Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-28

/ with the announcement that the application
tains the distinction of being the second as
ISOLATION of undergraduates in the United
States on whom the honor in question has
i been conferred.
| At the next meeting of the club, which
will be held Monday night. January % a
| delegate to the next convention of the
| league win be elected. A lecture will also
| be delivered by Mr.. w. A. Woods.
| The courses offered by DIR. Frank Leigh
| ton Day, who will conduct classes in Bible
| studies at the George Washington Univer-
| sity next year. have been formulated under
| the university subject of Semitic language
| and literature. which will include all work
in DR.. Days department.
| The entertainment at the Western High
School last night in the interest of the
| school athletic association was a marked
| success The school lunch. so much IN
| vogue in other high schools in order TO
| raise money for athletic purposes. gave
| place to lecture. The assembly nan was
crowded with an interested audience, ana
/ there can be no question but that the needs
| of the association were thoroughly financed
/ The entertainment itself, dramatic i'm
| PRESERVATION of the characters OF Dickens
! Bleak House by Mr.. Leland Powers, was
| most roundly applauded
The board of education of the local public
| schools has authorized the use OF two new
| readers for work in the lower grades. Ihese
| books are Gordon's Reader Book No. /, D.
| c.. Health Company publisher ana the
| Graded Classics, Book No. 2, b. f. John-
| SON. Richmond, publisher. The latter DOOR
| is one of the first TO be used published IN
| the south.
| Mrs. Don p Blaine, secretary of the Dis
| trIct w G. T. u, will present to the East-
| ern High School for the Eastern y the
| Capitol Hill section of the assoclatoh'
| portrait of Miss Frances E. Wizard. Exef-
| cises for the presentation Will be heId at the
lNfN-ar n Sd
to whom the notice of the desire to make
the gift was forwarded. has accepted the
| present on behalf of the school and directed
| the secretary to send letter OF thaiks "
the secretary of the association
An unique tea was given at the National
Cooking School Tuesday evening. Local. SO
ciety as well guests from Baltimore ana
Philadelphia were present. Following its
usual custom the school contributed 10 the
pleasure of its guests in many novel ways:
Decorations were all in white, the waits OF
the dining rooms and kitchen We're banked
with spruce icicles. snowballs and lighted
white tapers created a fairy effect. 1he mu-
sicians were dressed chefs and the stu
dents costumed as flowers, gave color 70
the scene. Souvenir pictures of the school
were given to each guest. The tables laden
with dainty refreshments, and the tea room,
where tea, punch, Japanese waters and rice
biscuits were dispensed, proved particularly
attractive.
Following an annual custom, Armstrong
Manual Training School will pause in the
DAVIS work at 2 o'clock Tuesday and pay
tribute to the life and love of Samuel CHAP
man Armstrong, after whom the school is
named The exercises will be quite INFORMAL
and will be participated In by the pupils
only The Hampton graduates now living
In Washington will be the guests or the
school during the afternoon.
No single movement among the teachers
of the public schools, ever ready to take
| advantage of educational opportunities, has
been more appreciated than have been the
lectures or conferences upon the great
French poets given by Nine. B. G. Bimont
who is in charge of French courses at the
Western High School. Corneille, Racine and
Moliere have been the subjects of treat
ment far and early in February La
Fontaine will be taken UP. After each lee
ture there has been most eager and "caus-
| erie by those anxious to gain f1uency in
this language. Miss Westcotts home on
Riggs place is getting to be considered a
| local storm center of lectures.
The Washington Society of the Archaeo-
| logical Institute of America will entertain
| its friends Monday afternoon, January %,
at o'clock, in the George Washington Uni
versity Hall, with lecture on the "Exca-
vations in Crete and Their Results by
| Prof. Harold North Fowler, PHI D., of
| Western Reserve University Mr.. Fowler
| is in the city and is the guest of Mr.. Gil
| lett, 1923 K street Admission to the lee
| tuTe Will De Dy caro-.
Where There's a VIII, There's Way
| was the title of clever farce given at the
Eastern High School last night by pupils
| of the German department. under the d.
rection of Miss Phoebe Holmes. The action
and humor was brisk and the three acts
I Of the play were well sustained. Mr.
| Stephenson, a gentleman travelling on the
| continent, was presented by Mr.. David
| Hover: Margaret and Annie, his daugh-
tiers, by Miss Priscilla Hardesty and Miss
| Adelne Bradburn; George Thompson and
will Jackson, enterprising young gentle
| men. by Mr.. Samuel Bryan and Mr.. Daniel
| B. Priest; Frau katzenbuSkel, a German
landlady by Miss Florence Leland. and
/ the ubiquitous maid Gretchen, by Miss
Blanche Williams.
The scene of the play was the parlor of a
+ German boarding house in a small town
| In Germany.
| A large audience of pupils, parents and
| friends greeted with applause and much
| laughter the humorous situations of the
| little play, and the transformations by
| the all-star cast We're thoroughly appre-
| cated. The PLAY. modestly called an adap-
| tation of Mark Twains celebrated Melster-
| schaft skt was given a local application
| by substituting for the hoary phrases of
| that play the expressions of the text book
| used by the school classes, the IehrDuch.
| The adaptation is the work of Miss Phoebe
| Holmes who recently inaugurated In the
| German department study of the music or
| the Voikslieder.
The school OrCneSlTd, uiiuei inc potoii "a
| Mr. Samuel Pole, produced great effects,
and the general impression prevailed that
| Mark Twain and the Boston symphony
| are not in it with the Eastern High School.
Rumors that petitions are being cIrcu-
| lated among the principals of the schools
indorsing the board of education bill for the
| increase of teachers salaries are estab-
| lished by the following resolutions address
| ed to the board of education and submitted
| by F. L. Cardozo, supervising principal OF
| the thirteenth division 1t is noticeable
| that the general report that teachers are
| being coerced into signing these petitions
| against their judgment does not prevail In
| this case, as one teacher at least declined
| to indorse the resolution, which reads as
follows:
whereas, The honorable board of educa-
ton which includes two colored members
especially qualified to look after the inter
| ests of colored schools, has drawn up and
| approved bill relating to the control. ad-
| ministration and support" of the public
| schools of the District of Columbia; and
Whereas, Said bill has been approved by
| the honorable board Of Commissioners, has
| been forwarded to Congress, and rs COM
monty known as the Observation-Disclosures
| bill, and recommends that the system OF
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