The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-07-30
PERSONAL

young friends Friday
Mss ANNA KELLNER will conduct ex-
ercises in kindergarten work
c. o. MARSH will spend his vacation
visitingrelatives in New Hampshire.
Mr.. AND Mrs JARVIS PLATT were the
guests of Mrs. J. E. Plat last week.
Miss MARY LANrRY of Milwaukee is
spending her vacation in the city.
MISS CLARIssA JOHNSTON is visiting her
brother Burt at Watersmeet this week.
Mr.. LOUIS CLARK, Miss Clark and Miss
Anne Hall have returned from their trip
north.
MISSES NAGLE and Nelson are taking a
trip up the St. Lawrence and down the
Hudson.
DIR. A. r. WHITMAN of KEEL has sold his
practice to DR.. Marty of the same place
and will move to Merrill, Wis.
Miss AND Mr.. GAEH, son and daughter
of senator Gaeh of Princeton. Wis. were
guests of Miss Annie Kettenhoffen.
Rev. BoNEKEMPER has resigned the
passionate of the Reform church and gone
with his family tohis old home in Dakota.
Miss WALDO was happily surprised on
her birthday Thursday. Her daughters
invited IN a number of old friends to take
tea with her.
L. h. SMITH AND FAMILY left on Mon
day morning, the family for visit in
southern Wis and Mr. Smith for bust
ness trip to various points.
There has been a good deal written
about the desirebility of central high
school in this city. There has been a lit.
tie talk on the matter here and there, but
on the whole the school system in pos
session and in prospect has received very
little thought from most who have talked
about it, and no. sufficien; consideration
has been given to the details even by the
few who have interested themselves most
in the matter. The writer is not at this
moment in a condition to present fully
both sides of this question, but hopes to
be able to do so at no distant day. To
persistently asseverate that Manitowoc
should have central high school is not
sufficient for people who desire to see the
matter intelligently discussed. To moan
despairingly one time, to express ones
self in sanguine tones another, and then
to recur to the altering of jeremiads
against that sectionalism that is alleged
to prevail leaves the question where it
was found and begeus doubt in the minds
Of the people regarding the sincerity of
its advocates,
We need something besides a high
school; we need higher educational
sense among the people; we need an edu-
cational sense that is highly sensitive to
an education not alone remarkable for its
commercial value. Those who advocate
a central high school make profound
mistake when they urge it on the ground
of economy. You can not make it more
economical than the present system
without Withdrawing support from the
ward schools, something it would be
dangerous TO attempt
The respective schools in this city now
are superintended so we'll that they will
suffer by comparison with none in the
OF Rn fhat Il al,
that method of close supervision what
ever else We may do. Never forget that
there are thousands of pupils that never
reach the high school. Any weaker prin
cipal or corps of teachers than any OF our
schools now has is not sufficient. When
we demand a central high school, let 1t
not be merely a school TO which the ward
schools are tributary. We have gradq-
ating classes in our schools now that are
superior in scholarship to the classes
turned out by at least ninety per cent. of
the high schools of Wisconsin. If we
want high school let US iIot urge it on
the ground OF economy. let us not advo
C'iiC 1T dS a ultCilIS VI III oCIltOIIui
jealousies, let us not in creating a senti-
ment in its favor also create sentiment
thai will have q tendency to undermine
the ward schools; but let us have 1t in
the interest of higher culture and more
advanced scholarship, let it be something
worthy of the name when it comes, and
let us not demand any change until we
are prepared to utilize something worthy,