Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-14
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School. the chairman of which is John
| Tunstatl, has decided pin bearing
the school seal. in polished and dull god
|
| The high school debating contests
| onened Friday afternoon when ans
from Eastern High School and Mckin-
ley Manual Training School met at the
! last-named institution and debated the
proposition of the recall Of judges. and
Central and Western High School
/ teams met at Western and debated as
to whether Washington should look
| for it's future growth through its resi-
dences or its industrial and commercial
/ developments.
| Eastern and Central High Schools,
the two winning teams. will meet in
| March to decide the high school cham
| pionship. The losing teams. Mckinley
| and Western. will debate to determine
| which shall occupy third and fourth
place in the series.
Eastern's team was composed Of STAN
ley Smith. L. Mengert and w. West:
lCentral's Of Miss Marjorie Barnes.
The Western team was composed Of Miss
Louise Maher. Claude H. Roberts and l.
/ Mendelsohn, with Thurston Wood as al
ternate. Mckinley was represented by
E. X. LIE Fevre. F. S. Nesbit and G. T.
| Miller.
The victory of Central was it's tenth
consecutive success. Lawrence Heller has
been on five winning teams. This is
said to be the high school record. Ed
mund Noyes and Miss Elsie Hill are the
Central coaches.
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| DR.. W. c. Woodward. health officer OF
the District. discussed Nervous Diseases
| OF Children" at a meeting of the Gales
Seaton Home and School Association at
the Gales building Tuesday evening.
Congress of Mothers. DR.. w. G. Suter.
president Of the association. and Selden
NJ. Ely, supervising principal Of the fifth
DIVISION of which the Gales and Seaton
| Miss Alys Bentley, director of music in
the schools. and Miss H. NJ. Bugbee gave
musical selections. Miss Bugbee playing
on the violin and Miss Bentley singing
concluded the evening.
| Harry White. better known as DOC"
White. a graduate of Central High School,
| a base ball player and an actor. visited
| his old school Wednesday morning, and
| sang several songs for the pupils.
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'"The Value OF Truth was the subject
of an address by Dr. Willard S. Small.
| principal Of the Eastern High School. to
| his school Monday morning. The princi-
pal pointed out the value Of truth in little
as well as big things.
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A meeting Of the Mothers Club of the
Thomson School kindergarten will be held
! tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. DR..
Eleanor Foikmar Is to lecture on Tine
Story of the Origin Of Life
The February meeting will be for ia
theirs as well as mothers according to
plans now being made.
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The fate of the midyear graduates of
the Business High School will be settled
January l5. when the teachers of t.lat
T. Hnf0 Nfv1n
just who shall graduate and who shall
not.
An exhibit has been put up in Normal
School No. ! containing pictures of the
various pubic parks throughout the
United States. The pictures were loan
ed by the Department of the Interior.
| which is starting a campaian 70 get
Americans to see their own country be-
fore going to Europe.
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The teachers retirement bill formed
the subject Of discussion at a meeting
Of teachers at the Thomson School Mon
supervising principal of tie sixth div-
| sion. and Miss Z. V. Brown. director OF
primary instruction, made the principal
| addresses. A unanimous vote favoring
| the bill was given by those attending the
meeting.
Miss Virginia Bestor gave a piano re-
! cital at Normal School -. Friday
| afternoon. She is to depart for the
west on a tour soon.
piano solos while visiting the school
| Monday. She saw Miss Bentley's classes
of school at work,
| The work of the Washington high
| school boys in rifle shooting was dis
cussed by Lieut.. Albert s. Jones. secre-
| tary of the National Rifle Association. In
his annual report. made at the meeting
of the association. he'd at the New
Willard Hotel Wednesday night. He
told of the organization of the Inter-
scholastic Rife Shooting League, the
building of ranges in some of the schools
and the outdoor work done by the Dis
| trict boys.
Speaking of the outdoor tournament
held at the Marine Corps range at Win
| the competitors. He said: THE order in
which the work progressed. the lack OF
rowdyism and the discipline shown by
! the boys was an object lesson which
who accompanied the boys on their
| trip.
| An "fntergroup' debate is to be held
| at Eastern High School next Friday
afternoon on the quest on: Resolved
Y mat duCe 10 yNG NOtmuI SCHOOL
/, Should Be by Examination" The inter-
| group debates enable all the students in
terested In debating to debate at some
time in the year. Besides developing the
powers for debating, they are used partly
/ to select debaters for the interhigh
4 school contests.
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Many dances are to be he'd in the
near future. Company F Of the Eastern
High School has one scheduled at Mrs.
Dyers for January 10. Company and
Company G Of the Business High School
will hold on. jointly at the school gym
nas'um January q. Some Of the mid
year gradua ing classes are also planning
dances. Company d OF Mckinley Man
ual Training School gave one Friday
evening.
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Plans have been started for the annual
spring play OF Tech for the benefit OF
J it's athletic fund. Alex NANNY, a mem
Der of the tPculty. Is in charge OF the
affair this year.
Illustrated lectures are being given by