The Anaconda standard., 1899-09-03
ON ITS eleventh YEAR
st. Patrick's Parochial School
Will Open Sept. S.
IMPROVEMENTS ARE MANY
Extensive Repairs to the Building-The
Play Grounds Enlarged - Course
of Study Provides for a
Liberal Education.

For the last two months the doors of
st. Patrick's parochial school have been
closed and quiet reigned within it's
walls, as even the teachers were absent
in Helena. While there the teaching
faculty of st. Patrick's devoted their
time and energies to the preparation
and adoption of the best and easiest
of the prescribed course of study of the
parochal school. Excellent work was
done at the institute in Helena this
summer
The parochial school will, next Tues
day, Sept. 5, begin its 18th year of active
educational work in Butte. Through the
never-failing generosity of the friends
and patrons of this institution the halls
and class rooms have been painted end
decorated, new rooms divided off and
furnished and new and additional school
apparatus put in wherever needed. The
play grounds were not forgotten. They
were so enlarged and improved that the
usual games can all be played in the
school yards While going through the
school a distinguished visitor from the
East the other day remarked: Il am
surprised did not expect to see such
a fine school in the heart of the Rocky
mountains"
The studies are divided into three
courses-the primary grammar and
high school. Besides the subjects proper
to each of these departments, full
courses in music and art are also given.
Bookkeeping, business correspondence,
typewriting and photography are cleo
tive studies: however, the school be-
slows special attention on the study of
the former two.
In the minim department every late
method and device calculated to inter-
est and aid the little ones have been
studied and experimentally applied by
the teachers in charge. In the inter-
mediate and higher classes all the ordi-
nary branches, including physical cul-
ture, elocution, sight-singing, ETC., Will
be taught, as formerly. The school aims
to give it's pupils a good, sound educa-
ton.
The high school course is designed 10
impart a thorough, liberal education.
Here all the usual branches of COM
plete education are taught. The course
embraces four classes-freshman, soph-
omore, junior and senior. The study of
literature, science and higher maine
MATES is pursued during the four years
of high, school work. The classes in
Latin are presided over by Rev. j. ].
Callaghan; those in French by Rev. j.
Blaere; those in German by the sisters
and the lectures on religion by Rev. 7.
DeSiere.
The department of music offers su-
perior advantages to all who desire
thorough musical education, as regu-
lar course is laid out which can be mas
tered by any pupilJbf average ability
within the period specified. The
branches taught are piano, harp, organ,
violin, mandolin. guitar, banjo, haf-
mony and voice culture. particular
attention is given to the latter two.
The course of instruction in the art
department aims to lay thorough
foundation in drawing and painting
and to develop the individuality of each
pupil so as to interpret nature accord
ing to ones own personal views. The
subjects taught are drawing in crayon,
charcoal or India ink; painting in oil or
water colors, pastel painting, CHINA
painting in all its varieties.
An examination of the interior OF ST.
Patrick's parochial school shows that
no labor nor expense within reach OF the
sisters has been spared in making the
school under their supervision one OF
the leading Catholic educational inst-
tutions of the great Northwest Not
only have they done this, but they have
so increased it's present facilities that
il can successfully cope with the future
and meet the growing demands Ct
Butte's constantly growing population
and enterprising citizens.