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._ I Official Figures at .New Trier ' OOL 'FLUNKS' SCH, ' YERS HIT Tm'A . · WILMETTE 1924 3 COMPLETE pl~te loss to them as far as credit is co.ncerned and the cost of replacing thts lost credit amounts to $6,660. If we assume that the girls will fail an equal number of times the next semester tht cost of our failures among the girls alone for a year is well over $13,000 I Unprofitable Buaineaa LUSI~TO APPEAR IN POPULAR CONCERT Tickets are seJling rapidly- for the popular price farewell concert to be given by Milan Lusk, Wilmette violinist, at the. First Congregational church St. Patrick's Day, Monday eve ning, March 17. The concert will mark Mr. Lusk's final appearance before a north shore audience prior to his departure for an extended concert tour in· Europe. He will leave on April 1, and will not return to Wilmette until September I, ' o resume concert activities in Chicago and vicinity. Mr. Lusk needs no introduction to north shore music lovers. !Iince he has appeared frequently before large audiences in thi s vicinity. Some of his more rec e nt programs have heen 'lt the State Teachers' college. Cedar r.alls, Iowa; Men's European club of Morgan Park; and recitals in Kalanazoo. Mich.; Lansing, Mich., La Grange, Oak Park, and Woodstock. Everywhere he was accorded an enth usiastic reception. "This wa s a case of the audience, not the man being on trial ," was the comment received by Mr. Lusk after his appearance before his Iowa State Teachers' college audience. "It was with no mild enthusiasm that the aud- lnd1cate Cost of. tu ent Failurea · . S d ASTONISHING· LOSSES "Thus. it i.s seen that the ' experience of Runkmg ts not only an unhappy one for the student, but also an unprofit able one for the board of education and the taxpayers. It must be remembered, too, that the above figures apply only to the girls. The expense would probably be doubled or more than doubled if the whole school hould be con idered." ience made manifest its approval at the first possible moment, nor did the enthusiasm wane in the slightest . degree. That Mr. Lu k pOssesses technical skill is unq_uestioned, but, surpassing technical skill in importance, is the fact that Mr. Lusk feels tiis music and his expression of it is as a part of himself, a priceless attribute and one that cannot be acquired." · The March 17 concert is ponsored by the Crescent Circle of the Congregational church. Tickets may be secured at the Rennacker Drug company, Snider-Caiel Drug company, North Western station, Kenilworth Drug Store or from any member of the Crescent Circle. Ten Per Cen~ of Girl Stu- High School Boy Killed dents Fail, Report by Train at Indian Hill What is the monetary loss of a fail ure at school? How much does it cost the taxpayers when a student flunk s a course? The.se are questions asked in a recent issue of New Trier Kews, student publication at New Tri er High school. "A recent tabulation published by the school has disclosed the amazing cost to the sc hool of the many failures at the clo~e of a semester," reads the artic le. "Thi s report was based on th e ill fortune of the girls of New Trier, and yet they alone cost the school $6,600 du'ring th"e past semester, which is at the rate of more than $13,000 per annum. A ctual Coat Shown " It all probably sounds unbelievable, hut here's the proof, in the words of the official report: "The percentage of failure for the gir ls of the school as a whole was ten per cent. Actual!y 222 failing grades were given to the girls in New Trier Hig-h sc hool. Since the cost of maintenance for one pupi( for ohe year is about $240 and since a pupil must IN OTHER WORDS- DRUNK pass slightly more than eight ·semester courses a year to graduate in four Four Chicagoans. somewhat. the y<·ars. W'U can say the cost per pupil worse mentally and pedally for · genof one semester course is $30. Since erous inhalations of recent distillations thr pupils who made these 222 failures were arrested by Wifmette police late r rccive no credit for these courses, last week. Heavy penalties were asthey shall have to repeat these, or se sed by Magistrate Mie~ey a,f ter the other courses, if they graduate. Con- quartet ha~ sohered suffictently to an,;eque ntly, these 222 courses are a com-<~wer quest10ns. Halvard Lange, a student in the iunior class at New Trier Township High sc hool, was almost instantly killed Tu esday afternoon of this week when he missed his footing while hoarding a moving Chicago and North Western train just pulling out from the Indian Hill station. He was crushed beneath the wheels of one of the coaches. 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