The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-08-27
INJECTION SCHOOLS.
The Princeton Graded School is
Second to None in the State.


Second to None in the State.
School Opens in Princeton, Mon
day, Aug. 81 st Teachers,
Tuition, Etc.
Princeton's graded school is second
70 none in the State. The people Of
Princeton are firm believers in good
schools, and a good graded school they
are bound to have regardless Of cost.
Frof. Thomas Raftery has been en-
gagged as principal of the Princeton
school for the ensuing year. Prof.
Eattery came west to take a position in
McAllister college. But that institu-
tion could not offer him sufficient in
ducements and Princeton has secured
MS services. Prof. Raftery is gradu-
ate of Andover College. He has a
bushel of endorsements from county and
State uperintendents in the east, and
from several county superintendent
and State Superintendent Kiehae of
this State. Owing to a requirement
OF the. law he was obliged to pass an
examination before the county superin-
tendent OF this county, and his certif-
cate is marked perfect in everything
except writing which is quoted at IS.
The school opens on Monday, August
3lst, with Prof Raftery as principal,
Guy Ewing in charge of the grammar
department, Miss McDermott interme-
diate and Miss Mary Huse in the pri-
mary department. The last three
mentioned teachers are no strangers to
Princetonians. Mr. Ewing and Miss
Huse in particular are favorites here.
The trustees have adopted rigid set
OF rules. Positively no pupils from
outside the district will be admitted to
any department except the highest; a
tuition fee of SIS per quarter will be
charged outsiders who may wish to
enter the higher department., and this
fee must be paid in advance.
PRINCETON HIGH SCHOOL COURSE.
Embracing a period of three years.
At the close of which students who
have completed the full course will
graduate in public and receive a di-
ploma from the high school, signed by
the board of trustees and the principal
Of the school. The subjects of study
are so regulated as to enable student
who graduates from the high school to
be capable of entering, on examination,
the freshman class of the State Univer-
sity. The classes in the high school for
the three years are to be known re-
spectiyely as the junior, middle and
senior class. Several Of the branches
studied will be begun and carried
through the full three years course,
thus enabling the students to have,
when they graduate, a thorough and
practical acquaintance with the SUBJ
jects. Other branches that will not
need SO much time, and which really
are not of so much Importance, will be
taken. up and completed in the time
and places allotted to them in the
course. By this arrangement the
classes will be larger and fewer in the
high school, and the time for recita-
tions will be extended, so that the
teacher and students can do full Justice
to the branches under consideration.
There will be no options. No student
will be compelled to take any subject
which he or she does not like; but in
order to be entitled to a diploma it will
be necessary to comply with the pre-
scribed course. It will be noticed that
the list of subjects embraces the founda-
ton of a liberal education, and all, or
nearly all, that is studied in the best
high schools of the country; and that
those branches most necessary for
full discharge of the various duties of
life are given prominence to in the
early part of the course, and as far as
advisable are carried on through the
full three years. This is done for the
reason that in case any student would
be compelled to leave at the end Of the
LIST or the End year he would have had
instruction in the branches he most
needed while there, and which would
be most useful to him after he left
school. ~ ~
The following comprises a list of the
branches to be stuffed during the three
years course, and which will be found
to embrace all the essentials Of aliberal
education. Several branches that are