INDIAN MUSIC On Wednesday night, Feb. 10, Instructor Heed Gammell will per-sent his music students and choruses in a night of Indian music. This promises to be a real treat and we recommend that all friends of the high school reserve this night. The musicale will be given at the high school and will be free. ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY Inquiries have begun to come in regarding February holidays. To ease people's (pupils') minds we announce that the board of education last December decided that school should be held on Lincoln's birthday, Friday, Feb. 12, but that there should be no school on Monday, Feb. 22, WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. GOOD TEACHING An analysis of the results of the first semester work at the high school shows that some very excellent teaching was done. Thirty-four teachers report in all classes, 39 53 enrolled, 3228 of these passed; 698 A's were given, 1556 B's, '9C's, 461 failures and incompletes. In percentages of thos3 enrolled, 17.6 per cent received A's, 39.1 per cent received B's, 24.3 per cent received C's. This is considerably above what is known as the normal, or standard, curve. BIGGER UNIVERSITY State universities are supported by public taxation. Yet no great institution can be built with money alone. It must have the faith, good-will and support of the public. It is because of this latter fact largely that the University of Utah is making a vigorous campaign at this time to enlist the sympathy and support of the citizenry of the state. As a means of doing this they are asking every man and woman in the state to show their loyalty to the state and the state institution by a small contribution to help build a union building—something the university has needed these many, many years. The promoters of the campaign tell us that we can only support and love a cause or an institution by doing something for it. We believe this is true and for that reason we recommend that everyone get behind this movement, and make the university what it ought to be—one of the greatest institutions in the intermountain country. PEARL EMBLEM Miss Dorothy Lund was presented last week the Pearl medal emblem by the Underwood Typewriter company for writing 71 words a minute for 15 minutes in the December test. EMBLEM ON DISPLAY The Lincoln bronze medal presented annually by the Springfield, Illinois, Watch company, for the best essay by a high school student is now on display in the high school trophy case. There promises to be a very keen contest in the winning of this medal. MADE SPONSOR AGAIN Miss Ramona Merrill, 22, was elected senior sponsor at the University of Utah on Friday last. This election also makes her a member of the Trotters' club in connection with the cavalry unit of the R. O. T. C. at the university. Miss Merrill was elected to these same positions last year, and consequently her re-election came as a happy surprise. Miss Ramona was sponsor of the R. O. T. -C. in the Ogden High school in 1921-22, and has been a member of the University Booster club during the past two years. EXAMINATIONS The best examinations—if any examinations can be called good— are those which students voluntarily give themselves each day at school. Those who make good day by day or who do a little better and a little better each day need have no fear of examinations. At the high school those who give themselves this daily examination, who are present every day and get no grades below A-B, are rewarded by being excused from term tests, or examinations. TAKE IT FROM ME Think, students and friends on these things: They are taken from a little book of the above title published by Coleman Cox and distributed by Charles H. Barton, president of the National Bank of Commerce: The fellow who is always telling of the faults of others reminds me of the man with, a pock-marked face who laughs at another's freckels. A horse must be broke before he will work. Just so with men. No man ever missed a train or lost an order by being a little ahead of time. Let a shave and a shine be your first morning investments. Remember, every man is entitled to his own religious and political belief and it's not up to you to change either. Before you go to sleep tonight ask yourself if your school—the world in general—is any better off for your having lived another day. 2-2-26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES "Do you suppose that your grandchildren are going to be victims of their environment as far as their inner characters and mental capacities are concerned? Dispel the absurd notion. War may disrupt the nation. Civilization may go to pieces. But if you marry the right mate and endow your children with your own royal nature and your marked abilities, you maybe sure they will rise amid its ashes and. build a great and heroic life.''—Wiggam. BRING MODESTY BACK. We hear much raving these days about the conduct of young people. Times have changed greatly but the real facts of the case bear solemn testimony that people's manners and morals on the whole are on the improve. The race is advancing, not retrograding. The youth of today are a little more sophisticated than the youth of the past age, not from choice, but from necessity. The world in which we live is very different from the world of a generation ago. And while we cannot afford to be blind worshippers of the past, or be harking always of the good old days, we must, on the other hand, hold fast to any of the good old customs or ideals that were had by our forefathers and which fit our own times. We must, admit that we are seemingly losing some of the good things our parents cherished and if we really are, why not make it a matter of education to bring them back. Take modesty, for instance. Aren't we actually losing some of the modesty that made life just, a little more refined and appreciable in days gone by? COLLEGE PROFESSOR. How about this, for instance? A college professor remarked in irony the other day that if the girls must disturb him during his lecture by powdering their noses and using their lip sticks he saw no reason why the boys shouldn't also make their toilet in class. Accordingly during his lecture the next day a couple or young men got out their shaving tools and proceeded to tidy themselves up a bit The incongruity of the situation strikes us at once, but why? Isn't it as consistent for one sex as the other? Good manners, it seems to us, has intimated these many years some things that had best be done in private; picking one's teeth, for instance, or cleaning finger nails, or removing mucous from throat, or nostrils, or pulling up one's hose, or combing the hair, brushing the teeth, adjusting trousers, petticoats or what not. In a wore, wouldn't it be good education thai would start in with the proposition that making one's toilet—I do not know whether we have a Better expression for the process—is a more or less private affair that should be done with some privacy? We think, it least, it worth considering. IDLE CURIOSITY. Education is largely a matter of learning to appreciate and enjoy good things. Curiosity is the greatest stimulus to growth and education. Like everything else, however, curiosity has its good side and its bad. There is an idle, morbid curiosity that tends toward mental dissipation and low standards of life. Everyone in Weber county, for instance, we are sure, knows all the facts he needs to know about a certain crime committed some time ago. Yet, sure enough, when the trial comes the courtroom is filled with morbidly curious—who wish to hear the affair rehearsed and rehashed. We have wondered if the city police should not be instructed to exclude all under 21 years of age. The reason we wonder, is that we are in the habit of thinking that the policemen have nothing else to do but take care of the morals of ail the rest of us. No, it isn't the policeman's duty to curb the development of morbid curiosity—but assuredly it is the parents' duty as also the teachers'. SCHOOL ON EDGE. What with the band contest in Salt Lake on Wednesday afternoon and the great Ogden-Box Elder game in the Weber gymnasium on Friday night of this week, we are more or less on our nerves—in other words, in a somewhat excited state of mind. Whether we win either, neither or Doth of these great contests, we are surely having plenty of thrills now, and strangely enough, we are rather enjoying it. TEACHER ILL. Miss Merle Chipman of the domestic science department is ill with flu at her home in American Fork. There is little prospect of her being at school this week. FOUNTAINS. Phew! That class is over! The halls of the school fill with madly rushing crowds, blocked at the intersections by more throngs of wild creatures. We force our way through this great congregation and find, at the center of Typewriting avenue and Shorthand street, the center of attraction, a little white fountain. The little creature, with its "thirst quencher" is always sought by that great throng. Thanks to the janitor, its surface is usually white ana polished and helps us to overlook, slightly, that meager amount or—water, of course. We hope, for the sake of our great-great-grandchildren that a greater amount will be given to that "new high school." We can truly say that we like our little fountain anyway. Everybody has since the time of Adam, I suppose. Julius Caesar had huge "white" marble fountains, while we can only say, optimistically, that our "little white oasis" could be worse. Poets idealize the fountain. They can make us see that crystal liquid dance in the sunlight, and we can hear it ripple on its way as carefree as a bird. It is suggestive to them of a better life. It is suggestive to us of a place where the boys of the school can brush up on their chivalry. A short time ago, a young R. O. T. C. officer me to quench my thirsty desire first. The femininity of the school does not receive this very often, so I hope Mr. "R. O. T. C." was able procure a "good drink." I'm thankful for the fountain— for its refreshing qualities—for its inspiration to the youth of the school—for its life-saving possibilities—especially, when one must enter the "office"—and for its ability to "wash down" health preserving iodine tablets—and because it is just another of the "unthanked" and "unthought of" benevolences of our high school life. EDITH HELM. FEBRUARY 3, 1926 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES The ancient Greeks pictured ambition as a beautiful goddess rolling golden apples down the pathway of pursuing youth. Like these fleeting prizes the Eden of eugenics can never be attained. But science and progress has at last stamped the picture of that Eden upon the imagination of mankind; the Eden of a perfect humanity dwelling in an environment of paradise. And while it is unattainable it is not a mirage. It is merely the great dream and possibility of humanity. It is the conscious goal of the world's desire, and while it cannot be attained any more than heaven can be here attained on earth, yet the passion for it, the going toward it, the belief in it, the training and education of one for it, constitute that "new religion" of a better humanity which will sweep the world. The goddess of humanity's ambitions can never be embraced; but as Thackeray said of a woman that a man loves on that last noble page of Henry Esmond, "To think of her is to praise God."—Wiggan. SCHOOL AND CONDUCT. Children in the grades are marked in conduct, the same as in school subjects. In Minneapolis, the school authorities have decreed that students shall not be graded in subjects at all, but in the more important thing, conduct—including, industry, perseverance, honesty, punctuality, etc. We think the plan is not feasible, but it at least has a suggestion in it that all teachers and students can appreciate. The West High school in Salt Lake, we understand, is acting upon this suggestion and has borrowed an idea from the administration of R. O. T. C. affairs, and gave at the beginning of the present semester each student 100 points in conduct. Every deviation from well-established ruies of conduct takes away a certain number of points. In case of losing a certain number of points, the student is considered unworthy of membership in the school and is withdrawn. In all cases, the number of points preserved is reported each term and semester the same as grades in academic subjects. We shall await with interest the results of this innovation. SCHOOL COMPETITION. Only school people realize how keen the competition is between school and outside activities. Friday and Monday high school had to compete with the Chadwick trial. A week or two ago it was the stock show. Every day it is with motion pictures, athletics, parties—anything that happens along to attract the attention of youth. The high school is supposed to be made so fascinating, so interesting, so worth-while that students will not be lured away by any attraction whatsoever. As a matter of fact it doesn't succeed 100 per cent in this. Fortunately it does pass with a grade, somewhere between 85 and 95 per cent, i. e., 85 pupils or more out of every hundred are sufficiently interested in school to regard it as of paramount importance and to attend to business despite outside allurements. Too bad schools cannot be made so good that even the submerged tenth might be interested. SHADY NEWS, A woman school teacher in Oregon married a 17-year-old pupil and was properly discharged by the board of education. She then sued the board of education and was given $1,000 damages by the jury. She should have been given four years in jail in order to give her young husband a chance to come to his senses.