The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-04-08
MODERN SCHOOLS and
THOSE OF YESTERDAY
NEW METHODS OF EDUCATING
MORE IMPORTANT THAN I'M
PROVED SELLING SYSTEMS"
MADIS0N'S FINE SCHOOL
do NOT LEAVE $4,000 TO 80
CENT CHILD, ADMONISHES
STATE OFFICIAL.

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bodied in new institutions of learn
ing of the present day and of future
years, were salient points brought
out last night at the high school
opening by Charles II. Lugg, state
superintendent of public instruction.
Mr.. Lugg also said that there would
be developed in the new institution,
students such as would be impossible
for high schools of twenty or thirty
years ago to turn out.
The 'house warming" exercises
were opened by two spirited basket
ball games, in which teams represent
ing the four high school grades con-
tested. and a fascinating drill by
eighteen high school girls. The
graceful manner in which the girls
went through the various figures and
the vim exhibited by the boys, gave
promise of the physical development
that is to result from the methodized
use Of the we'll lighted and thor
oughly ventilated gymnasium.
Approximately 700 men and wom-
en- occupied seats in the auditorium
of the building when Rev. c. McKib-
bin rose to offer prayer.
George r. Farmer, president of the
board of education, the first speaker,
thanked the taxpayers for making
possible the erection of the building.
Mr.. Farmer also gave a brief outline
of the buildings construction.
Bodies as Well as Minds.
Mr.. Farmer told that particular at
tention had been given to the health
and safety of the pupils and to the
cost Of keeping the building in re-
pair. The board president pointed
out that as ventilation is a vital ques-
ton. there had been installed in the
building a system for keeping the
structure continually supplied with
fresh air that is unsurpassed any
where, and he explained that the
structure is about as near %fireproof
as it was possible to build it..
Touching on the boards decision
to erect a new wing TO the structure,
instead. of rebuilding the old part
burned last winter, Mr.. Farmer said
that the cost of rebuilding would
have been about $4,000, as COM
pared with about $4,000 for which a
new wing can be erected. He said
that while a new wing would not be
quite as large as was the old build
ing, it would be more s~erviceable.
He told hat if a new wing is built,
the engine room, always more or less
a source of danger when located in
side a building, will be located some
eighteen feet from either the main
structure or the new wing. He said
that serviceable materials will be sal
vaged from the burned building,
which would make the total cost of
constructing a new wing probably
only about $4,000. He said that
stand that the state authorities would
not have permitted the rebuilding Of
the school, and that even if there
had been no other drawbacks, all the
floor levels, doors and windows
would have had to be changed.
When Dreams Come True.
In the completion of the new high
school the dream of Prof. S. T. May,
superintendent of schools, had come
true, the professor said. He con
trasted the appointments of the
building with those of the old school.
He said he had heard remarks that
the new building is all auditorium
and gymnasium, and explained that
while there are some fourteen class
and study rooms in the new building,
the gymnasium is just as important
an adjunct to the building as is any
other compartment. BY means of
sliding partitions, a part of the audi
forum, which comfortably seats a
thousand persons. is divided into four
class rooms. Touching on school
methods, the superintendent told that
necessary in schools during his early
manhood, had been done away with.
He said that while some of the essen
tials of the Gary system had been in
corporated in the Madison high
school, the system here and that in
Gary are similar only in so far as
methods originated there are APP
plicable to this locality and environ
ment. Prof. May asked the taxpayers
" fOLt loI Tie StlODi JULIUS.
Jay G~oodroad, a high school SEN
Tor, made an eloquent plea for the
new school wing, and told of the OBJ
stacles that had been %contended with
in getting the present high school.
Mr.. Goodroad spoke in behalf of the
high school student body. He said
that it would be next to impossible
for the students to express their full
appreciation of the building, and in
behalf of the boys and girls he thank
ed the board of education and the
taxpayers.
As Good as Any.
Mr.. Lugg, who has lately visited
schools in this and other states, told
his hearers that Madison has a better
school auditorium than has any other
city i'm South Dakota, and as good as
he has seen anywhere.
and the auditorium is not the
only noteworthy feature of this grand
building" said Mr.. Lugg. You will
accomplish more here than it would
have been possible to do in an ole