The Dickinson press., 1907-02-02
City Schools.
[BY HARTwELL ~JoHNsoN.]
ENROLMENT.


The total enrolment in the Dickin.
son public schools 10 583. The pupils
are classified as follows: High School,
Miss Luella Turrell principal, "a; eighth
grade, Miss Mary GROCER teacher, %;
seventh grade. Miss Anna S. Nelson
teacher, s.; sixth grade first section,
Miss Margaret Davis teacher. 81; second
section, Miss Ruby E. Pilot teacher, go;
fifth grade, Miss Ellen ]. Chantland
teacher, 40; fourth grade, Miss Ina
Randall teacher, 40; third grade, Miss
Mary Nolan teacher, s.; second grade,
Miss Cora Colwell teacher, as; second
primary, Miss Fife Macgregor teacher,
"a; first primary, Miss Della Spears
teacher. IS. South Side School: second
and third grade, Miss Susie Runyan
teacher. 26; second primary, Miss
Susie Bird teacher, IS; first primary,
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith teacher, 81.
Besides the above named the teaching
force consists Of: Supt. P. S. Berg; High
School Assistants. Miss Fife Putney and
w. K. Holgate; and music and drawing
teacher, Miss Bertha Palmer.
COURSE OF STUDY.
The course Of study for the high
school as outlined here, though not en-.
tirely satisfactory to Supt. Berg, is the
best that could be worked out to meet
the immediate needs of the school. In
the future, as conditions permit, a
number Of changes will be made.
First year: Algebra l (r). English ! (r).
Latin I, arithmetic (rl (if pupil is def
cient). geology u, commercial geogra.
ply 4, physical geography u (r).
Second year: Botany (rl, algebra II,
ancient history ~ English II ~. Latin
Third year: English III Try, Latin III.
plane geometry G. physics ~ civics
Fourth year: English " (r), Latin ",
commercial law u, economics u (rl,
The pupil must take four courses a
year. Those marked "R" are required
and the rest are elective. Pupils are
expected to elect the subjects of the
year to which they belong, with the ex-
ception Of the fourth year students who
may elect any subjects of the course
which they have not already taken.
All pupils in the high school are re-
quired to take spelling, %penmanship
and rhetoricals. Three periods a week
are devoted to music and two to draw
ing.
PROMOTIONS.
The final state eighth grade exami-
nations were taken last week. Maggie
Harkins. Lizzie Clouston, Mabel Hayes.
Susie Pendergast, Ethel Suits,
Margaret Mckinley, Eugene Powell,
Frank Zimmerman. Antoine K%ostelecky,
Maynard Litch, Louis Palmer, Watt
Johnson, Mabel Beck and Evelyn
Dundas passed in some subjects and
/ were promoted into the High school
where they will take two subjects Tor
the remainder of the year besides cem-
pletIng the rest of their eighth grade
work.
: The following pupils have been pro-
NOTED from the first primary to second
primary grade since the holidays:
Edgar Berg, Blanche Flanagan, Mabel
Kalmen, Bernice Pelton, Harry Wilson,
Charles Eldred, Francis kim, Esther
Wood, Raymond Brown, Willie Rabe,
Ward Johnson, Robert Flynn, Daisy
Wilson, Leo Cuskelly.
LITERARY PROGRAM.
"A verv interesting program was given
in the high school room last Friday.
These programs are a regular feature of
the high school work. Their object being
to teach the pupils to speak in public
and to accustom them to think and
talk before an audience. The program
was as follows: Piano solo. Cola Liteh;
Original Story Chapt. II, Dora Cuisine;
reading, Gan Order for a Picture"
Margery Cuskelly; reading, IAN After
noon in a Hotel Room, Mary Pelissier;
essay, &C. Russell, Cowboy Artist"
Harry Auld; reading. equity or Not
Guilty" Beatrice Lish; reading. "The
Ruggles' Preparation for the Party"
Mabel Cummings; piano solo. Elliot
Wednesday, a Are drill was given. The
pupils knew nothing about it, but were
busy with their work when suddenly the
fire signal, which is three taps on the
gong, was given. Work was immedi-
ately dropped and all filed out quickly
and in order. In one and a half minutes
the building was cleared and over 400
pupils were standing in the yard below.
The high school library has received
from Senator l.. A. Simpson a copy of
the 1905 North Dakota Blue Book. This
book contains much valuable informa-
ton and statistics about North Dakota
and will be largely used as a reference
book by the civics class.
The members of the ancient history
class are greatly pleased over the arrival
of two fine large Kiepert maps-one of
ancient Greece and the other of ancient
Rome-which the school board recently
purchased.
The North Dakota Agricultural COL
lege's geological survey has furnished
the school with twenty copies of their
biennial report for the use of the geology
class. This report contains many good
maps, instructive charts and fine cuts,
together with valuable papers on the
different parts OF the state.
Forty-fve copies of Fairbanks Home
geography have been introduced into
the third grade. These books are used
as supplementary readers and inciden-
tally to lay the foundation of the fourth
grade+work in geography.
A valuable collection of minerals from
the Ward Natural History establishment
was unpacked and placed in the exhi-
bition case in the upper hall last week.
The geology class has already had &C.
casion to use quite a number Of them. A