The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-06
SENIOR HIGH

SEN1O6 HUN
The American History classes
have finished the chapter on 1.-THE
Colonies Break With England"
A new activity in high school this
year is the speech festival. It is
similar to the music festivals that
are held every year. This speech
day will be held November 10, in
st. Cloud. It Is sponsored by the
st. Cloud Teachers College and is
for high school students in sur
rounding districts. There are five
types Of activities:
/. Extempore speaking.
2. Original oratory.
3. Memorized poetry.
4. Reading.
8. Memorized defamation.
So far twenty-six pupils have
shown interest in this festival.
On November is, Friday, the jun
iors will present their class play.
Rehearsals will begin about Octob-
err 10.
The new contracts in English II
provide for reading articles from
suitable magazines, such as Allan
tic, Scribners and Literary Digest
and writing reports on the material
read.
The sophomores are reading
short stories and writing essays as
part of their contract.
The modern history classes are
studying the Greek unit this week.
The Latin classes are reading
the Life of the Roman Family.
JUNIOR HIGH
Friday the Junior High entertain
ed by a program called tits Nice
to Know How" A play, written by
high school student from Argo.
ILL.,, was presented by Mary Mar
garet Prash, Charles Otto, Dora
Ward, Patty Hansen and George
Aldous. This skit stressed the sub
ject of manners or how junior
high student should eat.
Mr.. Harvey gave talk on Sports
manship in which he stressed points
of manners at game to be OBJ
served by all spectators at home
games and out-of-town games.
Mr.. Rasmussen and Mr.. Knutson
gave some Of the fundamentals OF
football, telling the position played
by each of the members of the jun
ior high team.
The new school song was taught
to the students which they sang
with our old song. They all Joined
in with the cheer leaders in a few
cheers.
The last thing on the program
was a skit by members of junior
high in which they pointed out the
improper behaviour at a movie and
Dick O'Gara, a usher, made COM
ments on this.
The freshmen business relation
classes are taking the unit on.
Transportation of Goods. This deals
with the transportation by freight,
express, parcel post, and air mail.
This stresses the Importance OF
transportation to yourself, business
and industry. This unit shows the
means, methods and agencies OF
transportation used. For extra ere
dit the student may write an &C
count of the procedure of shipping
by freight, express, parcel post, and
air mail. They may make a chart
showing cost and speed of sending
packages by the different means.
The conservation class is study
ing the conservation of life. The
History classes are studying citizen
ship and the history of Minnesota
based on the history of the United
States.
The ninth grade science science
classes are studying the unit on air
This deals with the composition OF
air, air pressure, compressed air
and its uses. They study how air
is used in connection with sound
and the human ear.
The eighth grade science classes
are studying the Solar System, and
it's relation to us. It deals with
the moon, phases Of the moon, and
it's effect on the earth.
LIBRARY NEWS
Work started last week on redec-
Grating the Library. Last week the