The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-12-03
MENTAL TESTS
GIVEN IN SCHOOL
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! school assembly Monday. Mrs. Be
ward is a very forceful speaker.
Ruth Herman gave an excellen
report on the Vocational Conferenc
held at Bozeman. She named
number of vocations open to Girl
and told the requirements of each
She said that one profession is ne
elected. Although more than II
percent of all girls finally take III
the important profession Of homs
making, very few of them prepare
for it. Blanche Alexander will
speak later in the week.
Recital
Miss Erma Small's pupils will hold
a piano recital in the assembly at
4 o'clock Friday afternoon.
The first basket ball game Of the
season will be on December II when
Wolf Point will play Medicine Lake.
This week ends the third month.
Report cards will be sent out on
Monday of next week.
The Smoking Question
Supt. F. H. Livingston discussed
the results of the smoking tests Civ
en- at Antioch College. Yellow
Spring, Ohio. Antioch College con-
Quoted the test in order to find out
the relation that existed between
the use of tobacco and scholarship.
This study was pursued with thought,
care and in accordance with sound
statistical methods. The men showed
great interest in the research and
assisted generously with informa-
ton. Of % men dismissed from
Antioch last year for low scholar
ship, 20 were smokers. 1t was found
that heavy smokers have lower grades
than light smokers. Smokers re-
naming in school fell steadily in
scholarship. Non-smokers maintain
ed a nearly uniform average. The
final conclusion drawn from the re-
search work was that smoking is
actually a cause of ineficiency. If
this is true in college what effect can
we expect from boys in high school
who are still in the teens.
Educational Meeting
The fourth annual delegate as
of the Montana Educational
Association will be held in Helena,
Tuesday and Wednesday, December
29 and 80.
In the grade and high schools of
Montana in 1924-25 al percent of
the teachers were new. The ten
are situation is most unsatisfactory
the rural schools.
Out of 5403 teachers in Montana
only $40 have stayed in one position
than five years and only 292
out of 5402 have taught more than
ZEN years in their present positions.
Three-fourths Of these long tenure
are in the seven largest
of the state. The longest ten
Ire of any 1924-25 teacher in Mon
ana was thirty-six years.
Program for Teachers Meeting
New Ideas in Health Teaching,
Hiss Elizabeth Randall.
Definite Detectives in Health
'eaching and the Use of Competition
Hiss Clara Undseth. !
Report on Results of Mental Tests,
'. H. Livingston. 7
Election of Delegates and Alter :
ates to Delegate assembly at Hell
ma. I
Discussion of Questions to come
efore the delegate assembly,.
Absence and Tardy Records
The amount of absence in the high
chool was 1872 days for the first
lonth. The record for the second
Ionth's attendance improved and the
bsence only totaled Al days. A still
etter record for the third month is
oped for. Attendance will do much
raise the standard of the Wolf \
oint schools. i
The eighth grade absence was AT q
avs the first month and 37h the 3
,cond month. Records for our rural B
.hools were not given in the frs 8
port. They are: s
Warmbrod, first month absence :
3a days, second month 8Oh first a
onth hardness 2 times, second
onth 5 times.
Wetsit, first month absence, rs +
lys, second month OF; first month
rdiness 5 times, second month 5
mes.
There were 1872 underweights in