Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-23
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The enrolment of the high school
is 4S5.
The teachers of the city schools
were very pleasantly entertained last
Friday evening at a reception at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. g. d. Jones by
the Baptist Christian EndeavOr.
There was teachers meeting last
evening after school.
This evening the city library will
be open and a reception for the
teachers will be held. A teachers
time seems to be pretty fully occupied
up to date this year. If the present
rate keeps up there will not be much
hOmeSickneSS.
Miss Hoegh spent Saturday and
Sunday at MOSinee where she visited
relatives. Miss Hoegh was a resident
of Merrill for some time and is well
known in this vicinity. She is taking
the place of Miss Bucklin as an
English teacher in the high school.
S. B. Tobey, Mr.. Schaffer and Miss
Hannah Brunstad returned to Madi-
son the latter part of last week
where they attended a meeting of the
industrial school teachers of the state
Mr.. Schaffer and Miss Brunstad
stopped at Milwaukee OH their way
back to this city and spent Thursday
visiting the various training schools
there.
There were many visitors at the
high school last week who wanted to
catch a final glimpse of the high
school before going away to college,
al during the past week a good per-
centage of these going this year de-
parted.
Mr.. Tobey tells us that his son
Paul, who graduated last year from
the high school and who is now attend
ing the La Crosse normal, is very
pleasantly settled and likes the school
very much. we are very sure that
Paul will be missed greatly this
year.
Since the last issue of this paper |
have discussed at OppOrtune times
the possibility of having a new system
of school hours introduced in this
city and to which | devoted one
paragraph last week. 1t was the plan
of having school begin at eight fifteen,
having one continuous session with
the exception of short open period
when light lunch may be eaten to
stay the pupils until one or one
thirty when school is dismissed.
This has been adopted very success
fully in many cities throughout the
United States. There are many adj
vantageS and for several weeks
in these notes [ will give some
of the reasons why it has been adopted
and where it has been installed. 1t
is an assured fact that with the
scholars and teachers the vote for
installing this system would almost
be unanimous in its favor. Even if it
was impossible for this to be adopted
it would not do any harm to investi-
gate the system.
Next Saturday the high school boys
are planning to have a football game
on the high school campus with the
Stevens Point normal boys There
ought to be big crowd out to see
the locals put up a big fight. Every
high school student ought to come
out. 1t looks as if there would be
large crowd, as even on such a dav as
last Saturday some of the football
fans turned out to see the alumni
high school game of which a short
account is given in another part of
this paper.
The third week of school has started.
Every thing is running in splendid
order again. Gym classes have been
started for both girls and boys as we'll
as elocution and music classes.
Although there has been no definate
plans as to who will lead the debating
club this year, meeting ofthe society
will be called very soon.