Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-19
CITY SCHOOL NEWS.

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Tuesday MIR Schultz explained the
workings of the photograph. Wednes-
day Rev. Nugent gave the pupils an
address on the value of thinking as
compared with memorizing. Mr.. Ed
ward James, who has spent the past
four years in China gave an interesting
talk Friday on the Chinese government
officials and the education of boys for
the competitive examinations.
The '01 flag that has waved so gaily
from the high school flag staff since
Halloween was blown down during
one of the recent storms, and, what is
worse, somebody ran off with it. 1t is
supposed that the miscreant is an '02
and the Seniors are thirsting for blood.
The question now is, whether they can
get another rope through the pulley
and run up a successor to the late Ia
mented flag.
The Lincoln school teachers are de-
lighted over the prospects of fine new
addition to that building.
Principal G. C. Parlin went to Madi
son Friday night to attend meeting of
the state board of control of high school
athletics, of which he is member. The
board has set June 1st as the date for
the annual interscholastic field meet at
Madison.
1t is the sad duty of the reporter this
week to chronicle the death of Miss
Winifred Single, a member of the Soph-
| omore class. She had many warm
friends in the high school and out of it,
and they will all miss her greatly.
DR.. E. G. Updike, of the Congregation
al church at Madison, will speak to the
1901 graduates on the second evening
of commencement. Judge Bardeen
was the means of securing DR.. Updike
for the evening. He is a fine speaker,
and great favorite among the Univer
sity students.
Emil Breitkreuz, '01, is quite an en-
thusiast in the geometry line. He has
recently been at work on proofs of the
proposition, 'The square described up
on the hypotenuse of right triangle is
equal to the sum of the squares described
upon the other two sides" He has al
ready made 62 different proofs of this
proposition. These are not all original
with him, though he found them unaid-
ed, and four or five of them he has not
yet found to have been demonstrated
by anyone else. Go ahead Emil and
when Prof Breitkreuz gets out his fam
Gus geometry Wen use it in Wausau if
it isn't too deep for high school stu
dents.
That the high school enrolment is
not so very small is shown by the fact
that on the day of the big storm there
were 95 pupils absent and still enough
to run school with. The enrolment for
the high school so far this year has been
two hundred and eighteen.
Miss Evelyn Mccormick has been
quite i'll lately.
THE GLEE CLUB CONCERT.
The GIee Club popular concert will
be given one week from Friday. The
pros. am can not be secured before the
PILOT goes to press, but the following
will be among the good things of the
evening: Two popular violin solos by
Jacob Reuter-; vocal solos, Mrs. f. W.
Kick busch and Miss Lulu James; piano
Duets, Mrs. Clinton Smith and Mrs. E.
V. Speer, and Misses Belle Heinemann
and Gertrude Harger; piano solo, Miss
Heinemann. The high school Glee
Club will give two numbers; and the
Teachers Quartette, consisting of Miss
eS SnOdgrass and James, and Messrs.
Mathie and Snodgrass, will sing. Be
sides these, novelty will be introduced
in the way of an illustration of rhythm
work by twelve of Miss Snodgrass' pu-
pills. The famous Zobo quartette will
play, but the event of the evening is ex-
pected to be DR.. Spencer's debut as
pianist, when he will render four
hand piano solo. This is be popular
concert,-good music that everyone can
understand and appreciate. You all
know what Shakespeare says about
''The man who hath no music in
himself Now gentle reader il
you would not have this thought true
of yourself attend this concert, for we
are positive that with such variety of
inducements as this program holds forth
I'D, IN,
must be satisfied.
THE GREAT GAME.
The basket ball game last Friday
evening drew good crowd and was
interesting, though at no time very ex-
citing. In the first round, the Sophie
more-FreShmen team defeated the Fac
ulty by a score of 8 to 6. In the second
contest, the Juniors were beaten by the
Seniors, 10 to s. Then the defeated
teams were allowed consolation game
and the Faculty again suffered defeat.
After that the seniors and Lower class
teams lined no for a final contest, and
the fun" began when the score had
reached , to 0, in favor of the '01. At
this point the referee tried to rule out
Breitkreuz for smuggling" though to
many of the spectators the case for
which he was ruled out didn't seem to
be bad one. The referee thought he
was doing the just thing, some of the
Seniors thought he wasn't, and that's
where the fun began. After a lengthy
confab, accompanied by voeiferous
chant OF "chew the rag" sung by small
boys in the balcony, the game was for