The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-18

schools are being worked out on this
basis. You must reach the mind
through the body. SO the superin-
tendent supervisors, teachers and
homes are going TO be leagued to-
gether to watch the children's food,
dress. sleep. school-room habits, sit
ting, standing, outdoor exercises and
etc, that nawow-chested, white-faced,
mewepoisoned, over-heated, under
heated, ill-fed pupils may be reduced
in number to a minimum.
Miss Grace Williams Will introduce
a system OF physical training into
every room and also incite to close
inspe ction of water light and heat.
She has been in Chautauqua, n. Y,
this summer securing all that is new
est and most practicable in this Work.
The "substantals,' reading, ari,n-
be stressed as never before. AS be-
tween these fundamentals OF a good
English education and many other
things in the curriculum that expert
ence has clearly proven to be beue-
fetal. the fundamental studies will
have the larger measure Of time ana
attention. This has ever been. The
city schools have developed voUng
men and women that are as strong
80 H..
as can be found among High Schools
and even colleges of rhe eo@ih and
west The attention of the entire
state has been called 10 the hoYs and
girls of Ardmore High School appear
ing In places where only strong men
and women could appear and yet
taking their part not as underlings
but as leaders. This is not luck, but
plan.
Penmanship Is one of the most use
ful of the arts. II is something that
required right now and well as much
as accomplishment of man. 1t can
only BE taught where an atmosphere
Is created in which the child becomes
an easy moving, deliberate and ac-
curate machine. This can be brought
about in a great or even complex
sys TEN of schools only when there is
a one established system of writing
dominated and directed by one com
petunt head Miss Mary Perrott has
been chosen as supervisor of pen
manship because she is n business
woman--of eXperience-writing bus
mess hand with ease and grace.
She has studied the Palmer sys-
, TEN of business writing this sum
mer at Chautauqua, n. Y. and
p comes to Arlmore full of that fine
method. II may take some time TO
please homes and Just critics as to
d beautiful penmanship but in time
true results will be secured
Additional opportunities should be
sought by every school and home
for children The ideal school and
> home would he one where the self
activity OF each child would be fed.
In the High School of Ardmore the
studies have been more and more
extended Not at the expense of
depth or solidity either This year
besides penmanship being introduced
=, the sciences will be widened one
more study. Mr.. Basley is going to
introduce chemistry as subject
which shall be rated among the
electives. Coming as he does from
: the best laboratories of the east. he
will make this eminently practical
and worth while.
The determination has been reg
, istered among the students and
ceive closer attention than ever
, Ardmore's boys and girls are as
good as the best and they are
worth keeping off streets. out of
; flimsy, trashy companionship, away
from late hours and removed from
the frivolous and unmeaning. There
is too much polite dissipation among
the young people of this city which
leads to inanity and incompetency,
If even it stops there. Homes,
churches and schools must shoulder
this responsibility. The young peo-
pie are all right and if there be
anything wrong ii is the environ
ment. The homes must take a part
OF this if not the greater part, upon
their shoulders and hearts.
The city schools are too well es-
tablishel to have any mother or
father misunderstood them. The
very life principle of Ardmore
schools is school life, is work no.
play. 1t is a business that will not