Evening star., 1924-05-18
Heard and Seen

Il want to talk about Washington
high schools" he said.
Recently I had the opportunity of
visiting seven of the local high school
buildings and a secondary parochial
school. The result is profound
| conviction that the District is to be
| congratulated
sometimes there is a great deal of
| talk about schools and school build
ings, with the net result that many
| gather the impression that our
schools are going to the dogs. Visions
| of ramshackle buildings come to
view.
"As a matter of fact, nearly all
of the secondary schools are ade-
guately housed, some of them in the
finest fashion, indeed. Let me tell
you how they appealed to me.
First, take the Central High
School 1t is = beautiful building,
commanding a magnificent view of
the city, adequately equipped for all
school purposes. No one who remem-
bers the old Central building at 7th
and o streets can but envy the pres
ent pupils in their fine accommoda-
tions.
"A striking feature of the new
Central is the stadium, affixed to the
| tuting an unusual and pleasing as
we'll as necessary feature. The audi
torium is fine and large, and the
| building as a whole admirably suited
| to school purposes.
Then journey down town to Rhode
l I0yo ~ n M
visit the Mckinley Manual Training
| School. Like most of Washington's
high schools, it is suffering from
lack of space, but the building itself
is in good shape. 1t was built be,
high school building. and much i'm
provement might be made, yet on the
whole 1t is a good building.
| The Business High School, but a
few blocks away. is a perfectly
admirably fulfilling adj requirements
athletic facilities, and surely the
school spirit is equal to that Of any
| other institution.
| "The Armstrong Manual Training
School might be better. To be exact,
it is going to be much better when
the new 100000 annex work on
which is now going on, is completed
The noise of the riveters sounds
| throughout the school hours, but
the pupils stick to their studies
despite the clamor, feeling that q
new and important part Of their
school establishment is growing daily
The Dunbar High School is a fine
building, with q splendid auditorium
1t seems to me that the auditori um
is q large part of any school. Tha,
is where all meet to consider their
school problems, to have all sorts OF
exercises, and to be graduated in the
end. The Dunbar School is a fine
specimen of modern high schoo
| buildings, and one of which the Dis.
| trict can be proud.
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"The new Eastern High School Ii
another distinctly high-class secon.
dary school establishment, not onl,
a credit to its section. but to the
entire District of Columbia. Thi.
school, too, enjoys a really first-clas.
auditorium, or assembly hall, as w
used to call 1t when l went to school
"Over at Western High School ma.
be found another good building, with
additions now in progress. Thi.
! school edfhce, while not OF the mos
modern type, is Of splendid appear
ance, with Its stately columns ant
green lawn, and rightly holds ffrs
place in the affection Of its grad
yates
Holy Cross Academy. taken as .
typo OF Catholic institutions, Is on
Of the most beautiful and inel!
located buildings in the Nationa
Capital, on the heights on Uptol
street. just east OF Connecticut ave
nue. The view is one Of the best IL
Washington, and the castle-iike char
acter Of the building both unusua
and beautiful
| r.
after visiting these schools,
tried to figure out what broad i'm
pressions they had left with me. The
first was, as have brought out, thai
Washington's high school buildings
when all Is said and done, arc pretty
good, after all.
1.-The next was, How glad I am tha'
I don't have to 80 to school anJ
more! found that the years since
RI left scholastic walls have made mt
different, so that the schools 1ooh