Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-10-08
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
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! Boost for the Shoshone High school
You are boosting for home and tow
at the same time. Boost for our High
school and we will boost for you
Last Spring the student body III the
high school provided a tennis com.
which offered pleasant amusement
during the long summer evenings.
The tennis court still gives "pppr-
tunity for pleasant hours Of recre-
alton for both students and teachers.
On last Friday afternoon, the stu
dent body organized two lit .~ary
societies. about forty members in each
Society. AS yet the seventh grace
/ has not been admitted, but the class
: has some members that are full Of
pep" who may some day invite the
older classes to a program that is as
entertaining as any staged by the ex-
elusive litrary societies.
An Idaho teacher retired recently
after twenty years in the profession.
At the time Of her retirement she was
worth $4,000 This was due to en-
ergy, thrift. indomitable perseverance
and the death of an uncle who left
s4s,9ss.5O.
Mrs. Catherine Athey, of Boise
president of Idaho Antituberculosis
society was a caller at the high school
on Monday. Mrs. Athey represents
a strong factor in the promotion Of
health in the state.
Our high hcsool pupils are interest
ed in a Modern Health Crusade or-
ganization that will make them more
fit for admittance to the various ath-
letic teams of the school.
Mrs Athey congratulated the s,v-
enth grade boys on the fact that they
have a longer time to train for
athletice than other classes of the
school. One of the requirements or
the order is eight hours sleep for
high school pupils, another, giving up
/ tea, coffee and above all cigarettes.
No cigarette smoker makes a success
/ in athletice or school work.
Tic world peace has revealed un-
preparedness in the hclith of the pfo-
pic in universal liter1cy and in gen
eral Industrial efficien y of the people.
The school may be useful faCttrs
in hclring to protect children Of
schcvl ge from the re.ults of in,iton-
ticn to hygienic conIi.i1ts and rules.
10th personal and )famunity.
1he ie.teracy of D paorl, ab,ve ten
yals of age is due 20 the ineftlciency
- many schools and there will be no
elimination OF illiteracy eTcrpL thru
tn teachers. 1t is no: important thai
par. arts and teachers co operate in
pro, idins for educational prerarednts
How many boys and girls have eight
hours sleep with plenty of fresh air?
Some boys admitted they had taken
only three and one-half hours of sleep
on Sunday night. Are the parents
willing to permit such harmful and
needless conditions? There are no
greater problems to solve than those
of education, but the teachers are not /
able to solve them alone.
Superintendent Wesson reports 104
perfect attendance cards issued in the
grades last month. High school rec
ords show cases of tardiness in the
same month.
The high school has a good Foot
Ball Team this year. A game with
the Wendell team has been schedufed
October 18th.
The eighth and senior classes have
been setting forth the advantage Of
a high school education from two
view points, in some theme work.
The eighth grade wrote letters to
parents giving reasons for wishing
to complete course in high school,
letter follows:
Mr.. c. F. Borden:
Shoshone, Idaho.
Dear Father:
May express my opinion to you
about the importance of a good ed
ucation? Really. one can scarcely get
along in the world, today. without the
training which a good high school
course gives. Even an eighth grader
can see that the eighth grade does not
give sufficient training to do him thru
life.
In stating my reasons for wishing
10 go through high school, I will give
the least important first. You know,
Father, all ambitious students wish
10 attend college. I am looking for
ward with pleasure to the various
attractions of college life. A high
school diploma will admit me without
examination. Sometimes the entrance
,xaminat tions are very hard and to :
all wound be such a disgrace.