Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-31
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

which. Is announced as a course IN sociai
and gymnastic dancing.
Eastern High School students have been
much edited just before the holidays by
series of two lectures by MIR. Pernam, son
of the late war governor OF Maine. Inc
topic of the lectures was the connection
that Samuel Adams had to the struggle Tor
independence.
An interesting departure is being made
in German work at. the Eastern High
School by Miss Phoebe Holmes. The pupils
in the German classes are being organized
with choir for the study of ''Volkslieder,
or songs of the people. All the members
of the choir have been provided with stand
ard editions of the German Volkslieder,
and the singing of the old popular songs
has begun. Miss Holmes is particularly well
equipped for the work, as she Is not only
q skilled German scholar but trained
musician. tsist
A new university was made the subject
of a certificate of Incorporation yesterday,
which was placed on record In the office of
the recorder of deeds. The new institution
is called ST. Johns University. and its OBJ
ject, reported in The Star yesterday, Is
to teach various branches in literature and
science. Its affairs are to be managed by
fcrty-sfX trustees, sixteen of whom are
bishops, fifteen ministers and fifteen lay
men. The board of trustees, in addition to
Bishop Satterlee, includes Bishops Potter,
Tuttle, Doane, Whitaker, Scarborough
Peterkln. Whitehead. Worthington, Talbot
Lawrence, McVickar, Francis, Burgess
Lines and Greer.
The incorporators are Right Rev. H. Y.
Satterlee, bishop of Washington; Rev. J.
Houston Eccleston of Baltimore, Rev. Ran
dolph H. McKdm of this city and George
c. Thomas and George Wharton Pepper,
both Of Philadelphia.
At the meeting of the Eastern High
School Alumnae Association Wednesday
night at the Eastern High School the fol-
lowing resolutions were passed at the bust
ness meeting:
That gradute of the Washington high
schools, established in business or a pro-
fession, should be urged by the several
alumni associations of the schools for APP
pointment to the next vacancy which arose
on the board.
THAT the Eastern Association should en-
deavor to enlist the other associations in
that movement.
That a record be complied of the grad
yates of the Eastern and their present oc-
cu2ations.
That the secretary of the ASSOCIATE ton be
made permanent officer for the care of
that record
1t was the understanding that the new
executive committee Of the association,
when selected by the representatives of the
several classes, should take action in the
matters discussed.
The class of 1905 of the Mckinley Manual
Training School held Its first reunion at the
school building Thursday, December % A
large number of the members of the class
were present and members of the faculty
or the school were invited to meet them
The reunion was an informal affair and
greatly enjoyed.
Miss Edith Westcott and Miss RentIev
who had announced drawing room lecture
by Mr. Arthur Henry, author of IAN Island
cabin The House in the Woods" 'Lodg-
ings in Town and THE Unwritten Law"
for Saturday evening. December 10, and had
to recall the announcement because of Mr..
Henry 8 inability to come south at the time
propose to have Mr.. Henry lecture about
the middle of January. Mr.. Henry breaches
the simple life, and it has been said of him
that had Thorean been lover Of men,
rather than recluse of the woods, he
very much in the philosophical spirit in
which Mr.. Henry has viewed 1t.
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M Street High School has Just issued the
first number of the year of It's High Schonj
Journal, a chronicle Of the school nubljsbed
biennially The book is very neatly potten
up and in school notes, editorials. renorts
On clubs, athletics, literary societies. mill
tary matters and general articles disnIavs
Keen zest for news and skill in reporting.
Practically hid at the side of the main
staircase at the new Business HIGH
school all during the recent exhibit was
collection of photographs which when ex-
amlned. proved almost as interesting an
epltome Of school work as the whole ex-
hibit. They were the photographs repre-
senting all departments of objective actiy-
lty IN the schools, and We're taken at the
order or the superintendent of schools nv
Miss Francis Benjamin tombstone The
collection was exhibited first at the Paris
exposition in 1900 and later at Buffalo in
1901.
At the Eastern prize story contest has
been in progress for some weeks The
Christmas number of the Fastener, the
school paper, publishes the first prize story
"a White Christmas" by Miss Media Hy-
land. The Prophecy That Failed by
Mr.. r. Pyles. came a close second, and
honorable mention was given to Miss Nc
Gill for her story, 1.-The Christmas Jov
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