Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-05-26
ORR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVE
MENTS.

With the graduation exercises at
the High School tonight, the public
schools of the city bring to a close
the most successful year in their his
tory. With the many years during
which the city has maintained in most
successful and effective manner its
institutions for public education, it
might seem at first glance that the
foregoing statement is an eXtrayagant
one. When, however, one views the
exceptional work done by the schools
in all their branches during the past
school year, the truth and moderation
of the statement becomes manifest.
The school year just closed witness
ed for the first time the establishment
of the High School in a building
strictly modern in all it's appoint
ments and devoted in the main to the
accommodation of High School students
alone. This was a need that had long
been felt and supplied one necessity
toward placing the High School in the
front ranks of similar educational in
situations throughout the state. The
removal of the High School to its new
quartz rs has been marked, moreover,
by the accomplishment of the most
thorough, successful and liberal
course of studies that has ever been
offered to the young men and young
women of this city and section. The
results accomplished by the faculty
and students of a given school are af
ter all the greatest indication of the
meritor.ous work done by such an
institution, and that is the browning
achievement of the High School this
year The institution of the Crisp
and Lanier Literary Societies and the
publication of the first High School
annual are but other evidences of this
growing and broadening influence in
emphasizing all possible phases of
High School work Never prior 10
this time have the courses of study
been so complete and inclusive of all
necessary branches.
In securing for another year practi-
cally unchanged faculties in both the
High School and the grammar grades,
Superintendent Miller and the Board
of Education are to be heartily con-
graduated. The excellent work in
the grammer grades of the school is
to be continued by the same able corps
of teachers. The exceptionally cred
table and thorough work of the High
School, which easily placed this
school above all others in the Third
District in the recent Inter-School
Contests and Exhibits at Fitzgerald, is
to be repeated and made still better
during the coming year, when the
meeting of this organization will be
held in Americus. 1t is confidently
hoped and there is no reason but that
the coming school year should be even
better than the one now closing, max
ing a record of excellence and eff
fectiveness second to that of no sim.
liar educational system in the state
There are so many helpful public
institutions in Americas of which ey-
cry citizen should be proud that it is
difficult to number them. But surely
among this number there is none thai
deserves more fully and completely
the kindly, generous and whole-heart
ed support of every parent than the
public schools of the city, nor is there
any public institution which is receiy
ing more uniform and worthy supper
than this. Our local educational insti
tutfons are being conducted on tn
highest plane of thoroughness and eff
t1cienCy, and the ripe fruits of this eX
cellent management are ample justif
cation of the wise administration con
| Quoted by Superintendent Miller ant
the Board OF Education. Nothing bu
the maintenance of the highest schoo
standard in this section of Georgia ant
the constant betterment of this stand
ard can result from this able AM