Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-26
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

| Ieachers courses In psychology ana peu-
| agogy are being held each Saturday morn
Ing at 10 O'Clock at Howard University.
under the auspices OF the Teachers College.
Dean L. B. Moore is giving the course with
special reference to the activities of the
| school room, and purposes to make the
course very helpful to teachers.
According to the latest statistics of the
bureau of education the average annual in
| crease of teachers in higher education
| throws open nearly 1000 new places year
| In colleges and universities for teachers
| promoted from the secondary Schools on
being found to have the requisite skill and
| scholarship. There were in 1880, 1918 pro-
/ fessors and instructors In the colleges and
universities of the United States not count
| Ing the professional schools. In 1853 the
| number had risen to 20, SS1. 1t started with
| less than 5000 and had increase of new
! places In thirteen years almost equal to
loco year Q2,06D. The secondary schools
| Of the United States counted 1920 teach
/ ers in $780, and in 1903 counted 33, 1876. This
| increase gave II 1896 new positions in thir-
! teen years for teachers in public and pri-
| vate high schools.
| The cadets of the Maryland Agricultural
College gave minstrel performance in adj
| minstra ton hall at College Park Friday
| eve ming, and despite the stormy weather
large gathering was present and thoroughly
| enjoyed the entertainment. The interlocu-
| tor was Major l.. F. Zerkel; bones, Stoll
| and Ridgeway, and tambos Caul and Lin
| nell. The vocalists We're Cadets Dickey and
! Fernandez and the instrumen atists f.
| PIumacher and Zelaya. The program in
| cluGed songs, grand medleys, duets, mon
! olegues, sketches, piano solos, choruses by
| the entire circle and concluded with COM
lea sketch entitled Some Fancy Linz
| ericks.'
The regular business meeting of the Grad
| uate Club of the George Washington Uni
versity will be held in the west hall of
! the university building next Saturday night
at o'clock. Officers will be elected for the
i ensuing year and addresses will be made
| by President Charles w. Neednam and DR..
Charles f. Munroe, chairman of the COM
mittee on higher degrees.
/ Separate schools for boys and girls were
| advocated at a conference of the ASsocia-
ton of Head Mistresses in London lately.
| Lady Nerney of the BucklnghamShire edu-
| cation committee gave her support to the
motion made by Mrs. Bryant of the North
| London Collegiate School for Girls.
| 1.-The teaching of boys and girls in one
| class" she remarked, Leads to the max
| ing of tonboys, il nothing worse, and there
| is far too much making of temboys in the
| country today.
| rowdyism in the streets. and in other
classes it makes the person who motors and
| yachts and bets and does pretty near every
| thing but a feminine woman.
| 1T is a deplora BILE thing that the old
| fashioned pride of womanhood in Britain is
| dying OUT mean the charming fem:ninity
of women which no education should be al
| lowed to kill"
The Business High School Club composed
! of alumni of the school, was organized Mon
| day evening last at a meeting at the Y. NJ.
c.. A. building. The object of the new
| club is social, in addition to certain edu-
| cational features.
| INF LOT Ipr. limo po1 Of fl,a
| George Washington University has secured
| the National Rifles armory for the debate
| with the University of Virginia, which will
| be held Saturday, December 0. All the
| departments of the university are now
| represented on the council, and 1t is hoped
that under it's management the debating
| interests of tie institution will be extended
| over large section of the country.
| Arrangements for the debate with the
! University of Cincinnati in the spring are
| progressing and Profs. Charles c. Swisher
| and Arthur Peter, along with Mr. Henry
| Woodland. have heen selected as a board
| of judges to appoint candidates to the
George Washington team. In their in
| structions to contestants the judges have
| announced that they regard argument
more important than delivery, and the points
| upon which awards will be made are
| knowledge of the subject, power CT an
| alysis, logical sequence, skill in selecting
and presenting evidence, bearing, quality
OF the voice, pronunciation, enunciation.
proper gestures. directness, variety and en-
phasis in delivery.
Mr.. C. c. FARES, a graduate of the
| George Washington law school. will be one
| of three debaters on the Virginia team
The Thanksgiving recess of the George
| Washington University has been announced
| by the faculty as beginning Thursday. No
vember 50, and continuing till December 4.
| All lectures and other work will be sus-
| pended during the interval.
| Friday night December /. the senior class
will give q Thanksgiving dance in the west
| hall and library of the Columbian College
! building, which will be appropriately deco
rated. Admission will be by card only.
| the music. The committee of arrange
| ments consists OF Mr.. a. D. Stivers. Miss
Adele Taylor, Miss Clara Barber and Miss
| Ethel McCleary.
The Junior Club of the university, COM
| posed of the members Of last years Sopho-
more Club, will give social in the Column
| bian College building Monday night, De-
| cember 4.
Miss Lulu V. Childers. director of music
| of the Teachers College at Howard Uni
| versity. has organized a choral society for
| the purpose of studying Mendelssohn's
| Elijah and of rendering the same be-
| fore the close of the school year. Great
enthusiasm has been aroused IN this de-
| partment of the work of the Teachers
| College, and it is expected that through
| the efforts of Miss Childers the public will
| be treated to several fine renditons of this
| chorus before the close of the year
| Miss Childers is a graduate of the Ober-
| <
! FIVE years director of music at Knoxville
| College, Knoxville, Tenn. and occupies
| similar position in the Teachers College of
| Howard University, where she is giving
| courses in sight singing, history and theory
! Of music. as well as training the Elijah
| chorus.
| Students of French In Washington are
| being favored by series of French con-
| ferences of an entirely new type. Nine.
| Blanche Bimont, teacher of French at the
| Western High School, is lecturing on the
great French authors and their works,
| trea ting Corneille. Racine. Moliere and La
Fontaine. The first of the series
given Friday at the residence of Miss
Edith Westcott 1917 Riggs street north
west. A number of school girls and OF
society ladies who have been studying
French and several members of the French
| legation were delighted by the novel
| method of the presentation of the Cid.
| Horace Cinni and other plays of the great
| Cornelle Nine. Birnont has already had
| great success with the lectures in Lon
| don Racine will be taken up at the next
| conference at the same address some time
| in December.
| In order to Insure plenty of desirable
contributions to the Mall, the college pa
| per, of 1906, It has been decided to offer
| prizes to all students in the George WASH