Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-10

lunches daily to 1900 students at cost
year Of about S4Oo.
The teaching OF home economics is now
required by law in the elementary schools
Of Indiana Iowa. Louisiana. Massachu
sets. Montana North Carolina. Okla
homa and Washington.
When six normal school professors at
Fresno Cal. found il was going to cost
$211 to install the new play apparatus on
the normal school grounds they got to-
gether and did it themselves at a total
cost OF SO
A course in social service for parents
has just been given at the National Kin
dergarten College. Chicago Visiting
| nurses. Fairgrounds. Juvenile courts and
social settlements were some OF the
topics treated.
A series of meetings for vocational dis
cussion in the Abilene. Kan. High
School promises to develop into a voca-
tional club. The boys of the school listen
to representative men in different fields
of work tell of the requirements and re-
wards of their particular kind of work.
In a rapid advancement class in Bos-
ton. composed of the thirty-six brightest
pupils of the fifth and sixth grades. and
placed under the direction of one teacher
from entrance to completion of course
the children finished all the work of the
sixth. seventh and eighth grades in q
year and a half Only one hour a day was
allowed these pupils for outside study.
Close observation of 600 school boys
through a period of seven years to dis
cover the effects OF the tobacco habit
demonstrated to Supt Davis Of Menomi-
nee, Mich. that the non-smoking aver
aged from to 10 per cent higher in
scholarship and were at still greater adj
vantage in the athletics of the school.
1dleness and poor conditions of home life
were the almost invanable accompani-
ments of all cases of smoking and all
cases of failure which he observed.
There are 100000 students enrolled in
professional schools in the United States
this year according to figures compiled
by the United States bureau of education.
or these So.1oc are in endowed institu-
tons. the remainder in institutions sup
ported from public funds. The various
professions are represented as follows:
Theology. 1896: law, 2o.S1S: medicine.
l'.2ss: dentistry. S.O15: pharmacy, 6,165:
veterinary science. 2,32f: nurse training.
'4,417. New York state has the greatest
number of students in professional
schools-13,945. Illinois comes next with
1l,:s'i. and Pennsylvania. Massachusetts,
and Missouri have 9.937, 6SJs and 4.495
respectively.
To fill the posits6n recently vacated by
J. +. Porter. Chester Robert Draper has
been appointed adjutant of the I'd Bat
TALON. He is seventeen years old and
will be graduated from Mckinley High
School i'll June. after having completed
four-year course in seven semesters.
The Columbia Heights Boys Club
closed for the season at the Monroe
School Friday evening. AS fitting
climax to its first year the members
of the club invited their girl friends,
and were assisted by the principal.
visory board and others. A very en-
joyable evening was spent in old and
new dances. games and singing. the boys
coming out especially strong on the
songs of their recent minstrel show,
which have become very popular. Re
freshments were served.
This club was started last fall. meet
ng weekly at the Monroe School, and
courtesy of its principal. Miss Anne
Goding. met at the gymnasium Of the
Wilson Normal School The club has
a membership of about fifty boys, and
IL is the hope of the members that with
the passage of the bill through Congress
building and the cooperation and sup
port OF the school authorities the scope
and usefulness of the organization will
be further developed.
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large audience of parents and
friends gathered in the hall of Banne
ker School Friday to witness the pres
entation of THE Old-fashoned School,
by pupils of the several grades. under
the direction of Misses K. r. Martin
and r. l.. Johnston. Ada Ward. as
teacher. and Thelma Dean. as Cinder-
ella, took leading parts in the enter
tainmenr.
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The second issue Of the Q Street Bull
letin was issued last week. 1t contains
picture of the school on the first
page. also several letters received by
the management congratuiating it upon
its first issue. Among those who write
are Supt. Ernest l.. Thurston. President
Henry T. Blair of the board of educa-
ton. and Dr. Philander p. Claxton
United States commissioner of educa
tion