Evening journal., 1914-05-13
GUESTS MUST CO
basement FOR
Refreshments
Board of Education Bans
Seniors Serving in High
School ClaSSrOOmS
STUDENTS BALK. MAY
Receive At Hotel

Members of the senior class OF the
High School held an Indignation
meeting yesterday afternoon and
voiced their protest because of an or
der by the Board of Education that
refreshments at a reception to be held
Friday night must be served in the
basement instead Of in the corridors
or class rooms upstairs in the High
School
AT an indignation meeting of the
seniors held in Cool Spring Park at
noon today they decided not to hold
their reception at the High School,
but TO try to hold it in the Hotel Du-
Pont instead.
The reception is to be the annual
function of the senior class; one of
the several pleasing events in school
life preliminary to the commences
ment More than one thousand IN
vitations had been sent out by the
seniors to relatives and friends to at
tend the reception planned fer the
High School.
The play "Pygmalion and Galatea"
was TO be given in the auditorium, fol-
/ lowing which there will be a social
/ time and an intermingling In the
/ large corridors, and refreshments Of
/ ice cream, cake, etc, are to be served.
/ It was planned to serve the refresh
ments in the corridors and some of
the class rooms. Yesterday morning
Principal A. II. Berlin received word
from DR.. T. o. Cooper, member of the
Board of Education and chairman of
, the High School committee, that the
refreshments could not be served up
stairs but would have to be served in
the basement. The lunch room and
some other rooms, as we'll as the
boilers, coal pile, etc. are in the
basement. Immediately wave of in
dignatiOn spread over the school.
In the past refreshments had beer
served in the rooms upstairs. At re-
ception last year the refreshments wer,
served in one of the school rooms wher
an ice cream receptacle leaked and dis
cOlorei the floor. At the time Engi
neer-Janitor Thomas was paid by tn
claes o. have the room specially clean
cd. Complaint was made at tho timl
BY somebody to the Board Of Education
but SO far as can be learned the room
was not damaged.
When the reception was planned thi
year permission was given to use TN
school and no question entered tn
minds OF the seniors about a restriction
in serving refreshments.
After the order was received We. y
day that the refreshments We're to b.
, served in the basement. there was
big stir throughout the school, Tn
seniors got an impression that the base
ment generally was to be used Vision
{ of gowns being damaged down in tn
basement fitted through some winds an
: generally there was feeling OF DISCUS
} that the 1000 guests would have t
descend the stairway to the basemen
3 to receive their refreshments.
As an outcome of the indignatio
meeting OF the seniors yesterday after
3 noon, a committee was appointed TO wal
! on the High School committee of th
} Board of Education. Two of the senior
called on DR.. T. o. Cooper, chairman G
the committee, last evening. DIR. Coope
Z said the intention was TO have the +,
o freshments served in the lunch room
which is in the basement, and not pre-
4 mscuously throughout the basement.
+ This is far from satisfactory to th
@ seniors, who say the lunch room
4 far too small for such a function
I and aside from that there is a generi
Q feeling throughout the student bod
@ that it would be more befitting if II
- refreshments could be served in II
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