The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-19
LEON SCHOOL COLUMN
ROLAND ALLBAUGH.
Youth is the opportunity to do something and to
become somebody"

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to
become somebody"
The High school has been supplied
with "big book" in which will be
kept record of the work done by each
High school student. A pupil failing in
any subject will be required to make up
the work before credit is given. Eigh-
teen weeks successful work in any study
counts one point and thirty-two points
are necessary for graduation. By re-
ferring to the record student can
easily find out how many points he has.
| None of the rooms will have Christ
mas exercises as many Of the pupils are
rehearsing at the different churches
! of the town.
The Physics class spent an interest
ing hour Friday morning experimenting
| with the suction pump, air pump and
siphon and making and experimenting
with capillary tubes. The apparatus
| recently received adds much to the in
terest of the lessons.
New classes in bookkeeping, CONNER
cial law, algebra, botany, geometry and
higher arithmetic will be organized at
the beginning of the next semester.
Miss Drake and Miss Wallace enter
tained the senior and junior literature
classes at the home of Miss Wallace
Saturday evening. The first part of
the evening was taken up with pro-
gram consisting of short papers. Win
ME Cash and Helen Deck represented
the junior class and Lillian Bigley, Hi
mena Hoffman and Roland Albaugh rep
resented the seniors. Next was
literary contest and then refreshments
were served. The remainder of the
evening was spent as is usual when
crowd of jolly students get together
and ended with an exchange of class
yells. Both classes certainly appreci-
ate the kindness of their literature
teachers.
The Juniors wore their class colors,
champagne and pink, for the first time
Saturday evening
The Senior literature class wrote
poems last week and it has been deci-
ded to publish these in regular order.
They are all on the same subject
School Days"
SCHOOL DAYS.
arrived at school in the morning
AS the clocks were striking nine,
And saw number of children
All standing in a line
| l saw those dear, good, teachers
AS the children rching in
Peeplng around the corners
! AS II to detect some sin.
| Next came the spelling lesson
Which all, were supposed to know
But those, who didn't study
| Found that they stood no show.
Now that the spelling was over
| And most had begun to work,
There were some of the pupils !.
Who had tendencies to shrk.
Then around came their teacher
| And as quick wink
| She had them on the rostrum,
| Almost before they could think.
Thus those happy days spent
And, into chair | sink
My mind wanders Der the past,
And think and think and think.
Roland Albaugh
Gretchen Potts won the first place
in the rece Mt declamatory contest at
Garden Grove.
The seniors have class meetings very
often these days.
School closes December Goth for two
weeks vacation and some of the stu
dents have made great resolutions as
to the amount of notebook work, ETC.,
they are going to do during that time
but in our opinion the holidays are not
the time for extra work and we hope
that the teachers agree with us.