Putnam patriot., 1915-03-19
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Study Cards Report
Debate and Open Night

For the past three weeks pupils of
 the High school have been supplied
 with study cards, upon which they
 are supposed to record the amount of
 time spent out of school in preparing their lessons. Before being passed in f. the teachers, it was required that all
 cards be signed by the parents, thus certifying that the time recorded was correct.
 Tn looking over the cards for the week ending Feb. 19, it was found that only Is per cent of the school had spent two hours or more daily in doing home study, while "A per cent of the pupils had spent one hour or less. The remaining 61 per cent spent between one and two hours daily in outside study.
 The results obtained during the sec. ond week were little more satisfac- tory, although the time spent in home study was not nearly as great as it should be. During the week ending Feb. 26, only about 'one-fifth, 2l per cent, of the school averaged two hours or more daily, whereas 34 per cent spent less than one hour, and 45 per cent of the pupils averaged between one and two hours, or between five and ten hours for the week.
 For the last week ending March 5, the results again dropped of, only Is per cent of the school studying more than two hours day, and the number of pupils spending one hour or less de- creased slightly, from 34 per cent of the week before to g per cent. The percentage of those studying between one and two hours increased 10 per cent over the figures of the week before.
 The numter of pupils studying two or more hours a day is small, while the number spending one hour or less is far in excess of what it should be. The object of the study card is to ob- tain the parents cooperation with the teachers, in an attempt to obtain an increase in time spent at home by the pupils in preparing for recitations The work is so planned as to require ap- ptoximately two hours outside study a day. z....,..-ss 7s.3s 'zsss-sze'st ' '''''
 The evening of March % is to be Open Night at the High school. All parents of the pupils and friends of the school are urged to be present at the exercises. In the assembly hall there will be series of three one act piays-one in Latin by the Freshman Latin class, one in French given by the Senior girls, and in English short but mirth- provoking farce. Following these will be exhibitions of the boys and girls gymnasium work. The en- tire building will be open to inspec tion, and in the domestic science de. partment, the commercial department, laboratories, and the drawing depart ment work will be carried on.
 At the regular meeting of the Debat- ing Club on Monday afternoon the Senior-Sophomore debate took place. The Sophomore team, Percy Richard son, Hazel Perry and Ruth Child, with alternate William Rafferty, took the negative; and the Senior team, Gladys Bain, May Fuller and Phebe Beard, with alternate Ethel Daniel son, ,had the affirmative of the ques- tion, Resolved, that immigration to the United States should be limited by means of literacy test. The judges, Miss Kent, Miss Bowler and MT. Bois- soneau, decided in favor of the nega- tive. The debate was open to the school and the public. There were present a few friends of the debaters and about fifty of the school.