Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
GlimpSeS Of School Life.
EDIToRs-HosKIN, MENEREY, MEHARG
Motto:-" While zoe lice let as lice"

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LOCALS.
We wondered what the trouble was
1t seemed so queer; What was the cause?
We scarce could speak,
It all came DER MS IN Hash,
He'd gone and shaved of his mOustache
One day last week.
Miss Darcy is suffering with a severe
cold.
Beatrice Springer is at school again
after long absence.
Lillian Springer and Blanch Parker
were absent Tuesday.
Miss Jennie Murray called at the
school house Monday afternoon.
Jay Weymouth has been promoted
from the Fifth to the Sixth grade.
Miss Susie McKernan is the new
scholar in the High Room this week.
Miss jessie Moore is now the teacher
in the First intermediate department.
Mrs. John Black and Mrs. Menerey
visited in Miss Grinnells room Monday
| forenoon.
John Holmes and Frank Baxter
attended the examination at Port
Huron last week.
b. II. Noble and G.. II. Holden crossed
the school ground on Monday after
noon on II hunting expedition. At
least they had gun.
Laura Baxter, Blanch Cryderman,
Hattie Jones, Evelyn Evans, Jeptha
Bradshaw and Frank Evans obtained
certificates at the teachers examination.
A number of the others received high
standings but did not quite reach the
required average.
Miss Armitage formerly the teacher
in the First intermediate is now Mrs.
j. +. Fitzpatrick. We are sorry to lose
her as she was general favorite and
will be missed very much. In behalf
of the scholars we tender her our best
wishes for happiness in future life.
Some changes have been made in
the Program of the High Room, made
necessary by the introduction of new
subjects into the different grades. The
Eighth grade haYe taken up Swinton's
ninth grade, Physiology and Algebra,
the tenth grade, Botany and Word
Analysis, the eleventh grade Psych-
ology and English classics, and are at
present reading Macbeth.
Whispering without permission is
now prohibited in the High Room, the
penalty for any Violations of this rule
being change of seat to some remote
portion of the room. 1t has been re-
quested that pupils do not ask ques-
tons during n class regulation, and
also that they do not return to the
school house until after the first bell
has rung at noon, and that they leave
the school ground and go home as soon
as school is ont at night. These rules
have been made for the best interests
of the school, and pupils will please
observe them.
ReSOIped-"That the annexation of
Canada to the United States would be
I a benefit to- both countries" was the
questions on which an interesting de-
bate was held in the High Room on
Friday of last term. The girls hav-
ing the affirmative and the boys the
negative. After carefully considering
the matter over, the judges who were
chosen from among the visitors, decided
in favor of the affirmative. The visi-
| tors of the day were-Mr. Cowiug, Mrs.
Cooper, Mrs. High, Mrs. HallOck, Mrs.
Menerey Mrs. Pearce, Misses Mary
Brown, Emma Richardson, Eva White,
AnEa Owens, Abbie Williams Lille
White, Carrie Howay and Orilla
OswTth.
QUESTIONS.
Define'the term machine?
b Who said 81 am not worth pur-
chasing but such as | am the king of
England.is' not rich enough to buy
me?"
What king was so overwhelmed by
his success that he prayed for a reverse?
QUOTATIONS..
so shall our voice Of sovereign choice,
Swell the deep bISS Of duty done,
And strike the key of time 10 he
When God and IMAM shall speak no more.
WHITTIER.
When life hath run its largest round.
OF toll and triumph, joy and woe
How brief "A StCGfed page is found
TO compass ALI out ward show.
DANIEL WEBSTER.