The Washington times., 1922-05-07
MIR. HART GIVES NEWS
OF NEW EASTERN HIGH
uestionnaire Shows That Big
Improvement Over. Present
Conditions Will Be Accom-
plished by Large Building.
By MARION HALL.


q. When did YOU say we should
move into the new huilding7
A. We expect to he in the new
building on February /. Is?3.
O. What will be the enrolment
at that thine. MIR. Hart,
A. Let me give you some figures.
We had at the end OF las, semester
about eight hundred and siy-r..i,.
students. We have now an .rroll-
ment OF nearly a thousand. Next
September We mus, accommodIt.
one thousand two hundred here in
this building. when we move into
the new building, we estimate that
we shall have one thousand th-cs
hundred and. fifty students.
FIVE DEPARTMENTS.
q. How many different depart
,ments shall we have then,
A. Five: the Academic. the Man.
ual Training and Printing. the
Business, the Domestic Art and
the Domestic Sceince.
Q. Will all these departments be
in operation when we move in:
A. The money we have at pres.
ent for equipment Is sufficient only
for general purposes. Under 'he
original appropriation there Is not
enough money for the purchase
OF equipment for the manual train.
ing, domestic art, domestic science
and business departments. II Is
expected. however. that def.
cheney appropriation will be avail.
able in order to equip these de.
partments by the time the new
school is completed.
Q. What about the criticism that
the new school IL not accessible?
A. This criticism IL always made
of changed locations. The same
thing was said of Business, and
particularly Of Western and the
new Central. When pupils can
reach a school on one fare. dis
tsnce Is small considera ton.
Considering Sixth and East Capitol
streets as the center OF the schools
residential section. the new school
can be reached in a few minutes
by street car.
Q. What provision has been
made for the school publications?
A. Room 12l has been reserved
as the editorial room. II is about,
the same size as a classroom. The
print shop will be in the basement.
or course, the school publica tion
will be printed there.
MODERN EQUIPMENT.
Q. Is there to he any modern
method Of keeping the building
clean?
A. Yes indeed. We plan to have
a strictly modern vacuum system.
II will he the only one in the
schools here.
.. How many rooms are there To
he. Mr.. Hart? How many win.
dows? and how large will the lot
be?
A. There will be fifty.five class.
rooms and ninety-seven other
rooms, making a total OF 152 in
all. There will bet seems hard
10 believe-l,097 windows. The
shades alone will cost us five thou
sand dollars. The site contains
about nineteen acres.
Q. Can you give us Aompari.
son Of the number OF teachers we
now have and the number we shall
have in the new school?
A. We have thirty.ftve teachers
now. In September, 1923, we shall
need fifty.five
q. What Is the War Memorial"
and where Is II to be located?
A. The War Memorial will he
bronze flagstaff. given by the
Alumni Association. II will be In
the front center Of the approach.
Q. What IL the object Of having
an Alumni room?
A. II will be used for the meet.
ings OF the association. 1t will
enlarge the value OF its work,
which has always been for the
interests OF the school. II will,
hope, keep the alumni and the
students together.
.. How will the new school rank
in size with the other schools?
A. Central. OF course, il frs;
Eastern, Tech, Business and West.
ern will follow afterwards--in what
order it is impossible now to tell.
.. Has anything been done on
the athletic fields?
A. Nothing. The work should
be under progress: in the first
place, because the work naturally