Evening star., 1924-03-02
HOME AND SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION MEETS
Session Is Held at Eastern High
School-Act Of Alumni
Show Is Given.
JUDGE BRITT WILL SPEAK
Basket Ball Team to Play Last
Game March s.

Game March 8.
The Home and School Association
OF Eastern High School held a meet
ing Friday night. Arthur Robb,
president Of the association, pre-
sided at the business meeting. After
the business meeting Miss Jessie La
Salle. supervising principal in charge
of educational research work for the
public schools. spoke. This was fol-
lowed by an act from the alumni
show, Memories" and consisted in
the singing of old songs by four
girls-Misses Mildred Boynton, Eola
Benzler. Margaret Beasley and Helen
Warfield. Several other musical num-
bers completed the program.
Yesterday" marked the first ami
versary of the entrance into the new
school building. 1t will be recalled
that on March l, 1923, the whole stu
dent body of Eastern, led by a band
and members of the Alumni ASsocia-
tion, paraded in triumph from the
southeast to the present building.
Eastern then had an enrolment of
about 1900. Now its total enrolment
exceeds 1850 Some of the girls of
the lower classes are required to sit
on the stage at assemblies, as there
is no room for them in the main audi
torium.
End Of Advisory Period.
The first advisory period of the
second semester will end March IA,
according to Principal Charles Hart.
The student body will be addressed
this week by Judge James J. Britt
under the auspices of the Woman's
u Ia
Eastern High Schools champion
basket ball team will play its last
game for this season March 8, when
1T will meet the champions of Balti-
more at Baltimore. A Baltimore
newspaper is promoting the game.
Last week Miss Mabel Campbell
addressed the girls of the school on
Domestic Science and Household
Economics"
The Friendship Girls Club will hold
a tea-dance on the afternoon Of
March Z from to ) o'clock.
At Il meeting of the Dramatic As
sociation. which was called Tuesday
afternoon. it was decided to present
"Rollo's Wild Oats" This play will
be under the direction of Miss Prince.
Tryouts for the cast are already be-
ing held, although the play is not
to be given until the nights of April
8 and IL.
flunS 1Or Cup AWARD.
A delegation of high school stu
dents--one representative from each
school-met at Central High School
Thursday to discuss the plans for
the award of the Brown University
alumni cup for the best spring play
presented in the District high schools.
Miss Sibyl Baker of Central High
School presided.
Tuesday morning an assembly was
held, the first part of which was ath-
letic in nature. Mr.. Collins, Eastern's
track coach, announced that Eastern
had four boys entered in the johns
Hopkins indoor track meet and that
those four boys, exhibiting the far
famed Eastern spirit. brought home
four medals. Chief Justice Walter I.
Mccoy of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia presented the
Harvard cup to the Distri t cham
pions on behalf of the Ha- ward Club
of Washington, of which ie is presi-
dent. He said in presenting the cup:
Competition is necessary to sport,
but l hope there will never be in
scribed upon this cup the name Of
truthfully. We won it fairly"
Coach Guyon received the cup in be-
half of Eastern. He said that the
winning Of the championship was due
to the hearty cooperation of the
team and to the students loyal sup
port In conclusion he said: Il hope
that our team may continue to up
hold the honor of the school, to re-
main leaders in sports and to hold
this cup perpetually."
Speaks on Chemistry.
At the same assembly DR.. Charles
E. Monroe of the natural resource
commission. bureau of mines. spoke
on why Study Chemistry" He
spoke of the great number of fields
for chemistry. among them mining.
agriculture and public health service.
He told of the many advantages OF
studying chemistry and pointed out
that important positions are OFTEN
filled by chemists. He gave as an
example the former prime minister.
of England, Lord Salisbury. DIR.
Monroe is prominent in chemical cir
cIes. He Is the inventor of smokeless
powder. DR.. Monroe was formerly
a dean at George Washington Uni
yersity.
ham, president. has been holding
regular meetings. with the object OF
better fitting candidates for the ora
tions on the Constitution. About
sixty-seven students have signified
their intention Of entering this contest.
test.
The membership of the Rifle Club
has been cut down to ten members,
with the view Of perfecting these
boys for the rifle matches later.
Regular practice is held on Tuesdays
at The memorial services held by Con-
eress Wednesday for the late Presi-
dent Harding was received by radio
in the music room of the school.