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the speech trippingly on the tongue"
Our English course aims to develop
this skill. To this end we require de-
bates and oral reports in our classes.
But the enlarging of the field of
achievement such. as has come
through participation in The Stars
contest, the carrying on of the work
from the classroom into the assembly
hall and further into the public arena,
this, indeed, is of inestimable value
since it shows the pupils the i'm
portance of such training in life.
1.-The teacher of the English depart
ment in the high schools are con-
WINGED of the Immediate need for
speech training here and now. Plans
are already underway to introduce
definite courses in public speaking in
all our high schools. An impetus
from the outside such as The Stars
incentive strengthens our case i'm
mensely. May this contest be but the
entering wedge, May it stand as the
first in long series of annual ora
torical contests which shall rank as
one of the important events on our
high school calendar"
Third Judging Tomorrow.
The third round of Judging will
take place tomorrow afternoon, when
the judges will hear, at their respec-
tive high schools, the student win
ners at the Armstrong Manual Train
ing School and the Dunbar High
School.
In an automobile of The Star the
Judges will proceed from the court
mouse to the Armstrong School, where
At 3;45 o'clock they will hear Rozier
Gaddis, winner in the seventh dis
Irlct or the local zone. At 4:15
O'Clock they will listen to Lillian l.
washington deliver her grafton,
which was adjudged the winner at
the Dunbar High School, district FIVE
In this zone.
sentative, was born at Alexandria
va, June 3, 1907. He is the son of
the late Walter NJ and Nellie Gaddis
he was educated in the primary and
sammar naaa schools of Alexandria and
is22' with advanced standing in Eng
lisn and mathematics. He is now in
the fourth semester and has been
aWa5ded the highest honors in
Scnoiarshlp. Besides his oratorical
ability. he is a Corporal in the cadets
and plays second base on the school
base ball team.
Miss Washington is the daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Washington
and is senior at the Dunbar School
She was born in Boston in 1907 and
came to this city when four years
old. She entered the Dunbar High
school in September, 1921, after hav-
ing been graduated as valedictorian
from Shaw Junior High School i'm
June of that year.
Active in School Work.
She has represented Dunbar in de-
bates since 1922 and been prominent
in various literary and social clubs of
the school, as welr as being active
in dramatic work. After her gradu-
alton from Dunbar she plans to at
and to complete her college work at
Oberlin College, the alma mater of
her father. AS her life's work she
hopes to be National Girl Reserve
secretary. =
Tuesday will see the conclusion of
the judgingS, when representatives
of the Eastern and Western high
schools and the Holy Cross Academy
viii be heard by the judges Ruth
Greenwood will be heard at 3:45
o'clock at the Eastern High School,
Ruth Craven at AIS o'clock at the
Holy Cross Academy, and Dorothy
B. Smith at the Western High School
at 4:45 o'clock
Similar procedure will be used at
these schools as was used last week
in hearing Ruth Newburn at the Cen
trail High School, Frank 1. Winant
at the Mckinley Manual Training
School and Edith Miley at the Busi-
ness High School.
The judges will occupy seats in the
audience, and mark the contestants
so per cent on delivery and so per
cent on content of the grafton. Sim
Pile ceremonies will mark the presen-
tation at the schools. the principals
presiding in each case.
After the bearings are completed