The Washington herald., 1913-01-26
Mems Notes of the District Schools

been done in this line, through improved
ventilation, exercises in physical culture
indoors, and sports on the Fairgrounds
Lecture courses to parents with the pos
sibility Of being helpful are the most
recent effort
Techs minstrel show has been placed
under the direction of two well known
musicians George Herbert Wells, the
organist and Theodore s. Howard, vocal
Ist Rehearsals are being held every
| Monday evening. The opening chorus
has been completed and a number OF
popular songs will be on the programme.
The musical comedy. which win be, THE
Girl from Havana" Is being worked
i Lp by a committee possessing a vertiable
genius for ragtime and popular airs 1t
Is promised that some original numbers
will be introduced
The nineteenth annual meeting of the
] Teachers Aid and Annuity Association
| was held at the Franklin School and
the officers reelected for another term.
Mrs. Clara Baker Smith, principal Of the
Cooke School, and Miss MetelIa king,
principal OF the Abbot were appointed to
the board of directors. II was voted TO
| continue dues as at present, though the
financial condition OF the association
Il
fund Of 100000 will hereafter be increas-
| ed Dy one-fourth the dues of members.
| There has been paid out to annuitants
| and beneficiaries in the history of the
organization. s93, S31s During the past
year s7.5ss.14 has been expended in aiding
twenty living annuitants and paying two
death benefits.
| Dr. p. p. Claxton. Commissioner OF
Education. gave an entertaining address
or the Principles Of Education at the
Chevy Chase School Tuesday evening He
maintained that the present school day is
too long. and declared that in the good
time that is coming there will be less
home work done and less studying from
| books. A child's everyday experiences
will be studied and developed and ap-
piled as the groundwork of his educa-
ton.
! DR.. Bourdeau-Sisco, OF the Takoua
4 Park Sanatorium gave a very helpful talk
&c the mothers OF the Taylor School on
Thursday afternoon. Sex Hygiene was
treated in a dainty. modest, forcefuI
way.
DIR. A. W. Spanhoofd. head OF the
modern language department IN high
schools, gave a lecture on German le-
gends, in the mother tongue, to the Ger
man classes at Western High School
| described to the history classes at Gen.
trail the wonderful castles along the
| Rhine. and illustrated his talk with many
well selected lantern slides.
Superintendent W. NJ Davidson and
! Mrs. Davidson. Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes,
chairman OF the committee on night
| schools, and Director B. w. MurCh. last
week personally visited every night school
| OF the city.
The hockey season at Western closed
at Christmas, but will reopen early in
March. Basketball teams for girls have
been selected, and the first outside game
of the year will be played with Gallaudet
at Kendall Green on February >
Boys Of Tech are constructing a track
| on :he lot back of the school At a
| meeting held last week one hundred
names were handed in. M Wilson Offutt
was made captain and Edward b. Harry
chosen manager Of the team The ath-
letic committee has secured the services
of Bradley Gish. an ex-Olympic meet
man and all-around athlete, to coach the
| team.
Amaranto A Abeledo. professor OF his
tory in the University OF La Plata, Ar
rentina. was a visitor at Central High
School during the week.
4 revised circular OF information rela-
tive to payment of salaries OF employees
in the schools has just been issued. It
contains a more thorough exposition Of
the old rules, with recent rulings by the
comptroller and officials.
The graduating class Of Central enter
tanned at a dance at the Washington
Canoe Club Misses Botkin, Wright and
Clark acted as chaperOns-
Girls of Tech begin basketball prac-
tice tomorrow in the room recently fitted
up for their use. The following team
managers have been elected: Margaret
Birdsales. Katharine Cleveland, Ida
Harry, Dorothy Payne and Josephine
Mitchell
The famous baseball star. Johnny Bean.
who has been drafted by the Cleveland
Maps for next season. visited his alma
mater, Mckinley Manual Training School,
last week
Armstrong Manual Training basketball
team played the Hiawatha team on Tues
day and defeated them Is to Is.
Jacob Riis. of New York. lectured in
the hall of the NJ Street High School last
Tuesday on the Bad Boy" 1t is his
belief that there are none: that life is
controlled by environment and any class
can be practically controlled through
proper surroundings.
DR.. William c. Woodward will deliver
the address before the Parent Teachers
Association of the Iovejoy School on
Thursday. NJ. T. w. Short will preside.
An amusing and very realistic meeting
of the House of Representatives was held
az Business High School Thursday morn
ing in the assembly hall The civics
classes study civics at hrst hand. having
a regularly organized Senate and House.
Cabinet officers and even a president OF
the United States. All sorts Of parlia-
mentary procedure are practically DEM
onstrated. bills introduced and acted upon
and measures adopted and discussed. A
bill for universal suffrage in the District
of Columbia was introduced on Thursday.