The daily sentinel., 1909-02-25
CITY SCHOOL NEWS.
BY sUPT. ALLEN.

Walter LeClere, captain of the |
field and track teams. states that the |
boys got out for their first practice |
Monday night. and are enthusiastic |
over the field and track events. Inc |
juniors have elected Earl McSherry |
as their captain The sophmores have
elected Roy Caldwell, who did such |
good work last fan as captain OF the
football team. The freshmen have
elected Lloyd LeVan. Harry Antics
has been elected captain of the base
ball team. With our spring athletlcs
in charge of such competent young
men success is assured.
Mr.. Sturtevant will give the Atm
letic association the Majestic theater
tonight. Thursday evening, Tor
benefit The program is entertain
ing, and the usual admission fee of
10 cents will be charged. All who
attend will have a pleasant time and
will help the association.
The classmates, the teachers and
| friends of Charley Hammondtree
have been saddened by the severe ac-
cident which is keeping him out OF
school and away from his work
Charley has made a good record this
year. and has shown himself thor
oughly in earnest We wish MIN
speedy recovery.
Miss Julia G. Taylor, the efficient
head of the Latin department, in a
recent meeting with the Latin teach
ers discussed methods of presenta-
tion. She emphasized the import
ance of the pupils mastering a good
working vocabulary, and OF DONG
thorough work in Latin prose which
the beginning class are now taxing
up The Latin prose composition is
the most difficult and the most I'M
portant of High school work in Latin.
By translating English into Latin, the
Dupil becomes more familiar with
Latin idioms and good expression
than by n much larger amount OIL
translation from Latin into English.
Miss Nellie ID. Scott, who is doing
excellent work as the head OF the
English department, recently held a
meeting of the teachers of English.
Good work is being done in our
manual training department. Some
very fine specimens in the different
lines have recently been turned out
Arthur Peabody has made picture
frame of original design in venetian
iron work, and deserves great credit
for his rapid progress. Myron can
: nell has Just completed beautiful
: frame in Clipped carved work, waxed
finish. These are only two among
. many beautiful models which might
AT the general teachers meeting
, Tuesday evening the teachers were
given lists of books for supplement
tary reading. This class of work Is
especially desirable to add variety
and interest until the close of the
school year. The Importance o.
breathing exercises in the daily phy
sical drill was brought to the teach
ers' attention. The appearance of {
| IL. on QHhOO
| grounds furnished the occasion 10
some remarks on kindness tt
animals. The superintendent state'
tnat in visiting one of the rooms n
was pleased to note in prominen
position upon the blackboard thes
words: BE kind to dumb animals.
Miss Helen A. Dewey, principal
the Whittier school, at the genera
teachers meeting gave report o
the Colorado State Teachers associa
ton which met in Denver in thu
Christmas vacation. Miss Dewey wal
the only one of our corps who attend
ed this meeting. While speaking
Miss Dewey had the close attention
of the teachers. She said that th'
thing which meant the most to he
, in the meeting was report made b!
= the secretary of the Denver Chambe
of Commerce. He had been request
to state in what respects our publi
school system is deficient. He salt
4 that, preferring to give facts rathe
than empty theories, he visited sew
+ eral business men in Denver AM
+ without exception each one said tha
+ poor handwriting is the greatest de
+ feet When asked, how are they II
! arithmetic? The business men said
I. fine" This seems to be a genera
1. criticism of nearly all school systems
+ In view of these statements 1t /
I. worth while to give special attention
/. to this subject in our public schools
1. The members of our board of educa
I. tion have decided to employ specia
1. teacher of penmanship in our cit
+ schools next year. In this way tn
/. best possible attention will be give
i. to this subject. and we look for
/. steady and marked improvement il
l. the hand writing of our boys ant
= girls.
For another week Conkey's Layinl
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