10 HOBART HIGH SCHOOL
by very active teams. In basket ball the team mad a very creditable record.
The Athletic Association was successfully managed during the year by loyal co-operation of the scholars and the excellent patronage it received from the public so that after purchasing new baseball uniforms it has a substantial balance in the bank.
The Senior Class raised enough money during its high school course so that it was able to finance an Easter trip to Washington.
We have completed this year a two year course in a calf project. Six boys completed the course. The practical value of this work cannot be overestimated. Four girls completed a course in piano practices which gives them three Regents counts.
Through the courtesy of the business men in the village over One Hundred Dollars in prices are given to the scholars in the grads and High School for excellence along various lines. We are deeply grateful to them for their interest in the welfare of the school. By this means the scholars are spurred on to greater efforts, and this is one very important reason why Hobart High School ranks among the best in the country.
It is the belief of the Board of Education, parents, and teacher, that there should be a proper correlation between studies, athletics, and social activities. Although we are heartily in favor of these outside activities, yet we do not intend that they hall be carried to excess to interfere with their studies. The school spirit has been much enlivened by baseball, basket ball, tennis, and the use of the giant stride, see-saw, trapeze arrangements, vaulting apparatus and swings which have been so generously provided by the patrons of the school. That the scholars appreciate these is evidenced by the fact that they are in almost constant use when the school is not in session. High scholarship is required for all who wish to be members of any athletic team. Few schools maintain as high an average in their lessons as ours.
In the fall and winter the High School basket ball team is allowed to practice only one night in the week and then only for one hour, and the Board of Education has very judiciously limited the use of the gymnasium for social activities on basket ball nights to eleven o'clock, and on other nights to twelve o'clock, and in addition, these activities are arranged at the weekend. In these ways studies are not interfered with and scholarship is placed first. We feel that in order to accomplish the most
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The 1928 Almedian - South Kortright Central School Yearbooks - SKCS 1928 Almedian
