School
Items from the principal’s March
report to the commissioner of educa
tion:
Number of visits by parents. 8
Total number enrolled to date.131
Number neither absent nor tardy 36
Average number belonging for
month .100
Per cent of attendance. 92.5
Per cent of punctuality. 99.7
New pupils enrolled during March 6
Number of pupils re-enrolled after
absence . 23
Total number of days of absence 124.5
Number of pupils in school at this
date .-.106
There has been much sickness
among the pupils and consequently
much absence from school. After
three days’ absence a pupil is dropped
from the register until his return
when he is re-enrolled.
The expression “dropped from the
register,” recalls a true story of a
little girl who reported at home that
her teacher said that any child who
was absent three days would be
“dropped into the furnace.” The sur
prised mother found upon inquiry that
what the teacher really had said was
that in a such a case the child in
question would be “dropped from the
register.” There’s a moral to this
little story, too. Children often inter
pret remarks very queerly, and the
wise parent always waits and investi
gates before becoming offended at
some supposed remark “teacher” has
made, because the child necessarily
interprets wholly in the light of his
limited experience, just as older peo
ple often do.
Nam is of pupils neither absent nor
tardy during March:
Room 1—Richard Date, Jack Down
ing, Philip Lydick, Edward O’Neill,
Kenneth Porter, Scott Walker, Alfred
Erussard, Jack Erussard, Karl Ross
wog, Ralph Sherman, Albert Walker.
Room 2—Margaret Porter, Naomi
Robinson, Raymond Johnson, Benja
min Sherman.
Room 3—Billy Field, William
O’Neill. Matt O’Loughlen, Pierre de
Ville, Genevieve Dyson.
Room 4—Katherine Boyce, John
Rosswog, Almira McGowan, Edna
Thawley, Dorris Adams, Laura Bacon.
Thrift report for March:
Savings by grade pupils.$131.65
Savings by high school. 2.00
Total .$133.65
Items by Pupils
(Barth O’Loughlen)
Our English class wrote a sketch
of the life of Corot, the great French
painter. We are glad to possess a few
of his pictures.
Having gotten forty stars, the boys
of Room 4 had their quarter holiday
Tuesday.
We are sorely in need of films for
our moving picture machine. School
is out in seven weeks.
The program has been slightly
changed, as Miss White is to take
up another class.
(Pauline DeVille)
Koom 4 has slightly changed its
recitation periods, thus enabling the
pupils to have more time for studying
certain subjects.
The ninth grade history class has
finished this year’s course in history,
and is now rapidly reviewing the
whole term’s work.
Our freshman class in algebra has„
just finished several pages of review
problems, and will start the new week
with the “solution of formulae.”
(Harry O’Neill)
Ethel Graham has returned to school
after an absence of several days.
Monday a few changes will be made
in the program of Room 4.
Thursday being April first, several
jokes were played in school.
(Elizabeth O’Loughlen)
Miss White’s penmanship class are
all thankful for her consoling advice,
“I’ve had pupils who wrote lots worse
than you get the diploma!”
The first part of the week our Eng
lish class spent in finding advertise
ments in magazines with the best
wording in the shortest space.
Our study of “The Merchant of Ven
ice” being finished, we are memoriz
ing various quotations from the play.
Question: “What is the most de
sired object of all the pupils here?”
Answer: “Moving picture films.”
Thursday being April Fool day, we
all had some pretty good jokes on
each other. One had to be quite cau
tious in accepting gum and candy, as
all the freshmen boys were quite gen
erous in the distribution of red pep
per, etc. Miss Keever called a few
of us to the telephone on “foney
calls,” and even told the most angelic
of us to stay after school. In the
end we all got an “April fool.”
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(Edna Thawley)
A new program for the high school
was made yesterday by the teachers,
as the pupils are now completing their
term’s course. The bookkeeping class
have finished their work. Two periods
a week will be used for typewriting
and the other three will be devoted
to business English and correspond
ence, taught by Miss White. Algebra
II will complete the course next week
and geometry will be taken up. The
shorthand period will be in the morn
ing hereafter.
On April Fool day a number of the
pupils were* cleverly fooled. Some
received chocolate candy with red pep
per in the center. Also one of the
boys took a big bite of a banana which
had been filled with red pepper.
(Katherine Boyce)
The high school feels quite proud of
itself. It hasn’t missed a single word
in spelling for two days! Probably
the fact that those who miss have to
stay an hour after school has some
thing to do with this.
The piano in Room 4 is going to be
used for a short time in the singing
class in Room 3.
(Ophelia Howard)
“The fisher who draws in his net too
soon
Will have no fish to sell;
The child who shuts up his book too
soon
Will have no lessons well.”
Beverly was showing a book to Miss
Wright, and said: “Look at this list
of ‘an-ec-dotes’ for poisons.”
The girls in the sewing class are
now making aprons. There are vari
ous kinds.
(Helen Downing)
The seventh grade pupils are going
to have a one-word test over the Cen
tral states. Questions are answered
with one word only.
Most of the pupils of the sixth and
seventh grades are going to try for
the progress pin.
(Wilma Claveau) i'
In Room 3 all the pupils except
Wilma Claveau, Ophelia Howard and
Matthew 0’L.oughlen are sending out
their drills to Palmer for the progress
button. Those named having received
their diplomas, are going to send out
their drills for the American Penman
certificate.
(Margaret Foster)
On account of internal injuries to
her typewriter, Edna Thawley is try
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