The Washington herald., 1915-01-10
Notes OF THE SCHOOLS.

Business High School organized. last
week. a council for consideration OF vo-
cational guidance problems peculiar TO
its own needs. Activities of the council
VIII include investigating local indus
trial and commercial conditions and re-
quirements and how graduates of Bust
ness can meet them; advising outgoing
graduates, and the possibilities of re-
munerative employment for students out
side OF school hours
An orchestra of seventy-hve pieces is
being organized from the ranks of in
strumentalists in the white high schools.
Early in March this orchestra, with the
High School Choral Club, under the
leadership OF Mrs. Frank Byram, direc-
tor of music, expects to give a concert
In one Of the local theaters.
Tho Kingship OF Self Control is to be
the subject of Mrs. Kate Waller Bar
rett's address before the Thomson Home
and School Association next Tuesday
evening.
Technical High School will open a class
in Spanish February l, under the tutelage
OF Mile. Marie Maret.
High School Students Club will hold a
vesper service at Y. w. c. A. rooms in
the Federal Bank Building. January II,
at 40 o'clock.
The board of examiners report that
twenty-five out of the thirty-siX appli-
cants who took the examinations, held
December q and q, for teachers posi-
tiOns have passed the examination sue
cessfully.
Tomorrow morning a branch of the
Business High School Bank will be open
ed at Wilson Normal School. This is the
third offshoOt of the parent organization.
Before the holidays a branch was organ
lied in connection with the social center
work at the Grover Cleveland School
College Club dance will be held at
Business High School January Is, Com
pany d at Dyers. the same evening: the
Players Club. January p, and the bank
officials a week later.
Girls basketball tern OF Central High
School will play Wilson Normal School
at Epiphany gym next Friday aft
ernoon.
officers OF the four-year class. Gradu
ating in February, have been elected as
follows: President, Joseph Wise; vice
president, Laura Campbell; secretary,
Marjorie Johnson: treasurer, William
Herman. Officers of the two-year class
are: President, J. Karl Glessner; vice
president. Anna May Somerville; secre-
tary, Elizabeth Root, and treasurer, Will
son Hartley.
The Blue Room" a play by Kenneth
Grahame, dramatized by Western High
School pupils, will be presented before
the January meeting OF the English
Teachers Journal Club, at Wilson Nor
NAL School. 1t is to be given in costume
with all the trappIngs OF professional
work.
Shooting by the Intercity High School
League began Friday. Tech, Eastern and
Western are members Of the league.
Daniel Webster Club will debate the
question of school Government" next
Wednesday and Thursday at Business
High School. The contestants are Mazo.
NiColaides and Deuhring.
The team discussing the affirmative
Wednesday afternoon. will uphold the
negative on Thursday afternoon.
Hubbard Alumni Association will give
4 benefit at Polls Theatre. January Is. |
Tor the benefit Of the war sufferers of
Europe.
MidCity Association will hold its Jan
Iary meeting at Grover Cleveland School !
next Tuesday evening.
Printing for the markers on school /
work exhibited at the San Francisco Ex- |
position will be done at o Street Voca- !