APRIL 22 Handsome boys, Flashing eyes; Pretty girls, Wistful sighs. Graceful dancing, Changing color; Happy prancing, Soothing melodies. Mirror floors, Exquisite harmony; Arched doors, Entrancing music. Flowers fair, Araby's spices; Fleeing care, Cooling nectar. Moonlight thrills, Enticing nooks: Birdlike trills, Dainty candies. Memories'll linger, When you're home from This, our Prom. RUTH GOSS. STUDENT BODY ELECTION Petitions arc due today for stu- (> body officers for next year. Officers to ]be nominated are: President, vice president and sec¬retary. Nomination petitions -ust be signed by at least 40 students in each Case. UTAH LEADS Utah leads all states in the num¬ber of college students residing in the state as compared to the to¬tal population. In Utah there is one college student residing in the state (without regard for place of attendance) for every 9 9 persons in the stat . The District of Co¬lumbia follows with one student fOr every 103 persons; Oregon comes next with one student for c ry 121 in population. WHAT IS LEARNING? Here is a new definition of learning: It is ven by Professor Morrison of the University of Chi¬cago and is a thought provoking definition: "In general, an ac¬tual learning is always expressed either as a change in the attitude of the individual or as the acquisi- t'on of a special ability or as the attainment of some form of skill in manipulating instrumentalities or materials." MASTERY "When a student has fully ac¬quired a piece of learning, he has mastered it. Half-learning, or learning rather well, or being on the way to learning are none of them mastery. Mastery implies completeness; the thing is done; the student has arrived, so far as that particular learning is concerned. There is no question of how well the student has mastered it; he has either mastered or he has not mas¬tered. It is as absurd to speak of degrees in mastery as to speak of degrees in the attainment of the second floor of a building cr of de¬grees in being on the other side of a stream, or of degrees of com-1 pleteness of any sort whatever.' The traveler may indeed" be part' way across the stream or he may be almost across, but he is not across until he.,gets there. Once across he may continue his jour¬ney indefinitely, but he cannot continue his journey from mid¬stream. The pupil may have be-gun to learn, we can see that he is making progress, he has almost learned. But he has not mastered until he has completely learned. He may continue to other master¬ies and there will be all sorts of degrees in the number of masteries he attains. He may acquire skill in the application of his learning and there may be infinite- degrees in his skill as he improves from no skill to all expertnesS. But in the unit Of learning itself there are no degrees. He either has it or he has not." HENRY C. MORRISON. A PLEA FOR STUDENTS There is no more important work in the world than the school¬ing of youth. This should not be regarded lightly. The boy or girl who- attends school should attend regularly, punctually. Such a one should no more think of missing a day of school than they would of leaving a job that pays $5, $8, $10 per day. Indeed, it has been estimated that every day's school¬ing is worth actually in increased earning power at least $10 per day. We plead, therefore; with youth in school and parents at home that the importance of school work be properly evaluated and appreciat¬ed and that we do away with the foolish cut-throat policy of treat¬ing school work lightly and of be¬ing absent from school for light, and trivial causes. LEWIS CONTEST TONIGHT The annual Lewis contest will take place at Central junior to¬night at 8 o'clock. Six ten-minute orations will be given by students from Davis, Box Elder and Ogden. No admission charges. Everybody welcome. Judges will be John K. Edmunds and Anna Hendrickson of the pub¬lic speaking department. University of Utah, and Prof. A. N. Sorenson of the English department of Utah Agricultural college. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION The Oswego State Normal school, New York, prints on its cover these pertinent paragraphs: "Vocational education is here. It has come to stay. The pioneers are hewing out the path, and the leaders in the two lines, the cul¬tural and the useful, must see eye to eye and preach continually the gospel from the text: 'No true ed¬ucation except it be both of hand and brain. No education unless there be & mastery of at least one language and one handicraft." A RADICAL REFORM This means a radical reform, supplanting our present education¬al machine, which turns pupils out with a smattering of everything and no clear knowledge of anything, with a fifty-fifty system of hand¬work and brainwork throughout the course." CONSPICUOUS EXAMPLES "The greatest reformer that has appeared among the sons of men was a carpenter; the greatest mis¬sionary was a tent maker; St. Cuspin was a shoemaker; Franklin was a printer; Grant was a tanner; Paderewski a grape grower; Washington was a farmer; the prophet Amos was a shepherd and horticulturist; Anton Lang is a tin¬smith." THE OCEAN The waters surround m§ right and left.; there is nothing but wa¬ter before, ai*d only water behind. Above me are sailing clouds, on the blue vault, which we call, with childish license, heaven. The sails, white and full, like helping friends, are pushing me on; and night and day are distent with winds which come and go—no one knows from where or whither. Conscience wakes in the silent nights of ocean; life lies like a book, and spreads out as level lis the sea. Regrets and broken prom¬ises chase over the soul; all the un¬steady heights and the wastes of action lift up distinct and clear from the uneasy but limpid depth of memory. Hopes and fears knit together pleasantly upon the ocean. Each day seems to revive them; my morning salutation is like a wel¬come after absence upon the shore, l and each "good-night" has the depth and fullness of a land "fare¬well." But ocean has its storms, wrhen fear will make strange and holy companionship; swiftly and sud¬denly. My mind is a chaos of mud¬dled forebodings, and tiothing seems right; I am blue and in the deepest throes of tiring worries. Afterward come quiet seas, over which we boom along, leaving in our track at night a broad path of phosphorescent splendor; we sail into the land of a happy tomorrow. KATHRYN BLAKE. April 21 HAZE I sit at my desk. My pencil makes idle tracings across the pa¬per. I should be writing a theme, but I am in no mood to write; so my pencil scribbles aimlessly. My thoughts are a million miles away. I ride the white clouds, the stal¬lions of the sky. Their hoof-beats keep time with the throb of life in my veins. Below is the whirl of life; it beckons me; I reach out with eager hands wanting to grasp it. I am astir with the fantasies of unreality. Why should I care where my pencil wanders? DOROTHY WHEELWRIGHT THE FORUM The Forum held its regular Monday night' meeting this week. Some discussion was taken up about the new girls' debating club. It was decided that the Forum would give them all the help and suggestions which they want. Here's good luck to them. May they prosper as well as the Forum has. We then had an interesting de¬bate on the question, "Resolved: that the manufacture and sale of firearms to civilians be prohibited." The affirmative was held up by Ambrose Merrill and Karl Hop¬kins, Jr.; the negative by Clifford Fretwell and Lawrence Truesdale. The decision went to the affirma¬tive. Thre is now being talked up the biggest affair of the whole year for the Forum, that is its annual banquet which will be held in the Hotel Bigelow on May 6. This is the time when the Forum of other years meets and enjoys an evening with the Forum of tdday. We are expecting to make this the biggest and most successful event in our history. You will hear more about it later. LEE CAIN, Reporter. IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIAL The exercises attending the pres¬entation of flagpole and flag by the American legion and auxiliary and the Elks at Central Junior Wednesday morning were most im¬pressive and beautiful. The ad¬dress of Major J. A. Howell was a patriotic and- literary gem. The battalion was present as was also F e band, which played "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." FOOTBALL An editorial in Liberty maga¬zine bemoans the fact that some people, even college teachers and presidents, take occasion annually to decry the "sport. "They "used To say it was too dangerous, now their chief objection is that' it is "too popular. The editor regards this latter complaint as especially as- sinine. He says, "Coaches, players, undergraduates, alumni, declare football to be constructive, physi¬cally, mentally and morally; a red- blooded, masculine sport with a stimulating appeal to all—specta¬tors as well as players. It is doubt- f 1 whether the United States soft¬ened by prosperity, ever needed a rugged game as much as it does now." Th article continues: "At a time when football stimulates the great¬est loyalty to school, offers the best advertisement for education it ever had, and the greatest appeal to red-blooded yo.ung men; when it is the rallying point of the alum¬ni, the source of income for sup¬porting all other athletics and the chief contributory argument in en¬dowment drives—in other words, the most enthusiastically success¬ful institution in the modern col-lege, the professors propose limit¬ing it." TENDERED BANQUET The R. O. T. C. band was ten¬dered a banquet in the Hotel Bige¬low Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock by the Ogden Rotary club. After the banquet the boys played a few numbers for the club, it being reg¬ular father-and-son night. Emer¬son Thatcher and James Neal each delivered 10-minute orations. The numbers were well received by the club members. FINAL APPEARANCE A special arrangement was made late Wednesday for a final appear¬ance of B. Solis in musical concert in the high school. The concert was being held at 2:30 o'clock this4 afternoon. Glen Bros.-Roberts company furnished a fine Chickering piano for the occasion. G. WESLEY BROWNING G. Wesley Browning has three water colors in the . exhibition at high school. Although he does some work in oils, his preferred medium is water color. His favor¬ite themes in painting are lights and shades in running brooks, sun¬light through clouds and hillsides of flowers. "Cascades and Big Cottonwood," as the name suggests, is a study of a mountain stream tumbling over jagged rocks, with sturdy cotton- woods on either side. The subject is treated with admirable light¬ness and fineness of color; the col¬or is clear and harmonious, and the atmosphere is accurate and sympthetic. "Rainy Day" is an interesting study in the soft, dewy greens and moist grays suggested by a rainy day in the mountains. The third picture is a study or a Ill&ttofikMe for its quality of1 reflection and the soft blue and gray tones. SCHOOL DAY ROMANCES Sweet little tender romances, the kind that make reminiscence amus¬ing, the realists call them puppy loves and the cynics, foolishness, yet no student with the slightest inclination toward romanticism would forego that "one little per¬fect hour" which schoolday ro¬mances create. At the Ogden high school, the little "affaire de coeur" usually begins in the halls, the library or even the chamistry lab. Wre shall call this the budding process. Later the romance flowers, probably at the Hillcrest pharmacy or any other equivalent place of glamour, and it finally reaches the state of full bloom at any high school dance in the Berthana hall. Then comes the inevitable—the roman¬tic sentimentalism goes to seed, and is wafted away on the wings of realism. The world may laugh at these little affairs, but to the lover they are truly sincere, so-— Here's to the school day romances, They flower, then fade away, Yet they live in the hearts of many Forever and a day. —NAOMI WILBURR. SPRING "Ho-hum," said Johnny, and off he soars again to blissful oblivion of everything earthly around him. Beautiful, filmy creatures beckon him as they wind in and out of a gorgeous air castle. Dainty dreams come out, but one lovely, exquisite being especially "takes his eye" as she hovers near him. Johnny sud¬denly realizes that it is the sweet¬est girl in the whole universe laughing at him, waving to him, teasing him. He hears the drowsy, sing-song chants of his classmates jar upon his ethereal happiness with their earthly, unromantic recitation of "And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days, and heaven tries earth if it be in tune, and over it softly her warm ear lays," etc. From, some place comes the sound of some poor, love-lorn per¬son whom Dan Cupid has favored singing in a tune all of his own that no musician calls music, attempting to sing "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to love!" The dearest girl in the world throws him an adorable kiss and turns to go. Johnny, not being able to resist her. reaches out aching arms to clasp his victim but cold realism creeps in and he finds himself clutching feryerently the desk in front of him. His dream breaks as he realizes that he should have been in physics just 30 mihutes ago. He picks up his books and, dragging his feet,