Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1916 — High School Notes. [ARTICLE]

High School Notes.

A vote taken at the high school Friday morning determine whether there should be a Printed program of the two literary societies or not resulted in a unanimous vote in favor of the printed program. The sophomore Englisih classes at the beginning of the second semester, will start reading Shakespeare’s play “As You Lake It.” A meeting of the senior class was held last Thursday evening to attend to some business. The president, Robert Reeve, announced that he had received a letter from the D. L. Auld & Co., manufacturers of jewelry, of Columbus, Ohio. Order blanks for the class pins and rings were sent and Mr. Reeve will attend to this matter at an early date. Last year the high sdhooi signed a four-year contract with this company. As the resutl of the opea»etta given by the music department of the high school we are the poaseesors of some fine new records for our Victrola. Among them are: "Duet of the Flowers”, from Madame Butterfly, Geraldine Farrar and Louise Homer. “Lullaby”, from Jocelyn, John McCormack, violin obligato by Fritz Kreisler. “Procession of Knights of the Holy Grail,” Parsifal, Arthur Pryor’s band. “Somewhere a Voice is Calling,” John McCormack. “Serendate,” Shubert, Evan Williams. “Grand March”, Aida, Arthur Pryor's band. “Spinning Song”, Mendelssohn, Renard Trio. “The Old Witch,” from Hansel and Gretel, Otto Goritz. Physical culture classes started Monday morning. Two of the classes are large, while the other classes are rather small. Mr. Dean received a card from Mr. Swindler stating that he was pleased with his new position as .physics teacher in Pittsburg University. He state! that the enrollment last year was 3,200 and indications are that the enrollment this year will exceed that number. The physics department has abbut 200 student® with six instructors. The selling of sandwiches at the basketball game last Friday evening proved a very successful experiment. About 100 sandwiches were sold in less than 15 minutes. At the next gbpie the same experiment will be Vied again on a larger scale. The domestic science department prepared the sandwfches. “Pie basketball game Between the Francesville and Rensselaer freshman teams resulted in a 27 to 6 victory for the locals. ,