The Dickinson press., 1908-03-28
DICKINSON OFFERS
Good School Advantages

Good School Advantages
Every town and city in the state
has one desire above every other,
and that is to possess an excellent
system of public schools. No city in
the state can excel Dickinson in this
desire.
The main building is beautifully
located on high ground overlooking
the main part of the city. It is a
large brick structure, heated by
steam and has large well-lighted rec
itations rooms. There are cloak
rooms in connection with the recita-
ton rooms. On the first floor there
is a roomy Office for the superinten-
dent. In the basement there is the
laboratory and science room, and the
toilet rooms. The toilet rooms are
nicely lighted and have cement floors,
individual flush closets in roomy cells,
towels and wash bowls with eve
connection and city water.
The schools are divided into four
departments; primary, intermediate,
grammar, and high school. The first
cover eight years'work and the high
three departments are planned >to
school four years. Plans are on foot
to afford a years postgraduate work
to graduates of the high school. The
work Of this year will be entirely
elective. All common school studies
are completed in the eighth grade.
In the grades 1t is the aim to make
the child master Of the instruments
of intelligence, such IS reading, writ
ing, spelling, language, arithmetic,
geography and drawing. The aims of
the high school are to fit the stu
dents for real life and to prepare
them for admission to college or uni
versity. Besides the regular branches
of the graded school course, music
and drawing are taught in all the
grades.
There is about 5000 worth of 'ap-
paratus for laboratory work in ply
slice. The apparatus is sufficient to
give the class an opportunity to per-.
form fifty or sixty standard expert
ments in addition to several hundred
qualitative experiments.
A good start has been made for a
chemical laboratory this year. Ele-
ven students are now doing indivi-
dual laboratory work in this subject.
1t is the purpose of the school to offer
a strong course in this very practical
subject each year.
The botany laboratory is supplied
with four excellent compound micro
scopes, twelve dissecting microscopes
other piecer Of apparatus and speci-
mems necessary to a thorough course
in this subject. AS far as opportuni-
ty offers, the classes in this subject
make a study of the native plants
of this locality.
The library and equipment for
work in physical geography and geol-
ogy are not surpassed by any second
airy school in the state.
In the reference and circulating
libraries there are 1000 volumes. In
the supplementary reading library
there are 1900 volumes. Constant adj
ditions are made to these libraries.
The schools are supplied with stan
dard dictionaries, maps, charts, book
shelves, flags, tables, globes, mensu-
ration blocks, and other material to
make school work successful.
In the library are found about a
dozen Of the best educational mag
azines and journals for the use of
the teachers.
Throughout the grades and high
school special effort is made to create
In the minds and hearts Of the boys
and girls a love and taste for good
reading.
During the current school year
high school instruction is given in
the following subjects: Latin Les.
sons, Caesar, Cicero, German, Eng
lish one, English Two, English Liter
ature, American Literature, Algebra,
Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, An.
Gent History, Civics, Physical Geo
graphy, Geology. Physics, Chemistry,
Botany. Penmanship, Spelling, Com
mercial Correspondence. Commercial
Arithmetic and Bookkeeping. Larger