Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — High School Notes. [ARTICLE]

High School Notes.

The senior German class has finished Goethe’s “Hermann and Dorothea.” At present the class is doing sight reading and light translation. The high school choruses are resuming regular work after the operetta. They are preparing Christmas carols which will be given at the next literary meeting. Basketball game Friday evening between the locals and Wheatfield. A curtain raiser by two local teams. Mr. Coe’s advanced agricultural class has just begun the judgmg of poultry. His freshman class is in the midst of the six weeks elementary chemistry. The Christmas vacation will extend from Wednesday evening, Dec. 22, to Monday morning, January 3rd. There will be ,a literary meeting in the high School Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 21st. It will be a ( Christmas program given by the Lincoln <Society and the following program has been arranged: Christmas Carols —Adv. Chorus. Christmas Customs in Various Lands England—Elizabeth King. Germany—Esther Kruse. Holland—J. D. Roth. Italy—Thelma Martindale. Reading “Christmas Every Day”— Howard York. Recitation “Jest For Christmas”— Paul Worland. Piano Solo —Cornelia Leonard. The public is mort cordially invited to these literary meetings. Besides being interesting and entertaining they are an important factor in the development of the literary talent f the school.