Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07

| schools,
| At the Central High School the Debating
| Society has been reorganzed. Mr.. Schreib-
| err, president; Mr.. Gilfillan, vice president;
chairman of the executive committee, with
Messrs. Paine and Meagley the other
| members.
| With the issuance of the December num-
! Der of the George Washington University
Bulletin, an organ of the educational and
scientific activities of the institution. the
| faculty are gratified to note that largo
| measure of success has already crowned
the labors of the board of university publ
/ cations to make the Bulletin of special in
| terest to alumni and patrons. The Deem
Der number is being very well received and
numerous requests from other institutions
| for copies coming in.
| Among the papers by professors in the,
December number are:
Macmillan and His Mexican Empire"
Dr.. John w. Foster, professor of American
diplomacy.
Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the
Hannis Taylor. professor of history and
| English law.
theoretical Permanent Neutrality in
Political Practice" DIR. Hermann Schoen-
field. professor of German.
| THE Legal Nature of International
Law" DR.. James Brown Scott. professor
| of law
! Necessary Changes in the National Bank
Act" DIR. Henry P. Willis, professor of
| finance.
International Commerce and Its Relation
| to International Influence" DR.. Oscar L.
! Austin professor of commercial geography.
| Consular Reform Mr.. James c. Mona
| CHAN, lecturer on consular service.
| Company III, Western High School, claims
| to have the largest and best company IN
| the cadet battalion. Capt. Beaud and his
| officers have been working hard since the
| opening of school and have succeeded in
1 getting together seven squads. Western
| feels that it has been handicapped In the
past by small company, but aims to win
| this year.
Mrs. Henry r Blount of Georgetown
| has presented the Western High School
| with a number of beautiful palms and
rubber plants. Being large and imposing,
they add much to the attractiveness of
| the building. This is the second time
| Mrs Blount has befriended the school,
having in the early spring given the
| shrubs which are a feature of Westerns
uuique and well-kept lawn. The latter
| is under the special and efficient care of
the highly approved janitors-
Columbian Law building, erected few
years ago by the George Washington
| University as an investment for its funds
! has been sold for S16250O, which sum is
| to be used in paying off the debt on the
| Van Ness Park property. With the liqui-
! dalton of this Indebtedness the way VIII
| be clear for beginning the erection of the
proposed new university buildings on
| that site The first to go up will be the
| Corcoran Hall of Philosophy, and for
| this institution President Needham has
| appointed the following committee on
scholarship and fellowship endowments:
| Prof Frank Leighton Day, Prof. James
| Howard Gore, Prof. Charles f. Munroe,
| Prof Henry c. Yarrow and Prof n. Nun
| roe Hopkins.
The alumni of the university have Sc
! cured between $4,000 and $4,000 for
Alumni Hall, and about $25 900 have been
| subscribed by the trustees. Further con-
| tributionS have been received in machln=
| cry and other equipment amounting to
| $4,000 extra by the university authorities
| ties.
Since the opening of the New Business
| High School last Tuesday Rhode Island
! avenue has been the scene of a. daily parade
at the recess period which beggars descrip-
ton. 1t has been difficult to distinguish
| whether the boys the girls of Central
| and Technical have been more curious as to
the nature, size, appearance and number of
| their new neighbors. 1t has been suggested
that Congress appropriate funds to level
to the ground the interfering impeding
buildings from Rhode Island avenue down
TO o street between 18th and 9Th, in order
that a consolidated high school campus may
afford better facilities for the exchange of
inter-high school mountaineering. East
ern and Western might then be tempted to
give up their isolation and join the confed-
eracy. Already at the drill exercises of
Mondays and Thursdays, the whole first
and third battalions of Central and McKin-
ley and the two companies of the Business
turn out upon the avenue, and only f at
Eastern and H at Western are left out of
the parade 1T does not" said major,
seem hospitable. All manual training to-
gether, all business together, the whole
academic bunch should be together"
At the Western High School the athletic
| association has made the following awards
in appreciation of the work done by the
men in foot ball this season: The right to
wear the W. Capt. Phelan, Sharpe. Finch,
Dawson, harrington, Worthington, E.
Hodgson. Waterman, Bland Muir, Thomas
Calvo, Stevenson, Bradford A. Hodgson, A
Browne, Radford, Parker. Champion; class
numerals. Lloyd. J. Browne, Baker, Martin
Griffin, Howard. Brenneman
Hodgson has been elected captain of next
years team and Phean and Dawson have
been elected captain and manager of the
track team.
Meetings of the principals of the local
public grade schools are said to have been
held in several Of the divisions and an
nouncements of meetings have been made
in others, for the study of the various bills
pending before Congress for the reorganiza-
ton of the District school system and the
enforcement of a permanent salary sched-
ule Supervising principals and school Of
ficials in general are reported to be gather
ing their forces against reorganizat ton, and
1t is understood that the teachers them
selves are divided as TO the merits of the
various bills. Nc Endorsement by the teach
ers, as is said to have been suggested. has
been made of the official bill, there being
some anxiety not to antagonize any of the
representatives who are interested in effect
ing a change In existing salary conditions
Rumors of self-constituted commit tees to
various members of Congress, and even to
the President, indicate the agitated condi-
ton of the school force. Each bill Is con-
sldered the best as IL provides for the de-
velopment of the department of the praiser
AS one teacher said, THE teachers have
nothing to gain by antagonizng a reorgani-
cation which does not apply to them, but
! to the executive body"
Apropos or the value of sehool-room deco
ration, which The Stars competition for
casts has so much stimulated, the question
or just now the greatest value can be gottefr
out OF the aesthetic qualities of the decora-
lions is being asked everywhere The same
inquiry Is constantly made with regard 10
literature in the schools, concerning which
the committee of fifteen, body of
educators whose suggestions have done
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