Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1919 — HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES TO CONTINUE EDUCATION. [ARTICLE]

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES TO CONTINUE EDUCATION.

Material results from the campaign which has been carried on for several years among the school children of the county urging them to continue their education through the colleges, is seen this year from the large number of Rensselaer graduates who have already entered college or are planning to do so. A uates of the Rensselaer high school have gone to various colleges to further their education, and this year, perhaps more so than any other, the great number who are attending college is noticed. • Reports received from colleges all over the country indicate that their classes are crowded this year and in many schools there were not accommodations to take care of all those who wished to enter in the freshman class. The boys and girls from Jasper county are not alone from the high school class of 1919, but a great number are of the class of 1918 and from classes preceding that one. For some time it has been the tendency for many pupils after finishing the eighth grade to leave school, but for the past few years more students continue to enter and continue through the four years of high school and then on through the colleges and universities. This year both the grade and high school have—a large per cent increase in enrollment. Although the larger per cent enter colleges and universities, a numberoncompleting the high school course take a twelve weeks’ teachers’ training course, While others enter business colleges.