Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-12
School Notes,

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School Notes.
Some time ago the Sophomoreclass
held number Of class meetings, but
as yet we have seen nofruits. Most
likely the president of the class has
been too much engrossed in his late
giant enterprise to be able to spare
any time to such minor affairs. We
would like to see the class prosper,
and their classwork bear golden
fruit.
Wednesday morning the Civics
Class, accompanied by their intel
lectual commander, made a pilgrim
age. up to the Court House to get
some instruction in courting-we
presume, though we are not officially
infprmed-that morning being the
time for opening the spring term
OF scourt. We hope they received
valuable and beneficial Information.
The rush and busy activity Of the
High School became too much like
work for one of our students, who
prefers to be a gentleman OF leisure
rather than hard working student,
and who loves hockey and skating
contests more than his Virgil, alge-
bra and geometry, so this week he
laid down his arms, packed up his
belongings and surrendered to the
conquering force of laziness. Hope
he'll come again when he feels like
work. A little later:
Hip, hip. hoorayl
He's already come back to stay.
That's very good, for we think he knew,
That with his Virgil he was not quite thru.
Alas! this is the monthly week of
work and worry, and no doubt next
Monday morning some of the faces
wilIbe visibly longer, for the writ
tenstests~c come Thursday and Fri
day and next Monday the results,
whether good or bad, will be ex-
posed to the general inspection OF
the school.
Our Friday afternoon programs
are now centered about some one of
our great American literary figures.
Longfellow and Lowell have already
been taken up and this week there
will be discussions of Whittier and
quotations from his works.
The Glass play is coming on nicely
and will certainly be a success. The
date is set for March 27 and a mat
inee will certainly be given in the
afternoon of that day for the benefit
of the school children.
Wonder of wonders! We have a
poet amongst us, and yet we never
knew it. We will not call him by
name, since we do not know how to
spell it, for he changes it as often as
the sun rises and sets in his en-
deavor to make it sound musical and
poetic. Perhaps he expects, like
Longfellow, when chair Of modern
languages is established in the War
ren High School to be appointed to
that dignity on the strength of that
poem of forty eight verses which he
wrote in his sophomore year. AS
we read his melodious (?) verses we
cannot help a feeling of sorrow for
the forty-eight pupils of the High
School whom he deemed worthy OF
his esteemed attention, and also a
feeling of pity for the poet himself.
His style is most excellent, his COM
parsons fine, but we doubt whether
he consulted Webster very much as
to his idea of the meaning of words.
His versifcation is, we think, lam
bic hexameter, though somewhat
rubbery and stretchy occasionally.
Now, certainly, this poet will be-
come agreat man (at least, he says
SO in his poem), for already, as Vir-
gil says of Rumor, He walks upon
the ground with his scowling coun-
tenance among the Clouds
Church Notices.
Communion at services Melo church
next Sunday at 3 o'clock p. m.
Services next Sunday at Warren