The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-18
SENIOR Hi CLASSES

This Ia the first bit Of news we
have for you in 1910 and we hope
not the last! We do hope that all
Of you had very Merry Christmas
and will have Happy New Year.
Now that vacation is over we are
all trying our best to settle down.
Last week the social classes tried
to catch up on their reading Of the
Weekly News Review" and so
were favored with two days of
reading up on the (not quite) lat
est news. They have also been
studying the unit Of consumption.
They have been learning that con-
sumption problems, although In
the past greatly neglected, are just
as important az the problems Of
production. They have learned
that intelligent study Of consump-
ton and production to raise the
standards of living of the Ameri-
can people.
Miss Wilson's senior classes have
been reading plays and then re-
porting on them to their class. AL
so two more girls have given their
speeches to the Gradatim Club,
namely. Dorothy Peterson and
Grace Chandler. Dorothy gave a
very interesting discussion on the
Value Of Public Speaking" while
Grace gave a talk on Social
Science" and the study of it. From
her talk we learned that social
science Is a very recent course Of
fered in high school, 1t having been
introduced to high school use only
in the past twenty-five years.
Miss Ranstad announced the Of
ficers for the Usage, the senior
publication. They are as follows:
Editor. Vivian Walker; associate
editor. Alma Botz, and Business
manager, Dorothy Hansen. A meet
ing of the entire staff was called
last week and work has begun on
the class OF 1910 Annual.
A passing thought: the end Of
this SIX weeks. which is just around
the corner, also brings to an end
the first semester Of this term.
Hardly seems possible that this
school year Ia half finished already,
does It! But before we know it,
it will be June and then-then
graduation for many Of us. With,
or I should say before, comes the
Senior Class Play. the prom and of
course. the Usage. ~
BY the way. have you noticed
many Of the rooms In the new ad-
dition have new desks-not only for
the students, but for the teachers,
too. Very nice looking, they are
too.
Mas Swanson informs us that
the Junior English classes are
wording on the unit Of poetry.
From all appearances they seem to
be enjoying 1t. Her sophomores
are working On grammar and COM
position. OF course, you know
grammar 10 learning when to use
a vert, a particfpal, or what have
you, while composition Is writing
stories, letters. etc.
February "a at Alexandria there
is to be speech festival. This speech
festival takes the place Of decla-
nation and was started because Of
tho lack OF interest and many 9TH
err Disadvantages of declam. This
festival viii Include all Of the
schools Ia district %. It includes
such things a. original Grafton, one
act playv, menaorized poetry. pure
reading and other things. This Is
tho second year in which such a
festival has been held. We hope
that uhere VIII be much interest
shown fn this festival this year.
Frosn an appearances we do think
that oauk Centre will be well rep
resented and make very good
showing.
In looking through physics
work book we come across new
original title for it and since 1t
seemed to fit, we are passing 1t on
TO you-'"The Book Of Excess
Knowledge However me found
out that In their study thus Tar
they have been dealing with var
ions forms OF matter-solids, iq-
uids. and gases. Now they are
about to investigate a new division
of physics-heat. Among the things
thew will learn in this unit are:
What the units of heat are; how
it causes expansion, melting, and
boiling, and how it is transferred
from one point to another.
Well, guess that is all we have
to tell YOU this time. Au Revior.
THISN THAT ABOUT SIR. HI
We were given not one, but two
programs last week to break the
routine OF classes The first, on