Show HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ARE ROUTED BY TESTS IN ELEMENTARY WORK I I I To find out wh whether ther the members of ot the senior class of 07 01 and the commer commercial cial class of the High school are able to spell such words as and to tell where such a place as is as well as to determine how long it will take a caterpillar to crawl through a barrel of or apples tipples caused the school board of the city to hold an investigation Some two weeks ago agu the ordeal was announced to the students and since then th n nIt it has been their daily dally portion to listen to the of various members of the faculty in order that they might be I found proficient in the uses and misuses of the three rs ns The members of the class were thoroughly scared inasmuch as it was hinted that any of them fail failing failIng failIng ing to make a creditable showing would woula find their pay envelopes empty empt on com corn commencement day da Accordingly the stu student student student dent has been improving each busy bus hour with the simple spelling bee and between times has been studying up on the th rule rulo of three and locating places on Oil the globe lob The troubles came to a head when Super Superintendent SuperIntendent SuperIntendent Christensen stepped gaily forth on the th day and made a sarcastic speech on how easy the tests were going to be beThe beThe beThe The first on the program was the spell spelling spellIng spellIng ing the one which in the eyes of or those not riot taking It is the easiest A few of or orthe the most rudimental of the words com corn compiled comI piled by Professor Webster were snapped up eagerly ea erl Among these thesa were and This encouraged some of the more simple simpleminded simpleminded sImpleminded minded but those who had seen the au an authorities start tart out modestly before knew there was trouble ahead Next came a course in arithmetic with accuracy side dishes which did only a little damage A few tew of the easiest dates ift American history were gone over and then ihen a short recess reces was granted Everybody decided the test was so easy it was a shame tov to toI take it but in the afternoon aftem oon session it was I discovered that much could be forgotten during four fout years in the way of or parsing analysis and conjugating indeed many man of or orthe the ones fell by the wayside at this point of the course Many Man more were outside the money mone when they reached the geography questions In the home stretch This was the final blow for the talent and the unkindest cut of or all The entire class went down In locating and describing the city halls of such places as Illimani and Some knew that the wild men came from Bor for Borneo Borneo neo but where that is remained a ques question Question question tion mark When all was over oyer and the th expectations of graduation had dwindled from a hun bun hundred hundred bundred dred down to some five fhe or six time was called also the mental ambulance t The I results will be bl anxiously watched for al although although a though It was wal announced at n the close that the diploma threat was wasa a false alarm I |