Evening star., 1915-02-14

Nv current half year Of the
| AAk president of the general
| wv organization of Mckinley
| Manual Training School. to
| be held tomorrow, the school for the
last several days has borne an appear
ance of election times" Posters urg-
| Ing the pupils to vote for certain
! candidates are on display in all parts
! of the building and Campaign
| speeches have been made daily.
Wednesday afternoon the section
presidents met to vote to determine
| which of the candidates were likely to
| carry the highest numbers of votes.
| These choices are to be printed on the
| ballots to be used tomorrow, but blank
| spaces are also to be provided, SO that
any pupils not satisfied with the candi-
dates selected by the section presidents
| may vote for his or her personal
choice.
The position of president of the gem
eral organization is regarded as high
one at the Manual Training School
The governing body is composed of six
pupils and two members of the faculty,
although the principal. Frank C. Dan
lei, mas the power OF veto,
Members of the second semester at
the Harrison, the branch of Business
High School. rendered a reception to
the new pupils at the school Friday
afternoon.
stephen E. Kramer. assistant super
intendent of white schools, is to be
the principal speaker at meeting of
the Wallach Home and School Asso-
citation at the school building Tuesday
evening Following his address. Mr.
Kramer is to answer questions asked
by parents about school matters.
Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Elmer Jasper are
to sing. and Prof. J. r. Monroe is to
play the piano. Miss Florence Pyles is
to give number of recitations.
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A "subtarget" rife has been received
at Tech for the use of those interested
in rifle shooting. This automatically
registers the point on a small target
aimed.
Allan Davis, principal of Business
High School. is contemplating having a
series of lectures given at the school
for the parents of children attending
it. The subjects. in all probability,
will be along a variety of lines.
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Eastern High Schools sophomore
class gave a dance at the school Satur
day night. The Lambda Kappa Sorority
gave a tea dance at the Raleigh in the
afternoon.
Cadet night was observed by the
cadets of Central Friday. The speak
ers included Maj. Wallach A. McCath-
ran, y. G. D. c., commandant of the
regiment; stephen f. Kramer. assistant
superintendent of schools; Emory Will
son, principal of Central; George A.
Ross, George J. Jones. H. H. Bur
roughs and Harry English, all men,
bers of Centrars military committee.
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entrants at Business who Joined the
cadets the number or rifles available
there is now insufficient. steps have
been taken to procure the additional
ones, however.
Rehearsals for the spring play at Nc
Kinley Manual Training School have
been started. This year the play is
again to be comic opera.
The Singing Boys a piece of stat
uary copied from portion OF the
frieze in Florence. Italy, and presented
to the Mckinley School by its Febru-
airy graduating class, is to be hung in
the assembly hall of the school in the
near future.
Members of the Washington High
School Press Club are to give a dance
at the Cairo Friday evening. Company
l. OF Tech is to give dance the same
evening at Mrs. Dyer's.
Classes in parliamentary law are TO
be held at the Wilson Normal School
beginning tomorrow afternoon 10,
members and friends of the Parents
course of ten lectures which the league
has arranged. are to be given under
the auspices of the league
Physical fitness was urged by Supt.
Ernest L. Thurston in an address before
the Petworth Home and School Asso-
| citation Monday night. Mrs. Lyman F.
Kebler, president of the Parents
League and Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter also
! spoke Jesse c. Suter, president of the
association, presided.
| "a
Plans for benefit to be given at one
of the Washington theaters We're dis
cussed at meeting of the Washington
High School Press Club at the Public
Library Wednesday evening. The funds
raised are to be used for the promotion
of several projects now planned
! The executive council, consisting VI
Joseph McGarraghy, chairman; Mar
! celia Cook, Caroline Stone, Esther Par
! ker, Raymond Williams and Elmer
! Kayser, is to be in charge Of this af-
fair.
Miss Esther Parker of Business High
School was elected as corresponding g
secretary to take the place of Miss
Marjorie Johnson, who graduated i9
February.
/ Ii is planned to publish at the end of
III a Press BOOK
/, to be devoted to high school journal
ism.
! Those present at the meeting were:
Kilda Malcolm. Josephine Waight. Car
oline stone, Marcella Cook, Annie Ran
dali. Esther Parker, Margaret Peck
ham, Kathryn Moran, Marjorie John
son, Olga Lowell. Elizabeth Chase, Nor
DANCING.