The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-02-02

cultivated seventy-t two acres of land
with pillow thirty years old, would
he have gotten hundred bushels to
the acre? II not, why not?
L A letter from Miss Grace Gleason
who is teaching in district No. II
tells us that she has finally succeeded
in getting to her school and is trying
hard to catch up with her work.
She had only three or four pupils the
first week after the holidays. We
hope by this time that all the pupils
are back in school.
We are in receipt of Tannauah,
monthly edited by the pupils of the
Kelso high school where Miss Gala
Henline is teaching. One paragraph
tells us that Miss Henline is trying
to live up to a realization OF her
Christmas present. We are wonder
ing what her Christmas present was.
Miss Henline teaches Algebra as one
of her subjects and from the many
references to their Algebra teacher
we think that our friend is making
good in her new teaching field, Kel-
so, Washington.
j. NJ Greenwood, Superintendent
of the Kansas City schools believes
that the diploma is loSingits old time
influence with tie business man
that to the business man it shows
the graduate has received only aeS-
thetic benefits Of higher education.
IT USED TO MEAN MORE Time was
when asdiploma meant much in the
business world. Mr.. Greenwood ex-
planned this by saying that it was
harder to get twenty years ago than
it is now. Nowadays it is possible
for young man to enter the uniyer-
sity and choose course Of EASY stud
les He slides through his educa-
tional cOurse-a poor student-bu
when he receieves his diploma 1t
bears the same legend as that OF the
hardest worker in the institution
that he "has successfully completed
the prescribed course OF study" 1t
is for the reason that a mere diploma
fails to reveal which is the loafer and
which the worker that certificates OF
graduation are counting for little
among hard-headed business men.
Superintendent Greenwood has sug-
gested as a remedy for this sad state
OF affairs the replacing Of the present
noncommital diploma by certificate
which would show the world the
students record in each study dur
ing his university life. Such di-
ploma would also show the character
of the studies taken. 1t would make
the student work harder because he
would know that some day the world
would know his record in school.
Graduation would mean something
il the sHEEPsKINs showed what stud
les were taken and how they were
handled
Several took the county examina-
tion last Saturday This will be the
last teachers examination till after
the normal institute,
Miss Lottie Henline came up on
the local Thursday of last week to
help us with the examination. We
had splendid visit together In the
evening.
"A day for ton, an nour for sport,
But for friend is life too short"
Next to love, friendship is the great |
est thing in the world. A friend
the first one who comes in when all
the world goes out. How thankful
we should be for our friends.
Fred Deal, postmaster at Spring
field and treasurer of district num-
Der Is, called in to see us and talk
over school matters. He also called |
on the county treasurer to get the
money coming to his district.
We have on exhibition at the court |