The Washington herald., 1911-01-31

Midyear graduation exercises will be
held at Business. Central, and Mckinley
high schools this week. Central High
School will hold it's class night to-mor-
row evening. and the commencement will
J be on Friday night. The Mckinley Man.
ual Training School will combine class
night and graduation exercises Thursday
evening in the assembly hall. Business
High School will hold graduation exer-
cises Thursday evening in it's assembly
hall
About $50 pupils Of the fourth division
Of the graded schools were graduated
yesterday in the assembly hall at Gen.
| trail High School. Rabbi Abram Simon,
! of the Washington Hebrew Congregation,
spoke on the usefulness of education.
Short Addresses Made.
The classes marched into the assembly
hall at 2:3O o'clock. The exercises were
opened with singing by the students
OF SA and SB classes. W. B. Patter-
son. supervising principal Of the fourth
division. presided. Short addresses were
| made by several members of the board
of education
At Mckinley Manual Training School
Thursday night Miss Ellen Spencer Mus
sey, vice president Of the school board,
will present the diplomas. and George E.
Myers. principal of the school. will de-
liver the faculty address. Louis H. Boss.
president Of the class. will preside.
The programme includes the class
history by four of the graduates, piano
solo by Miss Chisholm; address to un-
dergradutes. by Miss Ryan: reply, by
Robert c. TOwles; vocal solo, by Mrs.
Blanche Dalgleish: class prophecy, by
Dudley Browne; violin solo, by Solo
mon Shappirio. and valedictory, by
Miss Dorothy Davis. At the conclu-
sion of the exercises. the graduating
class will present the school with d
statuette.
List of Graduates.
The graduates are Dorothy Davis.
Mary Omega Mann, Genevieve Frances
Ryan. Louis Hudson Boss. Paul Brede-
kamp. Dudley Browne, Joseph Harold
Bullopeh. Harry Lewis F1emer, Her
bert Raymond Haar. Harry Henry.
Theodore Lewis Holbrook. Dudley
Blanchard Howard. Willis L. Hurd.
Thomas Ward Joy, Karl S. Jorse, John
Nicholas Kelly, jr., Daniel Leo Quaid,
Chester Arthur kotterman. and w.
Valentine Wilson.
Capt. James F. Oyster, president Of
the board of education. will preside at
the commencement exercises of Cen
trail High School Friday night, Repre-
sentative Duncan Z. McKinlay, of CAL
ifornia, will deliver the address. and
Rev. DR.. w. r. Wedderspoon will give
the invocation. A. T. Stuart, superin-
tendent of public schools, will present
the diplomas. Music will be furnished
by a special orchestra
The graduates are Marie Frances Bren-
nan, Marie Elizabeth Corridor, Florence
Matilda Coumbe. Mary Pratt Dawkins,
Christine Hudson, Reu Ennis Hughes,
Grace Virginia Johnston, Mary Morton
Laycock. Grace Amelia Macintosh,
Florence Van Auken Moore, Edna Claire
Roger. Antonette Gertrude Rupert, Lena
Williams, Marie Adele Van Horn, Ralph
Dwyer Clinton Chapman. Clarence
and Lewis Augustus Wright.
Will BE Held Back.
OF the total number of pupils in the
public schools about 2.cOO will be held
back for another term. mostly on account
of irregular attendance. About $1,000 will
be promoted.
Supt. Stuart yesterday announced that
he had been studying a change in the
present method of education, which it is
believed will make Washingtons percent
age Of children who fail to pass one Of
the smallest in the country. The idea is
to provide a special ungraded teacher to
coach the pupil who may be backward in
some special study.