Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
NIGHT CLASSES
TO OPEN MONDAY
Public Schools Evening
Courses Embrace EIenen-
tary and Advanced Work.

The night schools of the District of
Columbia public school system will open
for the 19269 season Monday night
when classes in divisions 1-9, white
schools open at 1880 o'clock and those
of divisions 1913, colored schools, con-
vene at o'clock.
Evening classes in the first nine divi-
sions will be held in the following build
lngs, Abbot Vocational School, Sixth
street and New York avenue Business
High School, Ninth street and Rhode
Island avenue; Columbia Junior High
School, Seventh and o streets; Hine
Junior High School, Seventh and c
streets southeast: Jefferson Junior High
School. Sixth and D streets southwest,
and Webster Americanization School,
Tenth and H streets.
Full Course Offered.
Glasses in shorthand. typewriting,
business English, economics, history,
law, arithmetic, bookkeeping, account
ancy, chemistry, physics and the oper-
alton of the calculating machine, as
well as gymnasium sessions will be
held in the Business High School
Building this year. Glasses held for
merly at the old Mckinley High School,
Seventh street and Rhode Island ave-
nue., will be held this year in the CO.
lumbia Junior High School Building,
with instruction offered in high school
English, American history. European
history algebra, geometry, trigonometry,
French, Spanish. German, Latin, elec-
tricity, sewing, tailoring, millinery, cook
ing, mechanical drawing, woodshop and
elementary grade subjects.
The Hine night school will offer
commercial subjects. languages history,
mathematics, dressmaking and MILL
merry, in addition to elementary grade
subjects and characterization work.
The Jefferson Building will offer in
addition to commercial subjects ouch
technical instruction as cabinet making,
printing, basketry, art and sheet metal,
painting and interior decorating, mil
linery sewing and basketry. Courses
will be held at this building also in
high school and elementary grade Eng
liSh.
Glasses for Foreigners.
The Americanization school will hold
classes five nights a week, with the
sessions arranged in two groups en-
bracing one OF three nights and one
of two nights. These classes will be
opened to foreigners and native adults
who are unable to read and write. .
Registrations in the night schools OF
the first nine divisions should be made,
according to officials at the Franklin
School Building, at 1880 pm. of the
opening night and on the following
Wednesday night. The announcement
set forth, however, that pupils seeking
college credits should defer prolonged
conference with principals of the vari-
Gus schools until after the registration.
With the opening of the new Cardozo
High School in the building which for
merly housed the old NJ Street High
School, between New Jersey avenue ana
First street, no evening classes will be
held for colored students this year in
the Dunbar High School, at First and
N streets. Glasses in academic hlgn
school subjects, business practice and
life insurance buSineSS-Ship Will be held
in the Cardozo Building, to which Dun
bars night students will be transferred.
Automobile mechanics and brick lay
ing will be taught at the Phelps Trade
School, and all other subjects formerly
taught at the Phelps High School Will
be taught, beginning Monday, at the
Armstrong High School
The Douglass School, First and Pierce
streets, will be opened for the first time
this year as an elementary high school
center, where grade work through the
eighth year will be offered.