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Show Mon. Mar 10 24 Ogden High School Notes The great outstanding extra school activity of the week will be the Classicalia, Saturday night. Every effort will be made to make this an artistic and financial success. We wish all our friends to know that the Classicalia makes the publication of the year book, The j Classicum, possible. We hope to i ' see you all there and that you ; will be generous in your support j of all the booths and side-shows. ! Supt W. Karl Hopkins will ad- ! dress all the boys in a special boys' assembly tomorrow morning fat 8:30 ' o'clock. Faculty meeting was postponed today to give the women members of the faculty and the girls! an opportunity to have a Classicalia work party. Friday last closed the first term , of the second semester. Report cards will be sent out Wednesday, j During the first year a student in typewriting is supposed to ac- quire a speed of 32 words per ; minute. Typewriter companies ; offer medals to students who attain this proficiency. The instructors report that a nuniber tff students have already earned the I medals. PAY HOTEL BILLS The tournament is over. Ogden made a very good showing there and everyone at school is satis- j fied. Of course, we should have 1 liked the state championship, but j as we did not get it, we may still j be proud of our team which j stayed in the contest until the last j night. That's not so bad for a first experience in the state con- j test. The U. A. A. paid the expense of eight players, manager and coach for four days at the Wilson hotel. The boys report that the' management of the Wilson hotel showed them every kindness and courtesy during their stay in Salt Lake and that they had a "spif- fin" good time. All who visited the tournament are very willing to concede first honors to the L. D. S. university quintet. They are a wonderful aggregation of players and will do the state credit at the national tournament in Chicago, April 1. j SCORE HIGH MARKS Helen Tollefson gave an interesting talk to a general history class on Friday on the subject of "Poulitical Failures in Germany." J A standardized test in French, prepared by Lawrence A. Wilkins, director of modern languages in . the New York City schools, was given to the French classes last week. Out of a possibility of 200 points, Rosemary Erhard made 197 12, an average of 99 per cent. Other students who received unusually high grades were Beth Cranney, Dorothy Scowcroft, Katherine Kay, Inez Taylor and Andrew Morby. A FRIGHTENED ORDERLY The other day on orderly entered an oral expression class just as a student recited the line, "Get out of here or I'll throw you out." I He got out. J Students in the University of Illinois recently gave their views j l-egarding their high school prep- aration. According to this report, i 26.7 felt in college that their j training in composition was de- i ficient, 11.8 per cent said their j English training was inadequate; j the same percentage found them- ! selves weak in' mathematics, while 16 per cent said they had not j been taught how to . concentrate, I or the fundamentals of study. Among the typical statements that college students make about their high school, Professor Hollister of Urbana, Illinois, quotes this as No. 1: "The trouble was that the people did not take enough interest in the high school to see it put on a good footing. The students take no interest in their work, and the people take little inter- eat in the work done." Other statements are: 6. "The students went to school to avoid working and the sentiment of the town was that anything the students did was smart and therefore the teachers got no backing from the townspeople." 16. "Altogether too much dissipation and freedom are allowed to the high school seudents." We believe that none of these things are typical in Ogden. |