Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-03-19
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN
EDITED BY o. L. SMITH, Co. supt.

Our next Co. ASSOCIATION program
appears this week.
All said our County Association
was a success.
The Co. examining board will be
examining board for the Reading Cir
Gle.
The Marvin letters are from two
pupils from Anna WeaVerling's room
in the Marvin school.
We are mailing the preliminary
questions to the teachers preparatory
to the final examinations in May.
Hattie Cushman began a four
months term of school in Dist No. %,
on Monday, March 9Th. This district
is near Kirwin.
Nellie Marks opened three months
term of school in Dist. No. So, on
Mar. %. Miss Nellie is one of the
most experienced teachers IN the Co.
and one of our wide awake, energetic,
and successful school teachers.
The county Reading Circle was or
ganized last Saturday. Emma Bis
sell was chosen as manager. We
would be pleased to have all take
membership IN this circle. We will
take pleasure in mailing you an en-
rollment card if you will ask us for
one. ALI that it it costs you, is sim
ply the cost of the books. Barnes
General History and pages The
DRY and Practice are the books until
next October Prepare for the Oct.
examination, and let all of us do the
best we can. Why can not our Co.
be the banner Co. in the N. w. part
of Kansas? And there is no reason
but what we can do just as well as
any Co. in the state.
The two Reading Circle books will
be on hand in this Office, Barnes
General History and pages The
CRY and Practice"
We sincerely hope that all peonle
who are interested in the cause of
education, and the growth and i'm
provement of our schools, will do all
they can to encourage those who are
old enough and far enough advanced
! in every township to take the May
} examinations. One of the great
faults of our country schools is the
absence of the larger boys and girls
from them. Education for the ma
iority of our pupils over the county
stops Just where it should fairly be-
gin. Our crying need today is sys-
tenn in our county and uniform stand
ard for all, and with this a noticeable
2 recognition in some form of the work,
, those accomplish who finish the
Course of Study" We are arrang-
, ing to grant a diploma to all who sue
J cessfully pass the examination. By
/ gradually raising the standard in our
} county it need be but short time IN
til we can grant such a diploma, as
{ will admit the bearer IN several of
l our state institutions.
In the Co. Teachers Association of
, last Sat, while the High School room
was filled with people, we could not
but help noticing some of the famil-
r lar faces, who have always been pres
? ent on such occasions. Neither could
/ we, while secretly rejoicing over the
2 awakened interest IN our Co. and be-
= ing openly thankful for so many new
l recruits in our educational ranks, re-
s sist retrospect of our educational
? history in this county. While those
t who have always been present are
our leaders today; yet we could not
but recall some of our past meetings
l of a like nature, where these few
r were the only ones present. And II
8 any reason can be justly given fol
S our bright upward tendency of today
D it is that these faithful few have per-
T sistently followed the course of mu-
!, tual help for each other, and they
2 have all been sacrificing their present
, comforts for the good of the educa-
Q tional interest of this county. The
d writer has never missed a county as
: sociation in four years, and Others
It are equally faithful. The following
lines seem to express a fellow feeling
= of sentiment to the old guard WIZ
, have serve as the germ of this new
/; interest:
@ THRoUGH years of mingled Joy and sorrow
II Hand in hand We have made our way,
The springing hopes of each tomorrow
V Lighting the darkness OF each today.
What lies before US, in the coming years,
We cannot see-we cannot know,
Ell II fewer smiles and deeper tears,
IL Closer together we shall onward go.
& Till on the nights OF those eternal hills
n That rise beyond the purple Of the west,
Her promises OF peace and rest.
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