Evening star., 1917-05-27
IN THE SCHOOLS.
HE end of the school year is
approaching rapidly. The an
nual competitive drill Of the
high school cadets has been

nual competitive drill Of the
high school cadets has been
held and Tech is victorious.
The annual review of the cadets still
remains. the grade schools have nu-
Der Of excursions are to be held, and
then. as the grand finale" of two or
three unusually active weeks, will come
the commencement exercises.
W. ossood q ADAMS Mil road has
registered at the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute of Technology for special work in
aeronautics, the institute being one Of
SIX universities In the country selected
Osgood Is one of twenty-five students
In his group. Other groups arc due to
arrive until 200 are registered.
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Mothers of pupils of the Henry-Polk
schools Thursday evening held festi,
val at the schools. Mrs. Huettner and
Mrs. Randall were in charge.
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Pupils of the Smallwood School are
taking considerable interest In the
has been given at the school only since
the beginning of the last half year.
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Pupils at Business High School held
of the Rcd Gross last week. Money
which in the ordinary course OF events
would have gone for luxuries was do
mated to the Red Cross.
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Congratulations to Ernest L. Thurs
ton on his reelection as superintendent
of public schools were extended by the
Parent-Teachers Association Of the
Hilton School at recent meeting. The
organization also assured the superin-
tnT NJ 6no rtN rot iny, in
the future.
Unanimous Endorsement of the re-
election of Ernest L. Thurston as super
tered at a recent meeting of the
Parent-Teachers' Association of the
Taylor School The organization Or
dered that congratulations be sent to
Supt. Thurston. A talking machine was
presented to the school recently by the
association.
John r. Donnelly, an elevator con-
ductor at the Department of Labor, was
the winner Of the silk American flag
the flag by the Flag Chapter of the
D. A. r. at the Thomson Night School
exercises held recently.
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The advanced class in shorthand of
the Madison Night School is to con-
tinue its work throughout the sum-
mer months at the residence of Miss
Florence Callahan. 621 14th street
northeast. and of Miss Usilton. 1911
Gales street northeast. The. night
school closed recently. A program of
musical and literary numbers. patri-
otic in nature, marked the closing.
Miss E. Giddings was announced as
being the winner of honors in a recent
typewrfting contest and Vincent Tre-
velli received honorable mention for a
patriotic composition. Honor students,
whose attendance was 100 or nearly
100 per cent, were Charles Clagger,
Mary Shell. Hazel Nyman, William
Tucker, a. Honikman, A. Thompson.
F. H Harold. ROLAND Young, Hershell
Reese, Joseph Burch and E. r. Moose.
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Reports of various activities in the
made at a meeting of the Home and
School Council held recently at the
Franklin School.
Miss NJ. J. Austin, principal of the
Madison School. reported that through
a week of self-denial at that school the
children and teachers had raised nearly
5000 for the Red Cross. Other reports
included those from Mrs. H. E. Wilson
for the Wallach-Towers group, tefnng
of playground improvement: Mrs. G. A.
Scott on the provision of eyeglasses for
pupils; Mrs. Allan Davis for the Cranch-
Tyler group. on vocational training ac-
tivities; Miss Helen Coolidge for Cen
trail High School, telling of the work
being done for the Red Cross; Carl
Laugenbeck and c. A. johnson for the
Henry d. Cooke Home and School Asso-
citation, of the work being done by that
organization toward furthering play
ground activities. and Miss A. NJ. Sis
son, principal of the Langdon School,
on the need of simplicity of dress at
grade school graduations.