The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-17
EXCELSIOR SCHOOL
GIRLS. WHIPPED
REPORT SAYS A sCOWHIDE WHIP
WAS USED.
AS Result the Town Is CAL Torn Up
Many Say Punishment Was I'm
necessarily Severe-But the School
Board Has Exonerated Principal
Booth.

High school girls are too old to be
spanked, says one part of Excelsior.
No high school pupil who rebels
against the ordinary rules of discipline
shall be exempt from the penalty
which the principal sees fit to impose,
says the Excelsior school board.
Thus Principal Booth stands con-
victed in the eyes of maternal Excel
sior while he has, been acquitted by
official Excelsior.
There has been considerable trouble
in the high school and discipline has
ers say that Miss Butcher and Miss
Dennis were to some extent, at least,
responsible for the condition and that
something had to be done. The OPP
portunity came and the two young
women were ordered to the principals
room. r:
Miss Butcher was first ushered into
the principals presence and in a re-
markedly short time sounds came
from behind the closed doors. Crying,
pleading and scuffling resounded thru
the corridors and the, pupils in the
building were hushed into a silence OF
speculation.
There was one listening, however,
to whom the cries meant more than
to the others. That was Miss Dennis,
who stood in an adjoining room,
knowing full well that her time was
soon to come. She grew deadly pale
and it was difficult for her to restrain
was at an end. The door opened and
out came Miss Butcher with hair di-
sheveled, a. hand bleeding and her
clothes in bad condition. Professor
Booth was not. in a much better con-
dition, for it appears that the young
| lady did not take the chastisement
| without resistance, and the professor
| clothes were minus buttons, his tie
was torn from his neck and his watch
was badly damaged in the encounter.
This did not deter the gentle be-
lever in the birch" however, from
doing his duty toward Miss Dennis
and he ordered her at once into the
room. She besought him to spare her
the rod, promising. to leave the school
and never return. But the profes-
sor's blood was up. Miss Dennis was
accordingly given treatment like thai
received by Miss Butcher, and later
in a highly nervous state, she was
taken to her home. ~
/ It is needless to say that the
student body has taken no pains te
conceal it's displeasure, and it is sale
that Kisses were heard the: next: day
when the head Of the school made hi:
appearance. @'.'S@
The matter. was. taken before the
school board and confidence was ex
pressed in the principal. But man,
fathers and mothers at Excelsior arr
not satisfied. "n
While the girls do not attempt tt
make any defense Of the charge tina
they were lnischievous and inclined II
pranks, yet they believe their age an(
advancement had placed them beyond
punishment of the kind inflicted. Il
They have left the school and 1t; Il
said that they are being tutored by
prominent light in one of the loca
| churches. co., - .'.' -
I The girls friends state that. tn
Treatment given them was not give,
to an equally guilty companion,: {
young man. They say that the DO.
was sent to the principal, but was a
once excused with a reprimand. a|sf