Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

| vention Hall is being continued at the va
| rious school buildings. The Central con-
| cert will be held the evening of Friday,
| June g. when a chorus of 200 voices, trained
| by Mr. Halstead Hoover. will give an In
teresting program.
| The girls of the third and fourth year
| classes at the Western High School pre-
| sented handsome military belt to Capt
| William Bland of Company III recently
| Speeches of feicitation, presentation and
| acceptance were made, Miss Edith Smith
making a particularly graceful presenta-
| ton. referring to the time when chfvalry
| permitted ladies to fasten their sleeves
| upon the armor of redoubted knights, and
maintaining that the girls expect not less
| high ideals of the modern soldiers whom
! they send out belted for strife.
| The thirteenth interhigh school track
! and field championship meet will be held
at BenniDg race course Wednesday, May
! %, at pm. The meet, which will include
| fourteen events, with championship relay
| and special meter race, has in the past
| been held on the Georgetown field. Failing
| to obtain that field the Benning track has
| been selected.
One of the most interesting experiments
! In teaching In the schools is a class in
Mrs Walton at the Central High School.
| The class is entirely volunteer movement
and has grown out of the request of two
boys that some exercises be given to cor
| rect fmpediments and hesitation in speech.
| The class has lasted five weeks, with thir
| teen or more, who have never missed a
| lesson, and ten others, who came occa-
| sionally.
The enrolment was secured by inter-
ested students. and the teacher gives her
time Exercises in vowels and consonants
| are practiced, and already an improvement
| In articulation has been noticed. Yester-
day during the class period the speech of
Mark Antony and the forum scene was
studied from the language standpoint. This
| is, 1t is understood the only class in actual
English In the schools Everywhere else
technical grammar, composition and the
| study of literature supplant skill in correct
speaking.
An interesting school concert will be given
at the Franklin School Monday at / o clock
| by the pupils of the third grades assisted
by the normal girls Parents and friends
OF the students have been invited and an
unusually attractive program is prepared.
Besides the songs which the classes will
sing in unison, some of the pupils will do
some solo work.
The annual luncheon for the benefit of
the athletic and school contingency funds
Will be given next Tuesday May % at the
Central High School. The District Com
| missioners and the members of the board
of education have been invited and the re-
cess period will be heightened
Mrs. Elizabeth Ridgely Walton has issued
the rules of a game she has invented to be
played in class room or in a gymnasium for
increasing the interest in athletics among
children, and particularly girls. The game
is called "overtake' or follow BALI and
the object is to score ten points in a given
time There should be at least twenty
players, divided into red and blue forces.
The rules of the game all carefully de-
fined and its interest is said to be compall-
ing.
Company II, High School Cadets, of the
Western High School gave it's third dance
Of the season Friday night at Mrs Dyer's
on r street With two or three exceptions
only members of the company were pres
ent. Refreshments were served during the
intermission and fine time was enjoyed by
all. Miss Westcott, Miss Reed, Miss Wal
lace and Mrs. Collins acted as ,chaperons
Among those present were Capt. William
Bland and Miss Ana Fulton, Lieut.. Edward
Robbie and Miss Katharine Alvord Lieut..
Thomas harrington and Miss Mamie Pierce,
Sergt. Baer and Miss Baer, Sergt. Baker
and Miss Smith, Corp Harrison and Miss
Obenchain, Corp. Collins and Miss LASER
Corp. Myers and Miss Nicholson, Corp
LASER and Miss Myers, Corp, Campbell and
Miss Moffut and Privatas Kemp and Miss
Cooper, Parks and Miss Hendricks. Harri-
Wright. Griffin and Miss Courts. Howard
and Miss Young, Holcomb and Miss Wilson
and Stafford and Miss Appler
DR.. James Howard Gore, head professor
of mathematics at the George Washington
University, will leave the city about May
&c on an extended trip through the south
and west. Later DIR. Gore will sail for
part of the summer, returning some time
in September.
The Woman's League of the George Wash
ington University has elected the following
officers for naxt year: President, Miss
Julia I. Mcmillan; vice presidents, Miss
Grace Barbour Miss Margaret Merrill and
Miss Marion Craig; treasurer, Miss Lille
Keathiey; faculty adviser. Miss Freebey. In
honor of the members who will graduate
this year a picnic will be given by the
league on the Saturday before baccalaure-
ate Sunday.
DIR. Howard L. Hodgkins, head professor
Of physics at the George Washington Uni
versity and dean of the Washington Col
lege of Engineering, departed on leave of
absence last week to make a tour of In
spection of engineering schools and other
technical institutions in several of the
northern states. His object Is to study the
most improved methods of instruction and
practice. with a view to improving and ex-
tending the work at home. In the course
of his trip DR.. Hodgkins will visit Cornell
tute of Technology and the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology at Boston Incl
dentally he will make an effort to secure
two new instructors. one in electrical and
the other in mechanical engineering Mr.
Bernard r. Green. president of the engi-
neering board. and Dr. S. w St-atton left
In company with DR.. hodgkins to assist
him on his mission.
1t is expected that the entire party will
have returned before the end of the pres
ent week. In the meanwhile DR. Hodgkins
classes in physics being conducted by
DR.. Edgar Buckingham. lecturer on Their
modynamics.
That Japan will eventually become an
English-speaking country was the declara-
ton made by Baron Kanehiro Takaki sur
geon general of the Japanese army, In an
address to the student body of the Jeffer-
son Medical College. when he said: 1--WE
are teaching II In most of our schools and
it is found that my colntryman adapts
himself readily to the tongue l predict
that 1t will not be long before English is
spoken generally throughout Japan"
The baccalaureate service of the George
Washington University will be held in Me-
mortal Continental Han Sunday afternoon,
June 3, at o'clock All the candidates for