The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-18


TENDER.
Much Of the disappointment in life
comes from the fact that a large pro-
portion of young people go out imper-
fectly prepared to make a competent
living The elementary training which
the law forces on them is so made
quate.
The armies of children dropping out
of Nchool each year into the ranks OF
unskilled labor spend their lives drift
ing about from one occupation to an
other, about as badly mixed up as If
some blind power had shaken them
together and then hurled them forth
in all directions without purpose or
intent.
This may sound a trife rhetorical,
but it is fact and not fiction. The
briefest glance about in the competi
tive lines Of labor reveals its truth.
And it is only in recent years that this
public schools have prepared them
selves to meet the needs of the mass.
es. Commercial courses are now Of
fered, as well as industrial, technical
and domestic science course. Every
where we see the aim and endeavor
to broaden out the old curriculum.
Pupil Can Choose.
A>o" ny lhdhy hCW I'LL oouStiOllo IuC
pupil is given a chance to choose the
line he wishes to follow early in his
school life If on entering high school
he plans to follow business he can
take the comm ercial course. Later on
If he should change his mind he can
change his course.
Or again, If he wishes to take archi-
lecture or designing or engineering or
electrical work and follow it out in
further education later he can fit his
high school course to his future in.
tent and purpose.
If you ask the majority of men of
middle life how they came to do the
work they are doing they will tell you
that they lust happened to-" Com
paratively few of them had definite
aim during their school days. They
drifted through school as far as they
went and then into the first work
which seemed to offer the best re-
turns.
Those who succeeded did so more
as result Of character and opportun-
ity than Of any particular training and
those who are living in failure and
nonachievement are doing so because
they possibly did not possess the
same aggressiveness of character and
the same opportunities.
And the chances are fewer today for
success without training than they
we're a score of years ago, and the
right sort of training and preparation
Is becoming as necessary for other
careers and lines Of work as 1t has
always been necessary for the pro-
fessions.
Richmond n. S. Courses.
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high school for the coming year will
be among the best ever placed before
local high school students. While no
new subjects will be taught. several
new teachers have been added to the
faculty, and under the able leader
ship of w. G. Bate, the new high
school principal, and ]. H. Bentley,
superintendent Of schools, thorough
training is being prepared for the new
entrants into the high school and the
upper classmen.
In order to graduate from high
school a pupil must have completed
one hundred and sixty credit hours.
which is defined by the school board
as being a study in which daily prepa-
ration IS necessary, carried satisfac-
torily throughout a semester one day
each week.
A period in the shops or laborator.
les is regarded as equivalent to per.
iod in a prepared recitation, and pre-
pares the pupil for mechanical work
However, the number of credit hours
can be decreased by the pupil win
ming scholarship honor points which
are awarded in accordance with the
term mark as follows:
Credit Hours Requirde.
A study carried with the mark oil
"A" counts IL points per credit hour
"B" counts IL points per credit hour
&C" counts l point per credit hour
ID" counts 8 points per credit hour
while "F'' (failure) counts no points
A study in which no mark is giver
or studies transferred from another
school counts point per credit hour
Points above the minimum will OPP
crate to reduce the number of Vredi
hours required as follows:
165 points, $50 hours; 166 points, 15'
hours; 167 points, 156 hours; 16'
points, 154 hours; 1863 points, Is.
hours; 10 points, the most obtain
able. $50 hours.
Each pupil. Except those enrolled
in the vocational curricula) must com
plete for graduation two majors o
one of the study groups listed below
two minors of at least 90 hours. eacl
in any two of the study groups no
chosen in above; ten hours in Ameri
can history: five hours in Civics; tw'
semesters' work in music or fine arts
two semesters' work in physical train
ing.
List Study Group
The study groups from which tn
pupils choose one of their majors AM
both their minors are as follows:
|. Foreign language, i. e. Latin
French or Spanish; >. mathematics
8. history; 4. science: 5. household
arts: g. industrial arts: Z. CONNER
cial subjects.
There are eight regulations for tn
graduates:
/. All girls must complete 10 hour
in household arts.
,. Commercial pupils not preparing
for college may take their second ma
jor and minors in group.
s. No credit toward graduation will
be given for less than two years o
a foreign language, except, that pupil
having completed two years of a fol-
eign Language may receive for eacl
additional semesters' work in a secon