The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-03
Principal or keot<uk High School OFF,
ciates in Interstate League at
Cedar Falls Friday
Night.
IOWA MAN IS WINNER
System OF Sending Out Grades as
Worked Out by Local Educator
Is Commended BY
Many.


high school returned home yesterda!
from Cedar Falls, Iowa, where ne
was one of Ave judges at the inter
state league of normal schools ora
| torical contest. The contest was won
! by Iowa, and makes the seventh time
/ in the nineteen years existence OF the
association that a Cedar Falls college
orator has come out victorious.
The I'VE states represented In this
o-atorical league are Iowa, Wtscon-
sin, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. 1t
has been in existence nineteen years.
| The winners Friday night were:
Iowa, first prize; Illinois, second, and
Wisconsin, third. The first prize car
ries with it q gold medal and $50.
The second prize is a silver medal
and $50, and the third prize Is a
bronze medal.
The judges were DR.. Reid, Prof F..
M. Craig, University Of Minnesota;
Prof. ]. w. Dickman, Fayette, Ia;
Prof. r. B. Dennis, Evanston. ILL.,, and
Prof. Albert Kiester, Mt. Vernon, Ia.
Willard w. Patty, representing the
Iowa State Teachers college won the
first prize for Iowa with the Grafton
Our Crime Against the Criminal"
Moses R. Stalker of the Illinois Nor
NAL school, who won second, chose
for his subject, Our Nations Great
est Task" Don n. McIntire OF the
Springfield, Mo-, normal school was
third. His subject was 1.-THE Fall of
the Crescent"
I
Sees Fine Pageant.
Dr.. Reid was an interested attend
ant at the May day fete which the
Cedar Falls college has made an an
nual affair. There was a parade at
10 o'clock Friday morning. and In the
afternoon pageant. Dr.. Reid was
enthusiastic over both parade and
pageant. He said that the students
had put much time and monsy into
the affair, and that it was tremen-
dous success.
One OF the unique features was that
worked out by the South Dakota girls
at the teachers college. who dressed
as Sioux Indians and rode In the
parade. The pageant itself was well
given, and included May dances and
the May day tradition was adhered
to in everything.
keokuk System Indorsed.
The Keokuk system of sending out
grades in the high school which was
the product Of DR.. Reid's study into
the matter, is provoking a large
amount OF interest among high school
principals and on this trip DR.. Reid
was asked by other principles about
the system which he has evolved. In
Waterloo the plan Is to adopt the
Keokuk plan of six hours per day for
high school work. Schools all over
the state are rapidly coming to see
that this is better than one session.
The plan which DR.. Reid is follow
ing in sending out grades this year
is brand new and is having the desir-
ed effects. The pupils reports are
sent direct to parents with the re-
quest that the parents file same for
future reference. Duplicates are kept
at the high school. The three marks
used are E, A and D. The first means
excellent. the second accepted work,
and the third deficient work.
When a D is given there is a line
to the parent On the report card de-
noting in just what respect the pupil |
Is deficient. II not enough work, this |
Is stated.
BY the system OF six hours work.
there is twelve minutes for supervis- |
ed study in each subject under the di-
rection Of the teacher in that subject |
which pupils formerly did not get. |
Home work in the proportion in which |
The pupil needs 1t is recommended.
DR.. Reid will be Judge at a Han
cock county debate next Saturday at |
Hamilton, Ill