Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-03-06


REPORTERS.
Seniors Clarence Potter. Clara Fisher.
Juniors Herman Parmley. Robert Brewer.
Earnest Staber. Phil Gorgen.
Sophomores-Mary Thies, Roy Reese. Temp
| rance knight, Wallace Martin.
Freshmen Grange, Coriiss Toay,
Francis Coady, Florence Arthur.
The sleighing is gone and the song
of the 'one-horse open sleigh is heard
no more.
The Seniors have gone into secret
sessions again. Lookout.
This is the week of examinations,
and of course, as is betitting us,
we are all hard at work. We are
preparing ourselves to play our part
in the great drama of life. When we
are scattered abroad in the wide, wide
world, what one of us will not look
buck with pleasure on the time spent
in the old Mineral Point High School,
but with a probable reflection on
what might have BEEN?
The base ball season is near at
! hand. The Athletic Association has
/ not been idle. Committees have been
appointed to look after suits and
Equipment, and Ernest Ovitz has been
chosen captain of the team.
James Harris has been visiting rel
atives near Galena the past week.
Although there has been some rival
ry between the different classes in
regard to spreads there is one
thing in which we are unanimous, and
that is that our High School Quin-
tette is zone among many"
This is the twentieth century and
the boys and girls of Mineral Point
are anxious to have as comfortable
surroundings during their school
days as are obtainable in any other
| high school district. Our old high
school building has done good service
for many years, but should now be
put aside to make way for modern,
up-to-date building which would be
credit to the people OF our age.
If all the teachers are going to be
as hard on the Juniors in examina-
tion as our General History teacher,
we will be Juniors next year and there
will be no Seniors.
1t is an established custom of the
High School to give the closing hour
of the week to recitations, addresses,
aud other literary exercises; and at
the request of Principal Bergen, on
last Friday afternoon Mr.. George
Crawford delivered before the High
| School students AN address on 1.-THE
| Press; it's Rise, Progress and Iufu-
ence.' Mr.. Crawford spoke of John
Gutenberg, the inventor of printing,
| and of the many struggles of the
press for the liberty which has at
| tanned. He summed up the influence
which printing has had upon the
| world, and spoke of the mission of the
country press. Notes of the address
were taken by the members of the
Rhetoric class: Four hundred sixty
one years ago, or fifty-one years be-
| fore Columbus found the Western
| Hemisphere, the art of printing from
movable types was discovered or in
vented by a young nobleman John
| Gutenberg, of Mentz, Germany. From
| that date to this the sun OF progress
has never stood still and greater adj
vancement has been made since that
time than during all previous his
tory. Printing was at first regarded
| as an aid to the art of writing. For
the first one hundred and fifty years
| after the invention of printing the
press was used only to produce books
and tracts, and in the year l47l the
first book in the English language
was printed at Client Holland, by
William CaXton, who, in I474, at
Westminster, issued "A History of
the Game OF Chess" the first book
printed in Britain. England seemed
most untitled for the reception of the
new art, and the press began its
work there under most unfavorable
conditions, and under restrictions and
prosecutions. In England, up to
l4l4, and for some time thereafter, il
was unlawful for " laborers, farmers
and mechanics to send their children
to school," The progress of Christi
anity made possible the establishment
OF the press, and ia the hands of the
Anglo Saxon people the printing
press is the lever that has moved the
world. The FIRST English newspaper,
The Weekly News, was printed ia 1922;
the first daily newspaper ia 1909: and
THE Gentlemen's Magazine" in 1871
the pupDpsp Of which wac daoIarad