Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-03-10

w du ddfduCeu CLASS IN algebra.
These conditions are difficult, but Miss
Pollard lever an industrious student)
will not quail before the situation.
Her many friends in the High school
wish her good luck.
THEY'VE IN OUR SCHOOL.
We've many fine scholars to garland
our room:
The Freshmen, who abstain from e'er
using the broom,
The Sophomore maidens who make
such fine bread,
Which weighs down the scales like a
pellet of lead
There are also the Juniors, who often
get mad,
Cause their Geometry papers are al
ways marked "bad.'
There are the Seniors, who act so pro-
vokingly brave
When they catch hold the batt'ry
they'll sing you stave,
There are others who come with an
elephants tread
Down the stairways, with feet that are
weighted like lead.
There are those, too, land they are
not always boys),
Who walk round the room with great
deal of noise,
And they think they're insulted when
ever the "Prof"
Gets out on the rostrum and tries
heading them off.
Two score and eight years ago our
fathers established at Mineral Point
a public school conceived in righteous
ness and dedicated to the proposition
that all students therein should study
Now we are about to engage in its
destruction and the question is, should
any public school so conceived and so
Dedicated be thus destroyed for its new
rival just behind it? We were drawn
together last spring to vote on the old
buildings destruction. We are now
beneath its roof for the last term
Before its destruction we, the members
of the High school, should consecrate
and hallow this building. Each year
there should be set aside one day in
its remembrance. 1t is altogether fit
ting and proper that we should do
this. But in a larger sense we cannot
dedicate; we cannot consecrate: we
capnothallowt that buildingorgrounds.
The brave boys and girls who have
struggled here have consecrated it far
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tract. The city will little note nor
long remember what we S, here, but
it can never forget what they did here
in the old brick seminary. 1t is for
our pleasure and our convenience that
the old school building is now doomed
to destruction. 1t is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us, that from the
honOrod graduates we take increased
devotion to the cause for which they
suffered in the old school building
That we feel highly resolved that the
graduates have not suffered in vain,
but that the old building under the
Mineral Point School Board shall be
more than replaced by its rival, supe-
rior in both beauty and size, and that
the schoolhouse of the students, by
the students, and for the students shall
not perish from the earth.
THE LECTURE COURSE.-T Public
Library Lecture Course has been very
interesting to the High school students
this year. Two lectures have been
especially instructive: the one given
by Rev. McNutt on 1.-THE Dinner Pail
Man." and that given last Saturday
night by Rev. Thomas E. Green, which
closes the course. His subject was:
1.-The Key to the Nineteenth Century"
Philosophy, history, economics, eth
les and their bearing on the past,
present and future, were discussed in
such an interesting and powerful man
ner that at the close of the lecture one
heard enthusiastic such expressions as
Good!n Superb!n Finest on the
Course!" Each word and gesture inn
pressed the thought deeply in our
minds, although at times 1t came like
a torrent where one seemed swept be-
fore it. Running through 1t all and
connecting it, as it were, was the red
thread of the Christian religion as
taught by the Carpenter OF Nazareth.
The following is brief report of what
DR.. Green said: What a wonderful
thing is that which we call "Time, I"
and what goes along with it-human
history! In all the great turning
points OF the worlds history, Cause
had been at work for long time be-
fore Effect came to light: but the world
was not ready for the change which
seemed to come so suddenly, and
therefore was mystfied The predic-
tions of men who understand the signs
of the times, are that in the first part
OF this Twentieth century some great
changes are to come about. We need
TO be careful. 1t Is Success we are
after now, no matter how we get it,,
only that we get it. TWAS not so with
those who founded our nation. All
the people we're interested in the gov
ernment then. The meeting place
might DE a blacksmith shop, where
blacksmith, lawyer, farmer, doctor,
all classes, had time to discuss the
public good. But not SO now, for the
blacksmith must hammer on shoes,
quicker, better and cheaper than his
competitor, or lose his trade. So in
all lines of work. And when 1t comes
to something for the good OF the ma.
ton, for the good of our own city, or
for the good of our neighbor, we shit
the responsibility from our shoulders
with the remark: let somebody else
tim too busy" What a country
il ours! What a state is Wisconsin.
Why, all the $4,000, 900 people OF the
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