The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-12-03

| D Tor the mOntn enuinR november %
| Boys enrolled 265
Girls enrolled 25l
SIG
Number belonging at date -. Ats
Aggregate attendance IN days for
IDOULH. SoJS
Number of half days of absence
for month Observation-Disclosures. 670
Average daily attendance for
month. h............... 4o4
| Number cases tardiness for month. 16
Number of cases corporal punish
ment for month .......... 49,. 1
! The basket ball teams are doing some
hard work getting ready for the return
game with Central City. The games
played here were for the most part
clean and in every way credit to the
boys and girls. 1t IS safe to say that
when they go to Central City they will
play clean, honest game and in every
way creditiably represent our city and
high school. There is movement on
foot to provide a special train for that
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as care to go along with the team The
game promises to be lively and inter-
esting one. An unusual interest CEN
ters in basket ball from the fifth grade
up Miss Elcock is coaching the sew
enth and eighth g,a ie girls; Miss Hoier
man the high school girls, aad Mr.. Rip
ley the first team of the high school
boys. The remaing teams have stu
dent coaches.
The State Teachers association held
at Denver November 81, %, % is con-
sidered one Of the most successful ever
held in the state. The enrolment was
over $500 and the attendance was un-
usually large. The lecturers were men
of national reputation. Henry Turner
Bailey's lecture on 1.-The Social Ideal
in Education" was at once an inspira-
ton and a revelation to many. He be-
lieves with Dewey that there is not
enough of the social element in the pub
lie schools. that rhere are too many un-
real conditions and not enough of the
situations of actual life; that school
room life should more closely parallel
actual life outside of the school room
With Chamberlain Of the Throop Poly
technic he believes thet our courses of
study need humanizat,on. These men
Of course take an extreme position in
order to call attention to the need, The
public schools are slowly modifying
their curricula and in time will adopt
all that is good of this doctrine. erra-
dition bears down with heavy hand
upon our schools; reforms to be lasting
and wholesome must be worked out
carefully. Mr. Bailey's lecture on
Beauty in Common Things" was de-
light to all. After pointing out tho
elements of beauty in the different
forms of architecture he took up many
of the flowers and plants of Colorado
and allowed that the mesnest flower
that Rroaspossess es elements of beauty
att its own. OF special interest to
teachers of art was his development Of
the Emusic" of the flower, that is. how
the arrangement of the leaves and
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time, waltz time, etc. Dr. McMurry' q
lectures were largely on How to Study
and Teaching Children How to Study
as developed in his book of that title
which we are using in tho genettl
teachers meetings. His lectures we're
very practical and helpful. Miss Gid
emister of the Winona State Normal
delivered several lectures all Of which
were well received by a packed house
OF especial value to primary teachers
was her lecture on 'The Pedagogy o.
the Thought Method" II any ont
would like to see that exemplified, visit
the first primary At Central. Dr. Suz.
zalo, of Columbia, delivered three lee
lures on the last day Of the meeting
DR.. Suzzalo is Of Italian parentage: hi
father 10 fruit venderon the streets
Of New York City to-day. Although
very young man, he holds high plact
in the educational conncils of th'
nation His lectures on the social ant
ecoonmic phases Of education wers elo