The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1911-06-16
Splendid Work Of City Schools

of teachers, and followed the
State course OF study which
makes our pupils this year COM
petent to enter any school OF
like class OF grade in the state.
Seventeenth; Physical exam-
ination of about 400 children re-
suited in better physical condi-
tions, better sanitation and many
visits to physicians, dentists and
occulists to remedy existing
troubles before becoming chronic.
Eighteenth: Five sanitary
drinking fountains, electric lights
a fire gong, drum, triangle, two
hundred foot rests, looking glas-
ses in all the rooms, sets of meas
unes and barrel of oats for practi-
col demonstration i'm number
work, three sand tables, a bulle-
tin board in the High School, a
set of foreign flags. two diction-
aries, three baskets balls in the
grades, shot, a vaulting pole am
a discuss were added from time
to time in the school. and a moth
door was also inserted so as to
facilitate marching.
Nineteenth: A Band of Mercy
was organized in the fourth grade
and a foot ball purchased in the
same grade.
Twentieth 46 copies Of Cur
rent Events and 6 copies of Lit
tie Chronicle were used weekly in
the grades as were also copies of
American Boy and Girls Com
panion. German was also taught
in grades below the High School.
Twenty-first A Literary So
ciety was organized in the, High
School and several debates which
brought out considerable latent
talent on the part of the pupils,
resulted therefrom.
Twenty-second The boys
athletic team did some very gooe
work, considering the length of
time for preparation-Right here
we pause to say that you can t
build athletics in ONE year. One
foot ball and three base ball game,
were won by the boys, while the
girls basket ball team did them
I selves proud.
Twenty-thrd: An outline
book, complied by Prof. Mossman
for the work in language, ant,
and Nature Study in the grades,
was a great aid in Simplifying and
correlating those studies and a
great time-saver. The art work
consisted of water color, studies
Of masters, great paintings, con
struction and drawing, Prang's s
outline being used for the latter.
[ Twenty-fourth: We had the
pleasure of examining the daily
registers used in the different
rooms and found them the most
convenient comprehensive and
serviceahla of any which we had
ever seen before. They We're i'm
sections-one for each grade
and at the end of the year We're
collected, complied and bound i'm
one volume for future reference
Twenty-fifth: In the enumer-
alton of all the good things dome
by the faculty and school. sup
ported most Loyalty by the Board
of Education and patrons, we al
ost--but not quite--forget to men
ton the four prizes, amounting
to $40 which We're as follows:
The Knappen Letter Prize, $40
Kennedy English Prize, $40 the
Zenith Club Ancient History Priz
$40, and the Advanced U. S. His
tory Prize, $40, which We're aware
ed, after very careful markings
by competent Judges to various
pupils in the school.
Twenty Sixth Then we had
Commencement week, with SER
mon, addresses, class play, toasts,
banquet and graduating exercises
to keep green in our memory as a
fitting climax to what has been
a very pleasant as we'll as profit
able year, as Mr.. Rask, the Presi-
dent of the Board of Education
remarked on the occasion of the
annual banquet, the schools this
year, under the present manage
ment, were the best ever had in
Sisseton and many Of the patrons
echo his sentiments. Our school
is certainly one to be proud Of.
Let the good work go ON.
Correspondents Wanted.