The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-12-03
Bookings School Receives High
RECOGNITION

officially recommended to cooperation
with universities composing the Ma
tional Council which means that grad
yates from the local school, beginning
with this year, will be admitted with
out examination, to the freshman class
at Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and like
institutions and members of the fac
ulty will be permitted to attend any
tuition.
The recognition Of our school by
the National Council is a high compli-
ment to all who are connected with
the school and means that the Brook
ings school is recognized as being
highly efficient and It's graduates are
well equipped to enter into more ex-
tensive courses of study in the higher
institutions Of learning, Very few
schools are thus recognized.
Mr.. Browning has been in CORES
pondence with Secretary j. q. Hart OF
Harvard and Director DR.. Nathaniel
Butler of the University of Chicago
for some time but he had not given
any inkling that IA school was to be
so highly honored until he received
notice from DR.. Butler this week stat
ing that, quoting from the letter, IN
asmuch as the Bookings school is
already approved by the North Cen
trail Association and that your reports
show that the school is well equipped,
the course of study and the character
of instructions and administration are
highly efficient. it appears to be en-
tirely eligible to cooperation with
the National Council. | shall take
pleasure in recommending it officially
to our board of admissions at their
next regular meeting"
At the Grand Opera House
Thursday, December 10. at 8 o'clock
the high school glee club will give,
"Ye Old Foxes Concerto" The pro
gram consists of grand chorus in
striking costumes accompanied by
Haydn's Toy Symphony. Forty cos
tuned singers will appear in favorite
songs and scenes from long ago. This
is to be another characteristic pro-
gram that the high school gives to the
public. Seats can be reserved at the
usual place at Csc. General admission
25c.
Enrolment Continues to increase
The report of the schools for the
month ending November shows a total
enrolment of 933. There are 459 boys
and 474 girls. The average daily at
tendance for the month Is 1868 Or
1852 of the total enrolment. There
were 715 neither absent nor tardy. In
the high school there are 81 boys and
10 girls enrolled making a total in
the high school of POT. The depart
mental school has an unusual enroll
ment. There are the same number of
boys in this department as girls, 62
of each, or a total of 124. There are
81 boys taking manual training and SO
girls in the domestic science depart
ment.
Pierre t3-Brookings 6
On Thanksgiving Day the Brookings
high school football team, %undisputed
champions of eastern South Dakota,
played Pierre high school team for
the championship of the state. The
struggle proved to be n of the clos
est and best played games ever e e
on State field. The locals We're out
weighed over Is pounds to the man,
but not withstanding that great handi-
cap they held their big rivals at all
times. In spite of the fact that the
Pierre team had been drilled for weeks
in a defense to stop our best plays,
which their coach had seen work so
town, and Madison games. they We're
unable to stop them consistently.
Seldom was Kennard called to carry
the bali that he did not advance 1t for
substantial gains. His brilliant show
ing in this game where he was the
marked man shows him to be n of
the best. If not the best, ~half-backs
among the high schools of the state.
Severson, also. showed little regard
for the 6csanse that Coach Shale had
so carefully planned to meet his line
plunges. Especially in the latter half
of the game. he seemed almost un-
stopable. His plunge OF nine yards
from the IS yard line placed the ball
SO close to the Pierre goal that the
ball went over for a touchdown in the
next few plays.
Pierre's first touchdown resulted
from q Pierre punt which rolled out
of bounds on the Brookings vineyard
line. On the pun. from behind his
own goal ssverson kicked into the
windl which carried the ball across
the sideline on Brookings 18-yard