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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
96 JOIN JUNIOR HIGH,
Powell School Additions Bring En-.
rollment Up to Capacity.

On Monday 96 rockies entered Pow
ell Junior High School from element
airy classes. Powell now has a ca
pacitv enrolment, but with three ad-
Gitional teachers is running a well
b,Ianced Junior high school program.
This month rounds out Powell's first
year, and a celebration Of its first
birthday is being planned for the
week of February Is.
Among the traditions which Powell
Is establishing is that a diploma will
be issued on graduation into senior
high school only to those pupils who
have completed all work prescribed on
Junior high school program. Awards
are to be made at the end of each
semester 70 pupils who are contribu-
ting distinctly to the standards of
school life through scholarship, de-
pertinent and self-initiated projects for
school service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
MANY ENROLLMENTS
|ASN. U. SCHOOL OPENS
Largely Increased Attendance
Marks Second Term for Business
Administration and Government"

A largely increased enrolment
marked the opening of the second
term of the National University
school of business administration
and government, according to Dean
Maynard A. Clemens. Several new
courses are being offered for the first
time, which are open for new as well
as old students.
The classes in short story writing
taught by Prof. Nathan Bryllion
Fagin. and journalism, by Prof. r. j.
Carmody, are attracting a large group
of students who expect to follow lit
erature as a profession. These prac-
teal courses in English are supple
mented by the regular courses in
composition and rhetoric, business
English, English literd ture and CO.
temporary literature taught by other
members of the faculty.
Several courses in economics and
finance are offered this term by the
school of business administration
and government. They include
courses in money and banking, cor
poration finance, United States eco
| nomic history, trust company man
agement, land economics, economic
resources and economic problems.
Because of the increasing demand
for accountants a new course leading
to qualification for the examination
for certified public accountants in the
District and the several States was
started Tuesday. 1t is being con-
Quoted by Dwight n. Burnham, who
is "a certified public accountant and
long has been a teacher of the sub
ject.
The Alpha Chapter Of the Alpha
Beta Phi Law Fraternity of the Ma
tional University will entertain with
smoker this afternoon at $50 Shep-
herd street northwest. Six men will
be pledged next Sunday.
Officers of the Joseph H. Choate
Law Fraternity at the National Uni
versity will be elected at a meeting
at the inn next Wednesday night.
The fraternity will pledge II students
at that time.
Prof. Godfrey L. Munter and Prof
Theodore Peyser, who are honorary
members, addressed the meeting of
the National University Masonic Club
| last Friday night. The annual ban
Quet of the organization will be held
Saturday, February 20. at the Frank
lin Square Hotel, at which time Sena-
tors Hiram w. Johnson of California
and Pat Harrison of Mississippi will
be the guests of honor and will deliver
addresses.
the Phi Beta Gamma Legal F'rater-
nily of National University, which
was to have been held next Saturday
night, has been postponed until alter
Lent, due to the illness of members
of the committee who were in charge
Of it.
The Samuel T. Miller and Richard
A Alvey Debating Societies Of Ma
t.onal University will hold an inter-
society debate at the university next
saturday night, to which the public
is invited. The subject Of the debate
Will be announced later.
The next depdLIng event of the
year Will be the one with a team
from the University of Maryland,
details of which are now being ar
ranged. This will be the first time
! that National University speakers
meet a team from College Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
LARGE HONOR ROLL
AT WESTERN HIGH
Dramatic Association Elects Of.
ficers for Semester-Program
Is Presented.

Western High School students made
q good showing on the honor roll for
the last semester with the following
students: Seniors-Elizabeth Wilson,
Samuel Detwiler, Katherine Berrall,
Laura Clark, Lloyd Free, Claire
knight, Helen Macoughtry. Margaret
Merriam, Helen Sheckells, Gertrude
Tamplet, Marry Walker, Gertrude
Richardson, Marie HerZog, Elizabeth
Zaleskv, Philip Evans, Helen Good
ner. Helen Beck, Margaret Fleming,
Margaret Kari, Frank Weitzel, Estel-
lita Robinett and Violet Myers.
Juniors = Emily Cramer. Dorothy
Albert, Martha Benenson, Sara Stock
ton, Frances Rogers, Nola Livingston,
Catherine Groseclose. Dorothy Cook
Margaret Broxton, Norton Barnhart,
Margaret Rupli, Rush Lincoln, Paul
Porterf1fe'd, June Robinson, Mary
Putnam, Elma Moore. William Park,
David McDougal, Marion Stockton,
Helen Whitwell Jack Whitwell and
Marden Black. Sophomores-Evelyn
Inmon, Arlie Huffman, hewitt Smoot,
Alfred Thorn, Arthur Murphy. Kath-
crime HobSon, Ann Scofeld, Herbert
Pasch, Anne Durand, Gertrude Price,
Betsy Scott Luce, Frederick Ritter.
IdNScil, liaiiI loii,
Katherine Slaughter, Herbert Thomp-
son, Elizabeth Wheeler. Maurice Gou-
beau, Edmond Gray, Barbara Hughes,
Sulda May, and Katherine Smith.
Freshmen = Eveline Bates, Mary
Elizabeth Clark. Elizabeth Towne,
Grace Hall, Betty Baum, Mae Rastall,
Lucille Miller. Laura Churchill, Mar
garet Gross, and Ruth Schneider.
Those seniors who graduated il
February and who made the honor
roll are Charles Marten. Margaret
Meigs. Gladys Smith, Fred Strine, Ada
Volkman and Priscilla Wallace.
The officers of the Dramatic Asso-
citation for this semester were elected
at the meeting of this organization
Wednesday. Helen Sheckelss was re-
elected president and Margaret Elem
Ing was reelected secretary. Ralph
Burgess was elected vice president
and Frank Weitzel treasurer.
The program consisted of a poem,
Remembrance" by Dudley Harmon;
selections on the banjo by Cassin
Shoemaker; Selling Husbands by
Claudia Sutton; songs by Claire
knight, accompanied by Margaret
karr on the mandolin; jokes by Ralph
Burgess; "A Small Boy at the Circus
With His Mother" by Eveline Bates:
selections by the orchestra; poem, ION
the Road to Mandalay," by Richard
Greenwood; selections on the piano by
Violat Myers; and THE Lonesome
Boy" by Ruth Molyneaux.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
UPSHAW ADDRESSES
HOWARD ASSEMBLY
New Gymnasium-Armory to Be
Dedicated Formally on
February rs,

The faculty and student body OF
Howard University heard a short
Address by Representative William
d. Upshaw of Georgia at the assem-
bly, last Wednesday in the university
chapel. Mr.. Upshaw mentioned the
progress made by the university. DR..
j. Stanley Durkee, president of the
university. announced that the new
gymnasium-armo building will b..
formally dedicated Friday. February
&c. The athletic field will be dedi-
Gated early in the Spring.
The MONDAY chapel assembly last
Monday, composed largely of mem
bers of the freshman class, listened
o an address by DR.. William c. Cor
don, member of the faculty of the
school of religion. The subject was
The Gentleman"
The Pestalozzi-FroebelF Forum held a
meeting Tuesday night in Library
Hall, at which time a general dis
cussion was made of matters Of in
terest to future teachers. Musical
selections were rendered. The Pesta-
lozzi -Frobel Forum is the teachers
professional club of the university.
The following program has just
been announced by the department of
history in connection with the OBJ
February to -: Monday, February
s, an address will be delivered by
President J. Stanley Durkee; Febru-
airy 9, Prof. William Leo Hansberry
will talk on the subject, Africa;
February 10, exercises will be held
IN the Andrew Rankin Memorial
Chapel in commemoration OF the
of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick Douglass; February
II, Prof Charles E. Burch of the
Department of English will speak
on 1.-The Field of Literature" and
The Field of Art" will be discussed
by Prof. James V. Herring of the
college of applied science at the as
sembly February II.
In addition, various clubs and
class organizations are arranging pro-
grams which will tend to stimulate
interest in negro history.
DIR. George F. Dudley, rector Of St.
Stephens Church will be the speaker
at the vesper services to be held this
afternoon at 4:30 In the Andrew
Rankin Memorial Chapel on the
campus. Music will be furnished by
the university choir.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
Seeks Teaching Position.

Mary E. c. Cottrell has filed a petit
ton in mandamus in the District Su-
preme Court against the Board of
Education, Superintendent Ballou and
Assistant Superintendent Wilkinson,
to compel the board to declare vacant
the position of teacher of domestic art
in the colored high schools, and to
appoint the petitioner to the position.
The petitioner asserts that she passed
successfully the examination for the
place, and was told February IL, 1924,
that she stood second on the eligible
list. Two persons have been ap-
pointed and are now holding similar
positions, who have not taken the ex-
animation and who are not college
graduates according to the petitioner,
and she wishes them removed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07

A double-door Chifforobe Of
Gumwood in Walnut finish. It
has a full length compartment for
clothes, a smaller compartment and
five convenient drawers. 1t is a
very practical piece for
the bedroom .oo osbo'- 500 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
ORCHESTRAL WORK
WILL START ANEW
Midyear Organization oil
Classes in Public Schools
Scheduled for Feb. rs.

AIidyear organization of new
classes on orchestral instruments and
piano for the school year 1926 by
the music department of the public
schools. under the direction of DR..
+. n. G. Barnes, in cooperation with
the community center department,
was announced last night for the week
beginning February 10. The compile
ton of the first term of IS lessons was
effected February /. These classes
will continue automatically.
The demonstration of the piano
work, held the week of January IL,
Laura Fairchild Ward. in charge of
classes on orch stral instruments, de-
clared last night. won many converts
20 the idea of class instruction, and
this week the public is invited to learn
what may be accomplished by the use
of the class method in the teaching
Of the orchestral instruments.
Declared of Great Help.
These community classes Miss
Ward continues. ARE held after school
and Saturday mornings, and are de-
signed to help parents to learn at a
minimum cost whether or not child
has any aptitude for the instrument
of his choice. At the end of the
course, covering period of four terms
or go lessons, all pupils who have
satisfactorily completed the class work
are advised to continue their studies
under the private teacher.
These classes are open to any
pupil from the fourth grade up
through the high schools, who has not
studied under a private teacher within
the last six months. and the fee of
So for a term of Is lessons ought
TO provide for every child opportunity
to have the expression of the uni
versaI language under intelligent di-
rection."
Schedule of Classes.
The list of places and times of
classes on orchestral instruments fol
lows:
Monday, February s, $50 pm
Violin, Hyde, 0 near Wisconsin ave
nue.; clarinet, Thomson, 18th and l..
Tuesday, February 9, $50 PM
Violin. Cooke, Eighteenth and Fuller;
violin. jefferson, ID and Sixth streets
southwest.
Wednesday, February 10, $40 pm.
Violin, Langley Junior High, T
street northeast near Lincoln road;
violin, Park View, Warder and Otis;
cornet, Abbot, New York avenue and
Sixth.
Thursday, February II, $50 pm
tiolin, Hine Junior High, Seventh
hear Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
Friday, February Il, $50 p.m.-Nio-
lin, Ludlow, G. and Sixth northeast;
violin, Petworth, Shepherd near Geor-
gia avenue.
Saturday, February IS, 9 a.m.-Nio-
lin, Thomson, Twelfth and l.: cello.
Thomson, 1890 am; flute, Thomson,
1890 am. saXophone, Thomson, 1870
am; drums, Thomson, 1890 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
URGES BETTER HABITS
TO FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS
Speaker Says Proper Posture and
Breathing Would Accomplish
Much.

Millions of dollars now spent an
nually in fighting, tuberculosis could
be saved if better habits were insisted
upon among youths, said Albert w.
Harmed, addressing the teachers at the
Berret School last week on Voice Pro
duction. Speaking and Singing" DR..
Edwin Barnes, director of music in
the Washington schools, presided.
eff proper posture and breathing
were a part of constant supervision a
different story would be told" said Mr..
Harmed. Voice culture has these
conditions to combat and, too. the con.
sonental popularity Of our language.
yet no consistent system of correction
of these native faults seems to be ac-
copied by the public"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07
Locating the Victim.
From the Yorkshire Post

7 tn6 TOrKEnlre POST.
Professor examining a medical stu
denteIf you were ever called out to
81 patient, what would be your first
question?
Msdics4l Student-His address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-07

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-27
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-27
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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-09-07
Widows and WidOwers
Club Plans Meeting

Elyria, O.. Sept GPl-The lone
ly members Of the Widows and Wild
overs club, an organization which
grew from a small Elyria house
gathering four years ago into a cor
respondence club of national scope.
will lay down their pens in October
and come TO Elyria to get personally
acquainted
Mrs. Nellie B. Stull. grand presi-
dent and founder, is arranging plans
for the first convention.
Il never realized there vas 50
much loneliness in the world" said
Mrs. Stub. who has received hun
dreds Of proposals herself since she
started her match making enterprise
by inviting Elyria's widows and wild
overs TO her Third street home.
Il got the idea from some pathetic
wailflOwer scenes at our local
dances. had a hobby and l fostered
if. Then it grew like a SNOWFALL in a
storm of publicity"
Of the thirty-two charter members
all except Mrs. Stull have deserted
the ranks through marriage.
She estimates the number Of sue
cessful marriages she has promoted
at ESQ and she says she has more
than 1000 lonely ouls" correspond
ing at the present time.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-09-07

came the wife OF II. X. w. WeIch
of Hartford. Mrs. Clark died in
1895 and four years later Mr.. Clark
married her sister, Matilda c. Root.
Travelled Much
Mr.. Clark had travelled extensive
ly. He made TWO trips to Europe;
with Charles Dudley Warner went
through Mexico TO the Isthmus of
Tehauntepec; visited Cuba and
Guatemala with Sir William Van
Horn; went through the SuIebra cut
Of the Panama Canal before the
wafer was let in and toured Costa
Rica. He was a close friend Of
Chief Justice William Howard Taft
and when the latter was secretary Of
war made with him his Longest trip,
going TO China, Japan and the
Philippine Islands.
Retained Keen Interest
Advancing years failed to lessen
the interests in the things 20 which
Mr.. Clark had devoted his life. He
had kept up his editorial and read
ing york and continued his frequent
fishing trips. which We're his prin-
cipal recreation. On one Of these
in April, 1924, he suffered a broken
shoulder bone. Shortly before, on
the 18TH anniversary Of his birth. he
arrived an hour late at his desk.
When his hardness was called 10 his
attention he explained that he
sta ed from homo on :ir,1e bu, :, , 4
gone TO the City hail TO get his fish
ing license and then went to the
polls 10 vote.
Mr.. Clark was a member Of the
Century, University and Yale clubs
Of New York; the Graduates club
Of New Haven, the Hartford club.
the Metabetchouan Fish and Game
club Of Canada and the Asylum Hill
Congregational church of Hartford.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-09-07

until he became the jest of Eliza.
beth's ministers and the dupe OF the
Lord Of Barney. From that day
kissing the barney stone" has
been synonymous with flattery and
smooth, deceitful words.
q. To what royal house does the
King Of Spain belong?
A. King Alfonso XIII is a direct
descendent OF the House Of Bourbon
and is the last reigning Bourbon
King.
Q. When did the English writer
Chaucer live. and what is his most
famous work?
A. He lived A. D. 1340 to 400.
His most famous work is the Cam
terbury Tales.
Q. Has "Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes" been produced in the
movies? Who is the author of the
story
A. The movie production is not
finished but soon will be by the
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
The book was written by Anita Loos
and the dramatized version has
been quite successful
Q. How is artificial marble
made?
A. By hardening gypsum and
also from magnesium oxide and
magnesium chloride which may
have marble dust mixed with il. 1t
is used tor ornamental purposes.
Q. Which OF the Justices OF the
United States Supreme Court wrote
the decision in the Danbury Hatters
case? Who was Chief Justice az the
time?
A. Associate Justice Charles
Evans Hughes wrote the decision.
D. White was Chief Justice
at the time.
@. What is "salvarsan" ="
A. a compound invented by
Ehrlich for the treatment OF micro
bic diseases caused by spirilla, re-
current fever, fr.mboesia, etc, pop
ularly known as sos.
Q. Has Spain a state church?
A. The national church of Spain !
is Roman Catholic. and the whole .
Of the population adheres to that |
faith except about 10000 Protest .
ants and about 1000 Jews The (.
requires the nation to
support the clergy and buildings OF
the Church.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-09-07

@. How can rust spots be re-
moved from a razor?
A. Cover the metal with sweet
oil, well rubbed in; let it stand for
As hours and then rub with finely
puiverized unslaked lime.
/ Q. When were the foreign troops
withdrawn from China after the
/ Boxer uprising?
a. In accordance with a protocol
submitted TO the Imperial Chinese
government relating 10 the Boxer
uprising. all foreign troops ex-
cept the legation guards were with
, drawn in September 1901, and the
Status quo was reestablished.
Q. Who was Alexander Wilson?
A. An early American ornitho-
logist and poet G766-1813) born
in Paisley, Scotland. He worked for
some time as a weaver and then be-
came peddler. In 1920 he publish
ed volume of poems. Later he was
imprisoned for writing satires on
the Paisley master weayers in a
trade dispute. In 1894 he emigrated
10 America, where he worked for
several years as weaver. peddler
and school teacher. William Bart
ram interested him in drawing birds
and he evolved a plan 10 illustrate
the ornithology Of the United States |
He edited six volumes OF Wilson's !
American ORTHODOXY. His scien- |
tiilc work was not systematic but /
his descriptions were good, his .
pictures were superior to most Of |
those of his day and he was a !
pioneer in his chosen field.
Q. Which is more acute in
horse the sense Of smell or of
sight?
A. Horses have a poorly devel-
oped sense Of smell but remark
able vision.
Q. What is the meaning Of
Octavia? A.
A. It is from the Latin and
means eighth born"
@. What kind of a word is
"Agla?" Il
a. A Greek word meaning
brightness.
Q. Can a marriage license OBJ
tanned in Rhode Island be used in
New York?
A. No. Licenses must be obtain /,
I'd in the city or county where the
is to take place.