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

AT the Public Library and the Eastern High
School for the coming week are as roi-
lows: At the library, Monday, April 80.
Miss Virginia Butler, THE Channel
Islands" At the Eastern, Tuesday. April
"a William r. Turner, "Chateaux OF
France
The next subject In the series of free
lectures to the people at the Zion Baptist
Church and the Armstrong Manual Train
ing School is 1.-THE Songs OF Our People, "
by Mai. Robert RUSSO Moten of Hampton
Institute Hampton, Va Maj. Moten has
made an exhaustive study of the folk songs
of the negro people and as director of the
chorus work at Hampton has done much
to keep this particular American music
alive The lecture will be in the nature
OF a demonstrate ton, a chorus of seventy
voices from the Armstrong Manual Train
ing School will render at intervals during
the lecture some of the sweeter and better
known melodies. The list includes Steai
Away TO Jesus ''One OBJ desc MaWnlns,
I'VE are Climbing Jacobs Ladder, 20
Down Moses - and ''Massa Dear. 1t is su9-
gested to the public that these melodies
are not to be COMPOUNDED with the popa-
lar ''ragtime" songs of today, but are rendl-
tons of the songs of a people, born out OF
hope and love and faith in the Master
The lecture and demonstration viii De
given at Zion Baptist Church, street
between Sd and AZ streets southwest on
Wednesday evening April %, 1906, at
o clock, and at the Armstrong Manual
Training School, street between LIST ana
Sd streets northwest Thursday evening"
April 26 1906, at s o'clock. An early at
Tendance is desirable as the seating ca
pacity is limited.
Prof. Mitchell Carroll, head of the classi-
has nGt
university after his months leave of ao-
sence, granted him by the university at
the request of the Archaeological Institute
of America, of which he is one of the ma
tiunal secretaries; that the time might be
spent in the organizing of archaeological
societies in the leading cities of the Tar
west. Affiliated societies of the institute
were formed in Salt Lake City, San Fran
cisco and in the northwest, with Seattle,
Portland, Walla Walla and other centers.
Prof. Carroll found considerable interest IN
the west in the recent developments or the
George Washington University, especially
among the alumni and the ladies associated
with the George Washington Memorial AS
ISOLATION.
The bureau of insular affairs will send
one hundred and twelve American teachers
| to the Philippines this summer. OF these,
one hundred are men and the twelve
women are either wives, sisters or hancees
of the men who are going into the islands
10 tedcn III the puDllC SCHOOlS. ItNely oldt
and territory is represented by these teach
ers, who were selected through the civil
service commission.
The Launching of a University" by
President Emeritus Daniel c. Gilman, has
just been issued by Dodd, Mead & Co. The
book is history of the founding and nrst
twenty-five years of the life of the johns
Hopkins University. Its character is such
that the executive committee of the Alumni
Association of the university passed res
olution that the purposes of the association
would be furthered II every alumnus should
possess a copy of the book, and the asso-
citation Is making special arrangements to
supply the alumni with the volume and the
university publications.
Mrs. Engle Will read a paper on '@rhe
School City at a meeting of the Social
Science Club to be held Tuesday evening,
April a, at the residence of Mrs. G. II.
Wright, Carroll Springs sanitarium, Forest
Glen Md The club is of the opinion that
the school city is a live question and a
keen discussion is anticipated. DR.. j.
Walter Fewkes of the bureau of ethnoiogy
is the president of the association.
Wimodaughsis opened its hall Thursday
evening April 10. to the Academy of Forty,
when the subject What Do We Owe to the
Cause of Woman Suffrage Now?" was dis
cussed by large gathering of teachers
and government employees. Miss Emma M.
Gillett and Mrs. Havens led the discus
sion.
Friday evening. April q, the Stanton Po-
IiticaI Study Club in the same hall, will
discuss the question of Equal Pay for
EQUAL Work and Equal Right to Promo
ton
One of the latest additions to the equip
ment and comfort of the Franklin School
Is room In the basement fitted up as a
hospital room. Here pupils who are sud-
denly taken i'll may have immediate at
ia inGulSitiVe
ious attention of fellow pupils, and cases
of uncertainty or contagion may be de-
tained apart from the classes until the
medical inspector may pass upon the case
About eleven medical inspectors at present
look after the health of the school popula-
ton and the installation of rooms, 1t is
believed, will greatly perfect the service.
Interest in the summer camp for the High
School Cadets is again being aroused and
preliminary meetings are being held. Over
lures have been made by persons interested
in Colonial Beach to have the cadet regi-
ment summer there, but the general i'm
preston is that the success of the en-
campment last year will insure It's return
to Ocean City. 1t is understood that Com
mandant Howard will again manage the
camp and a much larger enlistment is e2-
pectedf
President FlaveI S. Luther Phi. D., LID,
of Trinity College attended the meeting at
the University Club Friday evening on the
occasion of the smoker and supper given
by the Washington Association of the
Alumni of Trinity College. The committee
appointed to arrange for the annual gath
ering made DR.. Luther a special invitation
to attend the meeting as the representative
from the college.
Expectation Is stimulated to a keen de-
gree of interest as all indications point to
a grand success for the annual banquet of
the Alumni Society of Georgetown Universe
ty, to be held on Monday, April %, at 8
O'Clock. at Rauscher's. Mr.. Justice White
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
president of the society. Will preside as
POSTMASTER.
Among those who will respond to toasts
are Rev. David H. Buel, president of the
university: Chief Justice Harry NJ. Cle-
baugh, dean of the law school: DIR. George
NJ. Kober dean of the medical school; JUS
tice Ashley NJ. Gould. DR.. w. NJ. Barton
and Senator Stephen r. Mallory OF Florida.
The committee in charge of the banquet
consists of Daniel w. O'Donoghue, chair
man; James S. Easby-Smth, DR.. Samuel
s. Adams, Joseph l. Weller and Charles
Ii. Walsh.