Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-03

recently was the local supervising princf-
pal of the second division, is in the city.
The new superintendent of Schenectady
says he likes the work in his new helo.
Report says the liking is reciprocated, that
Mr. Freeman is very much liked in Sche-
nectady, where, 1t is added, educational
matters are very much alive.
All of the High Schools with the excep-
ton of M street and both of the manual
training schools, are issuing school papers
Journalism at the Central Is represented by
The Review the Thanksgiving number or
which has a particularly striking cover de-
sign by one of the pupils, Miss NJ. j. Rus
sell. Hand and Mind" quarterly, IN
dictates the purpose in education at the NC
Kinley 1.-The Dynamotor" Is the title that
symbolizes the manual training activity at
Armstrong, as 1.-THE Balance Sheet tells
the story for the Business High School.
1.-THE Fastener and The Western report
the High School news of Capitol Hill and
Georgetown. Each of the papers have de-
partments on athletics, military affairs,
exchanges, social and school notes, and nc
ton Their purpose is well expressed by a
writer In Hand and Mind" who says:
1.-THE school journal should be a means
of communication and should awaken in
all sections general interest in the school
as whole. The paper is connecting
link.
The Teachers Library. designed especial
ly for the use and pedagogical aid of the
teachers in the public schools of the Dis
trict of Columbia, is located in the Frank
lin School building, the headquarters of
the board of education and superintendent
of schools.
The nucleus of the library was formed
long ago in the office of the superintendent
and through all the years of the schools
existence, under the fostering interest of
the successive superintendent, 1t increased
until it became so large and valuable that
in S0l ii ua formally organized a.
arate department. 1t now consists of
about 10000 volumes, including books in
all departments of education, especially in
Psychology and pedagogy.
The popularity of free lectures to the
people Is shown by the reports of attend
ance of the past year. At the Jefferson
School building for ten lectures the total
attendance was 2, $40. Henry Oldy's lecture
on Bird Notes brought out 625 persons.
M Street High Schools total for ten lee
2.6s4; Shiloh Baptist Church, 2.249; Eastern
High School, for fifteen lectures, 2 142;
Public Library of the District, twelve lee
lures, 30s4; Zion Baptist Church, second
course five lectures, 1399. The first course
was given at the three centers mentioned
first the total attendance of which was
400. The second course. given at four
centers, brought out SS74, a grand total
of 1924. divided practically evenly be-
tween white and colored centers. The total
average attendance was 22290. OF the sew
enty-thTee lectures. given, SlXty-tWO were
illustrated, and at some there was music.
The financial report shows that the ex
penditures for the first course were S606-91;
for the second, SS32.T IS; for~the purchase of
stereopticon, $5I.S3, making a total of
$1,497.52. The congressional appropriation
was $500.
The latest official bulletin of the enroll
ment in the public schools of the District
is as follows: Normal No. l, 12S: Normal
No. 2, II; Central High School, 1.04S;
Eastern High School, 296; Western High
School, 444; Business High School. $50; NJ
Street. 52S; Mckinley, 597 Armstrong, 4I6;
first division. 1876 second division. 3,7S1;
third division, 1923; fourth division, 3,743;
fifth division 3,719; sixth division, 2,973;
seventh division, 1891; eighth division,
2 $50; ninth DIVISION 3046; tenth division
1927; eleventh division, 3,441; twelfth d.
vision, 1888; thirteenth division, 1921; total
October, 1905, $3.50; total October, 1904,
477S1; increase, 749.
Several valuable books have been present
ed to the library of the George Washington
University by members of the university
faculty. The additions include several vol
| umes of Hodges edition of the American
Antlropologist, Goddard's Marphology of
Hupa Language and Catechismus Roman
us, presented by DR.. Mitchell Carroll; Kiug' s
Vorgeschicte der Altgermanischen Dialecte,
PauPs Observation-Disclosures Grammatk, Lid
delIs Chaucer's knights Tale and Emer-
sons History of the English Language, pre-
scented by Prof. Croissant; catalogue OF
the library of the Department of Justice,
presented by Prof. E. v Dunstan; an AL
manach de Gotta, Monuments La Belgique
and Depews One Hundred Years of Ameri-
can Commerce presented by Prof H. A.
Gore; contributions from the Jefferson
physical laboratory of Harvard University
by DIR. H. L. Hodgkins; Fischer's Critique
of Kant by DR. Williston Hough; an Es
kimo Grammar, by DR.. Charles E. Monroe
and DR.. j. NJ. Sterretts new work on Free
dom of Authority. DR.. Charles w. Need
hoe Trg1oiy vol
of the recent meeting in Washington of the
American Bankers Association.
The lectures to the people announced for
the coming week are as follows: AT the
Public Library, s o'clock p. m. Tuesday, De-
cember 5, DR.. H. L. Hodgkins. sound"
at the Armstrong Manual Training School,
s o'clock pm. Thursday December Z, Mr..
w A. Joiner. THE Growth of the Colored
Public Schools.
DR. Charles w. Needham, president of
George Washington University, and the
board of lady managers of the university
hospital have selected February %, 1906,
as the date of the students ball. provided
the Hotel Willard can be engaged for that
night. Otherwise the event will be held on
February 20. The various floor committees
will be appointed by the class presidents
in the course of the next few weeks and
every effort Will be made to make the af-
fair more successful than any of it's prede-
ceSSorS.
On February % will be held the winter
convocation Of the university.
In connection with the recent articles on
school gardens as a feature of the public
school work it is interesting to note the
action of Gen. r. Brinkerhoff of Mansfield,
Ohio The general has cree scd - ,,,.>..la-
net fund yielding $50 annually to be given
in prizes for the encoura ge5nart or h77< or
growing among the school children. o. The
day when the Brinkerhoff prizes We're 10 De
awarded the public schools of Mansfield re-
sembled big conserVatories. There was net
a child in the schools who was not anxious
to enter the contest.
Sheboygan, Wis, goes ahead of most
towns of its size in the public spirit of the
school children. A visitor noticed that the
pupils all wear green buttons. After hav-
ing seen several hundred OF these about
the streets he asked merchant what they
signified. He said the children had all been
banded together into a society~to keep the
city neat and clean. Each child who joins
is given a button, and from then on 1t is
his duty to keep the streets and yards
cleared of little bits Of paper and the other
waste material which presents such an I'M
slightly appearance.
The youngsters have entered thoroughly
into the spirit of the thing, he said. They
have collected more than 500 by popular