17. Total cash value of your summer work (items 15 and 16). $.......
18. Have you a savings bank account? ... Amount of your deposit. $....... Principals ascertain amount of deposit for lower grades. $.......
The financial results of this vacation work are summarized as follows:--
_Total_ _Deposit_ _Cash_ _Home Work_ _Earnings_ _in Bank_
High School $6,393.01 $1744.45 $8137.44 $2793.36 Total for city 16,422.00 3666.15 9559.25 3144.92
Highest individual earnings -- High School $260.00 " " " -- Grades 200.00 Average " " -- High School 76.00 Highest " deposit -- " " 300.00 " " " -- Grades 500.00
Pupils may graduate with honor from the St. Cloud High School by attaining certain standings and by offering two credits for home or continuation work. One of the sixteen credits required for regular graduation may be a credit for home or continuation work.
The list of credits is divided into two parts, outside work and home work. Among the many outside activities mentioned in the St. Cloud list, we find:--
Literary society work, or rhetoricals, debate, public speaking, or expressive reading, one-fourth unit per year.
Granite or paving-block cutting, or work in any of the local trades, shops, factories, or industries, one-fourth unit for each summer vacation.
Steady work on a farm, followed by a satisfactory essay on some agricultural subject, one-fourth unit for three months.
Raising one-fourth of an acre of onions, tomatoes, strawberries, or celery, one acre of potatoes, two acres of pop corn, five acres of corn or alfalfa, one-fourth unit.
Running a split road drag or doing other forms of road-building for three months, one-fourth unit.
Judging, with a degree of accuracy, the different types of horses, cattle, and hogs, one-fourth unit.
"See Minnesota First" trip under approved instructor, with essay, one-fourth unit.
Swimming 300 feet at one continuous performance.
Cooking meat and eggs three ways and making three kinds of cake. Exhibit.
Doing the laundry work weekly for three months.
Recognizing and describing twenty different native birds, trees, and flowers.
The Ames, Iowa, High School course outlines out-of-school work in three departments: agriculture, manual training, and home economics. I quote from the home economics prospectus:--