Cañon City record., 1906-10-25
THE BUSY LIFE OF A
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT

There are many intellectual activi-
ties in the life of the present day
high school student outside the regu-
lar text book studies that are undream-
ed of by the majority of people, par
ticularly by those who never had the
advantages of training in such an
institution, or graduated so long ago
as to be forgetful of its exactions.
A score OF things are required of
him that may seem trivial and unim-
portant to the layman. but which are
not by any means easy of acquisition
and are as incumbent upon him as his
science or his mathematics. He is
graded on these extra duties the same
as in his conventional work and his
class standing and scholarship is af-
fected by it The purpose of it all is
to develop the various faculties of the
student making him a symmetrical,
many-sided man, capable of meeting
all of the situations and solving all of
the problems that present themselves
to the citizen of the republic under our
complex civilization. 1t is discipline
demanded by the times and is becom-
Ing more and more factor of the pub
lie schools. which is no longer confined
to the three RS"
The well equipped modern high
school affords almost infinitely better
educational facilities that the most ia
nous colleges and universities did a
generation ago and they are far more
effective agents in the practical dis
semination of practical knowledge than
the most renowned institutions of
learning were in the days of our fore
fathers.
Hardly better example is at hand
than our own Canon City high school,
the efficiency of which should be mat
ter of pride to our people. There are
enrolled In the high school here more
than two hundred students and they
have enough work to do to stimulate
into activity all OF their mental ma
chinery. In addition to the regular
curriculum of study. which includes
a liberal amount of mathematics,
science. history. the vernacular and
foreign languages. etc.. there are half
attention of the student. For instance
there exists a debating club, a literary
society, a dramatic club. two glee
clubs and an orchestra of twenty
pieces. The members of each of these
organizations are required TO meet
once every week and TO give formal
entertainment every month. II Is in
cumbent upon all OF the students, ex-
cept the membersof the freshman class
to belong to one or more of these or
ganizations and their work is an in
auential factor in this class standing
The association the student gets in
this way does much to give him those
Accomplishments and personal graces
garded as a necessary part of ones
education In the debating club ora
tory and the art of public speaking
is encouraged. a branch of education
that has been allowed to languish in
American schools for many years. 1t
is the intention of the local debating
club to challenge similar organiza-
tons to public discussion before the
school year closes.
| The high school cadet corps is an
Organization that is found very help
full by the young men entitled to its
benefits. II is a stimulant in othe
In 1t is a badge of merit under the
rules adopted by the board of educa-
tion. The commandant of the corps is
Prof Guy X. Foster, teacher of Ger
high school unless he presents a GER
tificate of disability. is required to
join the corps and remain with 1t
until graduation. The corps is COM
and Company B. OF the first George
Croker is captain and Porter Guthrie
first lieutenant, and of the latter Har-
old Coulter is captain and Arthur
required to drill four MORNINGS every
week, Friday morning being the eN-
ception. Under the rules no student
can hold ONCE in the corps unless he
has at least fifteen hours of prepared
work every week and has a class, grade
Of more than seventy-five per cent.