French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-31
LIBERAL PRIZES FORGiIHE
COUNTY COMMENCEMENT
j. O. BELL GIVES LITERALLY
FOR COMMENCEMENT PRIZES
Committee i'm Charge of Event Pre-
pares Program and Fixes Date
as May 25.

as May 25.
The Executive Committee for the
County School Commencement, con-
sisting of ]. o. Bell, W. r. Bradshaw,
B. Robertson, Mrs. J. L. Redden, Miss
Frances Summell and V. G. Bradley,
met at the office of County Superin-
tendent, w. S. Shitle, Jan. 10, and for
mulated plans for the Seventh Grade
Examinations to be held at the Hen
dersonville Graded School building,
: beginning May 18th at 10 o'clock and
continuing through the 18th. No
questions are to be sent out and all
parents and teachers of the seventh
grade pupils are respectively urged to
see that the Seventh grade boys and
girls of the County attend these ex-
aminations 1t is hoped that this plan
will be the means of standardizing the
gradation of the school system OF the
County, as we'll as to dignity the
seventh grade gradation period in the
educational career of the girls and
boys
The questions will be based entirely
upon the work designated in the state
outlined course of study for the
seventh grade. The subjects to be ex-
amined upon are as follows: Arith-
netic, Spelling, Hygiene, History,
Grammar and Geography
The committee feeling need for a
more equitable basis for the Judging
of the pupils knowledge of the work
that they have covered, decided to per-
T11if nj orb Of 1S
to count two parts toward their pro-
motion, while their examination will
count one. The teachers are request
ed to send to the County Superinten
dent at the close of their spective
school terms, the names and adj dEesse
of their 9Th grade pupils with the
average daily marks for the current
school year. Pupils must pass sue
cessfully five subjects out of the six
required before they will be given a
diploma; and no pupil will be permit
ted to pass any subject whose eXam1-
nation grade falls below fifty
The pupils may use either pen OF
pencil in writing their questions, but
no papers are to be brought to the
examination room, as the Board of Ed
ucation is to provide a special form
for the purpose which will facilitate
the work of gradation. 1t is hoped
that all pupils who are now out of
school, and are entitled to these exam
nations will make use of the winters
evenings reviewing the subjects and
preparing themselves for these tests.
The County School Commencement
is to be held May the 25th, the pro
gram as arranged is as follows: At 10
o'clock, parade by the children of the
County to begin at the Carolina Ter
race Hotel and march to the Court
House. At II o'clock address; speak
er to be determined. In the afternoon
there will be a choral singing contest
for which a (minimum number four)
price of $500 is offered to the school
that wins; also there will be the fol.
lowing contests for the below named
prizes; in the Grammar school the
winner in the defamation contest
will receive prize of $25.00;- the win
ner in the recitation contest will re-
ceive a prize of $1,000; For the High |
School; the winner in the defamation |
contest will receive $4,000, and the
winner in the recitation contest will |
receive $4,000 (Only one participant |
from a school in each contest. The |
last four above named prizes are Of
fered by J. o. Bell There is also to !
be reading contest by pupils of the |
5th and 9Th grades of the County, the |
winner is to receive $500. A seventh |
grade Spelling contest in which every !
school will be allowed two represent |
atives "a boy and a GRID, a prize of
$1,000 for the best spel1er and $500 !
for the second best is offered. In the /
matter of the general exhibits from
the schools of the County, the COM
mittee has arranged for three general I
classes of the exhibits The best ex-
hibit from any one teacher school in
the County is to receive $500; the
second best from one-teacher school
of the County is to- receive $500; the
best exhibit from any two-teacher
school in the County will receive
$500; the second best is to receive
So. 90; the best exhibit from any three
or more teacher school of the County
will receive $500; the second best will
receive $500.
The pupil who exhibits the best map
of North Carolina is to receive $500; L
and the one who exhibits the second
best is to receive $500; (only one map
to be exhibited from the same school /
also, the pupil who exhibits the best
map of Henderson County will receive
$500; and the one who exhibits the /
second best will receive $500 (only
one map from a school.)
Prizes of $1.00 will be given for the
best speciman of writing from the
second grade. No school to submit
more than five specimens to the
grade; also prize of $1.00 for the
best speciman for free-hand drawing