Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-12
HIGH SCHOOL
NOTES
Editor-in-Chief, Delight Downing.
ub-Editors-Myrtle Bell, '0e; Mag
gle Woods, 90; Harold White, 10.


see EN- shine!
see 'em shine
Yes. the sophmores are back and
shining as brilliantly as ever. Though
only sixteen present of the whole num-
Der of enrolment they seem to fill up
a larger space in high school than that |
percent would warrant: not SO much
perhaps. in room as in the hearts of
their fellow pupils.
The first week they found their class
sadly diminished in number. There
were plenty of girls but few boys. The
class had almost decided to elect a
new president, for it seemed as i'll
he was not to favor them with his
presence during another term of
school. But on Monday of the second
week the boys, including the president,
came flocking in after having enjoyed
an adventurous hunt.
Things went on smoothly from that
time. The carnival must have been
just the thing to give an added zest
to the pupils for study, for one the fol-
lowing Monday nothing could excel the
brightness which was exhibited on
every face.
But now the fun is over and all have
settled down seriously to work. They
look ahead with staunch hearts and do
not quail at the thought of years
hard work ahead of them.
MYRTLE BELL, 'O9.
The senior English class are now
taking up the work of Chaucer. They
are reading his Prologue to the Can
terbury Tales The study of the Ian
guage and the descriptions Of the var
ious classes of people living in the
fifteenth century are especially engag-
ing.
The Cicero class arae committing to
memory portions of the First Grafton
Against Catiline" and they are try
ing to deliver these in the style of
Roman orator, but they find it rather
difficult to do so as fast and as We
hemently as the Romans did.
The fourth year algebra class had
written lesson in their work, Tues
day.
The Vergil class have begun to scan
the lines of the great Latin writer.
They are also making a review of their
grammar work.
The plane geometry class are study
ing problems of construction.
The Junior English class have been
writing descriptions, variations, and
exposition.
The chemistry class are studying the
combination Of hydrogen and oxygen
or water. They find these experiments
are very interesting.
AS the German Composition Books.
by Bernhardts. have come, the German
class began their study in them Thurs
day morning.
The zoology class have finished their
study of the cricket and are ready tC
take up the house fly.
! Because the girls in the medieval
! history class have been having excel
lent lessons they were not required
to recite Wednesday.
After having studied the lives OIL
Addison and Steele, the second veal
English class have taken up Sir Roger
De Coverly.
The Caesar class is doing some
much needed reviewing in grammar.
The second year algebra class will
be greatly relieved when they are
safely past their demonstrations and
started on imaginary expressions"
Wednesday the physiology class made
a microscopic study of the cross sec
ton of bone,
Some new apparatus has been re-
ceived for the physics and chemistry
classes. All of this is intended for the
students individual use rather than fol-
lecture experiments. With these adj
dtional supplies the students will bt
able to work easier and to better ad
vantage. The board of trustees are try
ing to arrange laboratories and equip
ments so that at least half of the aver
age class can be supplied with dupli
cate sets of apparatus instead of eact
student working on different exper
iment. The latter condition is fatal tt
the students interest and to the teach
ers time and energy.
Two pieces of special value which
have been added to the physics labora
tory are the new sonOmeter and tha
new jolly balance. The latter is es
pecially good and has a total useful
ness of twenty-five distinct expert
ments. The material for the chemistr!
class came just in time, as much of the
chemical supplies were used up.
Some excellent reference books have
just ben received by the high schoo
for use in the English department
This gives the classes in English ;
very good equipment for library work
The following are some of the best
Taines History of English L1tera
ture, Trails Social England, Shell
ly's poems, Keats poems Matthew Ar
nold's poems. Saintsbury's Nineteenth
Century Literature, Pallans Mean
ing of the Idylls of the King
The following composition was writ
ten by member of the first year Eng
fish class:
The Runaway.
Alice and her sister, Ethel, were
having delightful time one afternoon
in June, riding through the picturesque
country on thei ponies. The cl a
they had ever seen it, they thought
such early birds as the robin blue-jay
cheerily calling to each other, the EN-
erald meadows with silvery brook
ripping through them increased tn
beauty of the early summer, and rose:
viOlets, anemones and hair-bells which
delighted the girls more than any
thing else they saw, were grouped il
luxuriant clusters in their own pecul
lar hooks and haunts.
The sun beamed brihtly on this gla,
June day and few Swallowed valley
were seen. Everything seemed radian
and with all these beauties about then
it is no wonder that the girls wer
happy and gay.
Now Ethels pony was not very gen
} tie and as the two girls sauntere'
along the road they heard a sound tina