Evening star., 1917-03-11
IN THE SCHOOLS


Manual Training Schools may
combine in holding an excur-
sion to Marshall Hall this
spring. Plans for a joint out
ing are now being considered and it is
probable that definite arrangements
will be made for the affair. 1t has been
tentatively suggested that athletic
events, including base ball game,
should be features of the entertainment
provided
Depositors in the Washington High
School Bank at Business Hlgh nave
been notified that if they have 50 or
more on deposit they should turn IN
their books TO be credited with the IN
terest due them
Seniors of Eastern have decided upon
their class pin Eastern is different
from a number of high schools mas
much as each senior class chooses tt'c
design for its pin rather thah ma ~ ~,
the same emblem for each year. t'e
date only being changed.
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Taxation on land, rather than on I'M
provements and industry, was auNo-
Gated by Herbert :. BigeloW IN an au-
dress before students of BUSINESS Hl-i
Thursday morning. Mr.. BiGcIoW s'atet
that millions OF acres OF Id'tu Ni'''''
might be used advantageously are now
lying untaXed and unused, beinE Heta
largely by corporations and ma tFiuud's
who are SpeCul2tiuS. He said thal tht
young man starting out TO farm would
meet with burdening taxation which
would in a measure be stumbling
block to him
Plans are being completed by tie
Eastern High School Dramatic Asso-
Fo, ~, -,r,esutDtlOn of = Rus
sian Honeymoon a three-act comedy.
This is to he presented the evenings OF
March so and II for the bentht OF
athletics.
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Members of the Monroe Home and
School Association are to mold bcneht
performance at rolTs Theater Tuesday
evening Proceeds are to he used Tor
the fund which is being raised tor lhe
employment of a school nurse to he en-
ployed regularly at the Monroe School
and its playground The employment
of such a nurse was sanctioned bS the
board of education at a recent meeting
T. W. SChieCk. si1 Columbia ROAD. is
chairman of the finance committee. Co
operation of other home and school as
Sociations is being sought, as thc pan
of having the nurse stationed regular
ly at one school is considered at pres
ent as an experiment
The Boys and Girls club OF the
school is planning to equip a GNnha-
sium at the Monroe. stereopticon
lecture entitled My Country. 'Tis OF
Thee" was recently given
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Mrs. f. Il. Walton has been named
chairman of a committee at Central
High to make arrangements for the
spring play.
Messrs Hall. Schwartz and Carroll of
the Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more. delivered addresses at Mckinley
Manual Training School and Western
High School Friday. telling of the ad-
vantages offered by the institution they
represented.
officers of the newly organized s. s. S
Club of the eighth grade of the Powell
School have been chosen as follows:
President. Clara Dikeman; secretary,
Dorothy Bohmanson, and treasurer.
Della Jose. Meetings are to be held
each Thursday. Other members of the
club are Avis Berry, Emily Walker and
Mabel Mcpherson.
Herbert Bigelow spoke at Western
Thursday.
The dedication number of the Re-
view, official publication of Central
High. has been issued. 1t contains the
addresses delivered by the speakers Il
tne QtQlcdtlON exercises. Il pDOLcS IdDii
of Principal Emory Wilson. to whom
the issue is dedicated; poem by Miss
s. E. Simons, head of the department of
English. and many views of the ex-
terror and interior of the school.
Two classes for the study of Red
Cross work have been organized at
Western High. They are TO devote two
hours each week to the study.
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Rayford W. Logan. a graduate of NJ
end Mrs. Arthur c. Logan of 2032 18th
street has been elected a member of |
the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Will
liamS College. according to word Whlch
has just been received here. The So
ciety is composed of one-seventh of
the members of the senior class, pro
vided that each one elected has at
tanned a certain average. The young
man was graduated from the NJ Street
High School in 1913. was Valedictorian
of his class and captain of the winning
company in the annual competitive
drill that year. Clyde McDuffie. also
a graduate of NJ Street, and now a
teacher in the Dunbar High School.
which is taking the place of the build
ing first named. is also member OF
this fraternity.
Georgetown Law School.
The Junior DEBATING society is 10
hold its trials for the final prize debate
of the season next week in the audito-
rum of the Law School building. The
proposition for the trials is THAT the
Senate Pass the Armed Ship Bill" Rob
ert NJ. McGauIey. president of the So
ciety, is TO preside.
4 Massachusetts society is being or
ganized Robert Z. j. Whalen is tenn
porary chairman.
A Rhode Island club was formed last
week at the school The purpose of
the organization is TO make for closer
unity of the students from Rhode Is
land which, il is hoped, will have the
effect of creating a demand for such
an organiZa ton in the home state. and
to make an exhaustive study of Rhode