Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-08
SCIENCE CLUB FORMED
BY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
Will Supplement Studies by
Personal Visits to Indus
trial Plants.


The members of the chemistry class,
have organized "A science club for the
study of scientific problems other than
those taken up In the regular class
room instruction.
1t is the plan Of the club to initiate
or supplement the study OF the diff
ferent topics by an excursion TO
factory or industrial plant where the
operations may be viewed at first
hand
The educational requirements neces-
sary for entrance. as well as the
course in college. OF the different pro-
, fessions involving science, will be pre-
sented to the club. A man, who has
practiced his profession successfully
will be asked TO come and discuss the
several topics with the club. This
! will require those who are planning
. take up scientific work, n better and
wider conception of what they are en-
tering and what is actually required
OF them in the practice OF the profess
sion.
The provocational class, which de-
/ votes one year to trying out the in
terests and aptitudes of the boys who
select the vocational industrial course,
, announce that they have added three
new boys TO their enrolment. Rohers
j. Murphy of $40 Kirkwood street and
Anthony A. Lewis of Ala East Tenth
street, began in the newly equipped
sheet metal shop. Clarence A. Fahs
i, is the new instructor in this shop.
, Frank Il Kelley of Carcroft. Della
ware. began in the machine shop
under the direction of William White.
instructor. Charles Brinton. instruc-
, tor of English m the vocational in
I, dustrial course announces that he is
ARRANGING for an industrial library,
: where the boys may have access to
! books and periodicals relating to the
industrial world.
Eugene Manning. instructor of sci
: Ience. has begun his classes in the new
: industrial chemistry laboratory. The
: Iadvance class will spend two periods
:, twice each week. performing expert
; lments. Gradually equipment is being
ladded to make this a creditable in
ldustrial chemical laboratory. A. l.
lRhodes, co-ordinator and instructor OF
drawing. announces that the beginners
Y have now learned how to represent
: straight line objects. Three dozen
II new sets of drawing instruments have
p arrived and this class will begin work
II on cylindrical shapes.
a At a meeting of the chess club OF
Wednesday afternoon the new consti.
II tuition and bylaws were read pre-
. iiminary to their adoption at the next
n meeting. A finance committee was
=, appointed. BY election. Leary, Flan
- Zer and Cohen were created board oi
:. managers. A ways and means com.
mittee was appointed with the first
task of acquiring a number of ches,
Isets for the permanent use of the club
Many requests for instruction in the
rudiments of the game have reached
the officers of the club and il was de.
cided to start class OF instruction &c
be held once a week for the next few
4 weeks with the purpose of instructing
* beginners.
y The Latin department Of the WI.
nington High School is varying III,
usual work of translating and inter
= preting the Roman classics by con
Iecting the past with the presen
along several lines.
In another grade. all the classes
are bringing to school Illustration
OF the use of modern business is max
IS ing of classical architecture, mytholog!
, and history.
lie Virgirs Aeneid and Ovid's Meta
er morphoses are the texts used il
10 fourth year. In one Virgil class eacl
ID member is making a scrap book Q
4 pictures of the famous statutes of tn
3 gods and other NEUROLOGICAL charac
n. tiers of the Aeneid; and illustration
's of the well-known stories that accu
TX in these books.
N Two years ago an additional cours
E. of study was established in the WI
mington High School, known as 9Th
IN household arts course" This cours
It, equals in rank and merit the othe
p course of study offered 10 high schoC
Of pupils and a graduate from the cours
or will receive the regular high scho,
ck diploma. The course was establishe
Mt 10 meet the desires and particula
n abilities of those girls who were NJ
n attracted by the commercial course
if or the wholly academic course.
rs Briefly summarized the course in
of cludes four years of English, thrt
ay years of history, four years of draw
be ing, one year of hygiene, one year
physics, one year cf chemistry, tw
of years Of modern language, one yes
ss. Of sociology, four years OF sewing, tU
no and one-haf years of cooking, or
no year of millinery and textiles, one-ha
nd year each of home nursing. househol
or management and deitetics, ard or
al year OF an elective study.
~ It is required this year that ever
Senior appear on the Monday mornin
loft a. A.
a., This requirement may take the for
~ Of reading, speech, Grafton or pa
in play. On Monday morning IL
Seniors viii make their first appeal
e. ance in compliance with this requir,
- ment. The speakers will be Murra
~ Hanson and Virginia Wharton.
no After Saturdays win, the wilmin,
& ton High School football squad h:
re been given grilling practices to co
10 rect some outstanding. faults. In pr
,ut paring for the Tome game, to be pla,
ed at Tome today, the coach work,
TO bring about better and faster a
tack on the part of the line, and bett
organized work in the backfiel
+ Under such strenuous stimulus al
on competition some promising new m
900 terial has been surging to the fror
e0o Green, a lanky Freshman, by h
500 steady tenacious plugging at the tao
.o0 lie position, will be given a place
,00 Zoo the Varsity line. Green also has son
punting ability and will probably
500 ii, - alS,s..,1
700 wiz pe shhte 10 the pacKheh'
Wilmington suffered a great 10
,oo when Carlan, star quarterback w
~ injured in practice scrimmage
Wednesday. He was a good gener,