The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-01-21
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The High School was deeply grieved
to learn of the death of Mrs. Lyle,
mother of Mrs. A. L. Hill. Mrs. Hill
has beenNa member of the Butler High
School faculty for several years and is
the trusty friend and wise counselor Of
every student. So now the High School
feels deeply her bereavement. School
was dismissed at 1910 Monday. morning
and the teachers and students offered
their sincerest sympathies to Mrs. Hill
and her daughter, Thelma, by attend
ing the short funeral services which
were held at their home before taking
the body to Rich Hill for interment.
The school is now deeply engrossed in
discussing and formulating plans for
starting system of student govern
ment. This has been talked over more
or less for some time and it is felt that
now definite steps should be taken.
Only small part OF the responsibility
Of government will be taken in hand by
the students at present, for an efficient
system must be built up slowly and
carefully and students must be trained
to do this new work. Each class elect
ed two representatives to meet in coun-
Gil to formulate a constitution for
student senate to control the deport-
ment of the students. The council met
Monday night with Professor Coonrod
and succeeded in shaping this constitu-
ton which will be submitted to the as
sembly next Thursday morning. The
chapel period last Thursday was given
over to discussion of self-government
and the sentiment seems to be strongly
in favor of it. At the beginning of
the last chapel period we had the pleas
ure of listening to a lovely vocal solo
by Miss Media Denton. We hope she
may come back and sing for us again.
The Teacher Training pupils will un-
dergo the peril of attempting to pass
state examinations Wednesday. The
prospects for good grades are bright
however, so perhaps the peril will not
be great after all.
Junior Notes.
We have now commenced in earnest
on new terms work. By-gones are
by-gones and we will hope for the best
this term.
The English classes are going to
study Selections from Poe" in class
and take "Homer's Odyssey" scout
side reading. 1t will certainly be
good thing for some of sAto get u
glimpse of Homer as our knowledge of
Homer and his writings is sadly def
cient. Miss Fenton remarked that we
would study "The Odyssey" using
Macmillans edition. One bright pupil
remarked that she didn't have Macmil-
lans, that hers was Homers.
The music classes are getting ready
for part singing by singing rounds.
1t certainly sounded like Bedlam the
first day we tried it, each row singing
something different at the same time,
but in time we hope to produce very
effects.
Mr.. Coonrod complimented the chem
istry class very brightly on the excel
lent condition of their note books this
quarter.
suppose everyone knows about the
great victory of the Junior girls over
the Senior girls last Monday evening.
The score was 10 to 3 in favor of the
Juniors. "Nuff said
Sophmore Notes.
We are studying the soil now in Ag-
riculture. We enjoy studying it and
doing experiments with it very much.
The Sophmore girls gloriously defeat
ed the Freshman girls in their game of
last week The score was
Is to 4.
We had two tests in English last
week one on ''The Lady of the Lake,
and one over some work in the text
book, "Macaullay's Essays on johnson
and Goldsmith, and outlining.
These were the only tests we had but
hey were long and difficult enough to
make up for the fewness of their num-
Der
We are now over to circles in geome-
ry. We think they are real easy, SO
much more so than rectilinear figures.
We have now begun on the last half
# the school year. All of US are en-
to make it even more profit
lble than the first half has been.