Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1914 — SUMMER VACATION STARTED WEDNESDAY [ARTICLE]

SUMMER VACATION STARTED WEDNESDAY

Boys and Girls Will Return to School First Monday in Sep-tember-Profitable Year. “No more pencils No more books, No more teachers’ Saucy looks.” With their arms full of books the lads and lassies of the Rensselaer public schools left the buildings Wednesday and started on their vacation for the summer months. They are to return to their rooms Friday long enough to receive their grade cards, which will entitle them to advance or require them to remain again in the class they were in this year. The year has been a quite successful one in the schools and it is regarded that an especially capable corps of teachers has been in charge otf the work under the direction of Superintendent Ross Dean. A few changes are desirable, from the viewpoint of the school board and it is probable that several of the teachers will be offered positions with mbre attractive salaries at other places. ’ The vacation now beginning will last until the first Monday. in September. The superior advantages of the Rensselaer high school oyer surrounding towns has been advanced since the modern building was erected and the vocational training begun Ind many of the students in high school come from the surrounding country and towns. Manual training, domestic science, bookkeeping, shorthand and typewriting have proven valuable additions to the curriculum. This year’s graduation class consists of thirty-three pupils, while the present junior class, which will compose the graduation class for 1915, consists of forty-six and it isquite probable that there will be additions to this class in the fall, possibly making the class of 1915 reach the half-hundred mark..