The Glenwood post., 1905-12-02

you. and ene thing which the visitor
was admonished not to overlook was
section of lobster shell. Wonderful
old bird, the lobster. What tales of
the deep he could tell those youngsters
if he would only talk! ,
In one room the floor was somewhat
Uttered. No, it wouldn't be fair to
tell which one, for the girls blushed,
when the teacher called attention to
the fact and the boys began hastily
to pick up scraps of paper, and the
teacher said she had hopes. Mr..
King made few remarks about little
housekeepers, and orderliness, and then
the girls got busy too, and it was
strange, but the floor grew clean very
quickly and teacher appeared to feel
better.
The eighth grade was disconsolate.
The eighth grade includes the element
that is contemptuous of those high
school students, (you know they're
students when they get into the high
school) and which next year will be
students themselves The high
school freshmen had stolen their
mascot a brownie with an expansive
smile, who was wont to greet the
eighth graders when they came to
their room, but who now droops be.
hind the bars and glass doors of the
chemistry locker in the high school
department. They besought Mr.. King
to get them key to the locker; they
wanted their brownie, and the high
school teachers-er, excuse me, fac
ulty-the high school faculty, would
not open the case for them.
From this room, we went to the
laboratory and spotted the brownie
looking dolefully at us as we came
through the door. But brownies were
forgotten in watching the experiments
In progress under the supervision of
a number of students. Chemicals
were being stewed and hoiled, and
mixtures were being copcocted, while
Principal Reed was busy explaining
to one after another, the why of this
effervescence or the wherefore of that
odor
Then we entered the high school
recitation room. Have you ever en-
tered a big public library, where
number of people were poring over
reference books, busying themselves
making notes; not even glancing up
as you came in the door; completely
absorbed in what lay, before them
That is good example of conditions
in the school room. No one wondered
what our business was; no one ap
parently had observed our entrance,
not even the teacher who sat at
desk in the far end of the room, cor
recting papers. 1--WE do not take the
matter of discipline into consideration
in this department, said MIR. King
"The scholars have learned the ne
cessity for it by this time, and are
not in need of any instruction of that
kind when they get to these classes. -
And so we went ont, passing down
the side of the room and off by anoth
er door. On our way out we passed
little side room where two type
writer's were busily clicking, and the
scribe learned something. High school
pupils, nowadays are taught other
things besides Latin and higher math
ematics. They get taste of book
keeping and of other instruction that
will be Immediately useful in com
mercial way, and that was the ex
planation of those clicking typewrit
ers.
The main, striking thing about the
whole institution has already been
dwelt upon. That is the complete
absorption of the pupils, scholars,
students, in the work before them,
and the complete discipline that
existed. Good signs, those, for they
mean that there is harmony between
teacher and pupil and that in turn
means the children are learning, for
it is easy to impart knowledge where
the student is willing to receive it.
How is this discipline obtained and
hdiuldiHeu mere are Tules, VI
course, and apparently good rules for
they are working we'll. but something
more is necessary, and that is sym
uathetic administration, and without
that there would not be the conditions
that exist in the Glenwood school to
dav. just one instance: down on
the superintendent desk there is
big book, labelled "Boy Book Did
they have a "boy hook when you
went to school? Every boy in the
school has page in that book No
one else sees it but him and the su-
perintendent or his parents Every
bad thing the boy does, is written on
that page. Not every little act of
mischief, bnt every seriously wicked
thing; the kind that leads to some