The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-12-29
CLASS N SOCIAL TRAINING
An Effort is to be Made to Get More
Pupils Interested in the Social AT
fairs of the School by Fitting Them
to Take Part in Them.

basket ball team met with defeat at
the hands of the strong Y. M. G. A.
team by the score of Is to IL. The
high school boys made a good showing
in spite of the fact that they had had
no real team practice and the bad con-
dition of the floor. The game showed
that there is good material in the high
scnool and with much practice in throw
ing baskets and team work the school
will have very fast team.
The school under the leadership of
Miss Yeomans has started series of
monthly dances for the social training
of the high school pupils. These dances
are for high school pupils and not for
the general public, former students Of
the school or the alumni. IF any out
siders are allowed to come and join in
these dances, it viii defeat the very
purpose for which they are established,
that is, to teach the young people in
the school some of the requisites Of
good society and not have them so en-
barrased that they will not dare to
step on the dance floor because of the
presence of those they do not know.
One Of the problems confronting the
social committee is to find some way
to get more of the young people into
these little social affairs of the school.
Therefore we desire to keep these
monthly parties, one Of which was Civ
en- Friday, the 23rd of December, strict
ly school affairs without in any way
wishing to bar the alumni or others
from the larger social affairs which do
not form a part Of these educational
social events.
Some of the high school teachers
have been taking their visiting day.
Miss Yule and Miss Farrill have been
to Madison to visit Professor Bassett s,
English classes. Both teachers report
that the work done in Madison is sim
liar to that done in Kenosha. How
ever, Kenosha has substituted, in some
instances, works which seem to be more
interesting to the pupils and which are
more highly appreciated by them.
Some books such as, "The Man With
out a Country" and Stevenson s
"'Treasuer Island" have taken the
place of Carlyle's FEssay on Burns'
and Burke's essay on Cancellation. -
On Friday the senior class listened
to debate on the question: Resolved:
"That it is better for boy after finish
ing high school, to 60 to large col
lege or university than to go to
small college" The affirmative was
given by Ben Buckmaster and Helena
Hammond while the negative was up
held by Genievieve Kelley and Cyril
Kotz. Joe Thomas was chairman. The
debate was won by the negative. Gen
ivieve Kelly and Ben Buckmaster did
very well in delivery and thought.
Professor Lardner of Northwestern
| University with his wife and child,
spent the week end at Mr.. Thompson 3
home.
| On Monday morning the high school
! listened to talk given by Professor
Lardner. The subject Of his speech
was Literature and Life In it he
endeavored to make clear the relation
between literature and life. The sub
stance of the address was as follows:
Literature is life, it grows out Of
life. Writers are real human beings
like ourselves, not mysterious persons
as we so often imagine them The
things they write are real and true to
life. The only difference between the
poet or the writer and Ourselves is that
the former is cast in larger field. He
thinks more intensely, and because of
this thought understands the deepest
things in life and appreciates the finer
workings of nature. Great poems spring
from life experiences. All masterpieces
are simply portrayals of events or ex-
periences.
The well known poem .'To Water
fowl was suggested to Bryant when
| one evening as he went along road on
the way to a city where he hoped to
make his fortune as lawyer, he spied
a dark speck in the west where the sun
was setting. He watched it as it flew
along, noting the directness of its
course and its sureness in flight. The
thought suggested to him was this:
lie who from zone to zone.
Guides through the boundless sky thy
certain flight
In the long way that must tread alone
In the long way that / must read alone
Will guide my steps Alright =
Prof. Lardner s talk was of the stir
ring kind. The pupils appreciated the
points brought out and were much in
terested in the fine readings which
were used to illustrate the theme.
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