Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The heads of the English depprtment report that the collateral reading is progressing faster this year than any previous year. The report cards were given out Wednesday. This ends the second si : . eeks of school. A spelling test was given to all th£ high school pupils Thursday morning, consisting of fifty of the most commonly misspelled words. Three pupils spelled all the words correctly. ,’hese three were, as before, all freshmen. The average number misspelled was about six or seven words. The Freshman English class will start to study Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” The Juniors will start reading “Macbeth,” by the same author. The Seniors will soon finish Washington Irving’S “Alhambra. The chemistry classes have not met this week owing to the absence of a teacher. The freshman classes have been making a systematic study of words commonly misspelled by high school students all over the United Staites. The highest grades of the three sections were 98, 99, 97, respectively; the averages of the three sections were 88, 88, 84, respectively. It is required that each word spelled be used in a sentence, which illustrates clearly the use of the words. Our high school compares well with other high schools which are doing the same work. The pupils and teachers were entertained Friday morning with a short recital given by Miss Dora Covington, of Chicago, who, is visiting the B. J. Moore family.