Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-10-16
LYON COUNTY
HIGH SCHOOL
Written by a Student.

Having finished the first SIX weeks
of the new year Lyon County High
School again greets its friends. We
find ourselves with fifty-five enrolled
and fifty-three in regular attendance.
OF the two who are not with us one
is Miss Viola Phillips, who was com
PEELED to undergo an operation. We
sincerely hope for her steady and
rapid Improvement in health and that
she may soon be with us again.
We are pleased to hear that the
Polytechnique High School OF Oak
land has this year adopted the Gregg
system of shorthand, which treasured
us that our choice was a good one, and
that we made no mistake in selecting
the Gregg system three years ago.
There are seven in the shorthand
class besides two that have finished
the course and now come to the class
to keep in practice.
One of the new things which our
school has undertaken is the building
OF the manual training SHOP by the
scholars themselves. About one
month ago the boys began with three
loads of sand, a load OF stone, and
twenty-five sacks of cement They
measured the grounds, located and
laid out the foundation, building and
forms, mixed the concrete and finish
ed the foundation. They are now
ready to work on the roof and hope
that bv another month the building
will be under cover with windows and
doors in place There is reason to
believe that manual training IS com
ing to be universally recognized as an
essential part OF education for both
boys and girls, and we are more than
pleased to find ourselves thus able to
fall in line with the best educational
policy. We all felt very sorry to have
Mr.. Ricksecker leave us but are be
ginning to congratulate ourselves in
the good fortune that brought Mr.. Nc
Creery to us. Mr.. McCreery is
young man, son OF the Reverend Mr.
McCreery. pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in Carson City, is gradu
ate of the Nevada State University,
and is so we'll prepared Tor the scien-
tifc work that not one OF the classes
needed to be dropped or changed We
hear from Ricksecker that he has in
his department in Los Angeles Poly
technic High School one hundred stu
dents in two subjects; biology and
chemistry. We wish both Mr.. Rick
seeker and Mr. McCreery the best OF
success in their work
The Freshman Glass successfully
passed the first degree Of their inita-
ton into the high school. The cere-
monies are exclusively in the hand OF
the Sophomore Class ande are calcu
lated as far as the first degree is con-
cerned, to make the Freshmen thank
God and take courage now that it Is
over. The second degree. likewise, is
exclusively in the hands of the Sopho-
more Class. with the rest OF the school
invited to be present, which will be
conferred on next Friday evening
October Is At this ceremony a large
number OF historical personages will
be disguised as members OF the Lyon
County High School They may be
invited to confer the third degree
which consists OF entrusting into the
hands OF the Freshmen for safe keep
ing until this time next year a wool
lamb We do not know what the
odds are, in favor or against their
being able to retain uninterrupted
possession of this fragment of live
stock.
incidentally we are well pleased
with the Freshmen Glass They are
working well, are good natured and
seem to respond to the spirit OF the
school, in such way as to make us
glad to welcome them