Milford chronicle., 1927-12-09
SCHOOL NEWS

The Swarthmore Ckautauqua will
present the play "The Goose Hang
High" on January 13 of the coming
year in the Plaza Theater, undo
the auspices of the senior class
This play is one of the best of tn
Chautauqua's collection, and, a
this organization presents onl.
prize plays, we are doubly sure tina
it will provide plenty of entertain
ment for young and old alike.
The pupils of Milford School will
soon receive instructions in person
al safety. These will be given b,
the teachers, but the services o
prominent citizens will be request
ed. This will be a benefit to tn
community as a whole. 1t viii
cause children to form the habit o
watching the traffic when going tt
and from school.
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The girls basketball practice IL
M. H. S. began on the tifteentf
with about 80 girls out for the team
All started with as equal chance
as possible. Miss Kinder and Miss
Alexander, the coaches, didn't know
and wouldn't allow anyone to tell
them who played on last years var
sitv Four practice periods nave
been held since the first one. Oh
thursday afternoon the coaches
started scrimmage. FROM nov 80 Oii
fine girls will practice every altel
noon. one afternoon in the cohn t,l
itv building and the next IN 'he
armory.
Tho delaware State School AT
+ondance Banner has been won Dy
NT;Iford Special School for the sec
nd time this year. Milford Schooi
80, the hammer for the month Oh
Contember and also won 1t for Oc-
toher The attendance average
tIot led the state was 95.5. caesar
Rodney follows Milford WIN mar
rington, Dover and Smyrna LOllow
ing in line. For November Caesal
Rodney is trying hard to nave an
average above that of Mlltoru' Las
year for the month of October NIL
ford won the banner with an aver
ace of 95.3. This year was WIN
gain of 2 of a point. Miss Thomas'
the state attendance othcer, VINO
has her headquarters in Dover, salu
+be attendance record OF MllIoru
was very good. Mr.. Shining alsO
thinks the average good put WISHES
II could be better. He sald Che
students who miss a day or TWO
month are the ones who pull down
the record. For October there were
1e3 students enrolled in high school
and the attendance average was
96.6. In grammar school Lhere
were SOL enrolled with an average
of 95.3. The Senior Class leads IN
attendance in high school with S9.4.
THE Sophomore Glass comes next
with ga: Junior Glass follows with
96.5. and Freshman with 95.6. The
Grammar Grades are led by part
of the first and second grades
taught by Miss Lank with the aver
age of 98.5. The sixth grade taught
nv Miss Alexander with 97.5 as the
average, comes next. The attend
ance record generally falls the
month before Christmas because
fine students stop school to work III
stores. Mr.. Shilling hopes to keep
the good record up by having all
students attend that month.
The Milford High School boys
surely believe in numbers, because
thew turned out twenty-five strong
the first night of basketball prac-
tice nearly two weeks ago. Since
then they have practiced three per-
iods a week, lasting from quarter
after four to quarter after nVe'
Coaches Boston and Ellis, who al
ternate between the two squads,
have been teaching the boys the
fundamentals of basketball, such as
nassing. shooting and, doubling. The
better men from last year, Wootten'
Groves and Wroten, find 1t hard not
to break out and play real basket
ball, but they have satisfied them
selves with learning over again,
with the beginners, the inside
done" of basketball. There has
been fine spirit shown among the
boys this year, no cross words ana
no scraps or wouldbe fights. The
coaches, who have had wonderful
patience with the faults OF the
players, predict a successful. season
for the team.
The students of the Sophomore
Glass are dramatizing different
scenes from julius Caesar in con-
nection with their class work. The
teacher, Miss Hill, has suggested
to the pupils that they dramatic
one-act play and present it before
the high school.
The tipping department has re-
ceived six new photographic rec
ords. They are to be used in con-
nection with tipping. The rhythm
records, as they are called, are de-
signed to cause the student to write
at an even rate of speed and to pro-
duce accuracy. Miss Hastings, the
head of the department, says that
the records are an immense help in
teaching the students to type at an
even rate. "The tendency of the
student" she says, when coming to
two letters exactly alike is to tap
the key very quickly, then pause,
and to finish the word at a slower
rate. For example, take the word
indeed. The unframed typist writes
the word at a rate something like
this: indeed. When he comes to
the two ee's written together he
taps the key quickly, twice, then
pauses and writes d. This should
not be done. 1t should be like this:
indeed. There should be just
as long an interval between the sc"
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