How well this object is attained can be attested by the work of graduates in the schools of Morrill and adjoining counties.

The domestic science laboratory is as well equipped with all modern appliances as money can buy. The general laboratorv is remarkably complete for instruction in all the major sciences. The typewriting department is well supplied with good machines. The general library is fair, while the historical reference shelves are well filled. Throughout all the grades the most up-to-date texts and appliances have been procured.

•In the dramatic department, 1918. this school took first in the district declamatory contest, humorous section. The local con-

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test at that time had eighteen entries, twenty-three tryouts were entered in 1919. The interest displayed in this department can best be appreciated when it is known that in many high schools with an enrollment of two hundred there can be secured but eight or ten entries for the local contests.

The stress of the war caused Iargel] the suspension of school athletics, and the influenza epidemic made such work difficult. Each spring the high school publishes an excellent senior annual. The spring dramatics of the school are always of a strong character. A school orchestra and glee club are maintained.

The nineteen hundred and eighteen graduating class contained nine members. Nineteen hundred and nineteen will graduate eight, one girl having answered the call of the teaching profession early last fall. Nineteen hundred and eighteen's enrollment was in the neighborhood of 225; 1919 close to 300. nearly seventy of which were in high school.