Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-01-04
Diploma Examinations


Standings on file from previous years
will be credited. Standings of Is per
cent or over obtained in this years
examinations will be filed for credit
for next year.
Teachers who have pupils that in
tend to take diploma examinations
should apply for the questions by
February Doth. In applying kind
ly state how many pupils intend to
write and give the central place or
places where they intend to write on
the central examination subjects.
The following arrangement met the
approval of the county board OfSuper-
visors and will be followed in conduct
ing the examinations.
The local teacher will receive Ques-
tions from the County Superinten-
dent for five subjects. The local
teacher will conduct the examina-
tions in these subjects, mark the
papers and then send the papers, to-
gether with the standings, to the
County superintendent. The papers
and the standings should reach the
County Superintendent office before
April 25th. These examinations will
be held on the 9Th and 9th of April
and will cover reading and orthoepy,
constitution, language and grammar,
physiology and spelling.
On May 9th, central examinations
will be conducted at the school houses
in fifteen places of the county, namely:
Athens, Unity, Spencer, Stratford,
Edgar, Halder, Marathon City, Wau-
sau Training SCHOOL,, No Berlin,
No. Hewitt, No. Plover, Hatley,
Elderon, No. 2 Pike Lake and MoSi-
nee The exam inatiOn at Wausau
will be conducted by the County Super
intendent, while the clerk Of the
County superintendent office and the
supervising teachers, assisted by the
principal of the Schofield school, will
conduct the examinations in the ru-
raj schools included among the places
of examination. The examinations
at the remaining schools will be con-
Quoted by the principals of the
schools. The examinations at the
central places will be in arithmetic,
geography, agriculture, history and
oral reading. The questions will be
furnished by the County Superintend-
emit The papers written at these
central places will be sent to the
County Superintendent office where
they will be marked by a committee
consisting of the principal of the
Training School, the supervising
teachers, the clerk in the County
Superintendent's office and the County
Superintendent. This committee will
be the body that will determine to
whom diplomas are to be granted.
Toooha-S, Exan,ioations S0rino Series
MAY "a. 25, 26 Unity High school
June l. > Edgar High school
June ). 6 Mosinee High school
June I, s, Wausau Agric'l school
June Is, IA Athens High school
PROGRAM
First Day, 500 a. m.-Arithmetic,
Reading, Rural Economics, Spelling
100 o. m.-Orthoepy, Grammar, Geog-
raphy, History.
Second day, s a. m. - Constitution,
Physiology, Agriculture.
loo o. m.-SchoOl Management, Man.
ual, Library Cataloging.
Third Day, (Wausau and Unity Only
500 a. m Physical Geography, Eng
lish Composition, English Litera-
ture, Algebra.
900 D. m.-Physics, American Litera-
ture, Eng. History, Theory.
Persons wishing to write on second
or first grade subjects at Mosinee,
Edgar or Athens. may do so by pre-
vious arrangement with the County
Superintendent. Such examinations
must be taken as extra subject dur
ing the two days set aside for third
grade subjects.
The required standings are:
Minimum Average
First grade so So
Second grade 20 so
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