Evening star., 1918-02-24
IN THE SCHOOLS.

Plans are practically complete for the
presentation of the photoplay Joan
the Woman" Friday. March 1. at Cen
trail High School Last year the school
pledged itself to raise $1,000 for the
Red Cross To date but $500 Of this
amount has been raised, and 1t is hoped
that the attendance at the presentation
Of the motion picture will be SO large
that tho rest of the money VIII be
raised small admission fec will be
charged and individual subscriptions
will be solicited
Central High Schools service nag win
be dedicated with suitable ceremonies
at the school Wednesday morning. Tho
speakers and program for the exer-
cises have not yet been announced by
Principal Emory Wilson. but he said
yesterday a member of Congress will
make the principal address. The flag
will contain over 500 stars AS Central
High students and graduates are en-
listing or receiving commissions every
week the exact number of stars can
not be ascertained at this time and
stars will be added from time to time
in the service grows. Central is the
last of the high schools to raise its
service flag.
The student enrolment at Central
High School is now 2,475. creating a
record for a. Washington high school.
and breaking previous high marks by
many hundreds. Centrars splendid ia
cilities for instruction both in academic
and business courses are attracting
many students who two years ago
would have gone to other high schools,
tances to attend school, some of them
even coming from the extreme south
ern and eastern sections of the city.
The new forge shop at Central has
been opened. 1t marks the beginning
of the second year Of manual training
work at Central
Central High School is the only one
in the city which has a model house
keeping suite in which members of
the domestic science and cooking
classes are taught the proper way to
maintain a home. Members OF these
classes go into the suite and are
taught all essential methods Of keep
ing house. cooking and household man
agement. The suite is in charge Of
Miss Bache.
A plea for money to buy yarn for
knitting to supply the soldiers in
France with helmets. socks and
sweaters was made Thursday by Miss
Campbell. Last week we bought $40
worth Of yarn" said Miss Campbell.
.and >used it in four days Now we
have a knitting machine. which will
consume yarn much faster than it can
be consumed by hand. The soldiers need
all the comforts they can get, and are
constantly writing US of their need,
and we feel it is our duty to help
them. It is our ambition to get
$1,000 worth of yarn to turn into need
ed articles for the soldiers, and I am
going to every possible agency to help
secure this amount. At the rate we
are now knitting this would last until
school closes for the summer"
of 1S9 were made by pupils of Business
High School last week.
A special meeting of the National
Council of Teachers Of English will be
held March 1 in the high school audi
torium at Atlantic City, in conjunction
with the convention of the National
Education Association. Prof. H N. Nc
cracken, president OF vassar, College
Red Cross. will speak on What the
Junior Red Cross Expects from the
English Class" The English poet, AL
fred Noyes. will speak on Poetry and
the War" Other speakers will be Cor
nelia C. Ward of New York. Cornelia S.
Hulst of Grand Rapids, Prof, Charles
G. Osgood of Princeton University and
John W. Cloff of New York.
Superintendent of Schools Ernest L.
Thurston will attend the convention.
The weekly publication of Mckinley
Manual Training School. Tech Life"
w % ar ea mofn,ag T., THIS ms
school print shop. Previous pub1ica-
tions, have been printed in outside
shops
Practice in preparation for the cadet
war games has begun at Tech. These
matches are held between each COM
pany. the winning team opposing the
winning teams from western cities.
The Club dance in honor of the
Tech basket ball team. which was to
have been held in the Arcade ballroom
March ]. has been postponed because Of
the taking over of the Arcade by the
government to March 3 at the Cairo
Techs rife club is holding practice
matches three days a week in prepara-
matches in the spring. Tech ranked
third in the country in the N. R. A.
matches last year and sent six out of
fifteen members of the team to Florida
to participate in the national match.
Fifty-nine boys of the first semester
class that entered Tech this month
have Joined the cadet brigade.
Tickets for Techs spring play, robin
Hood" to be given at Central High
School March Is. were distributed to
the pupils last week.
Out of 10000 shovels scheduled to be
tagged by the school students of this
cording to a report received by Su-
perintendent Of Schools Ernest L. Thurs
ton recently. despite the fact that the
schools closed for two weeks on ac-
count of coal shortage on that day.
G. Roberts and H. Brumbaugh were
the individual stars in the first N. r. A.
rifle match held at Mckinley Manual
Training School last week. The team
shot total of s43 out of a possible
1000. Individual scores were: Roberts,
1872: Brumbaugh (captain). 1872; Kear-
full. 191: Russell. 1873, and Tice, 1S0.
These matches will be held every week
on the range in the school in prepara-
tion for the National Rifle Association
interhigh school matches in the spring.
Central High Schools rifle team will
hold match next week.
The Eastern High School night school
was opened last week under the direc-
tion of Charles Hart, graduate man.
ager of student activities at Business
charge of the work in the new night
school hesides parforrnip b;o J,,%;ns = =