Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-27
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School Notes.

E OLLIE MARCY,
FERN CLARK.

OLLIE MARCY,
' ' FERN CLARK.
Aurillia Quinlan was absent Mon
day.
Harry Maxwell was absent from
school on Monday.
Alma Austin has been absent few
days on acc punt of illness.
The First grade children art, doing
creditable work in water color paint
ing.
Miss Higgins and May Alexander
visited the Grammar grade on Mon
day.
The Second and Third grades gave
a dramatic representation OF some
scenes from Hiawatha and the Lives
of the Pilgrims in their room on We'd
nesday.
The regular meeting of the Parents
club will be held in the high school
room Friday, Dec. S. The subject for
discussion is Mature Study and Field
Lessons All who are interested are
most cordially invited to be present.
At the meeting OF the Twentieth
Century Literary Society last Friday,
the following officers were elected:
President, May Waddingham; Vice
President, Nellie Clark; Secretary
and Treasurer, Viola Guy; Editors,
Ollie Marcy and Fern Clark. The
first three officers hold for two months,
while the editors term is three months.
The following was written by Vesta
Franklin, First grade pupil,
The Pilgrims came from England.
They came in the May flower.
The Mayfower was brig.
They came in November.
1t was showing.
The Pilgrims made log houses.
They had Thanksgiving Day.
Oceanus was a Pilgrim baby.
Oseanus came in the Mayf1ower.
Oceanus had cradle.
The reader who opens Shakespeare e
for the first time, without the training
of wide reading and the habit of deal
ing with the best literature, may be
repelled; but let such person perse-
we're until he becomes acquainted with
Shakespeare and the great poet slowly
but surely captures his interest, then
possesses his imagination, and finally
becomes essential as a teacher not only
of art but also Of life.
The way to become interested in the
classics is, therefore, following the
lines of ones interests, to take up the
best books in the field which attracts.
That is to say, if the reader has been
accustomed to fiction, and cares greatly
for it, but wishes to substitute reading
for education for reading for pleasure,
let him drop all the second and third
rate novels and read only the best
He who reads the best novels intelli-
gently will acquire a love of good writ
ing which will carry him on into other
fields. The greatest classics, like
AiAs'"J o'hNA s Noe 'AAhS wv hO' hiohS
their deepest impression on the first
acquaintance.
Clearly, then, the character of the
organized worlu about children should
change as they develop. To leave
children uncontrolled until they are
ready to be free members of republic
is to err greatly. Nor is it wise to
attempt the application of the princi-
piles of democracy completely at any
one point in the child's development
look with questioning upon the ex-
periments which completely and sud
denly transform the organization and
discipline of the school and make it
into an imitation of particular form
of the state, 1t is probable that until
the high school, and perhaps through
out its course, the organization of the
school should approach a constitutional
monarchy rather than a republic in
type; and even more is this true of the
organization of the home during the
same period of childhood.
FROM MILES CITY TO MAINE.
BY a Sixth Grade Pupil