Evening star., 1918-02-17
: IN THE SCHOOLS

Business High School is TO BE- eenp
solidated into one unit. For years nrsx
semester classes for girls have beea
scattered all over the city. forced 10
move from place to place as the tenn
porary location was taken from them
Last Saturday a sudden decision On
the part of Principal Allan Davis Co
move the annex from the old Central
High School was made and Monday
morning the pupils were installed h
the main building. Girls Of the drst
semester were housed in the annex to
permit the boys to attend cadet drills
Business High Schools enrollment
now is over 900. Three hundred and
forty-three of this number are in the
first semester.
ness. captain of last years foot bail
team, and Louis Towbes. captain Of the
basket ball team, will attend Maryland
State College.
Morris Wolf, a graduate Of Business
High School. who won a afty-dollAr
liberty bond of the second loan for
writing the best essay on why Every
One Should Own a Liberty Bond" in a
contest conducted in the high schools
throughout the country by the National
Committee of Patriotic Societies, was
presented with his bond at general as
sembly Thursday morning by ]. Lewis,
executive secretary of the committee.
Mr.. Lewis congratulated Business High
School in leading the country in this
important contest and mentioned other
schools of Washington as having done
good work in the sale of liberty bonds,
telling of the good results obtained at
Mckinley Manual Training School,
Central High School and Dunbar High
School
Thomas w. LittIepage. one of the Dis
trfct war savings stamps committees
four-minute men. gave an address on
the reasons for buying war savings
and thrift stamps and urged all the
pupils of Business to invest their spare
change IN the governments baby bonds
Because manufacturers of diplomas
for use in public schools were forced
to close Mondays in accord with the
order of the federal fuel administrator,
pupils in the high schools of Washing
ton were presented with dummy diplo-
mas at their graduations. Diploma
manufacturers ella lined that the fuel
less day so interfered with their pro-
duction that they were unable to fur
nish the Washington high schools with
fully engraved diplomas. Business
Hugh School graduates received their
diplomas Thursday night. two weeks
after graduation. and graduates of the
other high schools will receive their
diplomas within the next week Grad
yates of the two-year class at Business
did not receive their class pins until
Thursday night. The pins were tied
up in freight embargo in a yard near
Philadelphia and the graduates were
forced to go for two weeks without
their coveted insignias of graduation.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Business High School Alumni
association was held last night at the
nome of the president. BENJAMIN A.
Harlan. at 80 Rhode Island avenue
alumni excursion to Marshall Hall were
named. and dance to be held soon
by the alumni was discussed.
Several former pupils of Mckinley
Manual Training School have Joined
the service, and the service flag which
now flies from second-story window
at the school will have some additions
made to the number soon. The nag
now contains the numeral 3O3
Motion pictures of the life of Thomas
Edison We're shown to the pupils of
Tech during the assembly Wednesday
afternoon.
Rehearsals for the spring play. called
Robin Hood" to be produced by the
members of the dramatic society at
Tech. have been going on for the past
week at the school. The play will be
given in the auditorium of Central
High School the evenings of March 10
and 16.
The next issue of Tech Life win
probably not be out until February 2a
Difficulties in printing have caused the
postponement of the weekly issue.
Interhigh school debates are being
planned by the Agora Society at Tech.
Election of officers for the coming
semester for the G. O.. at Tech, will
be held within the next two weeks and
the prospective officers are already
campaigning for votes. The G. o. is
the student governing body at the
school, in charge of all student activ-
titles.