Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1897 — School Notes. [ARTICLE]

School Notes.

Charles Mellender, Grace Sayler, lima Robinson, Cora Phegley and Hattie Sayler were absent from school the first of last week on account of ill health. The general health of the High School has improved greatly under the new system of excuses for absence. Rev. D. A. Tucker will speak to the High School next Wednesday morning from 8:4o-9i0o. Miss May Romig, a friend of Miss Wharton, visited the High School last Monday- Miss Romig is a graduate student in the University of Chicago. The pupils in Miss Marshall’s room have issued the following invitations to their mothers: At School, Dec. 2, 1897. Dear Mamma: I should like to haye you come to see us work tomorrow. Do you think you can come in the afternoon? Your loving son (or daughter.) The attendance throughout the grades has been /fsfearkably good this week. The scarlet fever scare has subsided and the absent ones have returned. Last Wednesday morning Mr. Shepherd, as a representative of the ministerial profession gave an interesting talk to the High School. It was the first of a series that will be given by the professional and business men of Rensselaor. Mi. Shepherds’subject was Education. He said first that education means development, and that development is tjie primary thing, knowledge being secondary. Then further, all study, no matter what the subject, leads back to nature and some of God’s laws. Finally things unseen are forces, things seen are not forces and real education is the development from the seen to the unseen.