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Show 22425 Ogden High School Notes Supt. W. K. Hopkins is now at Cincinnati attending the superintendents' national convention. A card from him Monday announced that he and Superintendent Child have recently inspected schools of Denver, Kansas City, Little Rock, New Orleans and Birmingham; i.hat he is enjoying his trip and wl'lj come home "chock" full of new. ideas. BASKETBALL GAMES The "Big Three" and the fast! O. U. R. & D. team have completed arrangements for a Round Robin tournament to be held in the Weber gym on Thursday and Friday nights, March 5 and 6, and ending up in a final on Saturday night, March 7, at Deseret gym, Salt Lake. This round robin will be followed, we presume, by the big sectional tournament conducted by the University of Colorado at Boulder the week following. If all goes j well, we hope to enter the national ! tournament to be held at Chicago, the last week in March. "C NOTEWORTHY INCIDENT Mrs. David Mattson and Mrs. W. G. Fisher personally conducted groups of girls to the game at Salt Lake on Saturday evening. The! parties went down early in the afternoon. took dinner at the Utah j hotel and attended the game. AVe j think this a very fine thing to do; and recommend such practices to ; other parents. We appreciate also the fact that quite a number of fathers went j down with their sons to enjoy the game. We are mighty glad to see the older people enjoy our sport;. At the Ogden-West game two weeks ago there were literally scores of parents present. THE HOP It only remains to be paid that the "Cadet Hop" on Friday evening last fully met the most sanguine expectations of all concerned, and stands out as a grand and glorious social event of the year. Was everybody happy, well should say! Especially dads and mothers. Captain Doekler and his com- mittees are entitled to unstinted praise for that most enjoyable function. LOYAL BOOSTER ; Ogden High school regrets that the Rev. W. E. Bennett is le'av- ; ing Ogden. f T-Ie has been one of ' our most ardent and loyal boosters. His cheery face has always been in evidence at our games. , Although very busy in his prep- . arations for leaving Ogden, he took the time Saturday evening to run down to Salt Lake to see the big game. Good luck and good wishes. Mr. Bennett, in your new filed of i labor. ' IN OLD LOUISIANA." Tonight in Weber college aud- j itorium the Ogden High school j presents its annual opera-this j time "In Old Louisaiana." Every j student who can and all parents! who can should be there for two j reasons--(I) to enjoy a fine, clean, wholesome entertainment; (2) to develop within themselves and to witness to others a loyalty to their school. Come on Ogden! Let'.s j go! HOME AGAIN Mr. Beeson wears an extra broad smile today. Reason-Mrs. Beeson returned home from Los Angeles Monday night after an absence of three months. Mrs. Beeson reports having had a very , pleasant winter, but is glad to bo I back again. Sh! Sh! Mrs. Beeson says she really likes Ogden S climate better than Los Angeles, jg THE IRON PUDDLER. I have been a puddler of iron and I would be a puddler of men. § Out of the best part of the iron I helped build a stronger world. Out of the best Part of man's metal let us build a better society. I have no new cure for the ills' of humanity. Life is a struggle, and rest is in the grave. All na- I ture is in commotion; there is wind and rain; and out of it comes seed and harvest. The waters of the sea are poured in thunder I wrack upon the hills and run in 1 rivers back into the sea. The winds make weather and weather profits man. When will man's turmoil cease-when will lie find calm? I do not know. 1 only know that toil and struggle are sweet, and that life well-lived is victory. And that calm is death. Man must face an iron world, but he has iron to subdue it. The lessons of my life were learned at the forge and I am grateful for my schooling. JAMES J. DAVIS, v We commend to all students and natrons James J. Davis' book, "The Iron Puddler." It is another of those fine examples of one rising from humble ranks to highest honors through sheer strength of j Character. Mr. Davis is U. S. secretary of labor. DEATH Death! Fear had been idle so long that he thought he had no fear. Yes, he thought he was brave, but then-who is not brave when there is nothing to betoken danger? Even a coward of the worst sort can meet the world calm and serene until danger presents itself. Death! Death at his very heels, and he did not want to die. True, he had dugamed only a few short days before that he was tired of life and its everlasting tragedy. But even the tragedy of life is as nothing when face to face with the tragedy of death. The mob was coming. Perhaps the night would be kind this once. Perhaps it was not too late. He leaped out, into the d&rkness, stumbled and fell. The noise of his falling body gave the signal to his pursuers. Quakingly he rose and ran. He did not hear that shot througn the misty darkness. Instead-blank- ness, blankness, blankness. And then-the light, the blessed, blessed, light. With the light came a feeling of security, came the j knowledge of life. He put one h md ! to his throbbing forehead and touched blood. For a moment, he i nearly lapsed back into the ttr- rible darkness from which he had j just awakened. Fear again! But if was a new kind of fear, for with it camp a superhuman strength. He pulled himself up I on his feet and ran. Far down j across the field he saw a house - a house that meant safety if he reached it. Again he felt himself too weak to go on, fear of death surged ov6r .him, then strength was renewed. It seemed that he would never reach the end of the journey, short as it was. Now he was close enough to see a man in front of ; the house. The loss of blood ! made him too weak to go on. He I uttered a cry for help, then fell?-- ! just within the boundary of as- I sistance. DOROTHY CRAGUN. 2-25-25 Ogden High School Notes Will O. H. S. team go to Boulder the second week in March? Yea, Bo! And will the lads also journey to Chicago for the national tournament? Well, I should say so! ! And was "In Old Louisiana" well presented Tuesday night? We'll say it was. Ogden High is always proud of the things she does, musically, athletically, forensically, dramatically, terpsichoreanically-or any other old way. Ogden schools have a slogan- it is thi§: "Ogden schools are good schools." We have a feeling that this is particularly true of Ogden high schools. DEBATES SCHEDULED. i Ogden will participate with Davis High and Box Eider High in a triangular debate again this i year as last. The three schools. I will also compete, of course, for the Lewis prize and trophy, MARKSMAN VISITS. I Joe Kershisnik, '24, an R. O. I T. C. crack-shot, for three years'i member of the rifle team, visited I .school Tuesday. Joe has a splenic did job with a bank in Rock I Springs, Wyoming, and is here only for a short visit. He is still much interested in the Hearst trophy contest and encourages the boys to win it back for Ogden. ANOTHER PROTEST. ! We protest again the custom of I observing all possible holidays - in the schools. However, it may be in the grades, the work of the , high school is tremendously retarded by every holiday, it takes i two or three days each time to get in full swing again, with normal attendance, normal lesson preparation, normal school atmosphere. If, the state legislature does nothing else this session it 1 j should provide for a sane and ( ! rational observance of national J holidays in the public schools. TRADITION FAVOR. Why can we not recognize at once that tradition has favored the public schools with ai least ' one holiday every week-that of Saturday? This, it see my to us, , should be enough. In this respect j we, are unlike every other industry or institution in society; while a day free from toil and labor may come as a boon to trie man , in the field or shop or factory, it ' doesn't have the same appeal to the pupil or teacher in school. THE OPERA. Those who attended the school opera in the Weber college auditorium Tuesday night were much pleased with the production. The students taking part acquitted themselves very creditably. The variety introduced through all sorts of dancing and music and ! uted very much to the success of I the entertainment. The orchestra accompaniment was good and altogether the performance reflects credk upon Mr. Gammcll and the music department. ! In "In Old Louisiana" one does j not meet the wonderful musical composition and harmonies that j are found in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas-but there is the ro- I mance and atmosphere of the . . south, the plantation melodies and the chivalrous spirit that makes , it lend itself to amateur production. We are very proud c f our boys and girls. j CLASSICALLY QUEEN. The election of classicalia queen, according to a plan adopted by the general committee Tuesday evening will be after this fashion: ' Candidates for queen must be nominated by petition, each petition having at least 25 student signers. No student may sign more than one petition; a.l! petitions must be in by Friday of this week. The election of the queen will be conducted in connection with , , classicalia ticket salQ next week, j Each person who buys a ticket to j the classicalia is entitled to one j vote for queen, or perhaps one had best say each Classicalia ticket represents one vote. Only 2,000 tickets will be bolc! and the girl receiving the highest number of votes (not necessarily a majority) will be Classicalia queen. This means two things, (1) all tickets must be sold rext week; (2) enthusiasm for this girl or that for queen will be directed to the sale of Classicalia tickets. That girl will win who has the , best sales people promoting her candidacy. VISITING GAS PLANT. E. 8. Smith and his three chemistry classes are taking the class- periods today to visit the gas plant and learn how ih com- - mercial product is produced and ' handled. BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES. The costumes worn by the students in "In Old Louisiana" were furnished by the students themselves at their own expense and were the subject of many favorable comments. Such school loyal- ivisjry commendable. GOOD CAFETERIA SERVICE. I The high school is very fortunate in having very fine cafeteria service. The majority of the students live so fjtr from school that it is impossible to go home for lunch. Consequently they must either bring their lunch or buy one here. Experience proves that the noon luncheon 3hould be light, and doctors quite generally recommend that it be warm. To meet these requirements, Mrs. Kate Sprague, who operates the school cafeteria, prepares daily a great variety of tasty, wholesome dishes that are sold at a very nominal price. So reasonable, indeed, are the prices that we, doubt whether there be any economy in carrying lunches to school. The menu Tuesday, for instance, was as follows: Vegetable soup, 5c; meat pie, 10c; salmon, Spanish, 10c; cold roast pork, 10c; hamburger, 5c; hot dogs, 5c; chili, 5c; baked beans, 5c; buttered cabbage, 5c; mashed potatoes, 5c; pimento cheese, 5c; combination salad, 5c; I potato salad, 5c; fruit salad, 5c; native salad, 5c; salmon salad, 5c; whipped cream, 3c; sliced oranges, 5c; grape fruit., 5c; devils food cake, 5c; cocoanut pudding and ; whipped cream, 5c; prunes, 5c; jello, 5c; apple sauce, 5c; doughnuts, two for 7c; cocoa, 5c; as- ' sorted bars, 5c; Baffle bars, 5c; chocolate ice cream, oc. SQHOOL AT WEST POINT. At West Point every cadet must "deliver the goods" every day. Every cadet, either in "writs" or orally, recites every da in ail his courses, and is marked or graded on such performance. On the basis of these marks, averaged weekly, he moves up or down the various sections of his class from the "goats" ot the bottom to the rarified air of the first section. No fading in and out of the shadowy puriieus of huge lecture rooms. No dodging recitations because of too numerous reciters; no occasional precipitates of preparedness. In order that daily tests for every cadet may be insured, each class j is divided up for recitation into ! sections of 10 or 12 men. In their monastic rooms in the barracks every cadet has a steel j locker, the door of which always stands open for inspection. Pasted j on the inside of the door on a i level with the inspector's eyes each cadet maintains a graph or chart on which he traces from week to week the line of his average grade. Some system, some school, strictly business. All material for the fourth (and last) issue of the quarterly is due tomorrow. The magazine will be off the press soon. It is in the publication of the magazine that school touches and 'reflects real life. A distinct honor is his who has an article published in the school magazine. He lis representing the school , in a j very vital, effective way, for a I school may well be judged by the 'sort of magazine it publishes. We j take considerable pride in our j Ciassicum and we hope that all jour students will come to appreciate it more and more, and, if possible, make it better and better. ' GOOD TEACHING. i Teaching is helping to Inculcate r good habits, notably in school 1 work, good study habits. There is much vain repetition, waste of time and effort, because students have not been taught to form proper habits. For example, every student should form the habit very early in school life of spell- ling' correctly all the words he |
