The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-10-07
PROPOSED BOND ISSUE
FOR SCHOOL BUILDING
- One Recognizes the Necessity For New High School
| |Ru;Iding and the County Board Of Education Brings
To the People a Concise Statement of
Needs, Plans and Costs

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they have no place to live. Under
) contemplated plans they can all re-
ceive that to which they are Justly
entitled.
The board has In mind a building
containing sufficient rooms for all de-
partments: the laboratories, domes-
tic science recitation rooms, a gener-
al study hall, gymnasium and a DOR
mitory. All new high school build
ings OF the State are being built with
a gymnasium to accommodate the
physical training classes. Physical
training is made compulsory by the
State Board of Education. All schools
must give 1t. At present, In this
county, this work Is being given In a
local hall. Under these pres
ent conditions. the boys and girls
take their exercises and play their
games. They naturally become heat
ed and perspire freely. The room Is
at times intensely cold, and they can
not take q shower bath; this with
dressing In the bitter cold, or going
to their homes without changing
clothes causes them to chill and take
cold.
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equipped gymnasium with separate
dressing rooms for boys and girls
and separate shower baths, will give
them their work and protect their
health. Isn't the life of one boy or
girl worth all 1t costs?
This gymnasium will be included
In the building on the ground floor
with the idea of using It for public
meetings. Movable chairs will be
provided SO that there will be a seat
! ing capacity sufficient for any public
| audience. Musicals, lectures, mass
meetings and commandments may
be held in the gymnasium.
One of the biggest movements at
the present time In educational work
Is the use Of the picture machine.
Many high schools In all States are
now giving visual instruction by this
means. showing travel pictures: pic
lures both general and detailed, Of
mining. manufacturing. farming. cat
tie and sheep raising. The gymnasi-
um room provides facilities whereby
the very best of educational and en-
tertainment pictures can be shown
for the benefit Of the students, pa
irons and citizens. 1t is not the idea
of the Board to run a picture show.
but to make use Of this up-to-date
method Of instructing the children
how the other half lives.
Since the building will be planned
for a reasonable growth in the fu-
ture, surplus Of a few rooms will
be provided. The Board has been
approached on the possibility of leas-
( ing these surplus rooms to the Eu-
reka District School Board for the
accommodation of the grammar
grades. The County Board feels that
this would be no more than right, as
long as they expect to build extra
rooms for future growth, and in view
of the fact that the District Board
has long rented quarters to the high
| school. or course. the District would
pay a fair rental according to accom-
modations received. This rental will
be made enough to pay the interest
| on the actual cost of the number of
rooms occupied by the grades. Rent
al so received will be annually ap-
piled to the principal and interest of
| the bonds. This arrangement ap-
peals to the undersigned Board and
they see no reason why such an ar
rangement should not be made as
long as the quarters are not needed
to take care of the high school stu
| dents.
The dormitory is the solution of
the problem which vitality interests
| the parents who live so far from the
high school that their child must re-
main in town during the school term.
Very few parents are in position
where one or both can remain with
the child. Neither can they send him
under the proper care.
It Is planned that living quarters
| for these students shall be built at
| the same time as the high school
| Quarters--either under a separate
roof or under the same roof-this to
be determined later according to the
most economical arrangement. The
boys section and the girls living
| quarters will be planned to be 'en-
| tirely separate and so arranged that
all will have access to a comon din
ing room.
The problem OF the management
| of a dormitory has been solved in
various ways In high school dormi-
| tories. The dormitory system is quite
| extensively used In several western
| States. Sometimes a lady Is en-
ployed, after the Board has satisfied
itself as to her qualifications. moral
ly and educationally. and as to her
executive ability. She has general
charge; sees that each student takes
care of his room; sees that the rules
of proper conduct and regular per-
iods OF study are observed, and also
sees that the boy or girl arises and
retires at q certain time. She acts as
the friend and guide to all the stu
dents at all times.
At other places. the principal and
his wife. IL they are people 30 quail
fed, make their home right In the
students quarters. the principal as
suming direct charge. and his wife
acting as matron. Rules are adopt
ed by the Board Of Education for the
| nronar conduct Of the dormttory, and