The Washington times., 1922-01-08
BEGINS
NEW SCHOOL
TERN
Seniors Graduating This Month
Anticipate Joys Of Closing
Days, While UndercIassmen
Resolve to Study Hard for
Good Marks on Semester Re-
ports.
BY EDWARD J. DUFFY.

Washington public school stu
dents are today making the best
Of the opportunity offered-with
the memory Of those wonderful
Christmas holidays still fresh.
Those who are graduating at the
end Of this month are looking for
ward to the pleasures Of COM
mencement time, and a brilliant
series Of final exercises is to be
held for them in many schools.
CADETS ACTIVE.
Soming at. Sh,s time also are many
cadet activities, in addition to the
routine drills, which are leading up
to the grand finale on competitive
drill days in May. War games are
being prepared for and dances are
being held by regiments, battalions,
and companies. Lieutenant Colonel
Henkel's regimental dance during
the holidays was most successful. A
battalion dance will be given in
the Central Auditorium on Friday
OF this week.
The following Friday will see the
beginning of the commencement
session, with the Central senior
prom on that evening. There are
about seventy-five students gradu-
ating from the Mt. Pleasant institu-
ton at the end Of this term, and
they are planning to have the time
OF their lives. ....
President George Schwinn is in
charge of the activities. His as
sistants are Vice President Grace
Harris, Secretary Betty Myers, AMI
Treasurer William Loman. The
treasurer Is being assisted in the
dance arrangements by Craig Will
ton and Reginald Watkins.
The mid-year class will be the
guests Of the June graduating class
on Saturday night. January %. fol-
lowing their class night exercises on
Friday. This dance Is being looked
forward to by senior Centralites.
They decided to entertain their
classmates in this manner at a
class meeting Thursday morning.
BUSINESS LOSES MANY.
About eighteen students will
graduate from the Business High
School two-year course, and about
eighteen from the four-year course
at the end Of this semester. No
dates have been set, as yet, for the
prom or class night exercises. The
Stenographers are planning big
times, however, and all the Febru-
airy graduates anticipate a novel
commencement.
Eleven pupils will leave Western
halls next month, the school across
the creek having an exceptionally
small class. No exercises have been
settled upon SO far.
Likewise very few students will
receive diplomas from Eastern, and
there will be no commencement
program followed at the southeast
ern institution.
Mckinley Manual Training School
will award sheepskins to about
thirty-five students. No dates have
been set for the grand climax of
the high school careers of these
crafts pupils.
HARD WORK AHEAD.
But the vast majority Of high
school students are not interested
In these graduation exercises nearly
as much as they are in plain and
intensive study. study, study. The
big thing for them in the next few
weeks is the ending of the semester.
with marks coming in all subjects.
Every class has been impressed
with the necessity of work by their
teachers, and delinquents have been
urged to hurry in making up their
studies as the next mark means
either promotion or failure. Ad-
visories marked deficient" last
time will count against students
who are behind, and for this reason
q hasty squirt in study is being at
tempted by those not excellent.
War games, cadet and class
dances and fetes Of sorts do not APP
peal to the boys and girls the same
as they did during those memorable
holidays. More important. now. is
the mark which dear teacher will
place on her report card in the near
future. Not the least interested
are thousands Of mothers and faith
ers, which fact does nothing to re-
lieve the anxiety of the students.
Once more used to work, the
going is not so hard, however, and
the better part of the boys and
girls are turning to" with q will
TO make good, which spirit will win
for them in the end-they seem to
know.
Flag Is Goal