Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1923, Page 10

deding Geniuses at School : Install Electric Signal Bells Budding scient!fic geniuses in the eighth-grade class at the Adams School got busy the other day, put their brief | primary kiowledge of electrical sclence | into practical use and gave the building its first modern signal and communicative systems. As a result the old hand bell which has announced class periods for nearly twenty-five Years has taken its place alongside the historic relics of the school, and the teachers are conserving shoe leather heretofore worn out climbing the school steps in search of the janitor by estab- Nshing dommunication ‘With him via the school telephone syStem. The improvements cafad. about by putting Into practice wt-the-school the “problem-project” {HEOFY method of teaching as | latesy An--4hie case, t the science ons_ treallng® of elec tricity and it pplication to the tel graph and telephone. Only one hour every two weeks do the pupils get t! benefits of this novel method of teac! ing. but the vinced the teachers of its value. Set Up Telegraph Sets, The sclence teacher Is Mrs. A. N. Thrasher. Her first lesson was, indee electrifying, for it caused the eight grade boys to make for themse! from the Instruction given, homemade telegraph sets for receiving and tran: mitting, which when set up In the clas: room, with wires strung on the g fixtures, made it resemble a forest live oaks hung with Spanish moss. el thus far has con- A short time later several boys ask- ed permission to put in an annunclator in the basement and electric bells on both floors to replace .the hand bell. The principal, Miss Mary E. Sheads, agreed to get the needed materials. After uiting Philip Chipman, an elect ontractor and an alumnus of th ms School, the boys set to work. The annunciato; boys contributed which one of the s placed in the base- ment, connecting with each of the eight rooms, 5o each teacher now can ring for'more heat, or less, or for the janitor to come upstairs. Besides, they placed huzzers on the teachers’ desks, and are now planning to install a bell in the ment which will be used to sum- he janitor by persons on the out- the building when they find it Radio Fanx Do Wiring. The wiring of the building took skill, socialized recitations,” were held in exposi- The puplls described connections were made ical apparatus, how the place, while criticized each s to content and s listened to one ps, deciding as to " method of teaching is THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY T4, 1923, | not so generai in the upper grades as it is in the kindergarten and primary! grades. *It would be & godsend to the secondary school,” commented ore teacher, “If such live subjects might be glven to boys and girls to afford them more self-expression than by ‘testing’ trying subjects upon them. Who knows Wwhat embyro Alexander Graham Bell there may be in our midst who will never arrive for the lack of a bit of | ——————— inspiration like that furnished by Mrs. Thrasher's first lesson in electricity to the class?* = The Critic will be out February 15. Several legal subjects have /been treated by popular authors, and the magazine has been nearly doubled in size and otherwise improved over the last issue. g EDDIE RICKENBACKER HURT. SALEM, Ore., February 14.—Eddie Rickenbacker, former "world war aviator and former automobile race driver, was slightly bruised when an automobile which he was driving from Portland to Salem overturned near Canby. 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