Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-11
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

| Douglass. TO the first year class on negotia-
BILE Instruments: Justice Wright to the see
ond year class. on insurance; Justice
| Stafford. TO the second year class, on
| agency: Prof. NJ. ]. Colbert. to the second
| year class. on partnership; United States
Attorney Baker, TO the second and third
year classes. on corporations, and Mr.. John
| W. Yerkes. commissioner of internal reve-
nue.. to the third year class, on municipal
corporations.
| Secretary Richard J. Watkins of the
Georgetown University School of Law has
arranged debate with a team from Notre
Dame, South Bend, Ind. The date and the
proposition for discussion is being deter
mined
CASTOR Hall. Georgetown University, will
be the scene Friday evening next of a pub
| lie debate Of the School of Law. The win
ners will not be announced until the gradu-
alton exercises in May when the prizes of
gold medals will be presented.
NJ Street High School has been entertained
by some interesting Wednesday lectures.
Capt. G. A. Van Smith has addressed the
school on the Making of a Modern News
paper last Wednesday Rev. L. 8. G. Pierce
gave his popular lecture the Neither
World an excursion through Luray cav
ems and Mammoth cave.
Mr.. Clarence w Hecox, faculty advisor
of the Mckinley Manual Training School
athletics and foot ball coach, has resigned
from the board of athletic advisors. Mr..
Hecox is said to find the duties of the po-
sition so great as to interfere with the d.
rection of the machine shop, to which he
has been promoted. The shop In question
has, according to the students, undergone
complete Transformation in the direction
of business-like methods since being put in
charge of a practical man.
Mr.. John Beall, base bail coach and treas
urer of the Mckinley School Athletic AS
ISOLATION, has also resigned, No appoint
ments have been made to fill these vacan-
cies and considerable anxiety Is felt by
the students for the athletic situation. A
petition is being circulated by the students
to have Mr.. Louis Mattern, director of
chemistry, assume the faculty advisoryship
The closing exercises of the Georgetown
Public Night School We're held Friday
evening at the Corcoran School. The term
of 1895 and 1906 began the 9th of Octo-
Der and continued fifty-seven nights, school
nights being Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays.
The curriculum at the Corcoran Night
School consisted of reading, writing. arith-
metc, spelling, geography, history, type
writing and bookkeeping
Mr.. j. Hodsworth Gordon, president of
the board of education, was present and
made an address to about fifty night school
pupils. Mr. Gordon'S remarks were par
ticularly felicitous. He commended the pu-
pills for their earneStness and resolution in
attending night school, often after a hard
days work. and he congratulated them
upon the pleasant and successful termina-
ton of their studies He impressed upon
their minds the Importance in life of reso-
luton and industry and the value of q
good name.
The pupils were further entertained by
an exceedingly enjoyable musical and lit
erary program. Miss Bessie Sewell sang
two solos, accompanied by her sister. Miss
Maud Sewell Miss Edna Ellis recited AN
Order for a Picture" Miss Helen Curtis
recited with much expression THE Rag
ge1y Man" Miss Mabel Ellis, in costume
tn {,Tip Ghx raf inn
DR.. Henry w. Johnson performed before
the pupils two very interesting chemical
eXperiments-the generation of carbonic
acid gas and the generation of oxygen.
The pupils saw carbonic acid gas extin-
guish flame, and they saw steel wire burn
like finder In a jar of oxygen. Dr. John
son explained to the pupils the properties
of these two gases, and also their value
and Importance to human life After the
entertainment refreshments consisting of
Ice cream and cake We're served by the
| girls or the school The attendance at the
school mas been remarkably good during
the term Just ended. One little boy Frank
Cummins, has the unique distinction of
being present every night of the term.
The faculty of the school is c. A. john
son. Mrs s, r. Cralghill. Miss l.. f. Glenn
and Mr.. George w. Dalzeil.
At the free lecture to the people
''Glimpses of Europe" by Miss Georgiana
Simpson, last Thursday there was a rec
ord-breakinG attendance. Under the di
rection of E. r. Amos the German classes
OIL the NJ Street Hlg-. School sang Ger
man songs in the original Not ONLY the
auditorium, but the adjacent halls were
crowded.
The Choral Society of Armstrong School
scored a success at the meeting In the in
terest of the Manassas Industrial School
Wednesday at the Fifteenth Street Pres
byterian Church. Among other melodies
sung were "Suwanee River" and "Massa
Dear The music was under the direction
of J. Gerald Tyler.
Folk Lore Of the Negro People' Is the
title of book. to be published in May
by one of the large New York school book
Stafford OF the Cheyney Institute for Col
ored Youth. Mr.. Stafford is product of
the local schools. and was for some time
a teacher at Brightwood- He pursued spe-
cial work at Columbia in history. His book
is adapted supplementary text book
for elementary schools.
Cadets of the Armstrong and the NJ Street
High School will act as hosts March 10 at
the Armstrong Manual Training School. on
the occasion of the lecture by Lieut.. Thorn
as H. r. Clark. on The Colored Soldier"
Maj Arthur Brooks will preside. Repre-
sentatves from the 1st Separate Battalion,
National Guard of the District of Columbia
Spanish War Veterans and members of the
G. A. r. will be on the platform
Educational bulletin, No 6. for March, is
sued form the Public Library, is fol-
lows: :
Educational Books Recently Added-H.
L. Clapp, Thirty-six observation lessons on
common minerals.
Japan Educational Department, Educa-
ton in Japan.
j. P. Munroe, Educational Ideal
National Educational Association, Journal
of proceedings and addresses. 1905.
N E. A, Report of the committee on
salaries tenure and pensions of the public
school teachers in the L. s.. 1905.
n. E. A, Report of the committee on In
dustrial education in schools for rural COM
munities, 1905.
N E. A. Report of the committee on
taxation as relative to public education
1905.
N. E. A. Report of committee OF Is on
elementary education 1895.
n. E. A, Report Of committee OF 10 on
secondary school studies. 1854.
National School City League, School City:
a new system of moral and civic training,
1905
Elizabeth and CoOlney Sage, A. NJ. Occu-
pationS for little fingers.
Educational Articles In Current Periodi-
cals.-Our parental schools. Mary Richards
Gray World Today, February 1906.