Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-08
School and College Notes
Chadron Normal.

ChadrOn Normal.
Mrs. Fred Seidell visited the Normal
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Munkres and Miss Munkrcs were
visitors In the model school last week.
The students in agriculture are engaged
in laboratory work OF testing corn for
vitality.
Miss Clark. MIR. PhiIpott and Mir Hargis
were Judges OF the high school contest
Friday.
Material for manual training is begin
ming to arrive. The first arrived Mon
day morning.
Last Monday the pupils, Of the {ifth
and sixth grades surprised Miss Delzcll
by giving her fruit shower.
Miss Schucbel has returned to tho
dormitory, which she will make her home
during her sisters absence from town.
Mrs, Mclean and daughter, Jean, Mrs.
II. O. Jones, Mrs. Ralph Good and Mrs.
Unthank visited the primary room last
week.
The seniors observed phonics in Miss
tra5iers room last week, Games were
played which gave review drills and in
dividual test.
The students in agriculture Ill are
studying the dairy cow at present. The
last week, the laboratory work consisted
OF testing milk for butterfat
The advanced chemistry have Just be-
gun the study of group four OF the bases
This group includes barium, strontum'
calcium, magnesium, potassium and am
monium.
The pupils in the fifth and sixth grades
have been much interested this week In
the study of the picture titled wash
ington Crossing the Delaware" by
Emanuel Leutye.
The fourth grade geography class have
completed the study Of the states OF the
| southern section. The study OF coral,
turpentine. sugar and cotton have been
especially interesting.
Miss Augusta Beckman has found II
| NM nvxrN 20 sol 1,l m ons n
| the serious Illness OF her brother. The
young women Of the dormitory are eN-
| ceedingly sorry to lose Miss Beckman
| from their number.
During February, the month OF patriots,
| the third and fourth grades have been
! enjoying some interesting language les
sons concerning Washington and Lincoln
! under the direction of Jessie Washburn
and Ruth Sturdevant
Friday morning at chapel Prof Phil
pott gave n very enthusiastic talk on the
basket ball game between the high school
| and normal which was played last Satur-
| day night. School songs and yels were
given also with considerable spirit.
! Miss Lou Schuebels class in third grade
geography has been making a very in
teresting study Of the natural resources
| and industries OF our country. Margaret
| Wright contributed some very nice
samples OF wool in connection with the
wool and sheep raising industry.
The high school and the Normal had
remarkably close and hard fought game
last Saturday night, with a score OF l3
to Il in f9y S,r Of the former .,a As the
! the same, the high school won on foul
throws. For once. Heyer of the high
school team failed to throw a basket.
| The Authors club of the seventh and
| meeting last Friday afternoon. The pro-
| gram committee, with Marvel Campbell
as chairman. had fun charge of the
program. which was patriotic, and had
| to do especially with the life of Lincoln.
New officers were elected: James Owens,
| president; Edy Randall, secretary, and
committee. The next meeting viii be
| held on the Friday nearest to Mothers
! day, and the program will be along that
| line.
The advanced physics laboratory Is
being improved. A large shutter has
been provided for the window TO make
The apparatus for Youngs Modulus and
| for determining the time rate of the
swing of pendulums by electricity has
of apparatus, however, is a large clock,
which. by means of an electric connection
can be made to give a loud click every
| second. This will enable students to time
any experiment much more easily and
accurately than they could with the stop
watches.
President Sparks arrived home last
Monday morning from his trip east. He
was in Lincoln where he met with an
education committee of the house. rela-
tive to Normal school appropriations. He
| reports that everything appeared then
to be in good condition for the appro-
priations for the Normal schools and that
Senator Mallory and Representative Nay
| Tor are looking after things carefully
and adequately. Friday and Saturday he
attended conference of Normal school
presidents at Chicago, with about thirty
five present. This is a regular annual
conference of sixteen states In the upper
Mississippi valley. From there he went
to Cincinnati to a national meeting of
| superintendent, where about 1000 were
present from all parts OF the nation.
! President Sparks reports a very profitable
and pleasant trip.