Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-07

AT the Americas high school equal
impressions even more deep were
made. The visitors were taken to
various classes. In one Miss Paula
Smelling was hearing class in geom-
etry. 1t was large class. In the
next visited score of pupils were
reviewing the first book of Virgil,
only a few having elected to study
Latin, the language a knowledge of
which gives the student an under
standing of the basis of our tongue
impossible otherwise to attain. In
the science class was a crowd, too
great for any teacher to handle to
the best advantage Every seat was
| filed and chairs along the will IN
| one aisle were all occupied some
thing like forty pupils in the class.
Another room where a spelling re-
! view was taking place was equally
crowded. In the European history
class seats We're more ample.
A trip to the domestic science de-
partment was most interesting. The
girls of the junior class, the most
advanced in domestic science, had
nearly finished their mornings work
and had their work benches nicely
secured, dishes washed and utensils
all in order. except two girls who
were finishing rolling out the bis
cults for the noon meal being pre-
pared for the guests In front of
each girl was a gas plate for cooking,
with a single oven available for bak-
ing when needed, and in each driver
WIS an array of spoons, knives, cups,
pans, etc, for all kitchen require-
usually interested in their culinary
studies.
Dark Basement Laboratory.
From this room the visitors went to
the sicence laboratory, and here the
worst effects of crowding were not
ed. 1t was dark room at the north
east corner of the basement. Instead
of individual stands for experimental
work in chemistry, physics and other
SCIENCES taught, where each pupil
may carry on individual work with
the compound microscope, the test
tube and retort or other apparatus,
there is a single table faced by a
score and half of chairs. in front
of whcih the techer may stand and
demonstrate to, the class the expert
ments, or wher6 one or two students
! at time may conduct tests. eve
once had individual experiment stands
and apparatus" Nid Supt Mathis,
but when the school facilities be-
came SO crowded we~had to eliminate
them, and this is the best we have. y
In the wood working shop, where
manual training is learned under
the tutelage of Jack Hoist, the lads
were busy for the msot part sharpen
ing their chisels and putting their
tools in shape for the next lesson,
having completed their tasks for the
day. The quarters were small and
crowded-wholly inadequate for the
proper instruction of the lads. But
they were showing up wonderfully
well. Cedar chests in. the process of
construction We're seen. There We're
footstools, completed and stained,
ready for upholstering, which
viii make several proud mothers
happy Christmas morning. These
were dozens of articles in various de-
grees of completion, all showing fine
handicraft. One which met with wide
commentator was a bookcase near
ly finished, made by James Johnson.
1t showed a degree of skill that
might have been the work of a cab
met maker of years of experience.
The department is fairly well equip
ped, but much handicapped. The
boys must buy all the material they
use.
Almost No Library
The dinner served to the visitors
by the domestic science girls was set
in room which Supt. Mathis ex-
planned has to serve u Sa 4cembina-
ton library, dining room,. reception
room, and room of all uses. The IL
brary was pitifully small-only five
bookcases and not all filled-but the
accessibility of the Carnegie Library
uptown offsets this lack in a large
measure, although that has been
starved to inefficiency. .Ehe room
was more adequate for the compare
lively small number of diners.
The dinner was splendidly prepar-
ed and gracefully served. 1t consist
ed of fruit cocktail, roast turkey and
dressing, candied cranberries, marsh
maliows, sweet potatoes, rice and
gravy, asparagus tips, dessert with
fruit cake and coffee.
At the table the visitors had time
for retrospect. Il will never feel