2-19-25 Ogden High School Notes Two days more-then comes the greatest of all high school events -the annual Classicalia. "Bigger and better than ever," is the slogan. j Miss Evelyn Dobbs is again general manager of the Classicalia and this is a guarantee that every = detail will be carefully looked t after; there will be no extravagance nor waste anywhere and the affair will be grand and glorious. The subject of costuming has received much attention and we are advised that this will be more of a character ball than any of its predecessors. The drift of the past few years has been to make this great carnival festival a "character ball." NO CHICAGO FOR OGDEN. Mayor Kirkendall read a tele­gram at the banquet Wednesday night from the athletic authorities of the University of Chicago, ad­vising that they regretted that they could not invite the Ogden basketball .team to Chicago. We are sorry, too, for it makes us both losers. THE BOYS HONORED. Never has an Ogden high school team received higher honors nor more praise than was given our team at a banquet tendered by the chamber of commerce at the Weber club Wednesday night. Og­den and Salt Lake united in a beautiful tribute that can never be forgotten. From Salt Lake there came Mayor Clarence Neslen, Supt. G. N. Child, Assistant Superintendent George A. Eaton, Principal Fred D. Keeler, Coaches Homer Christensen, Lee Simmons, Roy Mclntyre, C. Oren Wilson and L. S. Warthman. Ogden fur­nished its mayor, president, secertary and directors of chamber of commerce, all members of the board of education, Supt. W. Karl Hopkins, President Aaron Tracy, representatives of the press and score of other prominent citizens. From these came words of com­mendation and praise that seemed t iinMss almost like fla,ttery and jet were but honest expressions of appreciation for efficient work. Says Assistant Superintendent George Eaton: "During my twen­ty-four years in Salt Lake it has not been my privilege to witness such a scene as this. We some­times do some pretty good things down there, we have good sup­port from our people, but it ha3 never been our pleasure to have tendered us such a reception as this; it speaks volumes for the tmity of spirit, of co-operation, of good will of the people of Ogden. I congratulate you people for this splendid manifestiation of civic pride and community co-opera­tion." FOR NEW SENIOR HIGH. Lon Romney, at the banquet Wednesday night declared that the time has come when Ogden must begin the movement for the erection of a new senior high school. He told us about the in­conveniences, the lack of facilities for doing good work when he came to Ogden as coach in 1912. He spoke of having asked the board of education that year for improvements Avhich have not yet -13 years, later-been provided. He said that he did not wish to indict anyone, but that the condi­tions are very unsatisfactory and that the time is now ripe to pro­vide building, rooms, equipment, for the high school boys and girls in Ogden, such as are provided in other communities-many of which are less favorably situated than Ogden. UNIQUE COSTUMES. The domestic art department has taken over the big job of preparing the costumes for ths queen and her 10 maids. This wag done to relieve parents of heavy expense, to give the department an opportunity to function in this sort of work, and to enable those in charge to give color and j beauty to the scene. The maid j costumes will be of various colors, i two each of pink, green, purple, yellow and blue, while the queen's j ostume will be of dazzling white. 1 E The costumes have been made j ( ntirely by a small group of girls vn the department, and almost en- 1 'tirely outside of regular school hours. These were made under j the direction of Miss Etta Nelson, j instructor. Miss Margaret Curtis, another : ' instructor in the domestic art department, has assumed the re- j sponsibiiity of making more than 100 favors for the Classicalia. The girls in physical education, j under the direction of Miss Stone, have helped also in making favors and decorations, and have pre- pared some very clever dances I for the great event. All depart- ments and teachers, in fact, are j co-operating to make the Classicalia a huge success. MAHOGANY FURNITURE. In the carpentry department boys frequently make furniture ; for people other than themselves; j sometimes fine pieces are made' just for the practice. The depart­ment has on hand now several pieces that may be purchased at a nominal price. These include, table lamps, floor lamps, book­case, lady's dressing table, radio stand, music cabinet, etc. EVERYBODY BUSY. The boys in the carpentry de­partment are tremendously busy j this week in making preparation for booths at Classicalia on Sat­urday night. The same is true of the art department. Every after­noon also groups may be seen in various parts of the building, busily engaged in making favors, decorations and other things for the Classicalia. A SIXTH SENSE. The home and the school have a-bifi worth.-yvh.ile job on their hands in developihg in youngsters the sixth sense-the sense of pro­priety-or that sense by which we recognize the eternal fitness of things. Some older people do not seem to have this sense at all- probably because no one taught them how to develop it when young. But the time- is coming when people will be expected, more and more, to have this fine sense of propriety adequately de­veloped. For fear some may not just understand what we are driving at here we shall give a concrete illustration. On Monday the high school wished to honor the basketball team. A parade was formed and the boys of the team were placed at the head of the procession in automobiles. All other students were to form in line and march in the parade. Those who have this sense of propriety were in line, co-operating, helping, boost­ing, working vith other, for a unified result-honoring the team. Those lacking in this sense were doing other things and marring the effect. May we not hope that in the development of our special senses w-e shall not neglect this fine sixth sense? THE FRENCH METHOD IN ART They tell us that no drawing teacher nor art teacher in Paris can hold a position in the schools unless he i3 creating, doing new work at the same time that he is teaching. He is expected to teach three days and to ,do orig- I inal work at least two days per week. The theory being that to teach successfully one must be himself a growing, developing student. We are not sure but that the French are right. We have a feeling that every teacher should likewise be a student, should be studying, growing, or else he be­comes as it were a stagnant pool, from which students may not hope to drink of the waters of in­spiration, knowledge and wisdom. THE HELPING HAND. We walk along the highway, We labor o'er the road, The burden of our choosing Forms a light or heavy load. Yet, as we toil on forward, We will find a helping hand i That for a day will aid us And back of us will stand. And we may take the offer Or leave it, as we choose; We may also find a just reward And win it, or may lose. Then after we have passed along And look back o'er the road We will praise the hand that helped us That we fell not with the load. -Ivan Jones.