Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-04-24

ABOUT lVU people Nlslleu sVuVul uuI
ing last week. The largest number
OF people here at once was the Jack
sonville high school. All the pupil:
we're here accompanied by Professor
Schafer and Mrs. Grien, two of the
teachers. Jacksonville only has two
high school grades. They inspected
the whole school.
Miss Myers visited the algebra and
history classes Friday. She teaches
beginning algebra in the West Side
departmental work.
other visitors were Mr.. Magauern,
principal of the East Side school;
Superintendent Ager of Talent, and
Mrs. Ware. There were many others.
The physics and chemistry classes
have both finished all their expert
ments with the exception of the phys
les sound experiment. This is the
one in which everyone is scared to
death by the sound of a shotgun on
the Boulevard in broad daylight. 1t
was unsuccessful and will have to be
repeated Some Of the chemistry stu
dents are doing extra work in quail
tative analysis In this they use
much hydrogen sulphide, alias rotten
eggs. OF course the rest of the school
are glad to hear, or rather smell, that
these students are so industrious.
This qualitative analysis consists of
finding out what is in a solution
which the teacher mixes up. He puts
in everything he can think of which
will go into solution. 1t is very inter-
esting work.
Mr.. Sweetser professor of botany
at the University of Oregon, will prob
ably speak before the assembly on
Wednesday morning, and Oregon Su-
perintendent of Schools Churchill
little later in the week.
The freshmen are having the usual
trouble about paying for everything,
Professor Moore has been calling
meeting of the rocks every noon and
evening for the last two weeks. Most
of them have paid now, however. 1t
seems that even rocks will pay if
one keeps after them.
Alice Vandersluis will probably not
be so anxious to smell of test tubes
after inhaling the chlorine gas that
she did last Thursday. She got
pretty bad dose of it and it almost
took her off her feet. 1t viii have no
Injurious effects, however.
The junior cooking class fed the
school board and their wives last
Thursday evening. 1t must have been
quite banquet, judging from the re-
ports of the cooks (although one can
not rely much on what they say about |
their own cooking).
A notice that there were manual |
training and mechanical drawing ex-
hibits in the rooms of these two de- |
partments was posted Thursday.
They were both fine exhibits. The
work shown in each is much better
than that Of last year. This is espec-
tally true of the mechanical drawing.
Professors Hutchison and Harmon
have given the best of satisfaction
this year as teachers of these two de-
partments.
The commercial English class has
organized an Ashland Wholesale
Glen Young is president,
Leroy Ashcraft vice-president, Mora
Bailey secretary, and all the rest of
the class assistant secretaries. The
does some" business. They
write enough letters daily to keep a
mail carrier busy
Friday afternoon the students we're {
treated to a Victrola concert. Miss !
Harris managed the machine and told ,
about each record. The program was Z
rs follows: "The Sound OF the
Harp" played by the Neapolitan Trio;
Quartet" from "Rigoletto;" "Lo, |
Hear the Gentle Lark" sung by Alma
iluck;; two Hawaiian selections sung c
by an Hawaiian sextet and accompa-
MED by an Hawaiian orchestra; "The s
Kings Prayer" from Lohengrin," G
sung by Journet; record giving a d
short selection by each of the wood
wind instruments separate and then.
playing together; LISTS Hungarian d
No. 2, and another selec- S
tion by the Neapolitan Trio. It was
all good music and everyone liked il.
Usually some of the students begin
to laugh when they hear some good
music, but the only time anyone
laughed was when something vibrat-
ed with one of the tones of Gluck's {
voice. This was freshman and SO,
of course, has to be allowed for. The
Victrola is a fixed institution now
and It would be almost impossible to
do without 1t.