Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-18

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| The value Of physical. moral and in
tellectual efficiency was discussed rs
Roscoe c. Bruce, assistant Nsuperfntend-
ent in charge Of colored schools. in an
ADDRESS before the Birney School Par
| ent-Teachers Association, held re-
| Gently. He declared that physical ef-
I ltciency is the foundation of the whole
! life and that everything affecting the
physical well being also affected the
| intellectual and moral we'll being.
| Dr. j. Hayden Johnson, member Of
| the board of education, urged parents
to guard the physical welfare of their
| children. James Z. Walker, supervis-
| ing principal of the thirteenth division,
urged mutual cooperation between
citizens. Others who spoke were Miss
F. ]. Smith. principal of the school;
| Miss e. V. Smith, Robert Penn. Mrs.
L. E. Butler. Mrs. F. J. Shipley. Oliver
Campbell, Rev. G. W. Lucas and H. r.
Queenan.
There were talks by John W. Crom-
! well. Miss NJ. Cromwell, A P Brent, Miss
E. r. Newman and Rev. C. A. Witheron
at a recent meeting of the Crummell
Home and School Association at Mount
Vernon NJ. E Church, Ivy City.
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Miss Julia H. Smith. q teacher in the
Washington schools. recently arranged
to have a special matinee given for
children In the schools of the tenth.
twelfth and thirteenth divisions of the
public schools at Lansburgh & Brother 8
when silk culture was being demonstrated.
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More than 200 persons were present
at recent meeting of the Home and
School Association of the Giddings
School, held at the Ebenezer NJ. E.
Church. Speakers were Ernest L..
Thurston. superintendent of schools;
DR.. J. Hayden johnson, member of the
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assistant superintendent; James L.
Walker. supervising principal of the
thirteenth division: Miss NJ. A. D. Madre
and W. B. Hill. Mr.. Thurston spoke
highly of the work done by the late
Miss L. A Smith. who had been In the
teacher at the Giddings at the time Of
her death. Mrs. E. C. Dean. read a re-
port showing the work the organiza-
ton has done in aiding nineteen chill
dren Music was furnished by a
Mrs. Jennie Stewart and Mrs. Mamie
L. Ware. Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer was
in charge of the musical program.
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Pupils of the colored public schools
recently celebrated the anniversary of
the birth of Frederick Douglass. Those
taking part at the several schools were
as follows
Briggs School-Princess Richardson,
Gertrude Peters, Louise johnson. James
Roberts, Mark Johnson, Helen Williams
and Ethel Jackson.
Garrison School-Lillian Strong, Oscar
Thomas Perry. Josephine Lee, and DR..
j. Hayden Johnson, member of the
board of education.
Magruder School-Eudora johnson,
Robert Johnson, Rozell Cousar, Roscoe
Pratt. Martin Cousar and John West
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er, Mark Smith and Rev. E. W. Will
liams.
Phillips Schooi-Daisy Burke, Robert
Conn. Horace Robinson, Rev. D. D.
Mason. Hills Neverson, Emory Wright,
Edith Peters. AIine Williams, Sadie
Hotter. Grace Taylor. Ellsworth Car
penter, Ethel Neverson, Anita Turpeau,
Louis Gatewood, Clarissa Waugh, Will
liam Robson, Virginia Carter. Orion
Whiting, Beatrice Harris, Dorothy Will
liams, Francis Johnson. Margaret Fleete,
Charles Turner. Lowell Carter, Jessie
Battle. Alberta Robinson and Ruth
Nelson.
stevens school-Annie Gray, Marjorie
Ware. Daniel Day, Earl Ruffin. Corne-
Illus Burke, Dorothy Singleton, Robert
Washington, William Brown, Everett
Adams. Daisy Wills. Mabel HUMPHREYS
Mildred Esters. Ross Freeman and
Wellington Abrams.
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Eloise Cook. Percy Ragland and Eliza
beth Smith.
Wilson SchooI-Lansing Gray, Mill
cent Rooney, Lucy Fletcher and Homer
Lee.
Wornaley SCHOOLGIRL Bell, George
Dodson. Preston Jones. Alberta Fitz-
and Nelka Alexander. At this school
Douglass last interview, written by the
late James Croggon. who during his
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Star, was given as part Of the exercises.
G. W. q. Notes.
]. ". Cunningham. rs. assistant law
librarian. has accepted an appointment
as second lieutenant in the United
States Army, and has left the Law
School for Fort Leavenworth, Kan. e.
". Dieserud. Is. has been appointed to
succeed him as assistant law librarian.
Messrs. Oscinach and Earl of the
class of II, Law School. have been ap-
pointed secretaries to the newly Great
ed federal farm and loan board.
Misses Simpson. Beard and Ray OF the
Nurses School have returned from the
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospi-
tai.
Misses Walker and Graves and Mrs.
Fulcher of the Nurses School have gone
to the Episcopal Eye. Ear and Throat
Hospital for a four-month course.
Miss Billingsley of the Nurses
School is at Children's Hospital for two
m onths.
Miss Koontz has resigned from the
Nurses School.
Miss Palmer of the Nurses School Is
attending classes after an illness of
several weeks.
DR.. r. A. Kelser recently lectured to
the senior and Junior classes of the
Veterinary College on anthrax and the
complement fixation test.
At recent meeting of the Veterinary
Medical Association papers were read
J. P Haas and F. L. Oyster of the junior
class, and E. E. Romberger, c. l.. Phil
lips and j. c. Carl of the sophomore
class.
The annual banquet Of the veteri-
nary Medical Association will be held
Wednesday evening at Hotel Cont
mental.
'"rhe United States Army Against the
Allies in Buying It's Animals" is the
subject of an article written by DR.. D.
E. Buckingham, dean of the Veterinary
College. and appearing In recent issue
of the Journal of the American Feterin-
airy Medical Association
Members of the senior and junior
classes of the Veterinary College visit
ed Soldiers Home and the Government
Hospital for the Insane recently to con-
duct tuberculosis tests, under direction
of DR.. ]. p. Turner.
The junior class of the Dental College
will hold a smoker at the Sigma Chi
cha pier house on Saturday evening.
| DR.. Marcus w. Lyon. professor of bac-
teriology and pathology, has been elect