The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-11-23
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Almost every mem Der or the nigh
school was present at the Saturday
session rendered necessary by the foot
ball teams trip to Bozeman.
The Irving Rhetorical society Of the
high school will give their next pro-
gramme next Friday evening, Nov.
23, at 8:15 O'Clock. A small adj
mission fee, 10 cents, will be charged.
Will you come?
If you hear a rumor of the exist
ence of a contagious disease in your
neighborhood will you kindly ask your
children to report it to their teacher.
With proper carr on the part of teach
ers and patrons there is much less
danger of All epidemic.
At last the Billings high school is
on a par with all other high schools of
this state as far as the state accredited
list is concerned. All of the others
which were Oh the accredited list
have been taken off pending a revision
Of the same by the state board Of edu-
cation.
Text book work in arithmetic as
taken in the Fourth grade and sue
ceeding higher grades tries to develop
facility and accuracy in the use of
numbers as applied to the construc-
ton and solution Of practical problems
relating to the everyday transactions
ofbusiness.
( The methods of teaching primary
numbers in classes below the Fourth
grade have changed much in the past
few years. The present idea is this,
the child should be taught to observe
and reason from objects rather than to
memorize abstract combinations.
A visit to the rhetorical exercises Of
any of the grades that have studied
music during the past two years will
please any patron who admires the art
of singing. incidentally, do you not
feel that it is your duty to visit the
schools and thereby lend encourage.
ment TO teacher and pupils. y.
. The members of the high school
were much disappointed on learning
that there was no possibility Of their
entering the new building this school
year. The high school has grown be-
yond the capacity of the old building,
being much crowded by the limited
assembly room and the small recita-
ton room facilities.
The very high record Of attendance
in the high school this year is another
indication of interest. Perhaps the
statement would come with
better grace from an unprejudiced
observer, yet we venture the assertion
that our present high school classes are
doing work equal in quality to any
other school of like grade in the state.
Whenever there is any possible
danger of the spread Of a contagious
disease through the attendance at
school of an "oxposed' pupil, the
teachers promptly refer such cases to
a physician for Judgment. In case
there is the least doubt of safety such
doubtful case is excluded temporarily
from school. Is it not true that there
is less danger of contagion in school
than on the streets.
The close Of the football season has
brought no exodus of boys from the
high school. On the contrary, one
former member Of the Tenth grade has
recently returned. Many believed
that football was in a degree RESPONSE
BILE for the large attendance of boys in
the high school. 1t is pleasant to
know that the boys are in school for
the benefit received from their studies
and not for the pleasure Of playing a
game.
>Some visitors to the big assembly
room of the new building have wond-
cred whether: 1t were not too large for
its purpose. But an incoming Eighth
grade of 55 pupils joined with the
present large Ninth and Tenth grades
will make a high school for next year
we'll up toward the 100 mark. I'm
less unforeseen conditions prevent, the
Billings high school will enroll one
hundred and twenty-five students
within two years.
GREAT LIVE STOCK SHOW.