Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-08

CHletHll anu CdlHeTlne SITeetS, now IN
the course of erection.
Tech Principal on the Ocean
At the opening exercises this morn
ing of the Technical High School the
familiar face of DIR. Charles b. Eager,
Jr., the principal, was not to be seen.
DR.. Eager was caught in the Euro
pean war zone at the outbreak of
hostilities and he was unable to get
home intime for the start of the Fall
term. He is now on the Atlantic
| Ocean, but will likely arrive in this
city tomorrow. Whether he will as
sumo his duties this week will not
be known until after his arrival. lie
is aboard the Red Star liner Lap
land, due to port in New York har-
Dor tomorrow morning.
In the absence of DR.. Eager. Pro-
fessor Percy L. Grubb is acting prin-
cipal
| Tht Technical opening exercises
were held this morning in the main
auditorium on the first floor In for
mer years chapel exercises have been
held in the large study room on the
fourth floor of the building, but owing
to the increases in the number of stu
dents this year it will be necessary to
hold the exercises in the main audi
torium from now on.
The Technical School opens the Fall
term with about 400 students. The eX-
act number will not be known until
the freshman class is finally enrolled.
The faculty Is making provision for
move than $50 freshmen.
At Central High
The senior, junior and sophomore
| classes of the Central High School
were in their places at o'clock this
morning and shortly after 2 this aft
ernoon the $50 freshmen had ar
rived.
Interest at the academic institution
centers in the opening of a home
economies course, close to half
hundred girls having signed for this
line of work, which includes sewing,
cooking, millinery, and so on. The
kitchen where the students will learn
to bake the kind of pies that mother
used to make Is now being fitted up
and will likely be ready within the
lneXt week.
At Central High many old MEM
bers of the orchestra will be replaced
by incoming freshmen. The new
mandolin club will consist of Sarah
Hoffman, Katherine Kelker, Gertrude
Edwards, Mary Wilmer. Paul Clou-
ser, Warren Wheeler, Leroy Smucker
and Raymond Meek.
A new leader for the choir will he
appointed soon, The Senior Girls Glee
| Club will consist of the following:
Helen Smiley, Rheda Bird, Gladys
Beryheiser, Elizabeth Mccormick,
Mary Mumma, Mabel Bright Helen
Broomall, Lillian Miller. Catherine
Orth. Margaret Stambaugh, Naomi
Bevard, Katherine. Fahnestock, Helen
Slop, Helen Gerdes. Miriam lands.
Lillian Kamsky. Mary Wilmer. Mar
tha Miller, Katherine Peters, Marion
Martz, Katherine Kelker, Esther
Shultz Margaret Velder, Sara Dennis.
Katherine Lichtenberger. Margaretta
Reed. Margaret Keiseman, Dorothy
Herman, Helen Wallis, Marie Daugh-
erty, Pauline Hauck and Marion Tay-
lor
The Senior Boys Glee Club will i'm
clude Leroy Smucker. Jonathan Black,
John Booker. Ralph Enck. Samuel
Froehlich. Kenneth Patterson, Her
bert Springer. Warren Wheeler, Karl
Peters Jesse Wells, Charles Segel-
, baum, Paul Parthemore, Samuel
Handler. Paul Walter Edward Roth,
Elwood Baker, Benjamin Byers, Har-
old Whistler. Daniel Burkholder,
Richard Hamer and Clarence Cooper.
The Argus staff will be made up as
follows: Karl Peters, editor-in-chief;
Daniel Burkholder, business manager;
Raymond Meek, alumni editor; Ell
wood Baker, exchange editor: Sam
uel Froehlich, social editor; Edward
Roth, sporting editor; George Fox
observations Dunbar Eberts and
Richard Hamer, deputy business man
ayers. 4.
The Rhilonean Debating Society
will be organized about the second
week of school.
Teachers Training Glass Large
The Teachers Training School also
was opened this morning with forty
six students. The new class has
membering of twenty-eight. Never
before has there been more than
thirty students in both lower and up
per classes of the school, according
to Miss Anne u. Vert, principal.
Not only did the public schools of
the city open this morning. but sew
eral of the parochial schools of the.
Harrisburg diocese, Roman Catholic
Church, began their Fall sessions.
Several of the diocesan schools were
opened last Monday.
The Harrisburg Academy will open
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