The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-08-01
H.. S. FACULTY
INCREASED
DEMAND FOR A BROADER COURSE
MAGISTRATES SECURING
MORE TEACHERS
ADDITIONS AND CHANGES IN COURSE
The Enrolment of the High School is
Expected to be Above 225 During
the Coming School Year.

With the approach of August the
preparations for tie opening of school
in September are in order. Through
the wisdom of the board of education,
the high school course of study has
been broadened so that it will include
almost all the various lines OF work
to be found in any of the frst-class
schools of he country.
In school work, as in all other
phases Of life, there can be no stand
ing still; either improvement must be
made or the school will necessarily
drift away from the true standard.
The demand of the age must always
have consideration in the making of
there is more reason for magnifying
the relation of motor TO mental activi-
ty than there has been heretofore,
several changes in the curse Of study
have been made. The most import
ant change is the addition Of a pro-
gram with social science, manual
training, mechanical drawing, sewing,
domestic science and household nan
agement.
Owing to the fact that our high
school faculty has necessarily been in
creased because of the demand for a
broader course Of study and to pro-
vide for all who care to take advan-
tage of the excellent opportunities
offered by the Brookings high school,
the board of education has employed
two additional teachers, making ele-
ven teachers in the high school for the
coming year. An inspection OF the
roll OF these teachers will show that
the plan of instruction is meant to be
thorough, giving not only the English
branches, but the dead and foreign
languages, mathematics, history and
the elements of the sciences. To this
is added social science, manual train
ing and theory and practice Of domes-
tic economy and household manage
ment. The government of the school
is that of the family. The superin-
tendent feels that he stands in loco
PARENTS" to every student in the
school. The good and good
morals ~exempliied by our students,
coupled with their mental training,
beget the regard for the rights and
respect for the feelings Of others in
which true gentility consists, whether
we see it in the prince or the hOd-
carrier.
The work Of the teacher and the
value OF an education were never
more appreciated by adult minds than
they are now. The young man or
woman who enters the business world
today must do so in competition with
those who are we'll prepared for their
work. In order to succeed they must
seek the best possible preparation.
We believe that the Brookings high
| school offers the best possible educa-
tional advantages, and it is not too
much to say that the youth who goes
through the regular course Of the
Brookings high school will be fitted
to enter in the struggle for life and
begin that higher education only to
be attained by contact with society
and the world. Should he be destined
to a more liberal course of study he
will find that what he has acquired
here will, when he enters the college
or university, place him ahead Of his
fellows.
If the high school is Of value for the
few, it evidently has something OF
value for the many. Those who have
completed the work of the eighth
grade of the city schools and every
eighth grade graduate of the rural
schools of this county should enter
the high school on opening day and
every day thereafter until the close
Pupils recommended by the county
superintendent of schools or by the
superintendent of the city schools,
either by certificate or otherwise may
be admitted without examination,
Pupils from other schools must pres
ent a certificate of promotion from the
eighth grade to the high school. Pupils
from other high schools must present
the certificate OF the principal showing