High School Notes

The war is over. Two more weeks in this semester. The class in solid georuetry finish the book today. Junior exhibition two weeks from tonight. The program will be given next week. The meeting of the Lyceum last Friday night was a rather slim affair. Both of the speakers on the negative were absent. A special meeting of the teachers was held last Monday afternoon. A rule was made regarding "ponying," and hereafter a student found cheating in an examination will be liable to suspension. Principal Pattengill suspended a number of students, the first of the week. In all there were twelve suspended. Their offense consisted in belonging to secret societies, or fraternities. This was in opposition to a rule adopted by the board of education, which reads as follows: "Section 14. Any student of the High school who becomes or remains a member of a secret school society, subjects himself thereby to suspension, or forfeiture of diploma of graduation, or both. " A short time ago a delegation of the Delta Sigma Nus went to Fort Wayne, Ind., to establish a chapter. The school authorities at Fort Wayne found it out, and wrote to Prof. Pattengill asking what kind of a society it was, and other similar questions. On Monday, Principal Pattengill, with the approval of Supt. Perry, began circulating a pledge among the students who belong to the fraternities, and asking them to sign it. The pledge provided that those who took it would leave their respective societies, and join no other unless it was the Masons or Odd Fellows. The students refused to sign, so eight were suspended at once. The parents met at the home of Mis. Tilton, Tuesday night, and decided to carry it into the courts, if the students were not reinstated. A committee consisting of Messrs. timmerman, Wilson and Danforth was appointed to see the school board and demand that the action af the faculty be reversed. The school board held an open meeting Wednesday night, and the rule by which the suspensions were made was repealed by a vote of 7 to 2. Consequently, the twelve suspended students were reinstated by Principal Pattengill yesterday morning, and now peace and harmony reign supreme.