BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1902 The advanced class in Geometry is studying the sphere. A number of teachers will attend the Association at Indianapolis. Examinations will largely take the place of daily recitation work during their closing weeks of the term. Banks, the former Salem football player, won the shot put at the indoor meat at Bloomington. The record was 36 feet and 10 inches. In connection with the meet a basketball championship games was played by Juniors and Sophomore of IU, the victory going to the Juniors. Miss Rose Whiting, Senior, and Miss Glenn Sears will visit the latter's sister at Marion next week. Mss Whiting will also spend several days with relatives in Indianapolis. The Seniors held a meeting today in regard to their class play. An order will be sent to a large publishing house for specimens of plays, which the class will read and then make a decision from the best. At Bedford whenever is rains, the high school students reciting in the laboratory are compelled to wear rubber boots on account of several inches of water accumulating on the floor. Classes were unable to recite in the labratory Friday on account of the condition of the floor from the rain. This causes a great deal of confusion as those classes are compelled to have their recitations in the assembly room. The enrollment of High School will be greatly increased by the Freshmen, who enter from the City Hall, at at the beginning of next term. There have been great many withdrawals during the past two months, a thing which occurs almost every year toward the last of a first term. The first musical and literary exercises will be given next Friday afternoon Miss Knox has made out a program, which promises to be quite interesting. Visitors are invited to attend these exercises or to pay the school a visit at any other time. The vacation will enable the Seniors to complete their orations, which are to be handed in at the close of the term for inspection. If they are good and can be alerted enough to make them suitable for graduation themes, the student may keep them, otherwise different subjects will have to be used for the final orations.