Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
BIG ENROLLMENTS
SHOWN IN ORATORY
Private and ParoChiaI List
includes Ten 100 Per Cent
Institutions.

Ten Of washington's IL private and
parochial schools taking part In the
national oratorical contest this year
are rated as 100 per cent institutions
with their entire student bodies en-
rolled In the competition.
This Is an exceptionally large pro-
portion Of 100 per cent schools even
for the private and parochial division,
which has been marked by its oratoricai
enthusiasm since the Inauguration of
the contest seven years ago. Last
years Star area winner, James L. ButSch
Of st. Johns High School, was the
champion Of the private and parochial
division.
The outstanding local institutions Of
high school grade are numbered among
the ID contest schools, and In each of
them the forensic competition has had
. prominent place among the schools
extra curriculum activities.
The listing Of q school in the 100
per cent group, by contest officials, does
not necessarily mean, 1t Is pointed out,
that every student will actually speak
In the school competition, but that each
one has written a treatise on q con-
stitutional subject which could be de-
Hvered orally. Many Of these tnstitu-
tons have offered prizes for the best
composition, as well as for the best
speaker.
An Students Enrolled.
The Academy of the Sacred Heart
High School, 1866 Park road, has en-
rolled its entire student body In the
contest. Sister Marie Cecilia, the prin-
cipal, is in charge of the training Of
the orators and the direction Of the
contest She Is being assisted by Sis
Ter Pierre, an English teacher.
Dewitt Preparatory School, 1851 Up
ton street, another hundred per center,
has already advanced far toward Sc
1ecttng q representative. All of the
ITO boys have written papers on the
Constitution and is have been chosen
as outstanding Examinations among
these is are to be held every Friday
afternoon until only three are left.
The chosen trio will then take part In
the school finals near the last of this
month. DR.. George Dewitt, the priu-
cipal, and j. M. Henley, English
teacher, are in charge Of the contest.
The oratory competition at Emerson
Institute, 1740 p street, is being de
rected by the principal. DR.. w. H. Ran
delphi. and Is participated in by every
one OF the 100 boys enrolled. DR.. Ran
born, o. Solnltsky and r. D. Gatchei.
al English teachers.
In the 100 per cent group also is
the Landon School for Boys at 2l3I
Massachusetts avenue. Here Paul BAN
tield, the principal, and Ralph Green,
teacher Of public speaking, are in
charge. Landon is one Of the Districts
most recently established schools, but
its high-school department of II pupils
Is said to contain likely material for
test Fundamentally.
Each Of the 70 boys Of the woodward
School, 1876 q street, part of the
Young Mems Christian Association
educational system is participating In
the word tilt for the selection of the
school representative. They are being
helped by Principal ME- Hodges and
II. M. LaFont, English teacher.
Another institution listed in the 100
per cent group is st. Cecilia's Academy,
COL East Capitol street. The entire
student body Of SIS girls is particle
pating under the directions Of Sister
John Frederick. 80
- In Regular Course. . =
oonSaga High School, North Capitol
and streets, one Of Washington's
largest parochial schools, has made the
writing Of q suitable discourse on the
Constitution part of the regular Eng
ltsh course, thus tnSuring the partici-
patton Of every student. Rev. Canning,
project Of studies, is contest committee
chairman.
AL the 1873 students Of st. Patrick's
high School, Tenth and. G streets, are
taking part In the oratory competition
which is being directed by Sister Agneze,
the principal, who Is assisted by Sisters
Elorian, 1meldine, Novella and Harold.
st. Johns High School, 1925 Vermont
avenue, which furnished the Star area
winner last year, again Is enrolled 100
per cent, with $40 boys participating.
Brother Philip, the principal is COM
utittee chairman.
The Immaculate Conception Academy,
1864 Eighth street, rounds out the 100
per cent group, all Of its 81 students
competing. Sister Superior Mary Louise
and Sister Cecilia, an English teacher,
are actively interesting themselves In
the contest.
Other local schools Of the private
and parochial division enrolled In the
contest, but not classed In the 100 per
cent group include st. Pauls Academy,
1854 v street; Notre Dame Academy,
North Capitol and K streets, and In
fnaculate Seminary, Wisconsin and
Nebraska avenues.