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cai onal K dw - The Sy Staf [ Music | Part 7—8 Pages C., SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER XYy 3927, COUNTLESS OPPORTUNITIES NOW AFFORDED IN CAPITAL W ashington. Educational Center of West-' ern Hemisphere, Offers Wide Variety to Seeker of Learning. P. KENNEDY. is the educational cen Western hemisphere, helpful and guiding State in the Union to far-flung foreign lands. For whole Nation looks to Washington tional leadership, and from gton’s institutions go forth to make and administer the Na laws, to direct educational ad ment and research, enrichi life by increasing the sum total of human knowledge, and to be educated leaders of the people, and to ably represent our Go ment at home and abroad in the highest positions These Washington alumni treasure Leir hearts appreciation for their hers here, echoing Goethe's | schools for the natives of Alaska, and maintains the largest exclusive edu-| cational library in the world. It pro an annual American education | week, bringing public attention to the | hools and their needs. | One of the outstanding activities of the Federal Bureau of Education is | the promotion of home education. Dur- | ing the past few years it has enrolled | more than 20,000 readers in its 30 home-readi urses, planned by ex- perts, and granted certiticates to those who completed the courses. These reading courses involve general cul ture, parental education and citizen- ship training. They are proving pop- | ular among young people as well as adult Almost without exception, the vari- ous departments and bureaus of the Government are _educational _along specialized lines, The Interior Depart- ment, which is essentially an engineer- inz group, has been well called a “Fed- Al University of the People” because many of its activities are devoted to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge. Its curriculum cover: many fields of learning. Its facult includes hundreds of scientists, pro- fessional men and technicians, special- ists in many branches of education. Its student body is the people of the | United States. BY WILL Wash on steh i and the for R into every is tic va in tea tribute dlike noble st a people in heroic mold.” man, the peda Who ¢ Indeed, Washington has been called riversity itself, because the whole | osphere here is one of liberal edu ion to an eager, receptive mind ely to live here with faculties alert | hiy educational. i Form Nobler Race. ic education is a people’s de-| te effort to form a nobler race | ion. It recognizes that the way | nprove society is by improving because human beings are the test resource of any nation, and | ble mind of the race is renewed | stained by the education of the m of 1 to men Has Various Schools. It has schools of education in bot any, engineering, geology, geography, anthropology, zoology, _psychiatry chemistry and research. Propagation of knowledge on these subjects by the various bureaus comprises their major | duties in many instances. Similarly, the Department of Com. merce educates the business men and manufacturers in their special flelds, and the Department of Agriculture young It was this thought that President | Coolidge had in mind when he said: | “America_has but one great staple| product. We till the soil, operate our | industries, develop transportation, en- | gaze in commerce, encourage the arts | educates the rural communities in 1 sciences—but these are -only | many ways, with the radio and mov- means to an end. They are all cz..ied | ing pictures as very effective agencies. on that America may produce men| The education agencies of the Fed- and women worthy of our standards|eral Government and of private but tizenship.” | public-spirited nature that are congre- So it is eminently fitting that this|Zated here arc too numerous to be Capital City, the only city in all the | detailed. By authority of Congvess, world designed exclusively for the|all Government collections, together conduet of a nation’s business, should | with facilities for research and illus- heve grown into the world's greatest | traticn, are made accessible to the center of well rounded and balanced | students in institutions of higher education, linked in with practical | learning here. business sense and efficiency. The National Education Association, & a voluntary organization of persons Opportunity for Youth. Sctively angased in canatignal works with more than 160,000 active. mem- bers, covering every type of edu tional worker—classroom teachers, principals, supervisors, college i dents and professors, research work-| ers and superintendents of schools— which was organized nearly 70 years ago, has its headquarters at 1201 Six teenth street, where it owns a hand-| some four-story brick building, pur-| chased in 1918, This association has | developed in Washington an expert | | beadquarters staff which regularly in- | cludes more than 100 persons, who are | constantly at the service of the teach- ing profession. Inspiring Annual Conventions. The association helds annually two inspiring conventions which stimulate thought on_educational problems and bring together the chosen representa- tives of the teachers of the Nation. The mebting of its department of *hool superintendents, held in this city in February, 1926, was a splendid gathering. All Washington hotels Tt is eminently fitting that youth £:0m all over the land can come to the | Capital and while working as a page | boy in Congress, or Tunning -an -ele-| vator in the Capitol building, or work ing as a clerk in some Government | establishment, can have opportunity | to fit himself for any profession, to represent the greatest of nations in foreign lands, for any chosen line of | science, or to add to his general men- | tal development and store of knowl- edge. “Before each one of us an image floats of what he ought to be, til he this attains his life never full and free.” Though the Constitution of the TUnited States makes no mention of education and the establishment of | schools was left to the individual | States as an unmentioned power by | the tenth amendment, ratified in 1791, vet from the foundation of the Repub- | lic the Federal Government encour-| aged education in the several States| is And [ LiBRARY 9° CONGRESS " ™" ! TARRTS & EW NG D.C. PUBLIC LIBRARY CORCORAN ART RARRIS = LEVING (G GALLERY [ATIONAL ACADEMY NFORMATION IS MADE PUBLIC REGARDING SCHOOLS' OPENING :Haycock Publishes Statement Affecting Pupils, Parents, Teachers and Officials as New Year Opens September 19. | first-year classes are the same as cut Assistant Supt. of Schools Robert L. | lined above for white high schools. Haycock last night mad public ual statement containing essential tion relative to the oper the public schools on Monday, | tember 19, aff | teachers and school officials in general | The complete statement follows: New pupils are admitted to | kindergartens years November 1 or older, and to wdes 6 years of age by November 1 or o Al Junior High Schools. The junior high schools will open September 19, 1927. Application imission should be made for the or_high for white pupils at the Columl Junior High _ School, | Seventh and O streets; the Hine Jun- v H chocl, Seventh and Penn- wenue and Varnum street; the Langley Junior High School, Second ind T streets northeast; the Mac- of last | farland .l‘u]uur\ High School, Towa G ho Geaire to enter the graded | avenue and Varnum str the Y e edergartons il make | Powell Junior High School, Fifieenth application for admission tickets at the | And, Schools streets; the Jefferson Senools most cotivenlent: to! thefri|Junict High Schcol, Stxin land D Ry e thelr |Stréet southwest, and _ the Stuart Eullatigs o o saturdsy, | Junior High School, Fifth and D eptember 16 and 17, from 8:30 to 10 streets northeast; and for the col- Eedk Bahio ve Shaw Junior Hig .m. and from 4 to 530 p.m i scnoolssatitne S duiicc e . : : School, Firs Vaccination certificates must be pre- and M streets; the Ran- sobiel THo law rodutves ihat “noi) Gl JURIOCHHHER (Herogl, Miet Suars child shall be admitted into the public . s southwest, and the Francis Junior o0ol, Twenty-fourth 01 who ol net have besn duly | SISt i Ecben : inated or otherwise protected and N streets. ainst smallpox.™ schools will evening, October 3. High School Reporting. Lol en P & Al pupils in the graded schools ast | ., A% SIPSTVINNE Drincpe S W entem vear, except those promoted to the | high schools, will report to_thei chers at 10 am. Friday, Septem: at the following buildings: year rooms, from which those to be transferred will be sent to the higher 1, at Curtis School; divi- 2, 4 and § at Thomson School; 3, at Powe for High classes. Pupils promoted to the hizh ofi s 3, fat Eqwelt Juniont='a schools will report at the respective hizh schools as follows on Mond division 5, at McKinley Al High School; division 6, at | September 19: Nine a.m. at Eastern, Dunbar and Armstrong; 11 o'clock at School; division 7, at Bryan division 9, at Franklin School; n = 't | divisions 10 and 11, at Sumner Central, Western, McKinley and Busi- | School; division 12, at Franklin ness. Returning Central High pupils. | School! division 13, at the New Bell including afternoon session pupils. | School. should report at 9 a.m. Maryland an . | Virginia pupils expecting to enter the ~ Normal School Meetings. Columbia Junior High School shou Principals of normal schools will aport at that school on Friday, Sep- | meet their teachers on Friday, Sep- | ember 16:at £ pin: | tember 16, at 10 a.m. | “All applicants for admission or for | Principals of “senior high schools | advanced_standing in, the Central, | Will meet their teachers on Iriday, Eastern, Western and Business High | September 16, at 10 a.m., with the fol- Schools é@nd the McKinley Technical | High School, other than those who at- lowing exceptions “Central, 2 p.m.; Western, 2 p.m. tended the eighth grades of the Di trict of Columbia, must report to the Principals of junior high schools will meet their teachers at 10 a.m. on | high school admission board at the Franklin School on Thursday and Fri- Friday, September 16. The assistant superintendent in {day, September 15 and 16, 9 am. to 4 pm. children not on the rolls of the public schools at the close vac open Monday Details will ap- i 2 charge of supervision of grades 1 to 6 will meet all teachers of grades 1 to 4 who are new to grade or system at the Franklin administration build- ing at 2:30 p.m., Friday, September 16. ‘The director of primary instruction will meet all teachers new to grade | or system of grade 1 to 4, in divi- sions 10 to 13, at the Miner Normal School at 2:30 p.m., Friday, Sep- | tember 16. " Meetings of Directors. Meetings of directors with their | teachers will be held on Friday, Sep- tember 16, at 10 a.m. Kindergarten, divisions 1 to 9, Thomson, 2: Will Assign Pupils. The board will assign pupils. if neces- | sary, to any examination that may be required. Students entering the high | schools through the high school ad- mission board will be assigned by that board to schools in accordance with the directions of the superintendent For admission to the first year, pu- 1 pils must be prepared to take examina- | tions in English, arithmetic, United | States history and Constitution, and | geography. All applicants must pre- | sent proper certificates or records of all work completed in other schools, . W. U PREPARES | FOR FALL OPENING Three New Members to Take and made provision for schools in the | Territories. Bureau of Education. The necessity of some central office for the collection and study of educa tional statistics and data was early seen and appreciated by schoolmen. | In response to this need, the United States Bureau of Education was insti- | tuted “for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show | condition and progress of educa- | ion in the several States and Terri- | tories, and of diffusing such informa. | tion respecting the organization and management of schools and school | systems and methods of teaching as shall the peope of the United the establishment and main- of efficient school systems and wise promote the cause of edu- | cation throughout the country.” | Jt was first created by Congress as a department of education on March 3. 1867, and continued as an “indepen- dent estiblishment” until July 1, 1869, | when, according to a provision con-| tained in one of the annual appro priation acts, approved July 1868 it was constituted an offi bureau in the Department of the Int Introduction of R T au has no administrative functions except those connected with the expenditure of the funds appro priated by the Federal Government for the m nance of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts in the seve ttes and Territories and those connected with the education support and medical relief of natives of Alaska. The bureau was instru mental intrgducing the reindeer into Al from Siberia for the bene fit of the natives. There are now more than 400,000 reindeer in Alaska two which are owned by na gives. With its system of public schools for the natives, it has lifted the aborigines of the Territory from an abs primitive state to indus- | onomic importance. u a clearing | ite and comprehensive education in the United | 0 countr It ad ol officers omoting_ and ion, and it _conducts | educational conditions in| r institutions, localities, coun- | st uch surveys have | ) ars amost ng out the weak systems and educa of improvement sury have become that the bureau has n to comply with all of them ently completed a survey of ducational system of the Utah at the request of the rities, a survey of a build program for the city of Portland Oreg.; a survey of the normal schools in the District of Columbia, and at the present time is making a surve of Rutgers University, New Bruns. wick, N. J Home Education Promoted. This i enting pe 1 and bienn t and Al surves tos, adminisiers a sy ndeer. are a serves as nformation on r= in surveys particul ties 1 able me ! come in recent 1 of nesses tional ing progra quests for numerou heen able It has re rhe entirc State of State aut ing edu ues a monthly ally bureau fodic tex ’ | the United States, addressed the con- | | vention. valu- | were filled to capacity. Many notable | persons, including the President of | Places on Board of | Trustees. Three new members of the. board The association publishes a monthly | m ne, the Journal of the National | Education Association, which carries | to all members reports of its activ : ashi 0 s of its a of s of George Washington | ties, accounts of educational progress|°f ‘rustee ot o and material which every {eacher | University will take their places with needs for professional growth. It also! the opening of the institution on Sep- publishes a Research Bulletin which | tember 21. Karl Willlam Corby is| deals primarily with educational facts | taking the place of his late father. and statistics, a_bulletin for elemen-| Arthur Peter and Henry B. Spencer | tary school principals, and yearbooks | were announced as new members of | for the benefit of its more important|ihe hoard late last Spring following | departments. .| the announced plan of the amalga- At the Washington convention in|mation of the George Washington 1926 the superintendent of school dis- Hospital and _ Medical | tributed a vear hook dealing with| gehool with the Garfield Memorial | problems of the course of study in ele-| {joerital and the Foundling Home. mentary schools which bore the sig-| My, Peter and Mr. Spencer are nificant title. “The Nation at Work!members of the Garfield board, while | on the Public School Curriculom.” | (laren Il ARHE e et . arence Aspinwall is a member of More than 300 school systems, 18 State | (o crogicid o, for bis S oar hook “Fm]d Yo n'wuaxn the members of the board elect- different cities had gone about the il R S L e S €ank OF TEvialng their Coareesior Stufly. | ool e T e T Spacialieiiliatie fwi s MRiA mnStnE AL | T D I e st the Sl sohols Sre Tor Al U] s e Chean o o e o el J£{in many. helptul ways in furthering Dointed: out that fthe modeont PUBHS[ L gan e oon) OF (the university. Bchool ' must teach ‘its) CRIIAren MOt | peso e oiar rs (president of [the | only those things which promote his|icord: through the dean of the uni individual wellbeing but also the great | Lorsity: Dr. Howard L. Hogkins, an- truths which will make him a useful | Mo e e O Do et At e B e : and changes in the faculties of the in- g paute. stitution Department of Education. " Dr. W. Stull Holt, to be acting as- Modern education has become very | Sistant professor in history; J. Orit nplex because modern life is making | Powers, to be associate professor of many new demands on the schools, | education; E. Wine, to be teach- meet this situation the National | ing fellow in history; Dr. Thelma | Edueation Association has 17 depart-| Hunt, to be assistant in education; s studying problems in their spe.i Katherine Ohmwake, to be assistant fields and making valuable con.|in Dsychology; Dr. Raleigh Gilchrist, tributions to educational advance. It|to be lecturer in chemistry; Dr. has more than a score of committees | Joseph A. Ambler, to be special lec- conducting importunt investigations. | turer, in rihemt‘(r \vnn}:mlq Midd The association is sponsoring before | ton, to be lecturer in psychology; Wil- Congress a bill providing for a de.) Mam J. Berry, to be instructor in partment of education, with a secre.} mathematics; Chandler B. Beall,'to be tary in the President’s cabinet, which, | instructor in Romance languages it is claimed, will do for education :June Cooper, to be assistant in botany what the Department of Agriculture| Saul C. Oppenheim. to be assistant locs for the farmer, the Department ! professor of law: E. M. Lee, to be of Labor for the workingman and the stant professor of electrical engi Department of Commerce for the busi-| neering: Dr. James . Rogers, to be | ness interests of the country { associate professor of education; Dor- | In co-operation with the American W. Hyde, to be lecturer in social Legion and other national organiza-, science; Dr. Winifred Richmond, to| tions, it annually promoted American | be lecturer in psychology; Norman | Education Week, focusing the atten-| 1. Younge, to be assistant in chem. tion of millions of citizens upon the!istry; Paul D. McNamee, to be | basic necds of public education nt in chemistry, and Edward M. | fohe first plank in its printed plat.| ‘hober, Jjr., to be assistant in orm urges a competent, well trained mistr; teach in hearty accord with Ameri-|{ he university announces a widen- can ideals in every public school posi- | ed range in the selection of courses. | tion in the United States. In addition to the regular curriculum , Biiio prain o T ESERUE, offered in the department of arts and Ao Iant Ao oiata bt At s Shyau] PEIAnes S EHETe Hase B icoiliibe gil) tione last plank ctates that the Na-| public speaking, geology and geos- fonal Education Association is com-}raphy, linguistic science and in edu- mitted to a program of service—serv- Its to the teashansimcivice tohs prod| - fession, service to the Nation. Its su. { preme ‘purpose is the welfare of the | childhood of America { 71f these high end [ may feel confident that the mext gen- eration will be well grounded in the yrinciples of good citizenship and use tul living " The mere of the Tederal icd on Fourth Page) r « sey | I N. U. Law Library Open. The lauw library at National Uni- versity including more than 5,000 volum: is open ly, except Sun- days, until 11 pn. Students are urged | to make use of its facilities in the preparation of their cl: work as well as preparation for moot court, dobates and collateral reading. | | | | | | are attained, we mention (Contir Board to Examine Pupils’ Credentials 2 Days Next Week Members of the board of admis- sions for the senior high schools will meet at the Franklin School Building on Thursday and Friday from 9 to 12 am. and 2 to 4 p.m., it was announced yesterday at the office of Dr. Frank W. Ballou. The board, under the direction of W. P. Hay, chairman, will meet in the assembly hall on the third floor of the Administration Buildi The board will examine the cre- dentials of pupils desiring to enter the ninth year of the junior high schools or any year in the senior high school, who are coming from outside of Washington or from pri vate or parochial schools in the city. Particular attention is called to the fact that pupils who were regu- larly promoted to the high school are not affected by the board of ‘admissions and should report to their respective high schools on Monday, September 19 The hoard of admissions in the colored schools will meet at the Dunbar High School on Friday and Saturday from 9 to 4 o'clock. Y ACCOUNTANCY SCHOOL WILL REOPEN TOMORROW Tenth Session to Start at 5:30, ‘With 200 Students Enrolled for Course: The Washington School of Ac countancy, conducted by the Young Men's Christian Association, will open its tenth session with classes Y. M. C. A. building, 1736 G strect tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock, it s announced. Classes will be held thereafter on Monds Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. About 200 students are enrolled, it is said, and the faculty consists of 15 members, the latest addition to which Dr. H. R. Grossman. who will in- struct in law. All of the instructors in accountancy proper are certified public accountants. There have been 700 students grad- ated from the school since it opened in 1917 and about T of these are certi fied public accountants. The full course covers a period of three years. EAUTY SCHOOL RULE NEW BE Diplomas and Prizes to Be Award- ed Yearly in Future. The Honour School of Beaufy Cul- ture, the only school in Washington devoted exclusively to teaching this profession and one of the leading insti- tutions in America in the business, an- nounces that hereafter diplomas to students who have successfully com- pleted the course will be awarded only once each year, at which time prizes will be given to students who attain the highest degree of efficiency in permanent waving, marcelling and general beauty work. Students may enroll at any time, but those enrolling now will naturally stand the better chance of winning the prizes for the scholastic year 1927-28, which will be awarded next June. Day and evening sessions, 817 1 | Fourteenth street. in the | CATHOLIG U. PLANS FORTS 31T YEAR Institution to Begin Term September 27 With Five | Residence Halls Filled. The Catholic University of Americ [will begin its thirty-seventh year |Tuesday, September 27. The entrance | | date for freshmen is Tuesday, Septem her 20, Its five residence halls are all | | filled. The students of the 23 relig-| {fous communities will number about | 400, and_two new religious houses of study will be opened. Catholic Sister College will have about 140 students |and Trinity College about 400. | The university campus has been lev eled in several directions, new roads nd approaches have been constructed | and all the buildings brought into | casier and more pleasing contact with | |one another. The John K. Mullen of | | Denver Library is approaching com. | | pletion. The marble finish of the first floor is nearly complete, including pillars of Italian marble. The stack. | |age space is under construction and | will be ready by December. 1t will| hold 300,000 volumes. The assembly | room of McMahon Hall has been re-! painted and decorated, and new seats will be installed. In the crypt of the | national shrine, two fine Venetian mo- | | saics of Saint Cecilia and Saint | | Agnes have been completed, and in |the sub-basement, a chapel of Our | | Lady of Guadalupe has been opened | to the public. Trustees to Meet Tuesday. The Fall meeting of the board | trustees will take place on Tue followed by the annual mecting of the | | hierarchy Wednesday and Thursday. | The meetings will be attended by the four American cardinals—Cardinal | Dougherty of Philadelphia, Cardinal | | Hayes of New York, Cardinal O'Con- {nell of Boston and Cardinal Munde. |lein of Chicago, and by Archbishop | Dowling of St. Paul, Archbishop Glen- | non of St. Louis, Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco, Archbishop aw of { New Orleans and Archbishop Daeger | | of Santa There will be 70 bishops | in attendance. The bishops will con- | sider the report of the administrative | committee, the reports of the heads of | | the various departments of the wel-| fare conference and also the report of | | the mission board. | Rev. Dr. P. W. Browne, | of history at the university, rey | sented the United States last month | the Congress of International Catholic | | Action (IKA) held at a resort town on Lake Constance, about 80 miles north- west of Innsbruck. The theme for discussion at the congress was “Mod- evn Economic Life and Catholicism.” Speakers from _different countries gove 45-minute talks on the following | Subjects: Economic activities and their place in Catholic life, the eco- nomic system of capitalism and of | communism and Catholic morals, so- cinl, national and international reci- procity in economic life, and Catholi- cism, modern industrialism and Cathol- icism, colonial economic activity and Catholicism, the concentration ‘move- ment in modern economic life and Catholisism. Catholic Rural Lifs, official organ of of profes | subjects Teachers Told To Report for Duty on Friday While Monday, September 19, is the opening day of school for more than 60,000 \Washington school children, teachers were reminded vesterday that next Friday is the opening day so far as they are con- cerned. “You are minded,” Dr. Ballou forth in a circular to all school principals and teache ‘of the following action taken by the Board of Education at its meet- ing of June 8, 1927, regarding the opening _of schools: ‘Designate Friday, September 16, as the open- ing day of school for the school year 28." “Since the pay status of each teacher for the month of Septem- ber is dependent upon her report- ing for service on Friday, Septem- Der 16, each principal or other of- ficer in direct charge of teachers should make every reasonable effort to that each teacher reports promptly for duty. “The ~ superintendent requests that all meetings of principals and other supervisory officers with be held ‘at 10 o'clock SCHOOL FOR FOREIGNERS TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 19 Night Sessions Will Begin October | tion. 3—Classes Open to All Applicants. The Americanization School is special school of the District of Co lumbia public schools, where adul foreigners may attend classes to learn to speak, read and write English and prepare for their examination for nat- uralization. A time schedule is arranged to ac whos might men _and or home commodate occupations women duties otherwise interfere with their attend- ing. The day classes meet in the morning from 10 to afternoon_from 1:30 to 4. also special citizenship clas ing and afternoon and by spe pointment. An under-age zarten cares for small children while Their mothers study, and a coaching ss is provided for children of school who have recently arrived in America and whose inability to speak English is a handicap in the regular schools. The evening classes in lish and citizenship meet on Monday: Tuesdays and Thursd from 7:3 to_9:30. Recres classes tion, cial ap- 0 tional activities and special in literature, music apprecia- dramatics and other advanced are under the direction of the Americanization School ocia tion, an organization of the student body The day school opens September 19 1927; the night school October 3, 1 Any one who feels that these classes would be helpful is invited to the rural life bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which last year was published in Racine, Wis.,” will be published in this city through the Catholic University of America Press beginning with the Oc- tober issue. Dr. Frank O'Hara, pro- ferror of economics at the university, will be editor. The publication is issued in each eof nine consecutive months, bheginning with October, Dom science, di Dennison; divisions 10 to 13, Mott. Domestic art, divisions 1 to 9, Den- nison; divisions 10 to 13, Mott. Draw- ing, divisions 1 to 9, Berret; divisions 10 to 13, New Bell. Manual training, divisions 1 to 9, Abbot; divisions 10 to 3, Simmons. Physical training, divi- 1 to 9, Webster; divisions 10 to 13, Miner Normal. Nature study, divi sions 1 to 9, Toner; divisions 10 to 13, Armstrong. Music, divisions 1 to 9, otherwise no_credit may be given for such work. Examinations may be re- quired, but credit may be given for some of the work done in other schools if certificates . re satisfactory. All candidates for admission to the first yvear classes of Dunbar High | School, the Department of Business | Practice, or the Armstrong Technical | High School. except graduates of the eighth grades of the elementary schools of the District of Columbia will be examined by the high school admission hoard at the Dunbar High School on Thursday or Friday, Sep- Berret; divisions 10 to 13, New Bell. Principals of the following schools will meet their teachers as indicated: ¢ | prenticeship methc 2:30 and in the There, are morn- kinder- tember 15 and 16, between the hours | Margaret Murray Vocational School, of 2 and 5 p.m. The board will assign |at 10 a.m.; Phelps Vocational School, pupils to the examinations if neces-|at 10 a.m.; Abbot Vocational School, sary. | at 10 a.m., and Dennison Vocational The requirements for admission to ' School, at 10 a.m. ACCOUNTANCY LATEST BEST YEAR PLANNED { ON PROFESSIONS LIST| FOR ST. MARGARET’S | | Taculty of Graduates of Leading Institutions to Be in Charge of School's Courses. First Method of Teaching by Ap- prenticeship System Rapidly Being Abolished. | The young man or woman who to day faces the choice of a profession | finds included in the list of possible vocations the practice, either privately The Ben-| School of St. Margaret's School Is looking for- ward to the most efficient year in its ) Svery effort is being made chool abreast of the finest cational institutions of the country. The faculty is made up of graduates of Vassar, Wellesley, Mount Holy the Peabody Conservatory, the coran School of Art and other institu- tions of high rank French will be giyen a larger place than before, and wifl be taught by the direct method. , Mme. Louise Wil- profession. If evidence | loughby, who has already demon- to support this, it could | strated her ability in two of our one very significant de- | strongest schools, will be in charge of accountancy education— | this department. History will be in over from the ap-|the hands of a graduate of Mount »d to that of the pro: | Holyoke who has an M. A. degree in cehool. Each profession, in | this subject and several years of teach- ed through this process, | ing experience. Miss Roberta Tull, being the latest because | after a year of study and travel in Europe, returns to the primary grades. had its beginning in | The kindergarten will be conducted The | according to the latest methods given at the Teachers' College of Columbia Universi Secretarial work will be | given by a teacher from one of the or publicly, of accounti jamin Franklin Unive | Accountancy and Business Adminis- | tration has just published a bulletin | containing a discussion of this voca- | ity Accountancy is now recognized as a | full-fledged were needed | be found in velopment in ' | namely, the cros fessional turn, has pas: | accountan: of its youth. Accountancy this country about 30 vea new profession then had but few au- thors or teachers, and the pioneers who made up the profession at that time developed assistants by the ob- | business schools of the city. | vious method of selecting experienced | —— | bookkeepers, and initiating them into | (RO LI S NEW JUNIOR DEPARTMENT and ready, but practical methods. L : FOR ST- jOHN’s COLLEGE apprenticeship method has never heen | Pre-High School Course Will Be satisfactory as a teaching procedure. The experience gained is often hap- Opened in Its Own Building. hazard, and the work done in one of- fice is likely to be very different from that in another. School curricula, on the other hand, can be formulated by successful practitioners. and the teach ing done by men with practical ex-| On Wednes St. John’s College perience who have specialized in|will add to the educational facilities teaching. of Washington by the opening of & In the older professions it has come | hew standard junior high school, to to be the procedure to insure that the | be known as St. John's Junior High. principles applicable to the work have | It will introduce students to high heen thoroughly thought out by mem. | school studies two vears earlier than b of the profession who proceed by | the traditional eighta-yrade -.ourse, way of school instruction. ~Farseeing [ @nd will prepare ther: for more suc- accountants saw the advantages of | cessful work in the senior high school. this plan and in recent years the| The new school will have its own- tendency in accountancy has been in [ building, just recently erected, and this direction. In most States boavds [ Wil be opened to the boys of the of examiners recognize a certain |l0¢al schools who have finished the amount of schooling as the equiva- | SiXth or seventh grade. The course lent of practice, This is true in the|of studies includes ethics, English, new law of the District of Columbia, | L4tin, algebra, arithmetic, science, and a recent jule of the regents in | MStOrY, geosraphy, penmansiip, type- New York is along the same lines. writing, drawing, public speaking, music and military drill. The stu- dents will have orgzanized sports dis- tinct from those of the senior high school, and will have free access to the gymnasium and swimming pool under experienced prefects. | The tunnel being built through the Cascade Range in Washington State will be 7.78 miles long and will pass ,000 feet under the mountains. 4