Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

tablished at the high school this
spring, in the form of class base ball
teams. Each class held meeting
during the past week to discuss the
matter, and there was much enthusi-
asm favoring the proposed plan. A
large number of candidates have signi-
fed their intention of trying for the |
teams. Immediately after spring va
cation practice will be commenced |
and later on a class tournament will |
be held, to decide the class champion |
ship. The tournament will prove to |
be very interesting for there is an
abundance of splendid material for
teams in each of the classes.
A new phase in the high school
work is the new arrangement of the
music work. Each class will now
have its separate chorus and will each
have one day in the week for music.
On the day when any class has chorus
the other classes convene to the reci-
tation rooms for study, during the
music period.
Miss Lucy Aucutt of Amigo, was a
visitor at the high school last Mon
day.
Harry Schultz, former high school
pupil, was visitor last Tuesday.
The local contests in Defamation
and Oratory will be held on the even
ing of April 10th. The winners of
these contests will represent the
school in the district which will prob
ably take place some time in May.
The time and place of the district
contest has not yet been decided up
on but it is expected that the differ
ent schools will agree upon a site for
the contest in the near future. The
local contests will prove to be very
interesting, for each of the classes are
represented by excellent speakers in
both contests.
The debate between the Stevens
Point high school and the local high
school is now assured and will prob
ably be held at Wausau on May 10th.
The question agreed or is Resolved
that the States Should Adopt the
Initiative and Referendum The
debaters for the local school have been
selected and are: Harvey Taylor, Har-
ry Rylander, Harry Hyman, with
Walter Rheinhold as alternative.
w. L. LaCerte has been engaged
by the high school, to photograph the
laboratories and the assembly hall.
Ruth Alexander was a visitor at
| the high school on Thursday
Margaret Clark who is home from
Carroll for Easter vacation, was
high school visitor Thursday.
Mrs Bache-wiig of Mosinee, was a
high school visitor Thursday.
A very interesting lyceum program
was given on Thursday which was as
follows
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| Repentance. .lrma CLARK
| The Ways of the Two. Erna Flatter
An Experience. Earnest Summerfeldt
Essay Aeroplanes. 49,. Wells Turner
| L'EnoVi. Geo. Bird
Mrs. f. Kelly was high school
visitor Thursday.
On Friday the last of the series of
debates, given under the auspices of
the Lincoln Debating society was held
and proved to be very interesting.
| The question debated OH was ere
solved that U. S. Senators Should
Be Elected by the Direct Vote of the
People" The affirmative was sup
! ported by Harry Afford, Arthur Fried
man and Eugene Macmillan. The
supporters of the negative were Elmer
| Burke, Bert Salzman and Geo. Ruder
The Judges for the debate were Rev.
E. G. Grauer, Mr.. J. A. Rowley and
Mr.. Neil Campbell. The decision of
the judges was unanimously in favor
of the affirmative.
Norton Kelly II was a high school
visitor Friday.
Louis Dionne, Mark Gearhardt and
Carl Paff were high school visitors
Friday.
Spring vacation commences today
and will continue for the remainder
of this week. Most of the teachers
have left for their homes to spend
Easter with their relatives
The local basket ball season this
year proved to be successful one.
But two games of the entire schedule
were lost and one of these by the
margin of one point. The five mono
gram players this year are Turner
Capt, Johnson, Montgomery, Egge
brecht and Ruder. OF these Mont
gomery and Eggebrecht will be back
next year and these with the material
of this years seconds should make
splendid team for next year. The
local team started the past season in a
very sensational manner and in the first
four games defeated their opponents
by wide margins. Then they seem
to slacken up and remained this
way till the season closed. Though
they showed flashes of form toward
the end, the team work and basket
shooting was nowhere near what it
was early in the season. Had not the
team experienced this unfortunate
slump they would undoubtedly made
themselves formidable rivals for the
the state tournament entries. The