Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-27

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Educational Column.
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Pro note an object of primary Importance
Institutions for the general diffusion OF knowl
edge In proportion as the structure Of a Gov.
eminent gives force to public opinion IL is neces
| ssry that public opinion should be enlightened
l-Nashington's Farewell Address.
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| Cultures hand
Has scattered yerdure Ger the land.
And smiles and fragrance rule serene
Where barren wild usurped the scene
1t is reported that the Mormons are
about to establish a collegeat Salt Lake
City.
| We thankfully acknowledge receipt
of the annual report of the Milwaukee
schools.
Mrs. Scott Blocher, entertained the
School with two elocutionary selections
Monday morning.
| An exchange says that one-fourth of
the students in the universities of Ger.
many are Americans.
Rhetorical exercises of the Second
Primary Department will be held in the
Chapel at 2:S0 P. NJ. Friday, May %.
Misses Villa and Kittie Trowbridge.
and May Hubbard, favored the School
with special Chapel exercises last week.
Indifference or apathy with regard TO
the comfort of others is one of the most
remarkable effects of tobacco London
Times.
DIR. A. Ii. Barber deserves educational
credit and thanks for the instruction he
has recently given a few fortunate
students in ornitholoyy.
The Certificate of Honor, from
Adrian College, and designed for the
member of our High School GRADUATE
ing class having the highest scholarship
standing, has been received
The trustees of Wellesley College have
decided to allow the heads of fourteen
specified departments of the Faculty, a
years absence on half salary every
seventh year to be spent in travel and
residence abroad.
Never to our knowledge have the
Lancaster Schools been in as satisfac-
tory condition as at present; and we
would be glad to have any who have
had an opportunity to know of the
School in the past, make a careful COM
parison of its present working with
that of any former time.
All the spelling reforms of all the
orthographists in the world will not
succeed in lessening the intensity of
that scbool-boy's affection, who scrawls
on his broken slate with stub pencil,
Au' ~ 8hh uauuo ~ dbiOSs the aisle,
with big apple to the blue eyed little
girl who reads in the second reader
Chicago Ledger.
The last rhetorical exercises for the
|! year of the A Grade, Intermediate De-
partment, held last Friday, were
pleasant and creditable feature of the
week. About a dozen visitors were
present. The grade will make a strong
addition to the Grammar Department
next year, and will be considerably
ahead of the attainments of the last
class at the time of their promotion.
A female candidate for Superinten-
| dent of the Public Schools in one of the
counties of Kansas, in an address to the
voters, said the other day: Il beg YOU
will try me, not by the test of chiya-
rio sentiment of gallantry, which is
| well enough in its place, but by the truo
standard of merit and fitness alone
She evidently believes in woman's right
| to hoe her own row-Er.
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The School was honored with the fol-
lowing visitors last week: Mrs Bellows,
| Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Barstow, Mrs. Book,
Mrs. Barlow, Misses Minnie Griffith
and Alice Bidwell. Mrs. Bidwell, Miss
Carter, Mrs VIM. Mccoy. Mrs Nc.
Kenzie, Mrs. Trowbridge. Mrs. Black,
Mrs. Streeter, Miss Beetham and Mrs.
Beetham.
The present ID and E grades of the
High School will probably be combined
next year in the c grade, and thus for
the first time for number of years the
High School will be classified in
four grades. This will require
fewer daily rectations than at
present. but the classes in Algebra.
Latin, German. and some others will be
unusually large.
To appreciate fully the improvement
in the school grounds, it needs 10 be re.
membered that the soil under a thin
surface covering is largely composed Of
bricks and sand; and, consequently,
grass and flowers require considerable
encouragement to grow well. More
over, four years ago. probably at least
half of that part of the lawn directly in
front of the building was entirely bare
of grass. 10
Miss Allie Thomas, of the graduating
class, has recently received First
Grade Certificate which is worthy Of
special note and commentator OF
the seventeen branches on which she
was examined, the only ones that had
standing less than 90E were Practice
of Penmanship, Practice of Reading,
and Civil Government. The excellence
of the others will be seen when we state
that the average of all was 93E. which
is the highest, we believe, ever obtained
by a student of our School.