Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-11-18
High School Notes.

The senior German class will
begin reading William Tell this
week, having completed ''Hoher
ais die Kirche."
This week the seniors choose
subjects for their Judge Mills con-
test orations
Wesley Wenzel, sophomore, and
Will Galloway, junior, have left
school. Three new pupils entered
this quarter, viz, Will Morse, Tom
Green and Claudia Jordan. The
latter is taking graduate work.
The freshman literature class
Logan today to puzzle their brains
over difficult words and passages
in the Lady of the Lake"
The teachers are now busy get
ting out report cards for the past
quarter. Parents should see that
they come home.
Miss Viva Alcott, a Platteville
young lady visited the school Mon
day.
Mr.. Powers was at the North
school last Friday afternoon. He
took Miss Smiths room while she
took Miss. Wenzel's place. This
week Mr.. Will Webb fills the
vacancy caused by Miss Wenzers
illness.
The freshmen are very proud OF
one of their classmates who had
the good fortune to receive 100
per cent. in three of her studies
and 90 per cent. in the other.
1t is about time that the sophie
mores were choosing another Her
aid press representative to take the
place Of Margaret Fawcett who has
left school.
Mr.. Slothower has found that the
habit of chewing gum, which some
Of the pupils have formed, some
what lengthens the time assigned
for roll call. 1t is all right if he
catches them on the up stroke; but
if it is on the down stroke, it takes
several seconds to get the mouth
into shape to give their number.
''Socks are what any person
owns" This was found by the
eighth grade teacher III one Of her
arithmetic papers.
It is showing. How pleasant it
is to sit in the school room, look
ing dream1ly out of the window and
watch the great white cloud come
down SO softly and SO silently!
But be careful, gentle dreamer,
that Mr.. Powers does not catch
you enjoying life after that fashion
or it may go hard with you.
The first year class are being
bothered to death with rhetoricals.
The teacher will choose the selec-
rion for all classes this quarter.
Now that examinations are all
over, the anxiety as to standings
has been removed (0.
Some of the boys have intro
duced into their vocabularies a new
word, "superslobgoptions" We
would all be pleased to find out it's
meaning.
A radical change is soon to in
augurated in the personel of the
two divisions in algebra and in
geometry. One section in each
study will go on and complete the
study this year while the other is
to return, review what has already
been done and take an extra quar-
ter or two next year. It has been
found that some pupils, either from
lack OF previous training or in
ability to quickly grasp the new
principles involved, are unable to
pursue the branches at the pace
necessary to complete the work in
one year.
Did you know that there are but
four weeks of school, including this
week, before Christman vacation
begins? That some people are too
lazy to live? That the mutual adj
miration society thrives with the
advent of cold weather? That
cutting" has decreased? That a
lecture on honesty would make
some people look cheap? That the
quarterly examination has salu-
tary effect upon the delinquent?
That some people have long faces?
That some boys smoke cigarettes
and have dirty yellow stains on
their fingers? Finally, that Tom
my's stock of stories has not de-
creased2