The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-06-07

Then Now
$4.O0-S6.OO 10 20
$6.OO-S8.OO ...... 40 80
$s.00-1O.OO go 20
$10.0O-S1 $500 $3.50 800
Over $500 go 1919
The point in the comparison
should be Immediately clear to
the student who wants to stop
school to earn ready money.
A Classification was also made
of the occupations entered by
former students. For our pur-
poses we are concerned only
with the vocation of agriculture.
The farming community has
furnished the Redwood Falls
high school in the seven years
about $3.50 of it's enrolment. It
should follow that a very large
percentage of this number
should return to the farm,
where their training will have
made them more efficient farm
ers. But as a matter Of fact the
farms do not recover enough of
the boys and girls sent to the
town school. Only TO have re-
turned to the farm. 1t is true
that at the present time there
are several boys contemplating
farming as a life work. In an
agricultural community as this,
however, the farm should at
tract back to itself at leas: half
of those it sends to the nigh
school. This is a problem de-
manding careful attention.
The second feature of the vo-
cational guidance policy consist
ed of work done through the
English classes. Following in
modified form a pan which or
iginated in the Grand Rapids,
, Mich, high school, vocational
information was investigated
, by students. During part of the
, second semester, Miss Ander-
, son, in charge of the Junior and
, Senior English classes and Miss
T Hosmer, working with the
, Freshmen and Sophomore pupils
, devoted time formerly given to
, formal theme study to vocation
, al study. The material as stud
led was presented through writ
ten themes and oral discussions.
, In this work the first md sec
ond year students made class
ifcation Of vacations, prepared
!. outlines for individual self an
;, alysis, including the best meth
DDS of studying themselves their
characteristics and inherited
abilities; studied the lives OF
y many successful men and Wo-
:, men; and discussed values OF
: different courses taken in school
! Among topics taken up in the
! upper two grades, consideration
=, - was given to moral obligations
y of men in various occupations
to outstanding qualities Of sue
cessful men and women. to pc
. culiar qualifications required by
definite vocations, and to the re
. sponsibility of men in differen'
. occupations to interest them
selves in the welfare movements
Q of a community.
+ For these latter two grade!
t the work eliminated in the prep
: aration Of essays for prize
q contest instituted by Sen. Franz
r Clague. Eighty students made
f investigation of "a different vo
q cations selected as a possible
choice of life work. Of this
number preliminary eli,nina
e tons placed 8 on the final con
, test. These Investigations in
i Guided brief history Of the vo
cation, divisions Of labor within
!, it, number of males and females
n employed in the vocation both il
8 the Whole United States and il
q Minnesota, the advantages ant
) disadvantages involved, and thu
J. opportunities presented for of
r fering service to society. Thu
4 mere facts as given in the es
4 says have been preserved in out
q line form and put on file in tn
Il city library.
J. The value Of this type O.
Il theme work cannot be finally de
termined. It's results, however
. have been already apparent il
" the direction of the students, il
. that it has created in thei,
" thinking a serious attitude to
; ward vocational ambitions ant
. has given them the proper sens
. of investigation Of an occupa
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