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Show SCHOOL ROSTEH BHEIKSREGORD Enrollment Exceeds Any Previous Attendance, Officials Say. The city schools oT'Cned Tuesday morniug with a 'otal attendance of 22,700, according to complete returns of enrollment at the office of the city superintendent of schools yesterday. A considerable addition to this nuiLlitr was reported yesterday, though accurate returns are not yet in. Of registration of "part-time" pupils, pu-pils, those who are permitted to continue con-tinue in employment, providing they attend at-tend school four hours each woek, no accurate returns are yet available That it will run into rcveral thousand is expected, however, because calls for additional ad-ditional registration cards were made from both the East and Wost High school'!, despite the fact that the first was supplied with 3000 and the. other 800 cards before the registration began. be-gan. Already 1500 applications for permits to attend under the "part-time'' provisions pro-visions of the law have been filed in the office of the superintendent, and the issunnco of permits has been begun by Alma C. Clayton, attendance otticer. 1'3. A. Smith, superintendent, said last evening that the total attendance in the schools not only exceeds previous records rec-ords for this time of the year, but exceeds ex-ceeds all estimates. Already there is crowding in the junior high schools, requiring re-quiring swift adjustments to insure proper accommodation for all. |