Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-02-21
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
TO HAVE A PAPER
Press Already Installed and Ed.
torial and Business STATS
Chosen-New Departure In.
tended As an AID In Various
Lines Of Study.

Pupils OF the Junior high school are
hacking their brains trying to think Of 4
iIttihe name for their new paper which
they nope to get out sometime in March.
Added to their enthusiasm at the idea
vi having paper all their own IL the
thought that the originator of the best
name VIII get prize. The staff Of the
paper was elected Monday and includes
Eoitor-in-chief. Robert Rand; assistant
euitor' Harold Brewer; business manager.
wnham stringer; assistant business man
ager. George Mascot; editorial hosrd,
from the eighth grade Beatrice Hers,err.
trace killam, Helen Flax and Eugene pu.
namel; from the seventh Grade: Dorothv
Tebbetts. Gladys Ford. Lillian Parkinson
and Robert White.
! Inc paper will be printed on ths ,Sv
press which has recently been installed in
the school. The press is a new Chandler a
Price machine. motor driven. and the
equipment includes 26-inch paper cutter.
stapler and one dozen type stands. FYf.
teen boys can use the ROOM Bows Of TIA
eighth grade have been divided into two
groups, one of which takes up printing.
while the other spends it's time at wood.
WORKING. AT the end Of the half year the
groups reverse their work. Albert x. Dor
man, manual arts Instructor, is teaching
In speaking Of the press W. H. DousIas,.
principal Of the school, said that the press
was not bought with the idea either of
teaching the boys to be printers or to do
commercial printing. Its real object IL to
motivate other subjects. The school paper
Will aim at holding up to the pupils the
pest literary efforts Of their fellows In
explaining how the press was used, Mr..
Douglass said that II the music teacher
wanted to teach the pupils a new song
and had but one copy. several copies were
struck off and proof handed to members OF
the English classes These proofs are
read and corrected and the proof-readers
nave lesson in spelling, grammar and
punctuation. In the case Of electing the
stan OF the paper, some Australian
ballots were printed and the pupils voted
just as they would at any election. The
ballots were corrected before they went to
press and after the election those which
were not filled out properly were taken
TO the class In civics and discussed so
that at the end of the period the pupils
knew more about voting and filling out
a ballot than they could have learned by
spending much more time reading a book,
In addition to helping the English and
spelling classes the press will assist those
who are studying drawing. At present all
OIL the students are working on design
for poster stamp. which will be pasted
inside books or on other articles to show
that they are the property Of the Junior
high school. When all of the designs are
finished the most appropriate will be Sc
lected and a cut made. After they have
been printed they will be hand colored.
While no attempt will be made to teach
a boy printing rs a trade, IL any particular
pupil shows a marked aptitude for the sort
Of work he will be advised to go to some
printing establishment and learn the
trade. In that case he probably will learn
earlier in life what he Is fitted for than
II he tried several trades later. The boys
take up printing every day in the week ex-
cept Monday. and Mr.. Douglass or Mr..
Dorman would be glad to show anyone
who is interested the whole equipment.
Miss Mary NJ. Walsh, q teacher Of the
Junior high school. is i'll with pneumonia
and Miss Marcelline Laushway, U. V. NJ.
49, is supplying for her.
Five seniors from the university depart
ment of education are being trained to