The first peal of the school bells for the term of 1927-28 this morning will summon about 8,100 children back to the Williamsport public schools to start or resume their studies. This is a new record enrollment for the city, but it will be practically eclipsed by another more unusual and important event.

The inauguration of a complete junior high school system this term marks a really important event in the educational history of the community. For, with the opening of the new Thaddeus Stevens School, the junior high school regime — the goal toward which the Williamsport School Board has been working for several years — will be put in operation.

The Thaddeus Stevens, Andrew Curtin and Theodore Roosevelt junior high schools, will accommodate all freshmen students with the exception of those enrolled in the industrial courses. The latter number of about 100 this year. All sophomore, junior and senior class students will attend the senior high school and will constitute an enrollment of about 1,300 this term.

Industrial Arts courses will be begun this year in the seventh and eighth grades of all three junior high schools, and next year it is expected the course will be opened in the ninth grade in these schools.

This year, too, will see the opening of the first public school library in the city which will be located in the new Stevens Junior High with from 1,200-1,300 books. This will gradually be built up to a working library of special value to school students and directly related to the subjects taught, supplementing the information found in textbooks.