Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-09-28
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
News Happenings Among City
Schools Reported by Super.
intendent.

fourth week OF school. The enroll
ment thus far has approached 534.
This is perhaps the largest enroll
ment that the local schools have
had for some time at least. The
high school has los enrolled thus
far; an increase over last year of
IA. In general we feel very we'll
pleased with the years outlook.
Pupils as we'll as teachers have
started out with enthusiasm and
splendid work is being done, despite
the fact that a number were out for
the Fair.
The athletic work is shaping into
organization. The foot ball team
has been out at work for two weeks
now and are attempting to get &C
quainted with the new rules. The
team organized Friday afternoon
with Harry Conover as captain, Mr..
Roller, coach. and Mrs. Fleming,
high school representative of the
faculty. Prospects are good for a
winning team. The girls have be-
gun basket ball practice and will
organize soon.
Our high school enrolls a gradu-
ate from the Waucoma High School
of the class of last year, in the per-
son of Hugh Maron. He Classics
as a senior and will complete the
regular course with the class in
June.
The June class of last year is well
and universities this year. They
are distributed as follows: Ray
mond Hjerleid, Edward Shima and
Peter Hanson of '0S at the Iowa
State College, Ames, Ia; Arthur Ba-
ker at the Wisconsin State Uni
versity, Madison, Wis; Edith Hop
perstad and Gladys Holton at St.
Olaf College, Mortified, Mimi;
Theresa Schlitter at Iowa College,
Grinnell, Ia; Alta Topliff and Mar
jorie Schultz at Minnesota State
University, Minneapolis, Mimi;
Rene Rosenthal at Iowa State Uni
versity, Iowa City, Ia. Anna Wist, at
the Ladies' Seminary at Redwing,
Mimi. This makes a splendid repre-
sentation for DEBORAH and the local
High School, especially when taken
with the number of students that
are already enrolled from this
place. A number had planned to
attend college this fall but were
prevented by sickness and various
hindrances, but will enroll later in
the year.
The class is we'll represented in
the teaching profession this fall de-
spite the terrible tales that we
heard of the June examinations.
Among the successful ones we note
Ethel Thompson, Della Seim, Louise
Thomas, Matilda Biederman, Luella
Lee. Perhaps there are others from
whom we have no reports. Of the
special class of last year the follow
ing are teaching: Edel Hustvedt,
Hilda Holm, Grace Makepeace, and
Mabel Hill. A number of the boys
of both classes are holding good
positions with commercial firms.
Our attendance record keeps up
very well. One room, the 9Th and
9Th grades on the West Side, have
had no absences or hardness cases
for the month so far. If the week
is completed with perfect record
they will have perfect month. We
had cases of hardness last week
throughout the school; 2 of these
were caused by one pupil and an
other from the same family, thus
making 37k% Of the hardness
coming from one source. Some
cases of hardness are caused by ac-
cidents but many are the result of
Indifference to school attendance.
Recent investigation in the New
York City schools and number of
other cities of the United States,
shows that the cause of much fail
ure in grades and consequently the
elimination of the pupil from school
is found in irregular attendance and
hardness. A boy or girl who is per-
mitted to be irregular in attendance
and to form habits of hardness will
be slow in meeting business obliga-
tions and obligations TO the State
and his Country.