The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1907-11-21
oAKEs STATE HIGH SCHOOL

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Elizabeth Liddell of the third room
was absent last week.
Thore Bjerklin is able to be in school
again.
Harriet Fuller has been out of school
during the past week on account of
the i'll health of her mother.
Roy Mcintyre of the seventh grade
was absent three days of last week
owing to a short siege of sickness.
The study of the county; the county
officers and their duties will be COM
pleted this week by the eighth grade. I
No cases of absence and only two
cases of tardiness were reported in
the eighth grade during the past week.
Interest" is the subject which the
members of the eighth grade are busy
with at present. The Revolutionary
War will furnish material for the his
tory class in this grade, beginning next
week.
In reading this grade has been study
ing the life of Irving and Poe and as
one of the boys remarked, ''they had
troubles in their lives, too" Y
The Geometry class is working on
original problems.
Members of the Latin grammar class
have begun the work of the third de-
clension.
The class in English III will soon
complete spencer's "Faerie Queen"
In English History, the class has
taken up the study of the Dynastic
Wars of York and Lancaster.
Those who were perfect in spelling
during the past week are:
Third grade-Ned Casey, Glen Rob-
ertson, Alma Paulson, Charles lesson,
Will Jesson, Peter Melby, Maggie
Ugelstad, Arthur Paulson, Earl Becker,
Flora White, Mary Adams, Mamie
Sperry, Harold Bong.
Fourth grade-Joseph Hammell.
Fifth grade-Marie Fuller, Harold
Nichols. Pete White, Clayton Kahl,
Ebert Pannebaker, Elsie Strutz.
Seventh grade Edwin Anderson, Edith
Bateman, Joe Huffman, Jennie White,
Harley Whitfield, Albert Westergard,
Catherine Bong, Myrtle Gallon, Alval
Seyerson, Ira Whitfield.
Miss Fink has organized glee club
and chorus in the high school and will
be prepared to furnish the music for
our declamatory contest which comes
off during the winter term.
HIGH SCHOOL.
The statement is tco often made by
students that they do not intend to
hurt themselves studying, as they will
succeed just as well in after life, and
often give living examples to exemplify
their position. This is sad mistake!
The student who reconciles his mind
with such false mental apparation or
hallucination is doomed to failure in
life. The writer calls to mind some of
the greatest satellites of the country
VINO did not succeed as students in the
universities. But these men are the
exception to the rule. We recall Frank
Wakeley Gursaulls, one of the greatest
international preachers and authors, as
a constitutional ''flunker" during his
college days and was ever chided by
his teachers that he was incapacitated
by natlre and yet in the face of this
strong opposition he became great.
We might cite Vice President Fairbsn'ls
as another example but these men were
the exception to the rule. Where one
finds man who was so poor as STU
dent and yet despite his scholarship
succeeded in such large me asure, he
will find ninety and nine who go down
to defeat. Scholarship is the thing
that will win out in the battle of life.
The loftiest ambition a student can
have is accuracy in scholarship.
We might say in passing that where
one student overworks there are ninety
nine who do not do enough. Let us
adopt high standard of scholarship
and accuracy and then we shall be CIV
ing to the student body that conscien-
tious preparation for life to which they
are entitled! It is therefore, each stu
dents duty to himself to make his
school work his first and only duty and
forego any recreation or enterprise
which will in any way detract from his
success.
The class of 1908 of the Cakes State
High School is made up of eight men,
bers; two boys and six girls. They are,
Charles Kroman, Edward Sieberg,
Edna Locke, Beth Covert, Lydia Nor