Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-26
School Column.

Supt. Stiles visited our school Tues
day afternoon.
The geometry class had test We'd
nesday morning.
Miss Alberta Hawley is nursing
fine case of the mumps.
Yesterday was scotch Day." the
birthday of Robert Burns.
Miss Ruth Ellis is obliged to be
absent these days on account of her
sisters illness.
Miss Dexter is back among her chill
dren, hard at work again; she will
make her home now with Mrs Jessie
Wood.
There were good many happy little
boys and girls Friday; all who were
exempt from examinations were given
a holiday.
Tuesday nights debate was recon
sidered Wednesday morning before
school called, aud il was very heated
discussion too,
One of the small sophomores ex-
planned yesterday why he Is so pale and
thin. The fragile little fellow says
that he is subject to "Ecalectic Fits
Memorial exercises in honor Of
"England's Great and Good Queen"
were held in several rooms Thursday.
King Edward VII how strange it
sounds.
Miss Mary Foley, Miss Lulu Owens.
Miss Lydia Siegler, Mr. Harry Wells
and Mr.. Leander Gridley, have rid
themselves of the grip" and are again
| in school.
The Debating Team are promising us
a fine entertainment in the near future.
They win debate in our own school,
and then the winners here win sally
| forth and seek new fields TO conquer.
Query What was that junior girl
doing out in front Of the school build
ing Thursday noon? Some say she
was attempting to describe parahola
Others, that She was giving mi exhiof.
tion in Delsarte.
The other day one Of the teachers
was telling the sophomores the prices
of specimens 10 be used in zoology.
| Among them he mentioned the 'Rhoxi-
chilidium Maxillare," which cost 80
cents dozen. The boys are wonder
ing If they can be obtained by the
hundred at any better rates
(Which is the harder, my head or a
stone wall - Over and over again had
a freshman lad pondcred that question;
finally Wednesday morning the oppor-
tunity came for him TO find OUT the
wall appeared and he had his head
along with him. Inquisitive reader
do you wish to know more? Then
study the faces OF the freshmen; the
truth is written upon that lads face; IL
stands ont boldly from his forehead;
the point Of contact was just between
his eyes.
Not long since the mother OF one Of
our little Undergraduates found him
playing school Near him sat an old
bed sIat When his mother lifted it TO
carry it away, he calculated "Oh
don't, mamma, that is our school
board " Later he added II must have
school boards" The wife OF one of
our worthy school commissioners heard
this simple tale and straightway went
home to her husband and said ~ had
always supposed that you were an old
stick, but it now appears that you are
only part Of one
The high school lYccum met Tues
day evening, Jan. 22nd. The program
consisted largely OF selections from
James Whitcomb Riley. The debate,
Resolved that immigration is detri
mental to the United States, was de-
Tended by Mr. Harold Dreher, Miss
Sadie Phillips and Miss Elizabeth
Godfrey. Their opponents were Mr..
Lester Payy, Miss Mary Foley and Mr..
! Walter Smith The judges were Rev.
John Sutherland, DR.. Wendell and Mr.
/ II. =. Morse, who decided the question
/ in favor Of the negative.