The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-01-28
MUCH PRAISE
O HIGH SCHOOL
STATE PAPER GIVES RESUME
OF ACTIVITIES AND STU
DENTS.

The Mitchell nigh school is the
subject of q most favorable resume
OF its activities and standing in the
current number of the Industrial
Collegian, the official organ OF the
students OF the State college, AT
Brookings. The article is illustrated
with a cut of the Rho Sigma Delta
club, the honorary fraternity for
declaimer. orators and debaters.
The article in part follows:
High rate OF efficiency and sue
cessful activities make schools OF the
Corn Palace city Wen known. That
Mitchell can rightfully lay claim to
one of the very best high schools III
the state is plainly shown by Il visit
to their nigh school. The modern
%up-tosdate building. the first class
equipment. an attractive course of
study, an efficient faculty, and an
interested student body all 80 TO
make Mitchell we'll known. There
are ever 300 students in attendance
and a faculty Of fourteen members.
The graduating class OF 1914 num-
DGrE over lCFIy.
This is perhaps the best equipped
high school III the state. Strictly
up-to-date laboratories are provided
in physics, chemistry and biology. A
wood shop and a mechanical drawing
oom provide for the manual arts de-
partment. Three room are devoted
to the use OF the students of domestic
science The commercial department
has a room we'll supplied with type
writer's and ether office equipment.
The spacious assembly hall provides
a study desk for each student. Stu
dents OF agriculture have no labora-
tory as Yer but are taken around to
farms. gardens, stock sales etc. for
their laboratory practice. The gym
nasium contains two basketball
courts and all sorts Of first class
gymnasium apparatus.
The high school has four literary
societies in which all students talks
an active part. This perhaps partly
accounts for their successful o~ratory
and debating.
The high school has always taken
part in outside activities. winning, at
various times, the championship i'll
football. track, defamation and de
bate. One year they took every
available state high school champion
ship.
Mitchell is a member CT both of the
high school debating leagues of the
state. Last year she defeated every
school in the northern league and
was beaten by only N in the south
ern. This gives Mitchell the cham
pionship OF the northern league and
an even chance for the championship
OF the southern. With three OF last
years veterans ON the team again
this year, the debate championship
should be theirs.
At the state contest held at Ver-
million last May, Miss Vesta Murray,
Mitchell won first place w about
thirty contestants from all parts OF
the state. At the same time. George
Rur of Mitchell took second place
in Grafton.
1t is admitted that Mitchell would
have put mp a strong bid for state
championship in the football last fall
we're it not for the loss of her two
pest players. They made a good show
, .ne as ii was. Tile track team placed
I tlllIG al tIG StcliC iiCCl III - - po'
had beaten the Winners i'll q dual
meet just a short time before. The
most distinguished member OF the
track team was Harry Van B~ethuysen
who Won an easy first i'll the mile at
the state meet and placed second in
the meet held at Chicago in June.
OF tie alumni. al least 80 per cent
have gone on to college and arc found
in all paris of the country. Scott
wilkins. president of the Students
association ~ Stale college last year
was from Mitchell high school Hof-
s~tctter, who finished here last year,
is also n alumnus. Russell Jensen,
| who Won the TAFT trophy at the Ma
! tional Dairy show n few years age
vas a product of Mitchell high. lie
is now an instructor at the UniversitE
Of Nebraska. Kelley Is and Norbyc
IA arc making gcod IN the football
team al the University OF Wisconsin.
These are but d few OF the many dis
| tinguished alumni. May the class
OF 1918 add some more to that list
is the wish OF the Industrial Colleg-
ian.