The daily sentinel., 1913-09-18
LESSEN WORK
FOR STUDENTS
Difficult Historical Notebook
Duties Discontinued This
Year; Pupils Thankful
[By j. HENRY AILEN.J

gitimate duties OF young people out
side of school work, such as music
lessons, helping in the home and
beneficial out-of-door exercises, Su-
perintendent Allen is endeavoring
this year to lessen to some degree
the amount of required school work.
In doing this, however, he does not
intend to lower the standard and the
standing of our high school. The
teachers have been instructed to
stand ready and willing to help all
individual students with difficulties
which they meet as they advance in
their studies. The historical note
book work, which students both in
the high school and the seventh and
eighth grades have found very heavy,
has been discontinued. This will be
great help, giving much time for
preparing other lessons. Quiet study
periods have been carefully planned
SO that the pupils in the upper
grades and high school can prepare
their work with reasonable amount
OF home study. While this is true,
We request the help OF parents in
preventing their boys and girls from
being out very late of evenings, be-
cause this not only takes their time
which they need for studying, but
renders them unfit for good recita-
tions the following day.
Yesterday morning the high school
students enjoyed musical treat
when Professor and Mrs. Carl 4.
kiefer sang several selections. Some
of the pieces were classical and some
were jolly, funny songs. such as the
high school students always like to
hear. Their singing, as usual, was
., ..t. II. ,rrts a
fine expression. The members of the
high school will be glad to hear
them again.
Monday the superintendent en-
rolled SO new pupils, several of them
entering the high school. This is an
unusually large enrolment for the
third week in September
Arthur Chapman, temporary cap
tain of the football team, reports in
terest in high school athletics, and
feels confident that at least two good
teams will be developed. He states
that he will help to carry out the
excellent idea of our board of edu-
cation to develop more general in
terest in football
The action of the board of educa-
tion in granting holidays in the af-
ternoons OF Tuesday. Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of Fair week,
we believe will meet with general
approval
Professor Tope and Superintendent
Allen have decided to start class
IN trigonometry at the mid-year. This
VIII give an opportunity to all de-
string to enter college or university
where trigonometry is a required
subject. 1t will also give a little
higher standing to our school
Mr.. Broemser, chief engineer, has
worked industriously all summer,
and Is to be congratulated on the
fine condition in which he had ey-
srything in and around the school
houses for the opening of the fall
term.
Pupils and teachers are pleased
with the new Tarr and McMurry's
Biographies. The books are bright
and attractive, and the principles un-
derlying them are in accord with the
latest ideas In child study and peda-
sogy.
their older children out of school to
work. This lessons the attendance
in the upper grades. The attendance
in several of the lower grades is very
large this year. These conditions
have made 1t necessary to condense
the four seventh grades into three
grades. To do this it was necessary
to draw ward school line on Ouray
avenue, sending those seventh grade
pupils living north to the Hawthorne
school and including all south OF that
line in the two seventh grades at the
Franklin school. This arrangement
is inconvenient in some individual
cases. but 1t was necessary. We re-
gret that this change had to be made.
We would like to please everyone in
regard to the schools and the teach
ers to which their children go.
Miss Victoria Wilhelmy, who is
ms kipn OF art in