The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-08-15
MONEY VALUE
Of EDUCATION
THE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE
GRADUATES COMMAND GOOD
POSITIONS.
SCHOOL ENROLMENT INCREASING
Prospects are Bright f, 2 Large At
tendance Next Yea = landing
Of High School s 3 'nts.

In the dark days that 3 owed 1899
in France there went = ough the
streets of Paris a ban 3 children
bearing the banner of re ~ Ition with
the motto, "Tremble, ~tyrants, for we
are growing up" So, there go up
and down the streets of our cities, and
in and VI of the lanes and by-ways in
every part of the land, an army of
children who are saying in effect to
the responsible men Of this generation,
"Tremble, masters, for we are grow
ing up,' That the veal of the nation
is linked with the training of the youth
is a truism so often repeated as to
loose its force, yet at times its signi-
ficance is revealed in the fact that the
schools both reflect existing ideals
and create new ideals. A system OF
education, however elaborate, devised
for one period, is not applicable to
the people for whom it was devised
in successive periods. Improved
means of communication, the competi-
regions, the removal of national bar
riers, the wonderful progress in all
lines of trade, industry, invention and
education gives a new interest to the
system of training.
Statistics show that the average
common-school trained person earns
$500 per year; the high-school trained,
$500; the average college graduate,
$1,000. These earnings represent 6
per CEN on $4,000, $4,000 and $780,
600 respectively. That is, your com
mon-school boy represents a capital
of $4,000, let him spend sufficient
ergy to go through a first class high
school such as the Brookings high
school and you turn him into a $780,
600 capital. Now take this 100000
capital and spend $500 a year to help
him through four years at college and
you turn his working capital into $780,
900.
Since SO weeks make the average
high school year, four years means
1000 days at school. Then each day
at high school adds s. to the common
school boys capital; each day at col
lege adds $40 to the high school boy.
Then don't finch, don't foul, and hit
the line hard The enrolment in the
Brookings high school indicates that
there are more than 225 young men
and women in Brookings and vicinity
who have completed the common
school course and have an ambition to
increase their working capital from a
$4,000 to a 500 0 capital by entering
and completing the high school course
offered by the Brookings high school.
The number of credits required for
graduation is 80. A credit means a
semester of work in n subject, 5
recitations of As minutes per week. A
student is supposed to make 4 such
circuits cdCu OclIColCI. II NSOAuc
show the following students have %
or more academic credits and will
classify as seniors:
ernest Ainsworth, DIN Armstrone,
Virgil A~shbaugh. Grace Arthur, Mabel
Bacon, Grace Bacon, Cara Black, Wes-
lie Blakely, Lenore Browning, Helen
Caldwell, Lester Callahan, Matte
Campbell, Mabel Chappeli, Norman
Dakin, Mary Enright, Esther Erickson.
Harry F~idley, Violet Grinols, Blanch
Gullick, Hazel Hanson, Faye Holiday,
Edith Jerde, Alma Johnson, Mabel
Johnson, Myrtle Johnson, Irvena
Johnson, Frances Knutson, Alvin
Rooster, Mae Lehner, Marietta Mad
den, Daisy Nord, Lee Olson, Florence
Bitterness, Lizzie Randall, Willis San
derson, Margaret Skinner, Florence
Severson, Gertrude Smythe, Matte
Stoddart, Olive Sutton, Harold Yule,
Airline Ziegler.
Students who will have an extra
credit to make in order to classify as
a senior:
Marguerite Hunter, Otto Hanson,
Gladys Nelson, Johanna Olsen, Selma
Ronning.
Students who have 16 or more &C.
ademic ceedits and will be classified
as regular Juniors:
Mildred Allison, Wayland Borst, Ray
Bunday, Jessie Caldwell, Lynn Cole,
Matte Culbertson, Ruth Feeney, Claire