The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-03-07
PUBLIC SCHOOL
NEWS OF WEEK
HIGH SCHOOL LITERARY SOCIE.
TIES GIVE THEIR MONTH
LY PROGRAM
TOTAL SCHOOL ENROLMENT IS 772
Enrolment Of the High School is 2O4
-716 Is Average Daily Attendance
for Month Ending March I.

Training is everything. The peach
was once a bitter almond: caulilower
IS nothing but cabbage with a college
ducation"-
Independent thought, fluency Of
increased vocabulary, strong
are the qualities which
every person desires to possess. These
qualities in this training is the work
the literary society, the purposes
which are to develop ease and
grace, and dispell timidity and self
consciousness before an audience. For
want of better name this kind Of
work is classified under the
head of ~rhetoricals. That rhetoricals
shall have a permanent place I'M the
curriculum is a question beyond doubt
and the Importance of such work has
gained general favor among the high
school students.
Friday afternoon the literary soci-
cites gave their first monthly program
for this semester. 1t is the hope of
the members of these societies to nave
some very high class programs this
semester. The programs will show
more variation and will aim to empha-
size the ortorical phase of literary
production. Training in parliamentary
practices and debate will be made a
feature of the rhetorical program. Lit
erary contests between the societies
are being planned preliminary to choos-
ing representatives to the district and
state college contests. At the meet
ings Friday, officers for the second
semester Of the three societies were
installed and each of the societies
gave programs as indicated below:
MINERVA
Installation of officers. Harold Mil.
Ter, retiring president.
Piano solo. Hazel Skiff
Vocal solo .......... Grace Bacon
from Riley. Albert Browning
February the 18th ..~..Joseph Bergeim
Piano duet, Ruth and Lenore Browning
Washington Frank Bergeim
Vocal duet. Orilla Hough and Lillian
Randall.
solo Eve Lanphier
Willis Sanderson, president; Grace
Bacon, secretary.
ALPHA ALETHIAN
Inaugural address, Ernest Ainsworth
Vocal duet, Helen Caldwell and Mabel
Chappell.
Original story Frances Carlisle
Dialogue, Wayland Borst and Paul
Davis,
Daisy Elston
An event in Washington's life. Mar.
garet Coleman.
Debate-"Resolved, Commercial reci-
procity would benefit the U. S. and
Canada" Affirmative, Kate Cald-
well, Julia Enright and Guy Austin;
Negative, Grace Arthur, Leroy Child
ester, Sarah Dewing.
Ernest Ainsworth, president, Lizzie
Randall, secretary.
DELTA BETA
inaugural address .....Robert Guyer
Roll call Mabel Callahan
of Longfellow's life, James Re-
veil.
king Robert Of Sicily, "Hara
Hyde.
"The Famine" Shirley Arthur
The Proposal" from "The Courtship
of Miles %Standish," Gertrude
Smythe, Charles Culhane and Vir-
gil Ashbaugh.
Resolved, That Ortorical con-
tests are of great benefit to high
school students" Affirmative, Leon
ard Ladd, Harriet Bane, Ester Cliff
ford. Negative, Marie Heck, Leon
ard Fem, Edith Jerde.
Robert Guyer, president; Neva
Soule, secretary.
The total enrolment Of the schools
for the month ending March /, was
772 with an average daily attendance
Of 71S. There were 433 neither tardy
nor absent. The report of the princi-
pal Of the high school for the month
shows a total enrolment in the high
school of 204 with an attendance of
1913. which Is 1872 per cent Of the en-
rollment for the month. The total
in the grades for the month
was 56S with a daily attendane OF 523.