The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-23
THE INDUSTRIAL
INSTITUTE Notes,
Enrolment Has Reached 27O-ActuaI
Attendance 25o-Pub!ic Invited
to Visit School.
EXCELLENT SCHOOL SPIRIT EVI.
DENCED IN NUMBER OF WAYS.
Students Raise Money for Cadet Band
and Foot Ball Suits-Hotiday
Thanksgiving.

The first two months of this session
at the Industrial Institute have been
the most successful thus far in the
history of the school. The enrolment
Of students has reached nearly 27O,
and the actual average attendance has
been over $50 students in class, as
shown by the number of reports sent
to parents at the end of each month.
This has been one-third better than
for the same period of last session or
any previous session, and a cOntinu-
ance of the same rate will bring the
attendance for the session up to near
ly 400 by the end of the school year.
AS many improvements have been
made on the grounds and in the gen.
eral work of the school since last ses-
sion, it has been decided to announce
special invitation to patrons and
friends of the school to come out and
visit the Institute tomorrow, Wednes,
day, morning. The entire public is
cordially invited to come out for the
occasion. There will be no special
program whatever, the object being to
show just exactly the kind of work
that is done every day in the regular
schedule. The various classes visited
will not be disturbed or interrupted
by the visitors, but will go right along
with their lesson or work they are
doing, whatever it may be. The best
time to come will be at the opening
hour, $40 a. M, and stay as long as
possible. At the lunch hour on that
day school will be dismissed for the
Thanksgiving holidays, and many of
the boarding students will visit their
homes, returning in time for school
next Monday morning, Nov. 20.
There is excellent school spirit at
the Institute this year, which has been
evidenced in number of ways. 4.
an instance, the leader of the brass
the band needs a new bass horn,
which will cost about $35; and, with
out making any noise about it at all,
Mr.. Sidney Voorhies, business man
ager of The Vermilion and also cap
tain of one of the cadet companies,
solicited and received subscriptions Of
$10.65 in cash from the boys Of his
company alone; and the girls, under
the leadership of Miss Rita Breaux,
also without noise, got up an excellent
benefit program as a joint matter be-
tween the two literary societies and
took in over $21.OO for the same cause
last Saturday night, bringing the total
with a little additional
up to $35. Another exam
pie of the same spirit was shown by
an equally quick and popular subscrip
ton of more than $40 to buy set of
new foot ball suits for the foot ball
team. The suits have just come and
the boys put them on Monday MORN
ing for the first time. They are going
to get them soiled some at Natchi-
Loches onTh anksgiving Day, where
Th.y are to play the State Norma!
School team, but they expect to come
back next day with the Normal's
scalp.
One Of the new features OF the
reports this session is to be
! record of the heights and weights cf
the students showing their growth
The weights Of the boarding students
already show an average increase in
one month Of nearly five pounds per
student. They will all be looking well
md satisfactory to their parents when
hey 60 home for the Thanksgiving
turkey. There has been very little
of any sort among the stu
tents, and their attendance and their
:lass work has been the best ever
shown on the Institute records for |
lie period.