to nearly
40G
Business High School Thursday with
4 membership of twenty-six. 1t will
be enlarged to fifty pieces as soon as
possible. Joseph Tronman was chosen
director. Other officers are Benjamin
Moss. assistant director; Dorothy
Riley. . president: Marie Collins. vice
president: Doris Myers, secretary, and
Doris Schultz. treasurer.
Three cadet companies are under
organization at Eastern High School.
This school had but two companies
last year. and one of them won the
annual competitive drill.
A meeting of the board of educa-
tion will be held at the Franklin
School Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock.
One company of cadets was organ
lied at the Columbia Junior High
School Thursday. This company will
be in the battalion with two COM
panies at Business High School. and
will be officered by cadets at Busi-
ness.
Enrolment at Eastern High is
double that of four years ago. There
are now $50 students at Eastern.
Six cadets. band and a medical
High School The medical unit will
be equipped with an ambulance and
will be under the direction of DR..
Wallace NJ. Yater.
Miss Lucy Slowe. principal of the
Shaw Junior High School; Miss 2. E.
Dyson and Miss Flag. members of the
faculty of the school, were members
OF the student COlOny tnlS summer at
Columbia University.
Boys of the Wheatley School have
established u weekly school paper of
ed by the pupils. Charles Abernathy
IS editor of the publication.
The paper is in charge of the boys
and girls and they are divided into
groups. The associate editors are
Pauline Reynolds and Norman Ward.
The material for the paper Is one du-
plicator and two typewriters. The
reporters are recruited from every
room. and every one is considered a
representative of the paper.
Teachers In English at the Robert
Gould Shaw Junior High School are
planning a better speech week" to
be inaugurated next month. Posters
executed in the schools art shop will
he used extensively to emphasize the
correct use of English.
Children in the public schools have
been urged by Supt. Frank w. Ball
lou to cooperate with the Commits
sioners in Cleaning up" Washington
for the forthcoming conference on
the limitation of armament.
In addition to the joint morning as
sembly of boys and girls of the Shaw
Junior High School. a series of sepa-
rate assemblies for each sex Is an
nounced. The male members of the
faculty are in charge of the boys as
semblieS. while the women teachers
win conduct the girls meetings At
these meetings successful men and
women in diverse fields of activity
will give inspirational and in>truc-
tive lectures. 5-'
Heavy penalties WI be imposed
upon students at Tech High School
who join the Shippers Union" Prin-
cipal Frank c. Daniel announced at