Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-19
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Next Friday evening the dancing
club of students of the high school will
give dancing party at Castle hall in
honor of the foot ball men. Dancing
will commence between haif-past seven
and eight
Miss Spence was absent from school
last week on account of illness.
The girls have organized four basket
ball teams. Elsie Dupre is captain of
the Seniors, whose color is white; Helen
Harvey of the Juniors, green; Lena
Kamrath of the Sophomores, red, and
Marie Brands of the Freshies, orange
and white.
The boy debaters of the school are
organizing debating club. Mr.. Lewis,
who has had quite little debating ex-
perience in high school and college, is
helping the boys. Frank Osen, Hugh
Durkee, and Zeno Speer, drew up
constitution, which was adopted. If
we find some good material in the club,
we intend to compete with some out
side schools.
Last week, Prof. Parlin gave his
history classes several illustrated lee
lures with the stereopticon.
An electric motor has been installed
in the high school to run the ventiat-
ing fan.
Last Thursday afternoon, Mr. NJ
MEME, of Chicago, who has taught in
the high school of Normandy, France,
told us about the schools OF France.
The public schools of that country cor
respond to our elementary schools, ex-
cept that their school is composed of six
years, while ours is eight years. In the
seventh and eighth years, the first two
years of high school they get Latin and
Natural History, which we do not get
in our seventh and eighth grades. If,
after finishing the public school the
student does not desire to follow any
profession, he attends school similar
to our manual training school. But
nine-tenths of the students 90 to the
high school with the intention of going
to the university.
The education is strictly regulated by
by the state, that is, the central govern
ment appoints all teachers and regu-
lates the courses of study There are
eighty-six departments and each de-
partment has only one high school, so
that there are often as many as eighty
thousand students attending one school.
The high school course is of eight years,
There is a room for each year and
student must pass all his examinations
in every study of that year before he
can pass to the next. Seven years of
Latin and five of Greek, one of the
most difficult languages to learn, must
be taken by every one. The studies of
the high school are all classical and
those of the college scientific When
one graduates from the university he
must be doctor of law or medicine or
whatever course he takes up. After
graduating in the law course he must
practice seven years before a celebrated
his own. The government only allows
one drug store in every three or four
blocks. Therefore if one wishes to
have drug store he must apply to the
government, and when there is an
opening for a store he purchases it from
the government. Thus the professional
men are very well educated and ex-
perienced.
LYCEUM PROGRAM
Essay-Our New City Hail.. Willie Koch
Declamation-The Christmas Sheaf
Hilda Peterson
Observation-Disclosures Roads. =. Myron johnson
Decentralization The Church of st. Michael
Deciamation.Biis in Trouble Norman Aa S stone
Essay-Our New Library. Arnold Gritzmacher
Essay-Christmas in Mexico 49, Alma Kruger
Declamation-Wh the Summer Boarders
Defamation Little Charles Christmas. t'O
................. 1870. Elizabeth Montgomery
Declamation-Mrs. Jones Revenge.
.-....*............. Lena Klamath
Debate-Resolved that hi gh license is the best
way of checking intemperanee.
Negative Elmer Young, Lloyd Wells.
Affirmative-Ed. johnson, Walter Winetzki
The judges, Frank S. Oseu, John
Kuhlman, and Harold Morisette, de-
cided the Debate in favor of the affirma-
tive. Hugh Durkee gave the critics
report. The following officers were
elected Abel Bugbee, Pres; jeanette
Wilson, Vice-Pres and Rowena Arthur,
Sec. Alfred H. Zimmerman, '04, was a |
visitor.