The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-28
Lewis Academy Notes.

! The class in first year French has fin
ished reading the selections in the reader
! and viii not take up one Of Chateau
| brands stories This class was only
! organized at the middle of the year. but
/ has made unusual progress.
| The Athletic association held a business
meeting Thursday and adopted a resolu-
/ ton prohibiting any member whose class
grades were not satisfactory to the board
! Of directors, from taking part IN games
TO which the public is admitted.
Miss Nora Noel entertained a party of
friends from the school at her home near
Hinkle Friday night Those who at
/ tended were Misses Grace Small, Stella
Hatton, Julia Teachout and Nessrs. a G.
Small William Small, George Buck, Fred
Roll, Edgar Dye and William Noel.
The intermediate department has begun
a general review OF work preparatory for
final examinations. A new classic has
been taken up by the pupils 1t is the
story of % Helen's Babies" and is thor
oughly enjoyed by the class.
The sketching club spent yesterday af-
ternoon in the park, sketching from ma
ture. The club meets weekly in the
academy and draws from casts and stud
les. but every alternate Saturday an out
door meeting is held and studies from ma
ture are made. The members of the club
are very much devoted to their work. and
as a result, a great Improvement is no
ticeable in the work being done
Misses Nell and Alice Houston and Miss
Fannie Case went to Valley Center on
Thursday to attend the commencement
exercises of the High school at that place.
J..
week
Mr. Herbert Hatfield and Mr.. Chauncey
Brown delighted the school with their
rendition Of a piano duet at the rhetorical
exercises Thursday morning.
The April number of the Academy
News came out Friday. The News is a
never failing source of enjoyment to the
students.
Miss Brown presented both baseball
teams with a box of candy last week as
a token Of her appreciation of the good
work they did in winning their respective !
games played a week ago Saturday.
Professor Shedd. instructor in Latin
and Greek in the Academy has just issued |
the announcement of his beginning Latin |
book shortly to come from the press. His !
method is designed to lead up directly to |
the reading of Latin texts with greater /
ease than is now possible
In addition to the usual attention given |
to forms and syntax special emphasis is /
placed upon the requirement of the vo-
cabulary. in the belief that in this respect /
nearly half Of the time commonly re-
quired by the student to prepare a Latin
lesson, may be saved.
The method adopted for the acquire
ment of a vocabulary is this; The num-
Der of new words in each lesson is limit
ed to four or FIVE. Their frequent rep
etition enables the student to so assimi-
late them that most of them soon come
to be recognized at sight. The attention
is thus left free to devote itself to forms
and synax so that longer and more diff
hcult passages can be read than could
otherwise be done. The student is also
enabled to easily read the unaltered text
because the words thus memOrized are
among tn commoner words found in the
Latin read during the second year. The
reading lessons We're prepared during the
OF 1888 and mimeographed copies
were used last year in the beginning Lat
10 classes. with the result that they easily
read 30 per cent more Latin than any of
the previous classes. These same classes
this year are reading six books of Caesar
which is - per cent more than is required
by any college or recommended for the
second year by the committee of twelve
II the American pathological association.
The first baseball team encountered the
Friends university team yesterday after
noon. This was the second game of the
season for the Academy boys. last Sat
lrday's game with High school being the
FIRST Keen interest was manifested
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