Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1927 — Page 8

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UPBUILDING OF BODIES AIM IN CITY SCHOOLS Physical Training Regarded as One of Important Duties of System. In the days of the little brick schoolhouse, when Indianapolis was but a village, the three E’s, to train the minds of the children, was the only task of the toiling pedagogs. But today, following the modern advancement in teaching, the upbuilding of the bodies of the pupils is one of the principal aims of the . city school system. Educators have learned that weak bodies often mean weak minds and dozens of things are done in the city schools to develop the bodies of the pupils. All pupils are given physical training, exercises and drills, each day. Crippled Children Aided. Crippled children have a school of their own, where specially trained teachers give correctional physical, as well as mental, training. Children threatened with tuberculosis have a fresh-air school, where rest periods are provided. In schools where there is a demand, milk and wafers are served each morning at slight cost, and without cost to pupils unable to pay. Sight-seeing classes are to be foi med this year for children whose defective vision otherwise could prevent school attendance, are prevent them from getting the most from their class work. t Health Is Guarded. A staff of -about five physicians, three dentists and thirty or more nurses, detailed by the city health board, guards health conditions among all. pupils. Where necessary, dietetic classes are held, undernourished and weakly children being given frequent medical examinations with free advice to parents for their care. Many of these physical safeguards for pupils have been an indirect result of poor physical condition of young men revealed by World War army tests, HOME-MAKING INTEREST GAINS Schoolgirls Are Taught How to Assist Mothers. Do girls take as much interest in home-making as they used to? “They take much more interest,” is the answer given by Mrs. Ida Langerwisch and Miss Lucy Montgomery, directors of the department of home economics of public schools. “We have had no cases of disinterest,” said Mrs. Langerwisch, who ha- charge of the food and cooking department. “Our plan for the coming year is to make them more interested and appreciative of the art of being efficient helpers at home and good home-makers later on. “We do not intend to prepare them to keep homes of their own, but to know how to help their mothers now- The course will be a part of their general education.” Miss Montgomery has the same plans for the clothing and textile department. Girls, will be taught how to buy clothing and materials as well as make them. The courses In cooking will include the study of food in relation to health, sanitation, marketing, thrift and appreciation of their present home problems.

SPORTS FIELD READY Shortridge School Has New Athletic Park. The official dedication of the new Shortridge athletic field on W. For-ty-Third St. in the 900 block will be Sept. 30 when the Shortridge tea mmeets Sheridan high school In the first game of the season. About $15,000 has been spent on the field. An additional SIO,OOO will be spent in the future for improvements. An underground field house has been constructed with dressing rooms and showers. A set of bleachers has been erected and a high fence built around the field-

DUKE UNIVERSITY TO BE PRIDE OF NATION , Tobacco King’s Millions Make Big Institution Possible. Bit United Prei DURHAM, N. C., Sept. 18—The metamorphosis of millions made from tobacco into one of the finest educational plants in the country is due to start here this month. Construction will start on the new buildings of Duke University, the seat o i learning made possible through the will of James B. Duke, the tobacco king. Over $20,000,000 will be expended. The project will take years to complete and when finished one of the most beautiful college campuses in America will nestle in this Carolina town. The new buildings will cover over 100 acres, centering in the 5,000-acre - .crest and field area owned by the university. Forty buildings will be constructed to house schools of engineering, medicine, chemistry, forestry and religionThe main group will be the school of meaicine, which it is estimated will cost $4,000,000, and which will be endowed for $10,000,000, * —* \ College Boy Cruel to Monkey SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. 16. Maurice Faverman, Providence, R. I„ college student, was convicted in court here on a charge of cruelly to -'oneky. The case wag placed on #e. I

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Three Structures Already Completed; $200,000 Available Soon. Further progress on the new Indiana 3chool for the Blind will not be made until Oct. 1, when another $200,000 will be available to continue the building program, Superintendent George S. Wilson announces. The three buildings already finished are the power house, laundry and garageThe new buildings are located on a sixty-acre tract purchased from the McGowan estate on Seventyfifth St. and College Ave., at a cost of $72,000. This money was taken from the first legislative appropriation of $200,000. The 1927 Legislature appropriated $400,000, payable at the rate of $200,000 at the end of each fiscal year. The original $200,000 appropriation has been exhausted and work has ceased Next units will be a dormitory and main building. How long before the entire plant will be completed and equipped depends upon the appropriation of the next Legislature, Wilson declared. The 1927 session was asked to appropriate $797,725 to complete the building program. The school now is housed in the block which was given for the Indiana Memorial Plaza- The main building there was ejected in 1850 and the total cost of all buildings was $226,000. The site first was purchased for $5,000, but at the time of the gift for the Plaza it was valued at $2,000,000. The school is intended to give common and high school education as well as special education to blind children of the state. It is divided into four detriments: Physical culture, manual and industrial training, school of music and the common and high school branches.

KNOW THEIR DUTIES Arsenal Students Down to Business First Day. When the electric bell tinkled through the buildings of Arsenal Technical High School Tuesday morning, upper classmen and “freshies” alike knew where to go and what to do. Monday morning was devoted to lining up the old students. All freshmen were signed up and ready to begin work Monday afternoon. “School started with its usual briskness,’’ said Milo H. Stuart, principal. “Anyone visiting Tuesday would have thought we had been at work for three months.” Opening of the new Cathedral High School, the Crispus Attucks High School (negro), and the Washington High School has not noticeably thinned the Crowds on “Tech’s” campus. Only 198 students have gone to the West Side school and 319 to Crispus Attucks. No new departments have been introduced, because of crowded conditions, Stuart said. Work on the new gymnasium and the auditorium is expected to start early in the fall. MANY ENROLL IN BANDS 120 Students Will Help School to Dispense Harmony. One hundred and twenty “Tech” j students have enrolled in the con-; cert, senior, junior and saxophone bands under Director Frederick A. Barker. Director Barker is planning to organize a clarinet and brass choir. A quartet using an oboe, two bassoons and a flute, with the incidental use of a cornet soloist, will be anew feature of the band program this year. OPEN HOCKEY CLASSES \ Offered First Time for Girls in Technical High School. Classes in hockey will be started at Technical high school this year for the first time, Miss Hazel E. Abbett, head of the physical trainYhg department, announcedAll girls making 100 points in the game will be eligible to membership in the Girls’ Physical Training Club. REPAIR ARSENAL FENCE Old Barrier Rebuilt After Service of Forty Years. The old United States government campus of Arsenal Technical high school for forty years without repair, was rebuilt during the summer vacation. The old posts have been used again in the new fence.

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New buildings for the Indiana School for the Blind: Garage, above; laundry, center; power plant, below.

OPEN BIBLE SCHOOL Institute Classes Held at Shortridge High School. Indianapolis Bible Institute opened the fall term this week in Shortridge hign school, according to John H. Rader, president. Classes are non-denominational and prepare for teaching biblical work. Instruction lasts from 7 to 9 p '

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SCHOOLS OFFER MANY COURSES IN MECHANICS Vocational Training Part of Curriculum Is Being Modernized. “Training boys to take up the vocation of mechanics or building is only one part of our plans in the manual training department this year,” says Harry Wood, head of the department in public schools. “We have outlined three types of work so we can fit most of the individual needs. “If a boy wants the machine shop training for his general education, he can get it. Technical Training. “He can also get preparatory training tc enter any engineer school. ’ “The third type of training we will give is strictly vocational. This will prepare him for a definite occupation.” “The way the school industrial program is working now, a boy can either fit' himself to do someone thing or he'tfan get enough general information to fix a chair leg or paint his own automobile if he needs to,” Wood said further. Make Work InterestingThe need for making the work attractive to combat the lure of “collar and ti&’ jobs has helped to forward new plans for interesting shop work in metal and concrete. Less wood will be used, the department director said. Fourteen printing shops, costing around $2,000 each, are now installed in city grade schools. The first school print shop was put together by Director Wood about twenty years ago. SAFETY FOB PUPILS Councilman to Urge Curb on Motorists. Introduction of an ordinance prohibiting motorists from driving more than twelve miles an hour in school zones was contemplated today by Councilman Boynton J. Moore. Mbore said he had studied the plan in other towns and believed it would make for greater safety for children in Indianapolis. He planned to provide a penalty of a fine and sentence for second offense. 4.500 Enroll in English About 4,500 students have been enrolled in the English department at Arsenal Technical high school

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Picks Tech Senior Staff Senior officers at Arsenal Technical High School, left to right: Donald Baucrmelster, sergeant-at-arms; Martha Walden, secretary; Oran K. Smith, president; Alice Gentry, vice president, and Paul Woody, treasurer.

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Heads of Committees Made Public Cv President, Mrs. L. G. Hughes. New chai.o-en for the twelve committees of the Indianapolis Parent-Teacher Association have been announ :ed for the year by Mrs. L- G. Hughes, president, as follows: Art committee, Mrs. C. H. Schwomyer; civic committee, Mrs. William Hedrick; extension, Mrs. Charles H. Smith; health, Mrs. Royal McClain; literature, Mrs. John L- Wallace; program, Mrs. S. M. Myers; publicity, Mrs. James H. Dunne; school music, Mrs. Clyde E. Titus; speakers’ bureau, Mrs- Clayton Ridge; student aid, Mrs. Lucien King; child NEW HEAT LINE AT TECH Cement Tunnel Protects Equipment at SchoolAn underground ste#m line is Technical high schools’ newest heating improvement. The steam line Is sheltered by a cement tunnel sxlo feet wide and 7 feet high, running from the power plan to the entire east quadrangle. It will furnish heat for the barn, barracks and the proposed new wings of the main building.

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TEACH SCHOOL _ MUSIC PUPILS HOWTOLISTEN Aim Is for Appreciation of Better Classes of Composition. A program to make “better listeners” out of children and as well as performers is to be the schedule of the public school music department under the direction of Ernest G. Hesser. “We believe that music should be taught with the idea of making children appreciate what they hear and to teach them to listen as well as perform,” Director Hesser said. Plans are being made to give musical programs regularly at the schools as a means of ednucating elementary and grade school Children to listen to good music intelligently. In connection with this “listening** program, the Indianapolis Federation of Public School Teachers has employed the Orloff Trio, a local chamber music organization, to visit the schools and give regular programs throughout the year. , “In this way we hope to counteract some of the ‘jazz’ they hear constantly,” the director explained* 10.738 ENROLL * IN HIGHSCHOOLS Increase of 1,200 Is Showrt in City. Increase of 1,200 pupils In Indianapolis high school enrolment is re* vealed by figures announced today by school officials. Enrollment figures given were: Shortridge high school, 878 boys, 1,280 girls, 2,158 total; Arsenal Technical, 2,491 boys, 2,074 girls, 4,565 total; Emmerich Manual Training, 757 boys, 948 girls, 1,705 total; Broad Ripple, 163 boys, 177 girls, 340 total; Washington, 770 total; Crispus Attacks, approximately 1,200, making a grand total of 10,738. Opening enrollment figures for the four old high schools, last year were: Arsenal Technical, 4,864; Shortridge, 2,130; Manual Training, 2,305, and Broad Ripple, 223; total, j . . Broad Ripple Bhowed a gain of 117, Shortridge gain of twenty, Arsenal loss of 279 and Manual Training loss of 600. Losses were mainly due to transfers to the two new high schools, Washington and Crispus Attacks.

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