Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-03
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

President Roosevelt Will present the flag
to the winning company Wednesday after-
noon at the American League Park at the
close of the annual competition drill He
win make a short address. Never before
in the twenty years that the celors have
been striven for has the commander-in-
chief of the armies and navfes OF the
United States thus honored the High School
Cadets.
The judges who have the determination
of the prize company In hand are: Capt.
Earl l. Brown ID Battalion. Corps of En-
gineers. u S. A.: First Lieut. Julian L.
schley, I'd Battery, Corps OF Engineers. u.
s. A.; First Lieut. Richard c. Moore, I'd
Battalion, Corps of Engineers. U. s. A.
In all probability the band of the 18th
Cavalry will attend the exercises.
commencement procession have been issued
by the George Washington University:
All students. graduates, professors guests.
etc, will assemble at Columbian College
next Wednesday morning al 9:45 o clock and
form In line on the south side of II street
between 14th and 18th street They Will
march thence in column of twos to the Me-
mortal Continental Hall on nth street.
where the graduating exercises will be
held. At the head of the procession VIII
be the graduates of the various depart
ments in the order given: Pharmacy, poll
ties and. diplomacy, law and Jurisprudence.
dentistry, medicine, engineering, arts ana
sciences and higher degrees. The faculties
will follow in the same order; then VIII
come the trustees and the guests, and last
the president, DIR. Needham.
On arriving at the hall the two files Will
face inward with an intervening distance
of six feet The president. trustees. guests,
faculties and graduates Will then PASS De-
tween the two files and into the building.
c1a which desire to take part IN
the procession must assemble at y:oo
o'clock at Columbia College under their
respective presidents, and places Will be as
signed to them.
Fire drill at the Business High School a
few days ago, in which there are twenty
two sections. with something ike seven nun
dred pupils, carried out an sucn an
effective manner that the entire buliaihS
was cleared in fifty seconds. This was done
in spite of the fact that the greater mum
Der of the sections are on the thlrd hoor'
A chorus of about 800 pupils sang at the
annual spring concert of the western ma
School Tuesday evening, under the uH
ton of Halstead p. Hoover, the piano ac-
compartments being played by MISS oaiiie
Assisting the chorus. Miss Enid Holden
played q violin solo. Godards Berceuse,
Miss Martha Poole gave plano renuilioa ,
of Rubinstein's "Kammenol Ostro~, anu
Miss Ethel Holtzclaw sang group Oh tnree
songs and responded to an encore.
The program contained Franz scnupe L.
who Is Sylvia?" in a two-part arrange
ment Horatio Parkers THE Robpers anu
three songs of Robert Franz. in when MISS
Mason had trained the girls chorus -.
Each of the soloists was received Wlsn
every mark of appreciation. AT the Close Ss
of the concert the visitors were invited ~
Miss Edith Westcott, the principal. 10 III,
spect the drawings of the pupils on eXhlpi-
ton in the school.
The annual spring concert at the Eastern
High School was given Friday evening. The
choruses were in many respects Identical
with those of the Western School The glee
club and the violin solo of Mr.. Harrison
was particularly applauded.
All the regimental officers of the Cadet
CorpsSmet at the Franklin School Saturday
Director Hughes and Col Ross as to the
conduct of the annual competition drill to
be held Tuesday and Wednesday after
Moons oon MS June June and g. g the American
The drill of the Separate Battalion will
be held on the same grounds Friday. June
s, at pm
Miss Elizabeth V. Brown. directress or
primary instruction in the public school OF
this city will conduct courses in primary
methods during the sessions of the Sum-
mer School OF the South at the University
of Tennessee from June 10 to July q.
Miss Brown, who is the author of When
the World Was Young. Stories OF
Woods and Fields" and Stories of Child
hood and Nature" Is conducting work al
the summer school now for the third term
The faculty of the school this summer Is
particularly attractive, containing Tayoki-
chi Iycuaga Hamilton Wright Mable, ROD
ert Ogden, Jacques Roadway Lucy Salmon,
W. K. Tate, and among many others Mari
Ruef Hofer of Columbia University. VINO
has been called to this city to instruct the
nj directors In folk games anu
folk songs.
The George Washington University events
for the week are as follows:
Sunday June 3-Baccalaureate sermon by
the Rev. Edgar Y Mullins, DID, LID, OF
Louisville Ky. Memorial Continental Han,
pm.
sion Candidates for degrees, members OF
faculties and trustees of the university
and colleges will assemble a the university
at 9:30 a m. The university PROCESSION viii
start for Memorial Continental Han at ~
am University commencement. Auo.ess
by the Rev. Denis ]. Stafford, DID, I'm
ferring of degrees by the preslaeht se
mortal Continental Hall. 1870 am Trus
tees meeting. Meeting of the trustees Oh
the university, l pm; meeting OF TIE ttus
tees of Columbian College. pn meeting
of the trustees of Washington oo on ,r,,e-
Engineering, 3 pm: meeting OF the t6 ns.,
fees of National College OF Pharmacy e.oo
am Reception by the president ana y i,,ss,
tees to the members or the srauua'ihe
classes Rauscher's, 8 pm.
The student events, for the week ~
George Washington University are as roi-
lows.
Monday. June 4-PrZe debate OF the oe-
hating societies of the university, uhNer-
sity Hall pm; Tuesday, June ., class eH-
ercises of the law class of 1906. Memorial
Continental Hall. pm; Thursday, June .
class exercises of the senior classes OF %
lun1bian College and the Washington Col
lege OF Engineering. University HAN
pm: Friday June 8. exhibit OF Tue Oh
vision of architecture. West Hail. 3 p m
The Lehigh program for commencement
week, June 10 to 13 so interesting 20 STU
dents in this city because OF the number OF
high school boys who go to Lehigh, 10 IS
follows:
University Sunday, June 10-Morning
PRAYER at IL o. clock; baccalaureate sermon
by the Rt Rev. Leighton Coleman. STD
LID, bishop of Delaware. Class DAY,
Monday. June 11-Class exercises, In the
park at pm: lacrosse game, Alumni aSt
Lehigh, on the university athletic grounds
at pm; the junior hop, in the gyrnna-
SUM. at pm. Alumni day, Tuesday, june
12-Annual meeting of the Alumni Assocta-
ton at IL 30 am. alumni luncheon at
o m base ball game. Indians agt. Lehigb.
on the university athletic grounds at $40
pm; Phi Beta Kappa address. by Charles
Sprague Smith, An, director OF the feo-