Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-22
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

over l1ty pOlSsSS ana universities are rep
resented In the Army Medical Corps, the
George Washington University standing
third In point of numbers. Those ahead
of 1t are the University OF Pennsylvania,
with forty-seven. and the University OF
Virginia, with twenty-nine.
OF the twenty-six George Washington doc
tors in the army four are majors. seven are
captains and the rest have the rank of first
iieutenants.
On May II a joint debating contest Will
be held by the Needham and Enosinian So
cieties in the assembly hall of Columbian
College The question will be Resolved,
that Congress should subsidize the Ameri-
can merchant marine" The Needham So
ciety viii support the negative and the
Enosnian the affirmative. For the latter
organization the team viii be Mr.. e. p.
Gates, Mr.. T. T. Marye and Mr.. w. G. Van
Week. with Mr.. J. L. Seller as alternate.
A growing interest is being felt in the
May musical to be given at Convention Hall
May 10, 1906. by pupils of the coored public
schools. Miss Gibbs under whose direction
the work is being done, is very enthusiastic
in shaping up the material for the final re-
hearsals at the reopening OF the schoois
next Monday. The boys voices are receiv-
ing special attention at the hands of MI
Jerrald Tyler. who has charge of the music
in the High Normal and Armstrong Manual
Training Schools
primary instruction in the colored schools
and chairman of the executive committee
of the Teachers Annuity Association, hay
ing the musical in charge Is deyoting much
time and energy to assure success and has
made arrangements for an attendance from
Wilmington, Delaware, Baltimore and Alex
andria. The local churches, literary ana
musical societies are interested, and very
large attendance is looked for, SO large that
perhaps the board of education viii be ask
ed to grant another night In order that all
parents and friends of the schools may
have the opportunity to hear what is aimed
to be the greatest musical event in the his
tory of the local colored schools.
Intense interest is being manifested by
teachers and pupils of the colored public
schools in the coming production of Ably
sinnia" at Convention Hall, the first week
in May. The composer, VIII Marion Cook.
Is a product of the colored public schools.
. and the oratorio Is said to represent the
high-water mark of negro attainment in
the line of musical composition, rendition
and melodramauc power. The composer Is
remembered here as a boy with great ma
tive musical talent, who afterward studied
at the Oberln Conservatory Of Music under
Joachim of Berlin and Dyorak during the
Austrian composers residence in New York
city. 1t was he who directed the great
composers attention to the originality OF
the old heart-touchfng negro melodies, and
from a combination Of themes suggested by
them Dvorak wrote his American master
piece, "A Negro Symphony" Throughout
"Abysinnfa' one can catch the emDeilished
strains of those quantity beautiful and
melody.
The Maryland State Teachers Associa-
ton will meet at Ocean City the week or
June 26
This promises to be one of the most IN
terestng sessions of that body, as wei as
one of the largest in the matter of at
tendance. The executive committee has
made arrangements for special rates, botn
in the line of railroad transportation and
hotel rates. The headquarters of the as
It. IT, It'll 30 10 nj fn q ~ "a
side Hotels.
Not only will the teachers be given the
opportunity to hear some exceedingly IN
teresting papers ard addresses, but the oc-
casion will be one of pleasure, for there
will be the beauties of the ocean ana
pleasures of ocean bathing, as well as the
rejuvenating influence of the sea breezes
that stimulate both the body and the nina.
The speakers invited will be Gov. War
field State Superintendent M. Bates Steph-
ems. Lieut.. w. r. King. principal of the
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; James ..
Adams, chairman of the educational COM
mittee of the legislature, and County Su-
perintendent A. c. Wilson. Two promi-
nent educators from other states will also
have numbers on the program.
Regret is widespread at the death OF
Prof. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, professor
Scientific ntnios School. Prof shaler died at his
residence in Cambridge, April 10, in the
sixty-sixth year Of his age. His early
training and degrees were obtained at Har-
ward, where he became university lecturer
as early as 1864. From 1869 to 1903 he
was professor Of palaeontology and OF
geology. For many years he has been con-
sidered one of the most prominent geolog1sts
connected with the United States geolog-
ical survey.
Notice has been received that Prof Theo-
dore William Richards has been designated
by the German government Harvard Wis
ting professor at the University of Berlin
for the academic year 1906-0l. Prof. Rich
ards term of service will probably fall in
the second semester.
DR.. A. M Tuzzer instructor in anthro-
pology at Harvard who will be remembered
here on account of his recent lecture, has
Aspects of Central American Archaeology
and his trip were undertaken under the aus
pieces of the Archaeological Institute of
America. The itinerary was: New York
city University of Pennsylvania, Johns
Hopkins University, George Washington
University, Pittsburg, Pa, Washington and
Jefferson College, Detroit, Mich, University
of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, State
University of Iowa, University of Kansas,
Prose- Preparatory School In Kansas City,
University of Missouri. Washington Univer-
sity of ST. Louis. University of Cincinnati
and University of Rochester.
Two hundred high school girls from Yer
mont, having scorned spring gowns and
Easter DdIS anu all OIneF dlluFene0IS OF
society," and having pooled the money they
would have spent on graduation gowns,
were in Washington during the spring re-
cess for the purpose of educating them
selves in the sights of the national capital
and in hearing the debates of Congress.
A full-blooded Zulu ora tor was the winner
In oratorical contest in Earl Hall, CO.
lumbia University, last Monday evening.
-Four whites were pitted against him for
the GUSTS prize. which was awarded him.
The winner Is twenty-five years old. His
name is Pixley Ka Iraka Seine. He comes
South Africa several hundred years ago.
and he is the son of leading chief For
two years he has taught in the evening
schools-of the city. Ten years ago he was
a naked Zulu boy In his fathers tribe. He
wished to obtain the knowledge of the
white race, and he was sent to this country
by missionaries to be educated.