Putnam patriot., 1916-02-11
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

for an inter school debate. The follow
ing resolution was selected 10y the To-
cal school: Resolved, That there should
be compulsory military training in
secondary schools and colleges. Kill
nngIy chose the affirmative side rs the
one they wished to uphold. a toss Of
the coin decided the place, and Put
nam won. The idebate will be held
here, probably ION the oath of March.
The Putnam team consists of two Sc
niors, Malcolm Wiley and Gould
Beard; and two Juniors, Ruth Child
and Percy Richardson, The teams
will begin preparaliac at once aud a
good debate should result.
On Friday, Feb. Is, the last enter.
tainment of the School Lecture Course
will be held, Collins Nanden Berg
will give an illustrated lecture on The
Lure of New England's Colonial Peri
cd. This entertainment comes TO Put.
highly recon- mended and promises To
be very interesting.
The new song books have come and
they are being used at the morning
exercises.
Recently in the Senior English class,
division A, a census of the monthly
magazines read regularly andoecasion
ally was taken. The results were
somewhat surprising. There are
twenty-seven in this division. 1t was
found that fifty two different month.
lies were read by various pupils. These
varied from some of the highest class
of periodicals To the poorer, aud COM
prised nearly every conceivable kind
of magazine. 1t was, however, noted
that the majority of the class did not
read one good monthly fiction maya
zine. However, the technical and cur
rent event magazines mentioned were
of better class. One pupil confessed to
reading, either regularly or OCCASIONAL
ly, no monthly magazine, and the
largest list contained the names OF
thirteen different publications.. The
magazine that was most widely read
was one Ct the poorer class Of month.
i lies, of little II any literary value; ten
pupils acknowledged reading this
either habitualiy or now and then,
while such magazines AS Scribners,
The Century, Geographical, and The
Atlantic Monthly wefe mentioned by
only one, two or three. Since this list
called for monthlies only, IL has no
| mention of such weekies as the Oat-
look, Literary Digest, and Independ-
ent and the like which are rather gen.
. been recently studied by the class. In
connection with the oral English
work, the class is now taking up some
of the monthlies. In January the
Worlds Work was studied, while the
| oral program for the week Is based on
the section of the February Atlantic
called The Great War.
The basket ball team plays only one
game this week. On Friday they go
to PIainfield for league game. On
Saturday, Feb. 10, the team goes to
Danielson to meet the killingly quin-
tet.
Southbridge High school basket ball
forces ad, anced, en- masse, into Put.
nam last Friday with high hopes Of
rendering General Boards army of
hoop.shooters hors de combat, and Of
penetrating the local Notifications that
have SO far resisted all attack this sea-
son. However IL took only few min
utes OF hostililies for the local sharp
shooters to torpedo the invaders
chances and to send them into general
retreat. When the final truce was
called and firing had ceased, Captain
Frank Lowe announced that the enc
mics howitzers had been siienced,
their ammunition exhausted, and that
they were securely entire nched. There
was nothing to it rs far as Putnam
was concerned. Lowe, Shaw and
Maynard rolled in basket after basket
In spite of all the Bay State team could
do, and At no time was Putnam in any
danger. That Putnam he's enc of the
snappiest teams that ever trod the To-
Cal floor goes without saying, and the
brand Of basket ball they are display
ing Is Of quality AL. Lineup:
Putnam Southbridge
Lowe RI Mole
Shaw II Delehanty
MAYNARD RuIIeworLh