Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-22
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
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! Teacher-Abel, what is sugar
Abel-Anything that is sweet. Fol-
lowed by snickering from the class.
Last Friday, Katherine Manson
taught the virgil class. The students
were well pleased with their new teach
/ er.
Miss Adeline Breitkreutz, '04, who is
attending the University of Wisconsin,
won scholarship amounting to about
$3.50.
When VIM. Gherrity, the winner of
second place in the oratorical contest,
returned to Beloit, he was given a
warm reception. There were bonfires
and parade of students in his honor.
What did Wausau do?
An eight-page pamphlet, giving the
courses of study for the school, was
handed out to the students last Friday.
The pamphlet also gives the college en-
trance requirements and suggestive ar
rangement of studies in the CONNER
cial, English, German, Latin and science
courses for four years
Last Friday afternoon, the girls gave
their final reception and luncheon in
the domestic science department. They
served to number of Wausau citizens
and the visiting contestants and teach
els. Mabel Weik presided at the serv-
ing table, and Ellen johnson, Alta
Pond and Clara Week were mattresses.
The cooking was done by Clara Week,
Meta Dressed, Ida Ostring and Selma
Paff.
Last Saturday night when the returns
OF the Appleton meet We're received, q
few of the loyal ones had great bon
fire on the high school campus They
had decided to stay up Tor the 30 train
and give the team a royal reception.
They managed to amuSe themselves
enough to keep awake until after one
O'Clock, when, OH hearing that the train
was forty minutes late, they slowly
drifted to their various homes.
The team, which we sent to Appleton
to take part in the inter academic
literary contest, returned Saturday
night with more honors for the Wausau
high school. Examinations were given
in the morning and afternoon of last
Friday in the following studies; En-
glish, German, Latin, Greek, mathe-
matics and science. Milwaukee West
Division high school secured the largest
number of points, sixteen, and won the
second with fifteen points In Latin,
Beulah g. Mumm won third place; in
German, Frieda Kuckuk took second
place; in mathematics Meinhard G.
Koenig took second; and in science
Hugh Durkee took first and Orrie
Peterson, second The winners of first
places received $50 and the winners of
second places, $40. Miss Carpenter,
instructor in English and Latin, chap
eroned the party from here.
The state oratorical contest, held in
the high school auditorium last Friday
evening, was won By Isadore Louis, of
Appleton, representing the Oshkosh
district; William Charity of Beloit
representing the Whitewater district
took second; and Frank j. Okoneski of
Wausau, representing the Stevens
Point district, won third place. Prof I
Schultz of Merrill, introduced the
speakers: The high school orchestra
furnished some very good selections
before and after the contest. Mrs
Geo. Hart rendered a vocal 500. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard pleased the
audience with vocal duet. Mrs
Speer and katherine Williamson
were the accompanies. The. contest
was fairly well attended, although the
sale of tickets was not quite enough to
defray expenses. The judges were
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, of Stevens
Point, Theo. Brazeau, of Grand Rapids,
and Prof. R. Lyman of the University
of Wisconsin. Mr.. Tarnutzer, of She
boygan accompanied William Braasch.
Mr.. Louis from Appleton and Mr.
Gherrity from Beloit came unaccom-
panied j. r. Murphy, principle of the
Chippewa Falls high school, accom-
panied Ed ard Ackley, the contestant
from the River Falls district. r. c..
Lowe, of IIonwcod, came with Josiah
Baillies. Torgus Olsen, Clarence Win
neman and Fred Miller, all of Merrill
attended the contest. The following
shows the ranking of the judges: