Arizona republican., 1912-04-01
GOOD YEAR IN
 OSBORN SCHOOL
Percentage of Attendance High; Pupils Given Plenty of Time; Working of Ad- vanced Educational Ideas in County School

The school year which will end on April 26th in the osborn school has been one of the most satisfactory and successful in the history of that fam ous temple of learning known from one end of the state to the other as the ideal country school.
 Osborn school is fully graded. has Kindergarten. manual training. and domestic science departments. special instructors in music and drawing, aud works under he departmental idea: that is teachers best qualified in cerain subjects teach their special lty n several different grades SD that he pupils in each of the four high err grades have several different in sFructors.
 This system is found to work ad- mrably. and it has now become al fixture at osborn It is also found
 esble in teaching the pupil the
 aod high school study before he that institution and serves to l ,h ger many of the rough places iueioent upon the first year under Heg and different environment. There has been some discussion Of esiabE shug a ninth grade at osborn h. order that the pupils might go Into the high school more fully eQHfped. but even under the short term now in vogue osborn pupils shog I'D tD excellent advantage.
 The school is housed in a handsome and pen equipped building on North CenfTa lavenue two miles and a half froa ae city. and surrounded by foli ases of play grounds with ev cry device for providing healthy l amusement The osborn school is said t. be the first in Arizona to introduce the playground plan and to 1 furnish the playground with gymna- sium apparatus. base ball. basket ball. Croquet and tennis courts.
 It is a theory of the trustees that the playtime is just as important as the study periods and to this end the Icorps of teachers enter heartily into the spirit of the idea Thus Miss Graham is professor of baseball. and two teams battle frequently for cha mpionship honors with an heroic size but harmless baseball This is the regular indoor game, only in Ari- zona it played out of doors. The girls lik, it. The boys of course have ! their r. Tular diamond where the great na onal game. pure and unde- filed. IS ] layod.
 Miss R sic Humphrey dcvotes her self t0 tn basket ball course outside of regular study hours, and the teams
 under her direction have developed some star players and will soon be ready to ulesf all corners.
 In season tnere is football. while
 the swings bars. and other appara-
 tus is rops sif at all times. Croquet
 sets haze ea purchased and every
 thing possible is done to keep the
 interest If t,e pupil. So successfully
 is this done that the percentage Of attendance is very large.
 Everv pupil is subjected to ire
 quent medical examination. Sanitary drinking fountains are used and ev- cry precaution taken for the protec- ton of the health. If an adequate quarant ne law can be secured at | this session Of the legislature. Sen ator c. B. Wood, who is also a mem
 Der Of the board of trustees and is
 much interested in the school. thinks
 that the health Of the pupils can be raised to nearly leo per cent Frequent entertainments are given
 in the spacious auditorium by the
 scholars. md an occasional lecture upon some subject pertinent to the interests of the district.
 Families often move into the vicin- ' ity of the school that they may en- joy the advantages offered there. I The present enrolment is 245 and the
 average attendance Cor March was 229 Two hundred ninety-siX pupils
 have been registered this year. indi- eating the transient character of many who visit the district for lew months or weeks each winter
 Professor Jantzen is the principal and his able execution of the plans
 of the trustees as well as tie uevel lopment of many of his own las much
 to do with the high standar1 set b. the school.
 The board of trus;5es is composed of c. B. Wood, " L. Feel and E M i Fuqua. aithoaght ass result of che leleefion on saturday Mr Is soon totsrrorda,.Q r.tar.l..ts | f..a