The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-28

on account of numerous other meetings
at the same time and adjourned after
| singing several songs.
| The students have been very busy this
/ week copying the selected papers for the
high school exhibit at the exposition
/ Some pupils Were badly overworl1ed in
finishing so many specimens of work bui
| the faculty showed the utmost considera-
1 ton
| The Alpha Theta Mu girls held meet
| ing Friday afternoon.
The orchestra the boys glee club ami
the girls glee club has each been snap
ped by the kodak man. They will prob
ably appear in the last senior edition o.
the Messenger" The work on the pic
lures was excellent
Pictures have also been taken of the
sewing. cooking and manual training
classes, besides that of the school build
Ing and other points of interest These
will appear in the exhibit at The exposi-
ton
The high schol golf team defeated the
Paramount team with a low score last
Friday. The members of the high school
team were Oliver, Brooks, Thrccknorton,
Griffith Little and Wareham.
Miss Hamilton, head Of the English
literature department. read to her stu
dents of the Bunker Hill Orations' as III
touch with the holiday spirit, a very in
teresting newspaper printed at The time
of Washington's death. One peculiar fea-
ture of the paper was its freedom from
advertisements Again the headlines were
subdued and the principal news on the
inside of the sheet Washington seems
TO have been held in high esteem even in
his own day.
The senior orations have been COM
menced. The outline is to be completed
by March T. the first draft by March %.
Then come the second and third drafts,
and the fourth is due May 6. All orations
must be committed by Friday. May Is
without exception. No grafton will be
delivered TO exceed five minutes in leagtli.
Miss Clark's musical scrap book is Of
great interest. It contains programs and
criticisms of every musical at
tempt any high school organization in
the concert line from the first public ap-
pearance on May 81, 1894 to a mention OF
the cantata "Rebekah'' which will be |
in a few weeks at the Toler |
The scrap book also con-
tains the photographs of the glee clubs /
and the orchestra. Altogether it is a rec |
ord of musical career in dealing with raw !
in the musical sense and in |
working up the chorus TO high pitch Of |
excellence. of which Miss Clark and musi-
cal Wichita might well be proud
Wichita Commercial College Notea.
The w. B. c.. band played several selec-
tons at the Y NJ. c. A. social last Fri
lay evening.
Chas. Jewett has accepted a position at
Concordia as credit man for the Inter
national Harvester Co. Although this
S very responsible position all feel
hat the work will be we'll handled.
Chas. Newton who was called home re-
,ently by his fathers illness, called Mon
lay. He reports him much better.
Oscar Hibarger is spending the week
It his home in Harvey county
Miss Retta Wymore is the new stenog-
apher at the office of the Geiser Manu-
acturing Co.
The teachers meeting on Saturday was
ne of the best of the year in attendance
md interest. Quite a discussion took
lace among the teachers as TO the best
way of conducting examinations.
Miss May Clark has accepted position
IS stenographer for the Brooks Tire Set
Company.
artment was called to his home Tuesday
" the serious illness of his brother.
Miss Effie Foreman has accepted the po- +