It was found necessary today to open another class in English grammar. This class consists en­tirely of girls and meets the sixth i period under Miss Chesney. CLASSICALIA DIRECTOR. Miss Evelyn Dobbs, who directed the grand classicalia so success­fully last year, has been appointed director general again this year. Committees will be chosen immed­iately and work on the big function will begin at once. It will be held about the middle of March. PHONE CALLS. The high school office under­takes to deliver telephone messages in cases of sickness or urgency, hut cannot call students to tele­phone. If the patrons and friends would but appreciate the fact that j 1 here are more than a thousand; students at high school, and that; it is absolutely impossible to in-; terrupt classes by calling students out, the courtesy would be much appreciated. ; Twenty-five students failed to! , qualify in R. O. T. C. work during! January. Most of these are repeat- j ere. j (Something doing Thursday afternoon.) WANTED. Three or four students, boys or girls, who can play banjo, also i . two students who can clog dance, ! by Mr. Reed Gammell to take , part in the opera to be given soon, j The Stellae club will make all j the students to see stars on Thurs-j day. ! "Will you buy a star?" "I'll say." "Then you'll see the stars some day- For if you do The Stellae'll buy A telescope To sweep the sky?" NOT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Monday's Tribune, Ogden depart-: ment, had a story upder the cap- , tion, "High School Students Jailed For Drinking." Naturly every one in the state j or the west, for that matter, read- j ing that article would note the re- j flection on the Ogden High school, i The article mentions that one of the two jailed was a resident of Salt Lake. Investigation at, the. police station reveals the fact that the other one is not a student of i the Ogden High school. We re­sent the aspersion cast upon the, school, and suggest to the Ogden reporter that we very much prefer not to be advertised as guilty of offenses of which we are inno- ( cent. THREE PORTRAITS A recent book gives account of; how people get their conception of school teachers. The author says there are three types as here giv- j en: (a) The cartoonist's presen- tation; the old maid type, half- starved physically and entirely j starved emotionally, attired plain­ly in the Victorian mode, book in hand, spectacles astride her nose, and crowned with spare, sickly- looking hair, drawn severely back to be knotted in a wizened top- piece appearing like a blighted j apple. (b) The fiction writer's; presentation: a harsh, cruel mm-j ister of injustice, as in the Dickens type or the prototype of that, thoroughly ludicrous creation of! Irving's Ichabod Crane. (c) The' political orator pictures the third type. His purposes require that I the pedagogue be an object of pity. Those they are, groveling ( in the dust, victims of the penurlousness of an ungrateful state, wearing out their drab lives that j civilization may not perish, sub­sisting on dry 1 crusts, fit objects of the pity which is contemptu­ously showered upon them by the practical people of the world. The question arises: "What are the teachers going to do about it?" The answer, "Nothing." Those are not real likenesses, but they are the portraits that tradition and the world's sense of humor have set forth and they will maintain, ; the same as other types-which are as unreasonable and unfair, I. e. the typical farmer, the typi­cal westerner, wild and woolly; the typical Englishman, the typical lew, etc., etc. THE PITY OF IT Before we leave the subject of the portraits, however, we can i hardly refrain from adding the ! pertinent comment of the author, himself a school teacher: "Now, these pictures are not likenesses, but we must give at- tention to them because theyare 1 obtruded upon us and they do have an effect upon us. Because we are so constantly portrayed as old maids, a few of us do tend to become old maids of both sexes. .Because crude so-called men of the world do assume toward us an at­titude of condescension and pity, a few of us tend to become self- pitying. It is partly because of these misrepresentations that the wrong kind of people sometimes select teaching as a vocation and the right kind of people turn deaf ears to the call to teach." PURPOSE OF HIGH SCHOOL. Introduction. In the reassignment of work for the second semester, one fact has stood out very prominently. It is this: A great many students, even in the junior and senior years do not have any definite ideas concerning the Veal purpose of the high school. They know little about the course of study, and are very uncertain as to just what subjects they should study. This suggests that this topic should receive more attention in the early high school years. Here are a few facts that stu­dents should grasp firmly: Ev­erywhere, the high schools of our land give several courses of in­struction in five definite depart­ments, and many scools offer work in six or seven departments. It is not a bad idea then for the stu- 1 dent to start out with the thought that during his high school course he shall endeavor to study two or three subjects in each department. The reason for this is that the high school is a "testing out" in­stitution; a place where the stu­dent is to find out if possible the bent of his particular interests and aptitudes. To find out what he likes and what he doesn't like; to find out in what branches he may hope to attain some profic­iency; to find out if he can, where he may likely find his place in the world's work--what he might like to do for a living. Nor need he be discouraged if he cannot decide this. He may, on the one hand, discover tkat he can do equally good work in all departments, and that he has no overmastering in­terest in any. It is conceivable also that he may discover that he isn't particularly interested in any, though this is not likely, for when one applies himself to any subject he is sure to develop some interest in it. Psychology tells us that we must have a degree of interest -otherwise we cannot attend to it. For today, then, let us leave the subject here. How many students know what these fine, six or seven departments of study are. Think it oyer, and wfi shall name them over i tomorrow and begin a cursory ex­amination of .them. 2-4-25 Ogden High School Notes The game with the A. C. fresh­men on Friday night at 8 o'clock will be one of the interesting ones of the season. There will be an admission charge of 50 cents. Stu­dent body tickets good. When we played at Logan and were defeated, the first team had not been selected at the college. Two of the men now playing on the college team were pitted against us. ORATORICAL CONTEST The students of Ogden high school are invited by the Sons of the American Revolution to en­visage in an oratorical contest-an intra-school affair. We quote the closing paragraph from letter re- i ceived Tuesday: "Time and place! is left to the school. The society, will supply judges. Our only re-! quirement is that the orations be! strictly along patriotic lines, and! that ther'e be a sufficient number'; of contestants to make, it a real1 contest. Please advise me of your J position in the matter, and oblige. Yours ver ytruly, STUART P. DOBBS. "j COUNCIL REPORT The motion was made and carried i that a committee be appointed to confer with the board of education on the establishing of a manda- tory student body fee, to become ! effective next fall. The following ! were appointed on this committee: President Tallmadge Boyd, chair­man; Jake Reynolds, Dan Kennedy, Forbes Campbell and Howard Pingree. ! The question of appointing j committees for the doming Classi­calia was then taken up. The mo­tion was made and carried that a general committee be appointed. Mr. Reynolds was appointed chair­man, and Harper Culley, assistant chairman. The other committee members will be announced later. MARGARET BELL, Sec'y. j MILITARY DEPARTMENT The folowing promotions are ; hereby announced in the reserve officers' training corps, Ogden Senior High school, effective February 3: j To be major commanding First I battalion, Captain Landy Norris. To be captain commanding com­pany B, First Lieutenant Herbert Verheek. To be second lieutenant and as­signed to present company, First ' Sergeant Harold Olsen. i CARL J. DOCKL.BR, Captain, Cavalry, D. O. L., P. M. S. & T. CLASSICALIA COMMITTEE I The following have been appoint- ed as general committee from the faculty to cooperate with student body committee to put over the 3 Classicalia: Evelyn Dobbs, chairman; Gertrude Coolidge, Etta Nelson, Margaret Garrison, Francis Dillon, Elmer Noall, A. M. Merrill, ! Le Conte Stewart, Ernest Wangsgard, Keith Wahlquist, Claude Coray, E. G. Smith. WILL WORLD END? ') The Stellae will defy any prophet ''j or phophetess living-we hold it is j all utter nonsense to believa that ' th'e world will end this week. ; It surely is a good thing for high 5 school that there is a Stellae club. ' Just think of the panic that might ensue if there were no one to calm J the frenzied followers of Priestess Rowan. But Mr. Stilwell told us j it is all bunk. We know when the I ! world will end-in about four tril-j lion years. So fear not, and fol- j low in the footsteps of the intellect 5 tual Stellae. 1 Come up to ye ancient Gym, 1 A Star will let you in. r There with the Stellae you may dance And buy a cake or pie, perchance REFORM THE OLD, INFORM THE YOUNG A high school girl of Hazeltown, Pa., writes a letter to Collier's that is worthy of repetition in every newspaper of the country. Fhs writes: "Ever since you started to prepare a moral code for the j American high school boy anel girl, I have wanted to tell you that you are starting at the wrong end. Can't you see that it is a waste of time : to prepare a moral code for the : young? They don't need it. The people who need reform are our; fathers and mothers, our politicians. our neighbors, our teachers, i our bachelor-maids, our men of the 1 1 world and our college people. Why blame the young for the sins of! the elders? If these people had a code of morals that they would live up to, the young people of high school age would accept it as! graciously as they do the books and rules of etiquette that they give them. . . . Sometimes I think that popular literature has reached its zenith and is on the decline. What does a woman of fifty know1 of the emotions and thoughts of aj girl of eighteen? When I read the : things they write of "modern youth" it makes me cringe- with j rage at the injustice of it. I say, -reform the old; inform the young.'' THE PURPOSE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL II.-The Department of Instruction The departments of instruction j in all high schools are (1) English, (2) History and social science, (3) Mathematics, (4) Natural science, (5) Language. - Some schools, including our own, have courses of instruction in (6) I vocational work, and (7) fine arts. It may not be amiss to say that the subjects' of instruction in th3 five first mentioned departments may be designated major - subjects and thosre in the last two minor, though many people might object to this classification as they regard the subjects in vocational courses and fine arts courses as being of paramount importance and there­fore major courses. We shall not: I quibble about this, leaving it to j the individual to decide for him- j self. Such a distinction has come about historically as high schools originally were preparatory rchools for college-and still are to a large extent-and instruction was given in the five departments first, and even new many schools do not at­tempt to do much work in the last mentioned departments. Nor do credits in these two depart­ments receive yet in most colleges the same rating and consideration as do entrance credits from the other departments. On the other hand, many educa­tors say "high schools do not exist to prepare students, for college, j but for life." A few colleges, too, j I have grown up and are increasing ; in numbers-which have "practical aims" in education and give full j credit for work done in "practical i courses" in high schools. Our own theory is that most all students can strike a happy medi­um by availing themselves of sev­eral courses in all seven depart­ments, and that it is a mistake not to take some vocational work and some work in the fine arts. With­out expatiating further let us note what courses of instruction are given in the seven departments 'at. the Ogden High school. English-Four full years of work in the mother tongue, plus an extra year. Business English -which may be substituted for one of the four years-preferably the fourth. History and Social Science.- Ancient History, Modern History, General History (covering more generally and rapidly the two for­mer). American History and Civ­ics, Sociolozy, Economics, Law. Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Advanced Algebra, Solid Geometry, Trigonometry. Natural Science, General Science, Biology, Botany, Zoology, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Physiology, Eugenics. Language - Latin. French, Spanish. Vocational (a) for boys- Carpentry, Auto Mechanics, Elec­trical Construction; (b) For giris -Cooking, Sewing, Millinery; (,c) For both-Arithmetic, Salesman­ship, Geography, Typewriting, Ste­nography, Office Machines, Bookkeeping, Mechanical Drawing. ; Fine Arts-Free-hand drawing music 2-5-25 Ogden High School Notes A week from today is a holiday. How thankful we are for good ; eld Abraham Lincoln. FROM BOSTON Whatever one sees in the news­paper or in a book, or whatever comes from Boston is supposed to be pretty good. On Wednesday we received a little pamphlet that is used in the high schools of Boston for the guidance and in­struction of students. We believe the instructions given are about as applicable in Ogden as Boston, so quote today one excerpt from i_the booklet.