Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-03
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
Outdoor Prize Drills the Order This
Year.
BOTH ARM AND foot MOVEMENTS
Some interesting Public Lectures
Given Young Students.
VISITED BY ESQUIMAUX

A statement of interest to every High
School cadet has been prepared by a pupil
the Military of the High Schools and
reads as follows:
This is the second year of the regiment
in our school corps and new ideas must of
course result from one years experience
The companies of the regiment, as usual
will compete for the colorS in the coming
spring. A simple contest in the manual of
arms is not fair test of ability and so a
new style of competition is therefore advo-
Gated.
ION the nights of the first and second Of
last June the competing companies success
lively occupied the stage of the Academy of
Music. This arrangement enabled the
friends of the cadets to view the contest.
but 1t permitted only the practice of the
n annual of arms. and the foot movements
were not features of the drill. In all other
competitive drills of companies the foot
movements are made the most important
element.
Now. the expense of hiring a large thea
ter Is decidedly greater than the expense
of hiring large park. BY having the Grill
In the open, the foot movements could be
introduced into the exhibition and would
be an additional attraction. The season in
which the drill will be held is more favor
able to outdoor than indoor manauvers, and
no doubt, the spectators will appreciate the
Improvement. In previous years the award
ing of the banner for eXcelling in one drill
mas been complained of by the participants
and their friends. The company which won
on each of the nights was not the company
The companies which failed to win on the
particular nights in question were often
really more competent, as whole than the
successful one but were debarred from sue
cess by individual failures
Now, II the drill were to embrace the
loot maneuvers as well as the manual Of
arms the chances for individuals to cause
the defeat of a whole company would be
decidedly lessened by the necessarily in
creased length of the drill. The absence of
anything analogous to stage fright"
would also diminish the danger, Tor the boys
would be more at their ease in a field than
on Il stage.
In benslf of the contestants therefore
the authorities are asked to give this
liberation"
DIR. Lane Approves.
DR.. f. f. Lane, principal of the Central
school, when asked what he thought of the
proposed plan, declared himself to De hearth
~ IN favor of 1t. Such scheme, according
TO Dr. Lane. was talked over by the off,
Gals in charge Immediately after the drill
last June and practically agreed upon
Heretofore, the drill has consisted of the
manual OF arms alone. Now, however
both the manual and the foot movements
are to comprise the program.
some inclosed ground will be secured for
the next exhibition, the old base ball park
at North Capitol and G streets, Il possible
band of music will be in attendance and
the day is to be made a gala one in High
School history
A feature of the annual exhibition drill
OF the regiment on the White Lot next
June will be an Indulgence in the extended
order movements with blank cartridges.
which is expected to prove as realistic an
imitation OF battle as is possible to Gre
sent without the dead and wounded.
Public Lectures.
series of public lectures on the most
characteristic phases of German litera-
ture in the nineteenth century will be
given at the Eastern school by DR.. Wilhelm
Bernhardt, head of the German depart-
ment at the Central as follows:
Wednesday, March Z. at 2:3O pm, "Klas
slclsmus und Romantik;" Wednesday March
IA. at 80 pm, "Freiligrath und die Rev
olutionare Lyrik," and Wednesday, March
-, at 23o pm, "N iktor Scheffel und lie
Neu-Romantik
Prof Camille Fontaine of the faculty
or the Central school has arranged a
similar course of French lectures the frs.
of which was delivered on February IS.
The remaining two are: lie Journalisme
ct les Journalists en- France ct aux Etats
Unis," on Wednesday, March 4. and Cent
ans d Historic Coup d. oeil sur rhistoire de
France de la fin de la Revolution a nos
1ours Tine hour for each is 1870 O'Clock
In the hall of the Central school,
A cordial invitation to be present is ex-
tended to all pupils and their friends who
may be interested in the subjects out
lined.
Washington Day.
Washington day was recently celebra ted
by the pupils of the Eastern in a decidedly
appropriate manner. The school assembled
in the hall and the following program was
rendered:
National hymn. chorus; remarks, Mr..
Sites; song of LOCO years. Mr.. Fred Grant:
recitation, Grown Our Washington" Miss
Irwin; "Garlands Bright and Fair" quar-
tet; grafton Mr.. Leonard. and America"
by the school The feature of the after
noon was the presentation to the school
of handsome portrait of the father of
his country as gift from the young la
dies.
Some Visitors.
The party Of Esquimaux now in the city
visited the Central school Wednesday after
noon last and served as an excellent OBJ
ject lesson for the pupils. Col. Bruce, in
charge of the northerners, gave an inter-
esting talk about their habits and their
Alaskan home, the headman of the visitors
made speech in his rative tongue and
the little folks sang several songs, one of
which was the much abused Ira IA IA
boom de ay."
Notes.
Two new turning lathes have recently
been added to the equipment of the manual
training school for the Central pupils. Great
interest has been manifested in this class
of the work and the shops cannot accommo-
date all who desire to pursue their studies
in that line.
The young ladies' military drill at the
Eastern Is progressing steadily and the
companies are about to be enlarged by the
addition OF number of fair warriors.
Miss Anna Seaton Schmidt gave her IL
Illustrated lecture on the worlds fair last
evening in the Eastern High School Hall
for the pupils Of that school,
Prof Otis Mason has consented to de-
LIVER his lecture on prehistoric Man" be-
fore the pupils of the Central school on
Wednesday afternoon next, March I.
Companies F and have been reinforced
with a number of recruits and now appear
on drill with full ranks and five tours each.
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