Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-02
HOWE HIGH SCHOOL,
Very Cold Wave This Week Did Not
Tighten Attendance of Students.


Tighten Attendance of Students.
Eighty members are at present en-
rolled in the High room department.
There are 81 freshmen, % sopho-
mores, II juniors, and I seniors.
Jack Frost may just as well get off
the earth as to waste his time at
tempting an entrance to our school
rooms while George Minnehan is in
the basement stirring up heat. Mr..
Minnehan is janitOr par excellence
and he keeps us all comfortable.
During the severe cold weather the
early part Of this week attendance at
our high school was as good as in the
brightest days of May.
The American history class is about
to close its study of the Colonial
period and to take up a volume by
Hart in the Revolutionary period.
No school at the ward building on
Monday because of extreme frigid
atmosphere. All rooms were opened
again Tuesday excepting the kinder
garten.
The class in pedagogy has begun
observation work in the grades. Each
member visits one of the classes in
the lower rooms once per week and
must submit written exercise after
ward concerning his observations.
Criticisms and suggestions as to meth
DDS Of teaching are in order then from
the students.
1t became the painful duty Of our
superintendent to suspend a member
of the high school last Monday be-
cause of certain actions in regard to
Forum work. Discipline must be had.
The first principle of a progressive
school is discipline.
Forum program for Friday evening,
Feb. 3:
NJ husIc''''''' '.'' uartetle
Defamation. Harvey Rowland
Reading Belle Hardin
Debate-Resolved, That the cities of Centralia
and Grand Rapids would be benefited by con-
solidation
Affirmative. Negative.
Geo. Compton, Geo. Mclaughlin,
Nellie Ward, Jesse Smith
Arthur Miller. Arthur Mahoney.
y.............. Miss Loeper
The Ninth Grade Girls, the Model
School (NormaD Boys and the High
School Junior Boys basket ball teams,
all of Stevens Point, drove down to
our city Saturday and at the opera
house returned the games played in
| tournament at their city the week
before. Grand Rapids was again ''did
up" all around, the Model school being
winners of the tournament But that
is not half so diScOuraging as the
small crowd that patrOniZes our high
school athletics. As usual, the man.
agement went behind on the expense
side Of the tournament account.
People in this town are surely very
much behind many surrounding places
that could be mentioned in support
and interest along these lines. The
idea of any good to be derived from
training that will develop the art of
activity, physical with mental, does
not find consideration with them. So
what's the use. Give US books and let
us go to sleep over them in a poorly
ventilated schO0lroOm. However,
with Mark Pattison we ask: ''Can
parents possibly go on any longer pre-
tending to think that basket ball,
cricket. boating and athletics. as now
conducted. are only recreations?''
At Stevens Point it is the custom
of the school board to make a small
appropriation every year toward ma
terial for physical culture and athletic
diversion of its high school students.
Such custom would be highly appre-
ciated here. STUDENT.
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