Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-10-26
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

up the entire community. Proud
fathers and beaming mothers assem-
bled to witness their young hopefuls
by their skill in this tournament of
Webster. The master of the cudgel
in clean collar and his Sunday coat
sat on his throne and triumphantly
gave out such words as 'phthisis, ="
'daguerreotype," and others of eight
syllables with the accent on the sixth.
The invulnerable victor who -fioored
his opponents and carried off the
laurels, was easily the pride of the
school and the champion of the COM
munity, of whom great things for
the future were predicted. The old
fashioned spelling bee has entirely
died out, and with it, perhaps, the
old fashioned good spoilers. The
spelling bee was partly revived in
the high school last week when about
600 typewriter lists of words were
distributed among the students, fol
preparation of the spelling contest
which will be held sometime this
week. If it can be so arranged, al
students will write on the spelling
contest at the same time, if not, the
contest will be held separately in the
class rooms The Freshmen and Sopho.
mores are working hard on their lists,
confident of outdoing their elders
The statistics after the contest will
show which division has the highest
percentage.
An interesting lyceum program was
held Friday afternoon, the keynote
of which was Kipling. The follow
ing selections were rendered:
Sketch of Kipling's Life. .....
Vocal Solo
The Gypsy Trail. ... Eleanor Bartlett
East is East. ....... Myron Duncan
(Clyde Smith
| VI IeIfdl EOIlcI w OO(
SOng-Fatherland. ...............
.................Am phion Glee Clut
Wee Willie Wrinkle Florence Wilson
Irene Lee
TOMMY. Lorraine Smalley
Vocal Solo-Mother o. Mine. $50.
| observation-disclosures. Ruth Kruger
In all lyceum programs this veal
unity is planned, and each program
will be devoted to one particular
author. The lyceum officers, whC
were elected last year, are president
Roderick Mcdonald and secretary
Agnes Laut.
The violin club was formally organ
lied last Thursday and has mem
bership of about fifteen. 1t will b,
under the direction of Mr.. Schultz
The mandolin club has also been or
ganized and it will begin its melo
dious tinklhIg soon. The orchestr;
Organization is now complete and tn,
musical lineup is as follows: Piano
Irene Kibride; violins-J ulius Wilke
Earl Christian, Alan Pradt, Hannah
johnson, Ralph ArQuette, Edward
Bopf; fute-Arthur YELLOW: cornet-
Gearhart Grauer, Gilbert Eckerle
drums-Norman Chevrier. 1t is in
teresting to note that two of tn,
yiolinists are Reuter- pupils, Ear
Christian and Alan Pradt.
Many of the students, especial,
the readers of "The Clansman," ar
already saving their nickels to Sc
"The Birth of Nation
| Wilbur Johnson 10 was higl
school visitor Friday afternoon.
/ Mis- Duff of the high schoo
faculty will deliver paper on bot
any in Relation to Community Life
at the Wisconsin Teachers Associa
ton in Milwaukee, Nov. 5th.
Miss McGuine of the Wausau Pub
lie schools will talk on "Teachin.
Morals and Manners to Grade Pupils
at the Central Wisconsin Teachers
Association at Stevens Point, Oct
10Th.
The first meeting of the IRE,
Publica," the latin club, was held a.
1:30 Thursday afternoon in the scienc,
lecture hall. An interesting debate OF
Resolved that Hannibal was great
er general than Caesar was held" BY
the Caesar class. The speakers fol
the affirmative were-Calvin Clark
Hubert Roy, Gilbert Eckerle. TIL,
speakers for the negative were-Nor
man Chevrier, Winifred De Voc, Nor
ton Schaefer. The decision of tn,
judges was in favor of the negativ,
two to one. The judges were Lucille
Lehrbas, Eileen Mcneil and Gladly.
Schilling, the pride of the Senior
Virgil class. After the debate. eact
one was given an opportunity to state
his opinion about the question anC
some very startling and amusing in
formation was disclosed. Elroy Nc
Faul arose, and in his fiery forcefu
eloquence, he delivered his opinion
about the subject in true Ciceroneai
style. After the reading of the con
stitution by Pontifex Maximus Agne:
Laut. the meeting adjourned.
FOOT BALL GAME AT STEVENS POINT.
The following account of the foo
ball game between the Wausau anC
Stevens Point High schools is taker
from the Stevens Point Journal:
The wausau High school eleven de
feated the Stevens Point. high schoo
team Saturday afternoon By scor'