Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-02-18
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES.
Subjects for D. A. R. Medal
Contest Selected.

itC lONai NtldPACA VI NhS D"N5 a
tiers of the American Revolution
will present a handsome gold medal
to the student Of the High School
who writes the best essay on one of
the following three subjects:
The North American Indian and
His Place in History"
Foreign Volunteers"
Revolutionary Heroes and Mar
tyrs."
These essays will be limited to
maximum of 400 words and to a
minimum of 1000 words, and the
contest will close on the 18th of
April. Much enthusiasm is already
being manifested by the students
and the D. A. K. Medal Contest
promises to be as interesting fea-
ure in Hight School circles as the
Henry Clay Debator's Medal Contest
has been for the past several years.
Another notable feature recently
introduced into the High School,
and which has already become a
splendid inspiration and incentive in
the life of the school, is the weekly
Wednesday morning address to the
students at chapel exercises by some
prominent citizen or visitor. Thus
far the school has been favored with
addresses by DR.. H. d. Smith, DR..
C. II. H. Branch, Or. Means and DR..
Caldwell, a returned missionary
from China, who delivered a most in
structive lecture on the social life
and educational conditions of the
Chinese people. These addresses
have already become very popular
and are eagerly looked forward to
each week by the pupils.
The most interesting feature of
the regular teachers meeting this
month was an able address to the
teachers by Health Officer DR.. Wood
ard on school sanitation and meas
ures to prevent the spread of conta-
gious diseases. DR.. Woodland will
continue this discussion in an address
at the next monthly meeting. DR..
Sites, President of the School Board,
was also present and supplemented
DR.. Woodlands address with some
valuable suggestions on the same
subject. 1t is gratifying to note the
results already attained in the health
conditions of our schools through
medical inspection and the strict en-
forcement of rules for the proven
ton of the spread of contagious dis
eases.
The enrolment in the schools for
this session has broken all previous
records. The enrolment at this time
is 1040. This is an average Of forty
pupils to the room for the twenty
six available rooms in the three
bulldogs, including the small office
room of the Virginia school, which is
being used for school room. 1t is
highly probable that the enrolment
before the close of this term will
approximate 100. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that the attendance in the
lower grades has been unusually low
for the past month on account of
the prevalence of measles, humps,
and grippe.
The public school pupils, citizens,
and passers-by continue to express
with patriotic sentiment their de-
light as they greet Old Glory morn
ing and evening, and even in the
night time, unfurled and futtering
in the breezes over the entrance of
each building. Nothing is more fit
than that these ensigns of liberty
should adorn our temples of free
learning, to proclaim to the world
the democracy of our education, and
to einculcate our youth and future
citizenship with the virtues of pa
triotism.
The March Smart Set