Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

A try-out debate is to be held at the
Business High School this week The
proposition to be discussed declares that
a large standing army is menace to
liberty"
There are many who are endeavoring to
win places on the team which is to take
part in the interhigh school debates.
Though this is the first year Business has
ever entered a debating team for the
high school championships, her support
ers believe she will give the other schools
a hard fight for the laurels. The team
is to be chosen in the near future.
The debating, team of Central High
School is to be announced this week.
The supper which was to have been
rendered the foot ball team of the Techni-
cal High School Tuesday evening of this
week has been postponed until the
Thursday of the week following, on ac-
count of the absence of Coach Heaox,
who left the city to attend the funeral
of relative.
The Dramatic Club of the Eastern
High School is said to be one of the
most successful institutions of that
school, the membership being about
eighty. Several plays are being pre-
pared at present, although the dates
for presentation have not yet been an
nounced.
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A trophy case, in which to keep cups
and other prizes won by the various
teams of the school. has been designed
by C. e. Henderson, junior of the
Mckinley High School. 1t has been
accepted, and the boys of the school
will make the case.
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The second issue for the school year
Of the Balance Sheet, the school paper
of the Business High School, was dis
tributed last week.
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The debating team of the Western
High! School. which is to contest for
the championship of the high schools,
was announced last Wednesday. The
members are Harry Banton, Maurice
Cohen, James Lockwood. with Colin
Campbell alternate. There will prob
ably be several teams picked from sec
tions of the school for intraschool de-
bate.
The Alumni Association Of the Central
High School will hold its reunion De-
cember %.
Arrangements have been completed
by the senior class of the Mckinley
High School to publish a year book"
The editor is to be Horace w. Trues-
dell, and Miss Lillian McColm is the
faculty adviser
Many graduates of the different high
schools paid visits to tile schools be-
| fore the Thanksgiving holidays. AS
the Christmas holidays usually bring
| the larger number of homecomers. a
greater number Is expected at the old
schools then.
The Mothers Club of the northeast
| has just announced a series of special
meetings to be held about a month
apart. They are as follows: Social
| meeting, December 10; the mothers
story hour, January 10: chalk talk,
February Is; singing in the home.
March 16: a talk on food. April 20:
election of officers. May Is. The club
several schools of the northeast Sec
| ton. The meetings are held in a diff
| ferent school each time.
| A. T. Stuart, superintendent Of public
schools in the District, was present at
| the last meeting. and expressed his ap-
prevail of the mothers school clubs.
/ He compared the cooperative spirit
and the homelike influences of the
| schools of the present day with the
spirit of the schools when he was "a
1 boy.
Mrs Edith s. Davis, world and ma
tional superintendent of scientific tenn
perance, in public schools and colleges,
| spoke last Monday on temperance to
the girs of both normal schools.
| teachers meeting was. held last
Monday afternoon the subject sAhder dis
lcussion being home work and the teach
ing of the proper methods Of study to
students.
| Anthony James, who has made several
successful flights in the Rex Smith BIZ
plane at College Park in the past ten
days, is a graduate Of the. aIcKinley
High School Of the class Of 1908.
i Apropos Of nature study in the schools,
a. certain school oficial relates the fol-
lowing:
A small boy in the grades. whom We
shall call Johnny. was interested in ami
mails and plants. One week he brought
a duck to school for the rest Of the chill
dren to see. For the first four days
lnhuuy .Dpoa1aly- entered the school carry.