Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1929, Page 21

'SCHOOLS A THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,.SEPTEMBER 15, 1929—PART Y. 6. W. U EXPECTS MANY TO REGISTER Policy Lays Emphasis on:} Personal Relationship With Institution. ‘With the resumption of classes in the George Washington University sched- uled for Wednesday, September 25, all indications point to a large registration !?r the university’s 109th academic ses- sion, The administrative policy for the coming year lays emphasis upon per- sonal relationships within the institu- tion. To care for increasing enroliment ! without detriment to the individual, a | program of student personnel adminis- tration has been developed which | insures each student the maximum amount of attention from faculty and | administrative officers in his academic | and extra-curricular activities, Specific Steps Are Cited. Specific steps in this program in- clude the separation of the student body in Columbian College into upper and lower divisions, the establishment of the office of adviser to students from foreign countries, the appointment of a secretary for women's activities, the extension of the service of the student employment bureau, the institution of vocational guidance, the development of the physical education work and the preservation of small instructional units, Under the new organization of Co- lumbian College, junior and senior stu- dents are assigned to the upper division in charge of Dr. Charles E. Hill, dean of the college, while freshman and sophomore students come within the lower division, of which Henry Grattan Doyle has been named the dean. Holt Is Foreign Advisor. Prof. William Stull Holt has been | designated advisor to students from | foreign countries, to act as_counselor to the group of students representing more than 40 foreign courftries, who come to the National Capital to study in George Washington Universit | ' Heads Art School i CLARA HILL. struction. ~ All full-time members of the teaching staff have been provided with offices. The new registrar's office is especially equipped to handle student records with accuracy and facility. Registration will open on Saturday, September 21, continuing through Tues- day, September 24. From 300 qualified | applicants for admission to the Medical School, 90 have been selected for the freshman class. Law students will register in Stock- ton Hall, the Law School building. Stu- dents of all other schools of the uni- versity will register in Corcoran Hall. Members of the staffs of all depart- ments of instruction will be present for consultation with students as to the ar- nnfment of programs. The registration procedure has been so arranged that registration may be accomplished with facility and dis- patch. Former students who qualify, have been mailed registration permits so that they may not be delayed by the necessity of demonstrating qualification | at the time of registration. Registration | forms to be filled out by students have been simplified to the greatest possible extent. — Vinnie Midden Barrows, who has been appointed secretary mrJ women's activities, will assist studen: who desire counsel as to their persol i and social problem: nd will supervise | the extra-curricufar activities of women | students. To aid the large numbers of students who are making their way through the university, and to enable Washington employers to obtain the services of in- teiligent and ambitious young people, the service of the student employment bureau will be extended. Through the psychology department of the university, students will receive vocational guidance on the basis of intelligence and aptitude tests. The appointment of additional fac- ulty members in many departments and the division into two units of late afternoon sections of all freshman classes in the Law School will pre-| serve small instructional groups throughout the university. | Medical Examination. The physical well being of students | will be safeguarded by regular medical and physical examinations, and the | two-year physical education requirement, will insure ‘proper bodily development. | The staff of the department of physical education for men consists this year of | James E. Pixlee, B. S. professor of physical education for men. and three | associates. Ruth Harriet Atwell, Ph. B, associate professor of physical education for women, will have two instructore upon her staff. { Improvements beneficial to the stu- dent body have been made in the physi- cal equipment of the university. Al classrooms have been newly painted and furnished with adequate lighting facilities. Special attention has been given to seating arrangements. A num- ber of the laboratories, notably the zo00logy and botany laboratories, have been enlarged, and additional equip- ment provided. A modernly equipped pharmacy laboratory has been installed in the new building of the Pharmacy School, and the psychology department has in its new quarters specialized rooms for study and experimental work in psychology. Faculty offices have been 50 arranged as to bring together the members of each department of in- DAY SCHOOL Edi ll:ih 'l”C‘: 1d: 1 Expert Educational Guidance for Children, 3 to 14. Limited classes insure academic progress ~nd cultural develop- ment. Conveyance furnished Small Residence Department wz. & STANWOOD COBB Phone Wisconsin 2673 30 School Days, rned. _reads _like id. ' Stenographic Course, 12 weeks: Becra 4 weeks Bookkeeping, 12 weeks. Graduates in demand ition guaranteed. New Classes now form: Register tod f HESTER WALKER BEALL Studio of the Spoken Word Opening October 1, 1929 A studio devoted to the develop ment of each student's personality by the cultivation of a pleasing voice. poise and confidence, thus preparing and ng the pubil to sain <orial fessional suc h Principles of Interpretation and Appreciation of Literature Public Speaking | Practical Normal Work Technique of the Radio Address All time and money spent in the fraining of speech and voice is an investment that pays a grentes dend than any other. —Gla The training of the speaker 1d begin in_bovhood and should be part and parcel of the lessons of the school. —John Quiney Adams TRAINING IN INTERIOR DECORATIONS PRACTICAL Master School Instructors Provide Students Accredited and Pro- fessional Course. Every branch of the interior deco- rative arts is thoroughly taught by | practical and expert instructors at the | Master School of Interior Decoration, 1206 Eighteenth street, which offers | students an accredited and professional training course and prepares them for a not overcrowded and well paying pro- fession. ‘The teaching of every subject is dem- onstrated in a practical manner, the school, which occupies three spacious floors, having at its disposal a large and well selected collection of period furni- mantelpieces, architectural details, ac- cessories of all kinds, etc. Co-operating with the trade and num- bering among its students the office and sales personnel of many of the best known stores and offices, the school makes every effort to place its graduate students in well paying positions. Arrangements are now under way for a new beginners' class, and a prelimi- nary meeting of tHose interested is to be held at the school on September 24 at 7:30 o'clock for a thorough discussion of the course. Further information may director of the school, who has been identified with art and literary activi- ties in Washington for over 25 years. More than 33,000 automobiles from the United States were imported into Canada the first six months of this year. The George Washington University Law School Member Association of American Law Schools. Appioved by American Bar Asso- clation. Established 1865 Academic year 1929-30 begins September 25. Registration days, September 21, 23 and 24. 720 Twentieth Street Stockton Hall West 1640 \WOODWAR]) SCHOOL A Leading Preparatory School for Boys Aceredited —Excellent Athletie Facilities. Men Teachers Omly. —Sixth Grade Thru High School. Opens Sept. 18—Send for Catalog. Y. M. C. A.—1736 G 5t. N.W. You lCan ; Learn ART ADVERTISING . Interior Decoration Costume Design Ask for New Catalog 29 Years in Washington Livingstone Academy EUGENE T. DICKINSON, Presiden Member Agesciation of ‘Colleses an Sccondars” Schools of the - Middle States and Maryland OPPOSITE FOX THEATER Stoneleigh Court National 2266 For _appcintment until opening, call Adams 1514. Emerson 1333 F St., Adams Bldg. Phone Metropolitan 2883 Institute 77th Consecutive' Year 1738-1740 P St. Decatur 0551 Day School—Late Afternoon School—Co-Educational Accredited in the U. S . and Foreign Countries ~ Fall Term Begins September 16 Preparing for College and University—West Point—Annapolis—Coast Guard Boarding Department Special classes preparig for examinations for Direct Com- u:’iuion in U. S. Army; also for Flying Cadets, U. S. Corps. Write or Call for Information w. . H. Randolph, Principal ture, textiles, wall and floor coverings, | 'NEW ART SCHOOL ANNOUNCES OPENING Clara Hill, Founder of Institution, to Have Well Qualified Staff of Teachers. Announcements have recently been malled out to a selected list of persons \nllln: attention to the founding in ‘Washington of & new educational in- stitution to be known as the Hill School of Art. Olara Hill, the sculptor, who is well known in Wasl n's artistic and educational circles, will direct the new school, which will have its headquarters at 6 Dupont le. The Hill School of Art will have a teaching staff of artists who are also well qualified as teachers. Courses will be given in modeling. garden sculpture, portraiture, painting, design and etch- ing. Advantages for professional train- ing will be offered, as well as encourage- | ment to beginners. Special attention will be given to the work with children. Father Well Known. Clara Hill, the founder of the Hill | School of Art, is a daughter of the late | John Ross Hill, former director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and she was brought up and recelved her early artistic training in his George- town home. Mr. Hill was a great lover of music, played the violin and organ- ized the Georgetown Orchestra, which helped so greatly in the spread of mu- sical culture in Washington. In Georgetown Miss Hill studied under Antonio Pedon, who was then affliated with the supervising architect’s office. Later Miss Hill studied in Par Brussels and New York under suc mous masters as Augustus Saint-Gau- dens, Paul Bartlett and the Frenchmen. Puech and Injalbert. During the World War Miss Hill taught modeling to wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hos- pital and her classes were visited and commended by Gutzon Borfi:’xm and John Wanamaker. Miss Hill also taught at Trinity College and she was one of n;e Al’&unflera of the Crichter-Hill School o Best Known Works. works are portrait busts of James Lees Lajdlaw of New York, S. S. McClure, well known publisher: Mrs. Henry Par- sons Erwin, Col. William Curry Harllee, Capt. Willlam O. Hulme and a number of busts of children. Other of her works include a garden fountain for the home of Dr. Harry Tevis. Los Gatos, Calif.; “Chauve Souris,” decorative figure in the garden of Horace Peaselee, Wash- ington: “Girl and Pegasus,” in posses- sion of Grace Hoffman, the writer, and a wall tablet modeled for Trinity Col- Jege. Washington, D. C. Miss Hill's works have been exhibited in the Paris Salon, the New York and Philadelphia Academies, the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Chicago Art Institute, the Pan-American Exposition and elsewhere. and her exhibits have taken prizes the Yukon-Pacific Ex- vosition, Seattle: at the National Art Exhibit last year in New York and at numerous other public exhibitions. TAKES UP RESIDENCE. Rev. Albert H. Lu new headmas. ter of Saint Alban's. the National Ca: thedral School for Boys. is now in res- idence at the school. He has already taken charge of the arrangements for the Fall term of the school, *which will begin late this month. Ameng the best known of Clara Hill's | CHERNOFF TO TUTOR IN WOODWARD SCHOOL Yale Man Made Teacher at Y. M. C. A, Experienced in Latin and French. Bernard M. Chernoff, Yale honor man and author of legal text books, has just been added to the faculty of the Wood- wapd School for Boys, according to an announcement by Fred L. Dawson, as- sistant director of education of the Young Men's Christian Association Col- lege, with which the school is affiliated. Chernoft will teach French and Latin, He is an experienced tutor of boys of preparatory age, having been a member of the staff of the Roxbury School, at New Haven, Conn., in 1923, 1924 and 1925; of the faculty of the Milford! School, at New Haven, in 1926, and of the faculty of the Cherry Law School, at Darlen, Conn., in 1925. His classes were composed of students in intensive preparation for college entrance exami- ' nations at Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Chernoft studied education and teach- ing in the graduate school at Yale, and also in the graduate department of the University of New Hampshire. Recelving his early education in the elementary, grammar and high schools at New Britain, Conn., Chernoff ob- tained the highest college entrance ex- amination average for the State of Con- necticut in 1920, and was awarded the Connecticut State scholarship at Yale. At Yale he was awarded first honors in 1921, second honors in 1922, the Hart- ford alumni scholarship in 1922 and 1923, the philosophical oration stand in 1923, Phi Beta Kappa in 1923, and a bachelor of arts degree in 1924. He has written and published ‘“The Bones of Torts” and “Common Law Actions.” Mr. Chernoff is 26 years old, and is married. NINTH YEAR TO BEGIN. _.The Anne Tillery Renshaw School of Speech will begin its ninth academic | year September 30. |, The teaching staff of last year is re. | tained. = Miss Edythe Fussell and Mr: . 8. Hawthorne have returned and Miss Ellen Dashiell is back from a Eu- ropean tour. Mrs. Renshaw, dean, spent the Summer on a motor tour of the | United States and Canada. A census of students shows a large professional group. During the last three years 27 vocations have been reg- istered. A new course offered this semester is the conversation forum. It is mainly a lecture course, with free discussion and comment. support- course of It you would like to become ing, We can h Begin shorthand, ing, bookkeeping, letter iting. speliing. arithmetic and English. A 10 months' course. day session. costs | 2 0.~ You would be and never regret h the cour the preparation. WOOD’S SCHOOL 311 East Capitol St. Line. 0038 Wt ST 58S BADG. M (e s O Dist. 2180 | The Civil Ser;ic;l’reprarnlo'ry School Phone Metropolitan 6337 Prepares for Census Office. Patent Office, be obtained from Rudolphe de Zapp, | a; r_and Senior r_ Stenographer. Clerk-Stenographer. Computor. Special Agent, Forest an: MRS. COOK’S SCHOOL The School for Little en. Kindergarten Throush Fifth Grad and Supervised play and special Athletic Class. Playgrounds. Open Wednesday, October 2 2344 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. tur 2750 intensive Course Complete in One Year Students construct motors, install t lectrical machi dress. Bliss Electrical School 210 Takoma Ave. Washington, D. C. 61st Year Begins Septem ‘This School offers a standard nomics and Government leading (A. B.) and Bachelor of Science ment, The following courses are Corporation Finance. Business Finance. Investments. Business Organization and Ad- ministration. Money and Banking. Money and Credit. Federal Reserve System. The Stock Exchange. Development of Banking Services. Banking Practice. '{run Company lninaAumzntd uditing ana Legal Accounting. Principles of Economics, tation. Ecenomic Geurgaphy. Interstate Commerce. Federal Tri vernment. and 1 Southeast Corner 12th & F St. N.W. | 8 B s 20 th Street N.W. APA AP o g | ARCHITECTURE New condensed College Course i begins October Ist. [ Send Detail Outline COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF DRAFTING & ENGINEERING 13th & E Sts. N.W. Met. 5626 All Bran f_Drafting-Engineering Mathema for Catalog: 'OLUMBIA KINDERGARTEN TRAINING SCHOO! L Reopens October’ 3. 1 SARA K. LIPPING The Westmio: 1L OTT. reland. 929. Principal. North 41 Take a | “‘Blindfold Test”— when selecting a business college. Deciding upon Po- teet’s is strictly business. ‘There's an efficient teach- ing staff and a determina- tion to give the student his money’s worth. You'll get actual individual instruc- tion. Courses in Secreta- rial work, Accounting, Stenography, Typewriting, Civil Service and allled subjects. Ask for our circular. POTEET’S Business College Com. Nat'l. Bank Bldg. National 4717 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ber 28, 1929, at 6:30 P.M. School of Economics and Government - four-year collegiate course in Eco- to the degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. 8. in Economics and Govern- offered: American Polifical Theories. Constitutional Law. Jurisprudence and Legal History. International Law. International Claims. International Relations and Or- ganization, Roman Law. Modern Civil Law. Ancient History. Roman Civilization and Its Survival in the Modern World. Modern European History. Early American History. American History, 1829 to the present. History of American. Foreign ST e e for Heads Boys’ School | | | BERNARD M. CHERNOFF, BILTMORE TO OPEN. Mrs. Margaret Plerce Orme, formerly principal of the Pierce Orme School, will have entire supervision of the kin- dergarten and junior departments of the Biltmore School, successor to the Lucia Gale Barber School, 1850 Bilt- more street, where it reopens this week. ‘The school will be under the direction of Mrs. Emily Stowe, who will be tho instructor in French. Miss Beulah Chambers, for many years head of the music department of Gunston Hall, and | Miss Cecelia Dyer will be the instruc- tors in music. Miss Grace Swift, a grad- uate of Willlam and Mary College, will teach history and mathematics in the higher grades. The school stresses its teaching in | small groups. Registrations are being | received and indications are that a record year will be enjoyed. Georgetown Law School 1929-1930 Opening Sessions: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1929 For late afte MONDAY, SEP For morning Por_information HUGH J. FEGAN, M. A, LL. B, Ph. D. Assistant Dean Georgetown Law School 506 E St. N.W. For Practical Results Study at Register f For Besinners’ ste Of ror pesionens | 1338 H St. N.W. The Master-School | MANY ARE ENROLLED AT COLLEGE OF MUSIC Registration ;lor Coming Year Said to Be Largest in the Institu- tion’s History. Registration at the Washington Col- lege of Music, which oponed its twenty- sixth term last Monday, was said to_be larger than any previous year, Dr. Hugh Rowland Roberts, the president, attributes the increase to the s 1 cultural course offered in all depart- ments for students who do not wish to carry the full requirements leading to & diploma or degree. Classes in music education, under the direction of Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes, | will open September 23. Dr. Barnes, | who is director of music in the District public schools, has recently closed the third season of the Summer school in public school methods of the Washing- ton College of Music at Belfast, Me., where he had associated with him such musical authorities as Elbridge Pitcher of Auburn, Me., past president of the Eastern Music Supervisors’ Conference; George P. Goldthwaite, well known composer of Berlin, N. H., and Robert Forsman, arranger of the Forsman song books. He also gave a series of 12 lec- tures on_the ims_and Purposes of Maret French School 2118 Kalorama Road. North 2096 Opens Seplember 30, 1929 Combines the advantages of the bes American ‘schools with benefit equivaien: 50 that of & sojourn in Fry - 1) o ; Eight % i Benool Tor. e, Critcher School of Painting and Applied Arts Spocial Sheten Clase, 4:38 o 8:30 JEAN NEGULESCO Instructor. No. 1 Dupont Circle t t N.1966 e s e ew classes at regula en. [ in Washington ezclusively dedicated to the teaching of the Spanish language. 32 WEEKS, $30.00 FOUR ECONOMICAL COURSES ./ Two are for beginners. one for Inter- mediate and one for Advanced students. These courses begin October 1st and last approximately § having_two les- sons weekly of one hour each. The num- ber of students in these classes is limited. Spanish School of Washington Phone Natl. 9369 Corcoran School of Art Reopens October 1, 1929 Tuition Free—Annual Interior Decoration | in Interior Decoration | Specializing and offering an _Accredited, Practical and Professional Training Course. Ex- pert Teacher, Rudolphe de Zapp, director Representing Arts & Decoration, New York 1206 Conn. Ave. North 5236 The Landon School - FOR BOYS 2131 Massachusetts Avenue Individual Instruction, | Entrance Fee, $15 Day and Evening Classes in Drawing, Painting, Seulpture. Lectures on Composition and Artistic Anatomy. Office_opens for_ registration September 5 For Prospectus and further in- formation _address: Miss Agnes Mayo. Secretary. INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION College Board Examinations, Annapolis and West Point PAUL L. BANFI Boarding & Day Pupils “The Sc_héol for Young Children” Nursery—School—Kindergarten—Primary— Nutritious Midday Meals—Supervised Afternoon Play Bus Service Brookville Rd. at Taylor St., Chevy Chase, Md. Phone Wisc. 4078 Director, Mrs. Mildred Fonda Barnum Registratic Term opens Oct. Ist. HICKMAN sctool of SPEECH and EXPRESSION ldg., 1319 F St., Bet. 13th & 14th Established 1904 A SCHOOL OF SELF-EXPRESSION subjects of practical value yday life Courses in Self-Expression and Public Speaking for Business and Professional Men and Women, Or- ganization Members, Salesmen, etc. Voice and Speech English -(Spoken and Written). Development Courses for Confidence, Poise, etc. The International B Teaching only in ever, Training. Arts of Expression. Special Courses for Clor[jmncn, Tclaclun urers, Readers Tels. National 6617 Metropolitan 7964 Class or Private Instruction, Day or Evening. efropoian 2318 ELD, Headmaster Ages: 10 years to College Entrance fter Sept. 9 from 9-2 Self- Music Education in the Public Schools” at Syracuse University. Full ition is being given stu- dents of ‘Washin; College of * 21 ND COLLEGES IN ‘WASHINGTON BEGIN TODAY Special Preparation for Census Office Exam. The Civil ¢ i Music for work in public school music by the Michigan State Teachers’ Col- lege, by Syracuse University and by the State Board of Education of Maine. Graduates of. Washington College of Music . hold! bachelor’s degrees in theory are entitled to enter classes for niversity an rwood | M School of Chicago. e ' In the celebrated action for libel | brought by Whistler against Ruskin a eneration ago a Titlan was handed the jury who, mistaking it for a work of Whistler, refused to give it more than a glance on the plea that they had seen _enough of that “rubbis] 1 LEARN TO WRITE I SHORT STORIES Sixth Year Opens October Ist. Registration Begins September 1Gth. The Moneyway Studios use, 912 19th St. N.W. 5 to 7, National 3510 1 recommend him heartily to any young writer who wishes to wn s shor the way.”—Blanche Colton Williams. Sidwell’s Friends School For Boys and Girls 47th Year Begins Sept. 17 City School 1809-1819 Eye St. N.W. All Grades and High School Suburban School, 3901 Wis. Kinde! ten and Grades I. II. IIL IV. Country Club, New Gymnasium, Swimming, aus Selice ! | Thos. W. Sidwell, A. M., Principal | ~ Phone National 0284 | Ave. An Accredited Boarding and Day School e\{\fl S(‘Ifoo/ For Boys Stresses College Entrance, preparation for West Point, Naval Academy, Coast Guard and Air Corps. Last year over 40 boys were prepared for Annapolis and West Point. Session Opens Sept. 18 2961 Upton St. N.W. Cleveland 1911 1617 Investment Bldg. TUDY ACCOUNTANCY Every Accounting_a A. 3-year cours ding to B. degree, Y. M. C. A. COLLEGE 1736 G St. N.W. National 9250 BAR EXAM COURSES D. C. and VIRGINIA Class Forms Sept. 17, 7:30 P.M. (Private Coaching for Law School or Bar available) HERBERT R. GROSSMAN, LL. M., Ph. D. Nat'l 6156 Charlotte School of Dress Designing Parisian Method of cutting snd desij sh 1 & '3 Permanent, pleasant and profitable vocation. ~—Instruetor has had training abread. Fall Classes Start October 1st 1624 H St. N.W., Room 23 The Abbott School Of Fine And Commercial Art Interior Decoration. Costume Design. er at i Children’s Saturday" Fall Term October st 1624 H St. N.W. Anne Tillery RENSHAW SCHPOL SPEECH Cpen for Registration at 1739 Conn. Ave. N.W. North 6906 Impersonation Public Speaking Dramatics English Fundamentals Backgrounds of Literature Vocal Technique Conversation Story Telling Writers’ Class Children’s Class A° School for All Vocations in Whiel the Spoken Word is Significant. MOUNT IPLEASANT STHODL or S TIVOLI 14TH STREET AND RETARIES THEATRE BUILDING PARK ROAD. NORTHWEST DAY AND EVENING CLASSES *“A Position for Every Graduate'* Telephone Columbia 3000 Young Women’s E B Christian Association 17th and K Streets N.W. 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