Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — Rensselaer Public School. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Public School.

The Public School of Rensselaer will open on the first Monday of September and will continue for .nme months with a few short vacations. The school is under the superintendency of P. H. Kirsch, assisted by an able corps of teachers. A part of the high school is in charge of Miss Margaret M. Hill, a graduate of the Latin course of the Indiana State Normal School, and a teacher of large and successful experience. It now requires four years to complete the regular course of the High School, which includes two years latin, Literature,’Elementary sciences, some of the higher mathematics, and a thorough review of the Common school branches. The first year course df the High School includes Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra ; Orthography, English Grammar and United States History, and Civil Government. This first year course is so airanged that it is a natural and easy step in advance fur the graduate of the country school. It is of inestimable value to those who expect to become teachers and those who desire to review and make an extended study of the common school branches. The High School has been commissioned by the State Board of Education, and any pupil completing the full course of study will be admitted into the Freshman class of the State University, Purdue University, or to the Junior class of the State Normal School without an examination.

Regular Literary exercises are conducted in connection with the I’hird and Fourth years of Uie High School, the other a beginning class which will meet two evenings ot each week. A small fee will be charged for a membership in the beginning class. The number in this class is limited to twenty. Graduates of the country schools are admitted to the First year High School without an examination, Teachers holding a license are also admitted without an examination. and special arrangements will be made as to their classification. Pupils of the High School who are delinquent in a part of their last year’s work will be promoted ed with their respective classes upon passing satisfactory examination on each work. > Good board and lodging can be I procured at from 83 to 83.75 per 'week. Club board 82 to $2.50 per week. Several of the pupils last I year (lid chores of mornings and 1 evenings and thereby deirayed 1 their entire expenses.