Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES


At the Western High School the effort to
adorn the spacious grounds Is at last meet
ing with some success. After getting as
nnuch shrubbery as was permitted from the
Agricultural Department. and making prac-
ideally fruitless petitions to the Botanical
xrpunds and even to the Commissioners,
TIN open spaces about the building being
the only approach to a public park In
Georgetown at present, beginning Is
about to be made in the line of putting out
fall bulbs. Regulations OF the school board
not permitting collections OF funds from
the pupils. a formal request for material
was sent in to the school board. who have
ordered the bulbs. The Western will be
the possessor of a thousand snowdrops,
Thousand crocuses. five hundred tulips and
some few other flowers. provided the prep
srty clerk does not hold up the requisition
The Armstrong Athletic Association has
begun the school year under favorable au-
spices Practice of the foot ball team
while not as diligent as desired, has peen
Squared on by the excellent showing made
against Howard's strong eleven, when Arm
STRONG was defeated-1 to o. A series of
.three games has been arranged with NJ
Street High School TO be played at Ameri-
can League Park. There will be no ad-
mission fee to the first game. which is TO
DE played Monday.
The girls have recognized the Olympian
Association and have pledged themselves to
add the boys II Is hoped that a track team
may be organized by spring.
Tuesday, October II. two companies e
and D, were organized at the Armstrong
Manual Training School The companies
this year are both quite large, each con-
sisring OF six squads and totaling afty-5ix
men each. For the third time in her his
1Ury OF four years Armstrong captured the
4Jffire of major of the SeDarata Battalion
uulored cadets. A partial list OF officers Is:
Major Henry G. Weeden: Company g,
Capt. William Henderson, Lieuts. Sumner
Chisholm and Walter Brooks; Company ID,
Capt. Thomas p. Green. I.ieuts. Joseph
Dyer and Charles Hailstroks. First Lieut.
Henry Lee OF Company ID recently resigned
owing to duties at the Washington navy
yard.
The discipline OF the cadets and the gen.
snral efficiency OF the officers and non-com-
1uissioned officers as instructors deserve
especial mention. 1t is owing to the thor
o,gh work of the latter that the two com
panies at Armstrong were little II any
Handicapped by the absence OF Mai. Brooks
the military Instructor. during the first
weeks OF the school year. Both COM
panies have begun in earnest PROSPECTS,
for another successful year and for further
retention Of the trophies at old Armstrong
Ure bright.
An especially encouraging feature to the
teachers OF the work of the Armstrong
Manual Training School is the active and
steadily growing interest In the problems
of the other half now being manifested
by many OF the pupils. Very gratifying
hhue been the results already obtained from
their efforts in this direction in the Social
settlement work OF South Washington, con-
Quoted by Mrs. s. c. F. Fernandis. Week
ly visits to the settlement and its numerous
courts and alleys. regular sewing class
m charge of some of the girls, and an en-
rhnsastic drill, under the leadership OF the
cadets, are effecting good results which
would seem amply to Justify all hopes of
changing many of the present unhappy
conditions.
The board of education has waived the
rule as to school collectors in the interest
81 greater beauty for the various grade
schools. Supervising principals were in
Horned at the regular meeting Tuesday
might that they might Instruct all teachers
10 make assessments not TO exceed a
penny per pupil. The money Is TO be used
tDr the purchase OF bulbs which demand
immediate planting. The belief Is expressed
MAT penny apiece to be given only II
desired cannot possibly be open to objec-
1t1n and the contribution of 3d. 600 children
viii yet make noticeable difference In the
Appearance Of the school grounds In the