| Show I ITHE THE THREE RS ARE CALLED TO STUDENTS MIND AGAIN Whether bether or not the High nigh school class presently to be he given glen Its diplomas in token of having acquired all the knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge It can acquire In the section of school system below the colle collegiate collegiate slate division knows the three Rs Wa is II a question which puzzles the faculty and vexes the students The proposition is this tIlls Do the students who are about to graduate pass muster In and Is they competent in parsin analyses figgers of speech Four Your years rears ago the young ladles ladies and the young gentlemen who are about to be besent besent besent sent forth as navigators fully equipped to sail the seas of life learned how now to I spell phthisis and other words of like simplicity of alphabetical construction Each Ea h year rear there have been tests re respecting reE I E the tenacity of memory of the students who are it may ma be lI b said four I years ears old ohl It is the testimony of the officials nf o ii the schools the only one of many man many man who were asked questions with reference to the matter that the percentage or per as one wills Is higher high r at this time than it has ever eer been since the system of tests was wag introduced That was in 1816 In hi Springfield In the good old state of oC Massachusetts where education rules su an supreme supreme preme and an Ignorance is not hot it was con conceived conceived conceived in the mind of a professor of at some something something something thing or other to send broadcast br a chal challenge challenge challenge lenge to compete in a contest engaging the spelling of words Springfield was discounted and double dis discounted discounted I counted almost I One of the officials of or the school tem tern In this city was as asked last evening with reference to the announcement cement made in the high school yesterday esterd y that the stu stil dents would do well to brush up on the things which they the were taught hut but they the mayhap ma hap had forgotten Are Arf things taught pupils so s that they may remember or that they the may forget Well Veil we have ha a test each year ear that thaL tha shows shown us that the students of our o r school are far above aboe the average In the funda fundamental fundamental mental menta studies that is the th 1 What are the fundamental studies ac according according according cording to your view They are spelling spelling principally reading wilting and arithmetic with grammar too Do you believe bellee that the students of the high schools of today toda spell as well as In the days das when was as the guide book and the bee was a factor in education as well as a a means of or social communion I certainly believe bellee that the school pu pupils pUs pils today spell better than they ever I did The f same ame Is true of oC the other studies referred to said sold the school official The announcement of school board members and school faculty Is that the suggestion relative to pricking up their ears In connection with the things they learn and possibly forget torget Is Js a sug aug suggestion suggestion only It does not count as has i been stated In publications in the marks noted In the final examinations for grad graduation graduation nation I But then still it might too I i |
