The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-18
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his world famous works for he
was very poor and had to work
hard to achieve his popularity. His
famous works are: "The Deserted
Village" a poem of Ireland; "Vi-
car of Wakefield" a novel about
DR.. Primrose and his family; and
''She Stops to Conquer" a COM
ic drama. In a recent unit test,
the highest grades were given to
Margaret Henderson and Virginia
Larson.
English III students are study
ing Poe's poetry such as; "Anna-
belle Lee" "Uholume," and "The
Bells, read for musical effect ra-
Their than thought content. Stu
dents have also been giving re-
ports on Poe's horror stories. Two
differences of opinion have been
argued; namely, the opposers of
Poe's stories ask what hasn't Poe
written that the world could do
without; while the defenders ask
what has he written that isn't an
artistically finished piece of work.
While the Juniors and Seniors
are studying literature, the Soph-
ignores are working on an outlin-
ing unit.
During the past week, Mr.. Gray
was in charge of the Biology
classes, in the absence of Miss
Myhre. He has been telling the
classes of his interesting exper-
fences in Rochester, with chem
istry. AS the unit of work, the
class has been studying various
digestive systems of animals and
humans.
Elementary Algebra classes are
learning how to calculate horse
power of an automobile; how to
invest money; how to secure the
greatest discounts on purchases
commonly known as, "Jewing
down." and how to determine the
distance it will take a car to stop
with a given set of breaks.
Commercial law students have
been trying to decide what kind
of people are the incompetent
parties in relation to contracts
Most of the class finally decided
the most common were the in
fants, married women, habitual
drunkards, feeble-minded, insane
and spendthrifts.
MIR. Toms Chemistry classes
have advanced to the study of
chlorine gas, its preparation and
uses. 1t was a startling discovery
when they found the ordinary ia
bic salt is composed of the deadly
gas, chlorine. This gas is also used
in small amounts for purifying our
city drinking water. Another use
is its bleaching power in the pa
per and cloth industries. One for
mer important use of the gas was
as poisonous screen during the
World War.
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The Social Science classes have
just completed a study on power
ty and its causes and relief. Next
week they will take up problems
centering around the family, COW
ering such phases as, marriage, di-
vorce dependents, caused by ply
steal or mental defects.
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A committee is arranging a So
cial Science project. They are at
tempting miniature census sur
vey of economic conditions of
families of various types in Red
wood Falls communities.
Students have been spending
their time studying batteries. The
voltaic cell, which is the basis of
all batteries, and the dry cell, and
storage batteries were discussed
extensively. They will further the
lesson to the construction and i'm
portant uses of the batteries.
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On February IL. in honor of the
birthday of the "Great Emancipa-
tor" Abraham Lincoln, Rev. G. o.
Sullivan gave a stimulating adj
dress on american Liberty" Pre-
ceding the address, the entire