The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-03
School Notes.

Miss E. L. Mccartney, OF the sixth grade
Bassett School, has resigned.
Miss j. A. Browne, of the Lenox School, has
been teaching quarter of a century.
The High School commencement has been
set for Monday evening, May Is, in the Acad-
emy of Music.
There is one young man, Ichi Nakayama,
from Kannamur Grunnaken, Japan, in the
High School on street. He is said to be a
very bright student.
Mr.. G. A. Davis is principal Of the Business
High School in the Thompson Building, on
Twelfth street, between and L streets, with
a branch in the Franklin.
Mr.. w. B. Powell and Trustee Gregory paid
visit to Meridian Hill Thursday in search of
q site for a public school building in that
vicinity, but they did not come to decision.
Mr.. j. F. McNab, director of iron work in
the manual training class, High School, has
resigned to take position in the Patent
Office He will be succeeded by Mr.. A. r.
Gardner.
On the Goth of May the annual competitive
drill will take place in the Academy of Music
Six companies will participate, and beauti-
full flag and ribbon badges are the prizes Reg
ular Army officers will be the judges of the
award.
There are some bright young women teach
ing in the Lenox School. One of them re-
marked: 'sWe are practicing the wedding
march to get ready for coming events, for
some of us is sure to be married before next
school year."
There are two military drills week on the
boys playground of the O-street High School.
1t is a pleasant sight to see those young men
60 through the manual of arms. The principal
said: "Discipline is very much improved by
these military drills. The boys learn to
obey unquestioningly the word of command
Hence consider that this discipline of the
school is improved by those drills"
Some of the pupils of the High School are
making great preparations for the annual May
concert to be given by the school orchestra.
| This musical club is not of the ordinary
| amateur type, being mostly composed of mem
bers of Professor Casper's Wilhelmi Club or
| the Georgetown Orchestra. The concert will
occur about May Is. The octette trained by
| Mr. Warner that did such good service in the
| April concert will assist.
The Central High School on o street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets, contains
enough souls to stock a small town. There
are now in this building alone a thousand
| pupils while the Capitol Hill School, the
Curtis School in Georgetown, and the Busi-
ness School are training seven hundred more
young men and women for life's duties
There are thirty eight regular teachers in the
high schools, Independent of teachers OF
music, languages, manual training, drawing
| etc.
Miss Victoria l.. Nourse, principal of the
Lenox School, has had the grip. There ii
great good feeling existing between the
teachers In this building. They have clubbed
together and hired piano, which they placed
in the lower central hall Then they drilled
the boys and girls to march in and out tC
music The children enjoy it immensely
Most young people like to dance, ant
dancing is graceful and healthful exercise
so the Lenox teachers thought it good thing
to devote few minutes on Fridays to it, thu
older pupils who know how teaching the
younger ones the steps and figures of contr;
dance or quadrille. Consequently, the scholar
in the Lenox think so much of their teachers apt
school that they resisted the charms of tn
big circus on "Wednesday last, when, contrar.
TO the usual custom, every seat was occupied
in the fourth grade, which is composed o
children who usually run after a brass band.
A tea was given on Thursday afternoon b,
the young ladies In the eighth grade of tn
Peabody School, Capitol Hill, in the hall OF tn