The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-01-23
SCHOOL NOTES
ey BENJAMIN W. RawIirs

W ey Benjamin w. Rawlins
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Mondays chapel program was
follows:
History of Algebra - Josephins
Tucker.
History Of Geometry-Ruth Penlcr.
Life of Euclid--Ben Rawlins
How to Trisect an Angle-Gleun
Daniels.
Why We Study Geometry verul
Hulse.
The visitors at chapel were Mr..
Blair, Mrs Stevens, Mrs. Rawlins
Mrs Wright, Paul Grossman Of 'iG.
b. o. Evans and Mrs. oberholtzer
The Fourth ward school has addsl
to its library so volumes received
from the state travelling library at Co
lumbus. The books are for the use OF
the pupils of that building.
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The west end building held it's reg
ular opening exercises Friday morn
ing Rev. M. s. Freeman of the Con-
gregational church spoke. telling the
story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin.
The music was furnished by the sew
enth and eighth grades. The program
was very interesting and weil-attend-
ed.
Examinations we're held in ALI the
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades
of the city. The questions were re-
duced to a minimum and given i'll d
form to show the development of the
power of the pupil. For instance, III
grammar the first question was
Write one paragraph, not to exceed
fifteen lines, describing the Amazon
river" All the other questions in
| grammar were based upon this para
graph of the pupils own composition.
| The first question bearing upon it
was Parse the subject and verbs Of
each Of your first two sentences .
second, Name different kinds OF sen
tences that you have used in your
paragraph; third, "Underscore the
propositions that you have used"
fourth, Name two of your adverbs.
Have you used any auxiliaries? If so,
name them" Spelling was also based
upon this paragraph, / per cent being
taken off for each misspelled word.
In reading, certain selections We're
| cited in the regular reading BOOKS.
| The pupils were given books to stu ly
at different selections suited to the
| grade. Then the books were taken
up and the pupils were required to
write in their own words the meaning
of the selection. Then questions
were asked concerning this selection.
| The whole purpose has been to AID
the pupil to develop his own pow 9r
of Interpretation and expression.
There will be parents meeting at
the Fourth ward next Friday evening.
The third and eighth grades will fur
nish the program. A good attend
ance is desired.
Mt. Vernon's basketball team open,
en- its season last Saturday night by
defeating Commercial high of Column
bus, reputed the best team in that
city. In that game, Captain Blair
showed his usual speed and skill. AL
though the visiting team was repre-
sented to be very swift and power
regular team and as the end of the
game drew near, Coach McCrea re-
placed three of the regular men with
substitutes who ran the score up to
so to 90.
In the second game of the season
which was played last night. Mt. Yer
mons basketball team defeated Wes-
terville high by score of so to 20.
Westerville high held high ambitions
for the state championship in the
tournament which is to be held next
March, but without doubt the hopes
we're entirely shattered when it met
Mt. Vernon last night. The local
team played a clean, swift game
throughout, and the Westerville team
was dazzled by the marvellous pass
work exhibited by the home team,
Toward the end of the game, num-
ber of the regulars were replaced by
substitutes.
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