Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-10
approval of out-of-town games during the
regular season.


regular season.
New machines are being continually add
ed to the equipment of the engineering lab
oratories of the George Washington Univer-
sity in the Van Ness building. The Shep-
herd Engineering Company of Franklin,
Pa. has lately given a steam engine of
about twenty-five horsepower to be used
for testing purposes, and a client of Prof.
Edwin c. Brandenburg of the faculty of
law has Just presented circular saw and
a planning machine for the workshop, and
large gasoline engine, the three being val
ued in all at considerably over 81 600
The sessions of the national child labor
committee, held Friday and Saturday at
the New Willard Hotel. have attracted
many teachers. The interest has been keen
In the matter of truant and parental
schools. The enforcement of a successful
and adequate child labor bill can only be
secured by the hearty and efficient Coop
Grafton of the superintendent and the teach
erS of the public schools. 1t was said at
the Saturday morning session that three
children In Philadelphia. who were being
pensfoned by a benevolent society In order
that their parents could permit them to at
tend school, were absent through the whole
year and the truancy not discovered. The
need of inspection is clear.
Prof. James Brown Scott of the George
Washington Law School has presented that
institution with two valuable old portrait
engravings Of Lord Eldon and Sir Matthew
AS
Englands greatest judge in equity and the
latter as the celebrated jurist who was
chief justice of the court of the kings
bench in the reign Of Charles II. These
portraits, along with that of Chief Justice
Marshall, have been framed and now adorn
the walls of the room in which Prof Scott
conducts his equity course
Inc portrait of Lord Eldon Is dated 1898
and was executed by George Doc, the first
engraver admitted to the Royal Academy.
Ihat OF Sir Matthew Hale was executed in
1850 by George Vertue, a celebrated en-
grayer in his day.
Ihese two engravlngs and the portrait Of
Chief Justice Marshall mark the beginning
OF movement to adorn the walls of the
entire law school building with portraits OF
great lawyers and judges who have created
the system of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence.
Three topics of discussion only, beyond
the regular school work. are agitating the
public school teachers. The order in which
they are debated depends upon the promi-
nence of the teachers in the various con-
Germs. The Stars art competition is the
universal topic engaging pupils and teach
ers. The centennial exhibit of December
20 and 81 keeps the teachers busy. but the
bill of Representative Foster of Vermont
for the reorganization of the system ia
being debated by teachers, officials and the
hoard, and there seems to be some desire
to give 1t complete and thorough study.
The lecture on the Doctrine of Happi-
ness" an informal exposition of Mr.. Arthur
Henry's philosophy of life, which was an
nounced by Miss Westcott of the Western
High and Miss Alys Bentley director OF
music in the pubic schools, has been re-
called Mr. Henry. who IL the author of
Woods and 'Unwritten Law" was un-
able, much to the disappointment Of the
many teachers who had planned to hear
him. to como TO Washington at this time.