Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1906-04-14
SCHOOL and EDUCATIONAL NOTES

Grace Book was absent Tuesday morn
ing
Vienna Axes is absent from school be-
cause of sickness.
Ellen Garock was absent Thursday
and Friday of last week.
Willie Campbell and Glen Henriksen
missed several days this week.
Glen Peterson was absent Wednesday
morning on account of sickness.
Beatrice Peterson is visiting in Her
mosa and so is not in school this week
The fourth grade are working hard in
cancellation as they are some behind the
course Of study.
The fourth grade geography class have
produced some very creditable maps Of
the sections Of the United States the past
week.
At the spelling contest in the High
School last Thursday. Miss Hazel Bail
ey's side won, and Miss Lillian Smith
spelled the school down.
The following current topics have
been discussed at the opening exercises
in the High School. The Olympic
games at Athens, the case of Senator
Smoot as described by Senator Burrows
in the New York Independent, the fam
inc in Japan, the Independents articles
on the Panama canal and the eruption
of Mt. Vesuvius.
All enjoyed looking at the interesting
photographs of historical places, that
Miss Munger brought into the High
School on Wednesday. Among others
there was Elder Brewster's chair, and
the cradle of Peregine White, the first
| Pilgrim baby Frankln's grave in Phil
adelphia, st. Johns church at Rich
mond, Va, where Patrick Henry made
his famous speech for Liberty, the Lib
erty Bell, Washingtons headquarters at
Valley Forge, John c. Calhoun's grave
at Charleston, 5. c., Fort MOultrie and
Osceola's grave. 1t was here that Ser
geant Jasper gallantly rescued the flag
in Revolutionary times, Fort Sumpter,
where the first shot Of the Civil War
was fired, the Isle of Palms, McLean's
house where Robt L. Lee signed the
articles of surrender, and the Garfield
monument.
The complaint ofenest brought against
the public schools is that they do not
| teach the three RS as well as the schools
of fifty years ago. A very interesting
test was given in the schools Of Spring
field Mass, last year The same ques
| tions in spelling and arithmetic given to
the High School pupils of Springfield in
| 1916 were given to the ninth grammar
grades in 1905. The results were rated
at a uniform standard and will doubtless
prove surprise to the school critics.
In 1916 eighty.five pupils were exam
| ined and the average was spelling 40.6
per cent, arithmetic 29.4 per cent. In
1905 there were 245 pupils examined,
the average ir spelling was 5l.2 per cent
! IN arithmetic 30 per cent. The exam"
ination was given in Custer, to the pupils
of the High School and those in the
grammar department on last Friday.
The seventh grade average in spelling
was g. .5 per cent, in arithmetic 79 per
cent The eighth Grade made an aver
age in spelling of 66.55 per cent and in
arithmetic of Sl5 per cent. The aver
age Of the High School was 64.S0 per
cent in spelling and 797 in arithmetic.
The average in recent times at other
schools is as follows: Goshen, Indiana,
spelling iG.2 per cent, arithmetic, 81. .
per cent; Great Falls, Montana, spelling
50.4 per cent, arithmetic 79.5 per cent
Lewiston, Montana, spelling 655 per
cent arithmetic 95.5 per cent.