Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-23
MEETlNGOFW Winners
Supt. Stuart Compliments
Graduating Class.
EAS MANY SCHOLARSHIPS
Commencement Exercises of Central
High School Held Yesterday Aft
ernoon in National Theater.

This ts gathering Of winners said
Supt. Stuart at the Commencement of the
Central High Schools 1910 class at the
National Theater yesterday afternoon
He based his felicitous remark on the
fact that Central can boast thirteen schol-
arships won this year, some Of them in
competition with the other high schools
The superintendent part in the exer-
cises was to announce the winners OF
these honors. AS he read them off the
successful young men and women arose
from their chairs and remained standing
until the list had been completely fin-
ished. each one receiving a whirlwind Of
applause from the audience which crowd
ed the theater.
An announcement which was taken az
a high compliment to Central. as well
as g. great personal honor to the re-
cipient, was the reading Of the Commits
Covell. captain of Company A. who will
receive the appointment from the Dis
trict to West Point.
Announcement of Scholarships.
The other announcements of scholar
ships were: University Of Pennsylvania.
Frederick Schneider; George Washington.
Esther Elizabeth Galbraith. Elsa Doro-
thea Muench and Matte Eiker; Goucher
College formerly Womans College. Bal
timore). NJ. Mildred Miller: SYRACUSE
University, Anna Belle Wingate; SYRIA
cuse University. Homer Lockwood schoi-
arship,' William NJ. Lavender: Lafayette
College. Carl c. Speidel and John Bruce
B. Baird: Washington and Lee. Alex
ander NJ Hitz: Wesleyan University,
Norman Thirkield.
Graduates mentioned for maintaining
standard Of excellence throughout
their course were Esther Galbra ith. Eu-
nice Hoffman. Mildred Miller, Laura Wes-
sells and Rudolph SEE.
1t was announced also that forty-seven
of the graduates would enter college and
that forty-eight of the girls had ex-
pressed the intention of entering the
Normal School.
by Rev. DR.. Charles Wood Of the Church
Of the Covenant. He spoke of education
as being somewhat like the cry of child
for the fulfilling of his needs.
Address to the Graduates.
"Educa ton begins with the moment of
consciousness he said. 1.-THE infant
feels his needs and his only language be-
ing a cry, he makes known in that fash
ion that he wants something. And in
some schools not ours. however. the chill
dren keep crying. They cry for this and
they cry for that They cry for things
they should not have, and frequently I'M
wise love gives them what they cry for.
But the real education begins when the
Child realizes what it wants and realizes
that his hands can supply some Of those
wants, and he learns how to use them
In closing Dr. Wood said:
There Is a visible and audible response
when the harpist strikes his Tyre strings.
but there is another kind of response an
unseen and silent one. Our planet re-
spends to the influences of a vast star
millions Of miles away. The response to
the sunbeams shining upon our earth is
also evidenced in many ways. At the
poles it is the white blanket of the ice
fields; in the tropics we have the forests
and in the temperate zone the waving
grass and grain.
so with you. You are going out into
q great garden Of opportunities The
wasp will fly over a garden and bring
back only poison, but a bee flies over
that same garden and comes back laden
with honey"
The commencement was presided over
by Capt. Oyster, president of the board
Of education. The invocation was pro-
nounced by Rev. DR.. John Van Schaick,
jr., pastor of the Church of Our Father.
School officials upon the platform were
Emory M. Wilson. principal of the Cen
trail High School: William v. Cox, Mrs.
Terrell and Mrs. Hoeke.