The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-03-23
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
CBy J. P PhilIips.)

| NBy ). r Rn1l1DS-B
The first examination for a common
| school diploma will be held on sat
/ urday, April p, and Saturday, April
I %, at the following places, and the
| teachers as indicated will have
| charge: KanOradO, Nellie Marks;
/ RUIetOn, Amy Jones; Edison, Emma
/ BrelsfOTd; district No. 4. known as
/ the New Hope school, EurOth Stew
| art; District No Is, known as the Pal
! meT school, Anna King; district No.
/ 40, known as the Kemp school, d. o.
| FOrtmeyers and in the court room at
! GOOdland- Examinations will be given
/ in photography, penmanship. geo.
graphy and physiology on April q,
and in arithmetic, grammar, United
States history and Kansas history on
I Will not be required as il is now
placed in the ninth years work Pu-
/ pills may take the examination at the
most convenient place for them TO
] take it Examinations will begin
/ promptly at o'clock a m The re-
/ quired average is so per cent, mini
/ mum so per cent All grade of so
/ OF better may be carried for one year
/ No questions will extend beyond the
eighth years work as outlined in the
! course OF study for the common
| schools All graduates viii get a nice
Autographed diploma, which viii ad-
nit them to the county high school
without examination 1t is hOped
u
enter high school There is room for
more students in the county high school
and it is hoped that il Will be used.
The class Of 1905 was composed OF
| twenty-three members, seventeen are
attending high school this winter.
| This peaks well for this class, but we
hope to see a larger per cent Of the
class Of 1906 enter high school this
/ fall
= 3 6
/ ono Of -. qEn
] (Pa-) school teachers was spelled
| down" on thirteen common English
words at the session Of the teachers
| county institute by DR.. H R. Patten-
I gill, at the close Of his lecture on
| spelling But one woman, Mrs Ar
I thur Lyons Of Beaver, who has not
/ been a teacher for years, spelled all
the words correctly Dr. Pattengill,
| who is an ex-State superintendent Of
I Michigan, cleyerly lured all into the
contest He said the old form OF
| spelling down" at spelling bees"
I was obsolete and he wanted to de-
mOnstrate a better method.
He asked all Of the teachers to
[ in their notebooks They did this.
| Then he told them to exchange pa
/ perS with neighbOrs. He then spell
/ ed the words correctly. With the
! first word he spelled there was a tit
| ter from the instructors, who found
| the word had been missed By the
time the third word was reached the
filters were not so loud, and at the
! end every face was sober. Then DR..
/ Pattengill had all stand up. Those
who had missed the first word were
| told to sit down, and fifty took their
/ seats The second word was not miss
| ed by many, but the third brought
another half hundred to their seats
From then on about a score sat down
at each word, until the unlucky thir-
! teenth was reached, when about TWEEN
| ~ who were yet standing dropped sill
emily into their seats, with the ex-
| CeptiOn Of Mrs. Lyons.
Among the last twenty was former
| County superintendent Q. A. Moore,
while superintendent ". d. Bright
well Of the New Brighton school and
Superintendent Edward Mcguire Of
| the Beaver Fails schools went down
earlier in the game The words which
! DR.. Pattengill had given out were:
Auxiliary, Tennessee, beefsteak, pro-
| coed, sUpersede, precede, picnicking,
sieve, seize, siege, cylinder, succotash
/ and desicCated.