The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-13
LEWIS ACADEMY NOTES

! The week just closed has been one OF
| the best of the year in class work.
| The botany classes are searching hill
and dale. marsh and meadow, for speci-
mems for analytic work Miss Brown
keeps things moving in all her classes,
but the enthusiasm reaches its climax to-
ward the end of the year instead of de-
! Ginning in interest as the warm days be-
| gin to exert an enervationg influence.
The class this year in economics are
getting ready to express learned opin-
ions on the living issues of the day and
will be ready TO comprehend and criti-
else the forensic efforts of platform ora
| tors in the approaching campaign.
Miss Deans classes in rhetoric are try
4 ing their abilities in describing persons,
places and things. Some of them mani
/ fest much natural ability in telling that
which they, know, while her classes in
| grammar and language are quite as good
adopts in picking sentences to pieces as
the average hog is in dissecting all that
comes in his way
! Prof. Shields work IS producing fluent
transators of the ancient classics, both
as to matter and manner, besides which
| they are mastering thoroughly the intri-
| cacies of classical geography and history.
The fumes of burning charcoal from he
China kim retail to ali sensitive nostrils
and eyes, the fact that set after set of
beautifully decorated china is receiving
the finishing touch of fire. In her studio
students are busy with crayon and brush
reducing the ideal to the real.
! The thrilling notes of the chorus class
/ ha Of
make the welkin ring at rehearsal hour,
and many once crude voices are now
smooth and well mOdulated
| The French classes in Miss Barnett's
! department are about ready to act as in
terpreters for all returning visitors TO
Paris, while her German students are as
anxious for the discovery of new idioms
as the usual wheelman is for a good
road
| The primary and kindergarten pupils
show no sign as yet of an attack of
spring fever and may therefore be con-
| sidered to, be in a healthy state
| DR.. Selway, the ear, eye and throat
specialist at 30 East Douglas, offers the
! gold medal this year for the best declaim-
ing by students of the Academy. Al
ready the contestants are at work and
the chapel rings with echoes from forum
senate and battlefield. The contest will
probably occur Friday evening, June l,
in the Presbyterian church.
! The elocution class of twenty members
! finished last Thursday. In all sixty-four
students have taken the work this year,
a fun term Of ten weeks with daily reel
/ tations being regarded to complete the
course. All instruction IS free to students
! Of the school and includes thorough drill
in essentials and accidents OF vocal ex-
preston as well as drill in action
! The surplus newspapers from the read
ing room were take out to a Sabbath
| SCHOOL near Bentley where they will fur
nish the young people with a large
amount profitable reading matter
Miss Whitecotton and Mr. Ephraim Sid
ers, from near Benton; Miss Jessie Allen
of Wichita; Miss Laura Snyder. Of South
! Wichita; Miss Teachout of Hukle: Miss
Agnes FeIkner. OF Douglas, and several
/ parents have been welcome visitors this
week
The school is under many obligations to
Miss Schofeld for the delightful vocal
solo given by her. and to Misses Barnes
and Chapman for the brilliant piano duet
rendered by them at the rhetorical exer-
cises on last Thursday morning.
SICKNER CONSERVATORY NOTES
Record Of each pupils work is kept and
at the close Of the year several gold and
silver medals are presented By the dlrec-
tor The conservatory. 10 those having
the highest standing in piano. theory.
harmony and history OF music, also for
general proficiency
After considering many designs sub
mitted, those OF a beautiful pattern have