Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-10-18
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

teachers. meeting was held Mon
The Teachers State Association will,
fe Last Friday Rev M 81 shannop ss Paul paid US
t%ngs % the moral 50ia fe of the
people of today. He left some good
thSue1 thoughts with IS the pupils Of the high
Boys and Giris Giee Club can sGaofl be 1ae
They are working hard and the results
Tuesday noon. Their class pins and
rings were chosen. They also decided
tne It It. is quite early
ing so materially in prices.
The Juniors held a class meeting on
Glass; ThsS Elected dnd the
as the members Of the Junior Glass ex-
ecutive body: Eugene Ohsberg. presi-
Elsie Styles, secretary; Ethel Mckee
treasurer, and Miss Hough, class ad-
visor.
Jenness Tuesday afternoon.
1t has been decided that every Thurs
day morning the school shall be enter
Programs viii be given by the the different sSSHi
members of the Senior and Junior
classes.
p The foot 3. ball team played against
home he ,e without victory. The score was
Report cards were given out Tuesday
afternoon. They must be in by Friday
Told in Modern History: A Swedish
minister to little Irish boy: God dag
Boy, after being addressed several
times: Huh, you're pumpkin your
The course in English for the high
school should train the pupils to be able
teaching Of English is attended with
many difficulties that are encountered,
tent. in the teaching Of no other sub
ject. 1t is difficult to get pupils to
think;. he. fails to see, for his inter
cal action, hence some extra stimulus
must be applied to arouse his interest
The work in English in the first three
years Of high school consists of the
gether with the different kinds Of dis
course. Application of these are made
to his personal experience and observa-
use of the dictionary are aids to form
ing a, good vocabulary.
Oral and written themes are required
at least on an average of one per week.
An attempt is made in the oral express
sion to be practical and choose subjects
tes eac6 a o s
tention to common errors in. speech, to
infection, and to phrasing. The result
Of this work should be to prepare pu-
pills to use the language as required in
the professional and business world.
Classics are selected and read each
year. Not an extensive study but one
that will be appreciative. with the idea
ter they have left school. Both Eng
lish and American selections are read
dealing with both prose and poetry.
The Junior year gives a third of the
time to the study of English Literature
in connection with the work in rhetoric
and themes. The Senior year is in many
ways a broad laboratory method. The
study of the novel, the short story, the
drama, lyric poetry. . andsMo and in puono
them, however. the aim, again, is not
extensive but intensive, not now much
but how we'll.
/ Current Literature has become a po-
tent factor in the work. The study of
social and economic questions, selec-
tions of literary value, trains the pu-
pills to look. for, find and enjoy the
ence books have been added to the Ii
brary which deals with subjects of the
Worlds Work." and Social Ethics.'
This makes a work shop with tools of
the best authors, q place that may be
constructive as we'll as instructive.
Spelling is given to the Freshmen
and Sophomores. Not only the spell
critical marking is practiced. This aids
the pupils in their use of the diction-
ary; -,:.,. :.
in our high school, hence three instruc-
tors are required to do the work.