Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-08
GLASSES ALL ACTIVE
PUPILS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
COLLECTING COUPONS.

A hurried trip through the thirteen a.,
visions of the public schools shows an en-
ergetic intensity of work in the collecting
silence. Not a school but is quietly priding
itself on the number of votes It is turning
over to the building it proposes to have
decorated with Star collection of casts
Without considering the high school class
where interest focuses on the Business
Central, and NJ Street High Schools the
graded buildings are seen to be concentrat-
ing as If the $4,000 pupils were working for
one building. THE fact is" a teacher said
"the pupils do understand that they are
working for institution; they are not
thinking merely of themselves in their own
rooms, but of the gifts that are to come
to the system"
In buildings of the second class six d.
visions are at work. the first, second, third
ninth, tenth, and twelfth. These divisions
in general mean the center and heart Of
the city and pupils In the buildings of
these sections are working for schools of
the third class as well
Ths Last Group.
In the last group the Ross, first division,
the keys of which have only within the past
week been handed over to the school off,
Gals, has so many friends that 1t stands a
good show to have it's corridors decorated
as soon as they are opened and the rooms
ready for occupancy. Gage, also a new
school of the second DIVISION Hilton of the
third, Smallwood of the fourth, jackson of
the fifth, Wheatley of the sixth, Petworth
of the seventh, Buchanan of the eighth.
lexington of the ninth, Sumner of the
tenth. and Banneker of the eleventh are re-
doubling efforts IN ptayp rol,o
position. as reported in The Star of Sunday
December 2. The announcement that the
last coupon will be printed December II
has made every pupil put on steam for the
end of the race
That the competition alone has not inter-
ested the readers OF The Star but the SUBJ
Jects in the collections as well, is shown by
the letter from Col. John A. Joyce, which
says, In part:
LAS an old-ti-ne classical scholar have
been interested in your effort to teach the
school children OF the District of Columbia
object lessons of the gods and goddesses,
ana send you herewith a poem that may
The poem which The Stars competition
for school room decoration has evoked is
as follows
Homeric Teaching.
In midnight hours within a realm of dreams
My spirit wanders Ger the mounts and streams
anep hhiue Within CELESTIAL uowery spheres,
Where pleasure regns throughout eternal years.
wing my way beyond the and stars
And soar aloft through fiery fields Of Mars,
Where Jupiter and Juno rule the realm
And great Minerva holds the heavenly helm.
With Hermes delight to speed my way
To meet Aurora at the dawn OF day,
And with Apollo and the nine
Entrance the soul with song and sparkling wine.
Forever LET reign with mystic gods
And never know the grief Of earthly sods,
But dream away the passing hours with care
And reyel with the spirits Of the air!
The gods that Homer coined shall ever reign
And I'LL the world with Joy or pensive pain,
Each bat the shifting passion OF the mind
10 dominate the lives Of poor mank1alt