termines the future welfare of our city, state and natior. If Ave can get before the people all the facts concerning .our school, we shall not fear the rasalts. The j ! people, as a whole, arc sound, j I reasonable, sane. They know that j : the public school is founded upon j human feeling, and that it has j its weak spots as woII as its j strong features, just the same as j our other institutions, oar homes, our churches, our democracy. The beautiful thing about ail of these j institutions is-they are in the j process of becoming, of growing, ; of improving. We appreciate the j fact that we can contribute best j service and do good vork when j there is- a complete understanding : and hearty co-operation. what a diploma stands for. A high school diploma stands for several years of good hard work; for a mind that bus been trained to observe, to compare, to think; it represents a smaii fund j of information in several fields of thought, but more especially it- represents effective habits of study and work, certain power j and ability to meet new situations, j Too many pupils feel that'mere attendance at school for The usual, time-four years-entitles them to ; ! a diploma.. It is at this season j of the year, when the graduation committee considers applicants for graduation that some students come to realize that they - have not made the best possible use of their time, that they have not met the school's requirement and consequently cannot be given the diploma. ' Ordinarily entrance +o high school indicates that ths student has a normal mind and capacity and that he can by proper appli­cation complete his course and receive his certificate. Let it be i understood then, that it .s, usually the student's own fault it he fails ! to secure the coveted diploma. j new commandment. "And a new commandment I give unto you, 'Thou shait not complain.' "This," says Supt. Hop­kins, "was one of the superintend­ent convention's messages to the American teacher." the right to err. Some one has said that every one has the inalienable right to make mistakes. We believe in j this. We think it a grand right j and a grand privilege, but we can j have no patience with one who j continues to make the same mis- j take. We should profit by our ! mistakes, else they have failed to accomplish their work. Patience means, as we see it, j permitting others to make their mistakes without molestation. the facts. In this column we endeavor, day by day, to give the people the facts regarding our high school.' We have nothing toStm- i ceal, but everything to teil. We are engaged in a great public enterprise, an enterprise that con­cerns every home. and tJxaJ:- 2-9-25 Ogden High School Notes We are feeling very fine, thank you. Our winning the "round robin" tournament so handsome­ly makes us very happy and veiyl proud of our team. Tomorrow night Coach Kapple and 10 men will leave for Boulder, colo., to participate in the invita­tional meet of the University of Colorado. There will be eight classy teams in the fray, represent­ing Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. We predict that we shall make a fine showing thre. stagg at tournament. 'Coach Stagg of the University of Chicago will be one of the' speakers at the Boulder athletic convention. The aim of the university to make the tournament an educational affair is highly j commended. may go to chicago. Should we make an acceptable j showing at the Boulder meet, we i feel that our chances of being in- j vited to the national meet at Chicago will be greatly enhanced. A letter received Sunday from Manager Crisler of the national tourna- j ment by Principal Merrill advises! that while it is the policy to rec- ognize state athletic associations, ; that consideration will be given to the Utah Situation. We think they shall find that Ogden is entitled to favorable consideration. the queen contest. The total queen vote on Friday was considerably augmented. The standing of the four highest can­didates at 5 p. m., was: Beatrice Bletcher 487 j Helen Storey 186 j Jean Warner 50 Virginia Brown 44 j There is much enthusiasm at j present and we feel assured the I votes will climb by leaps and j bounds today, tomorrow and Wednesday. As the available tickets are now all out we ask that any who are not selling return them to the of­fice so that they may be placed in the hands of students who will. ; the objective. Last year we had more than 1800 people at the Classiealia. We thought that we should liTfe just 2000 this year and consequently printed just that many tickets. We desired also to give a vote for queen to everyone who purchases a ticket. We prefer also that no one buy a ticket unless he wishes and expects to attend that great . function. report cards. The first term of the second j semester closed on Friday last. The report cards to parents will be sent out Wednesday by the students. These should be signed promptly by parents and returned to ad­visory teachers on Thursday or Friday. preliminary contest. The preliminary S. A. R. contest will be held in room 305 of the high school late this afternoon. There are fully a dozen contest­ants. Assistant Superintendent Ida Fitzsimmons, Principal Ina Craven and Attorney Sam Blackham will act as judges. carpe diem. "Carpe Diem" girls again en­joyed themselves in a swim at Weber gymnasium last Friday eve­ning. It is surprising how quickly re­sults will come, but we are all such wonderful swimmers (?) that the swimming instructor is very anxious that wre all become profes­sional divers and swimmers (she says our chances are good). Twenty girls were there, all making the most of every minute. It is a task to select the best swim­mer so we have decided to have competent judges at some time soon choose the girl who shall be the winner of our prize. Inasmuch as we are a part of the school and knew our team was playing a game of basketball in the gymnasium we managed to take ourselves from the swimming pool up to the gym in time to view that spectacular game between Ogden and West. Oh! All was grand! Our victory over West and the swim, which we "Carpe Diem" girls enjoyed. P. S.-We are having such a time filling the vacancies in th8 club that we are inviting a few girls each time (those on the wait­ing list) to our sports, in order that we might judge them accord­ing to their pep and enthusiasm. M. J., Secy. worth while things. The fine worth while things in life, according to Secretary Charles E. Hughes, are: Health, knowl­edge, loyalty, character and faith. He describes the ideal life as follows: "Faith without credulity, con­viction without bigotry, charity condenscension, courage without pugnacity, self respect without vanity, humility with obsequious­ness. love of humanity without sentimentality, and meekness with power." We call that a big program and suggest a careful study of it, item : by item, i j Natural, native timidity charac­terizes more boys than most of us .( realize. Only those who are timid know what a fight one has to over­come this timidity. William Allen White in writing the biography of President Coolidge says: "He grew up a shy, old fashioned little boj', who used to run away and hide when the neighbors came." He ' quotes the president himself as saying', ' ivxosi or tiie visitors would'sit in the kitchen with fa­ther and mother, and the hardest thing in the world for me was to have to go through that kitchen door and greet the visitors. By fighting hard. I used to manage to get through that kitchen door. I'm all right now with old friends, but I every time I meet a stranger, I have to stand by the kitchen door a minute. It's hard!'" an o. henry editorial. The March 7th issue of Collier's ! has this short, but interesting, editorial under the title "The Mil­lenium." San Francisco is to have a high school with none of the usual faults. Students will attend class­es regularly. There will be no boisterous gatherings, no sensuous dancers, no staying out late H night, no joy rides in motorcars. It 'should be a wonderful demoristra- j Hon of what a high school should I be-and yet-it is to be in the San Quentin penitentiary." 2 10 25 Ogden High School Notes Tonight at 6:40 o'clock the fol- ! lowing members of the basketball squad will leave for Boulder, Colorado: Ellis Wade, Clarence Clark, Rulon Budge, Robert Weir, Ray Price, Harry Thomson, Joe Irvine, Herbert Griffin, Kenneth Vanderhoof, Ross Sampson. They I will be accompanied by Coach Kapple. Good luck to the boys and may they have a royal good time. It's great fun to do good work, and we know these fellows are going to do good work at Boulder. We shouldn't be at all surprised if they defeated every aggregation that comes against them. QUEEN CONTEST. ! Yesterday was "blue Monday" in the queen's contest. Very few votes were cast. The standing i Monday night: Beatrice Bletcher 488 j Helen Storey 203 I Jean Warner 5 0 Virginia Brown 44 Others votes scattered. good sportsmanship. There has been some talk about some candidates withdrawing from the queen contest on account of I bitterness and ill-feeling en­gendered. The teachers and stu­dents are unanimous, we believe, in desiring that no one with­draw, that we go through with the election as planned, standing whole-heartedly by the successful candidate. Students like older people get over-zealous and enthusiastic in the heat of a campaign, but rather unlike old people, they for­get quickly and ,forgive wholly. Youngsters are so cheerful, opti­mistic, and vigorous that it is practically impossible :o hold grudges. So we say, let's forget our troubles, go to work and ptlt our Classiealia over in grand style. TARDINESS. There were last week 503 cases of tradiriess reported. It seems practically impossible to reduce the number below this, as it has received much consideration dur­ing the past two months. Nearly half of the tardiness comes in the first and fifth periods:-early morning, and directly after lunch. "Late cars, detention by parents for home work, didn't wake up, teacher didn't dismiss "class promptly, had to go to my lock­er," etc., are some of the reasons given for tardiness. Quite a number of teachers "feel that a uniform punishment should be prescribed for students who are frequently tardy, and it is quite likely that the situation will be met in this way. The writing of a few themes on the subject of punctuality has hoped in a few cases. The pity of it is that the stu­dent who forms the habit of be­ing continually behind time, who has no appreciation of order, de­pendability, etc., will be consider­ably handicapped in life, for busi­ness men do not tolerate tardi­ness. Tomorrow is the last day in Classiealia ticket sales. All money and unsold tickets must be re­turned to the office tomorrow be­fore 4 p. m. topics to be discussed. The following topics will be discussed at the Boulder tournament convention, according to a letter deceived at .the high school Monday from Jack Salisbury: State and interstate champion­ship contests, relationships be­tween state and independent leagues, professional athletics versus amateur athletics, the re­lationship of high school to col­legiate athletics, scholarships in athletics, and other topics. resolutions passed. The following resolutions were passed by the faculty last night and were presented to students at the advisory periods this morn- , ing: "Whereas, mistakes have been made by various parties thus far in the queen contest and, whereas, unnecessary bitterness and ill-will have been developed through mis­understandings and -evil reports and, whereas, the situation has been partially cleared up through explanation and better under­standing, therefore, be it resolved by the faculty and students of the Ogden High school: a "That all Avho have been in­jured in their feelings or have in­jured others forget and forgive 11, and return to the work of slling tickets, electing a queen, jnd putting over the Classiealia H a way that will reflect credit jjgpon the school. "Be it further resolved that ifhatever queen candidate, on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, a,s the highest number of votes ;presenting bona-fide ticket sales tall be declared Classicalia queen id shall receive the unanimous id unqualified support of every-,? le connected in any Way with" te Ogden High school. ' s. a. r. contest. Fifteen representative high sChool students competed Monday night in Miss Beck's room for places in the final patriotic ora­torical contest. The judges were Miss Fitzsimmons, assistant super­intendent of schools; Miss Craven, principal of the Pingree school; and Mr. Blackham, an Ogden at­torney. Miss Beck wishes to thank them heartily for their kindness and patience since they judged for nearly three hours. It is to be regretted that all contestants 'couldn't enter the final contest as each student presented his ora­tion in a most creditable way. The judges remarked at the close of the contest, "What a splendid group of boys and girls.'' The "Sons of the American Revolution" of Ogden offer each year a gold medal to the student winning the oration on some patriotic subject. This year there were so many contestants it was necessary to hold a preliminary contest. At 8 p. m. next Monday in the Central Junior High school audi­torium the public is invited to hear the eight students chosen last night to compete ?u the final contest. Members of the Ogden S. A. R. chapter will act as judges. contestsants. Winnifred McConnell, The Negro and Patriotism; David Camp, One Hundred Per Cent Americanism; Evelyn Nelson, The Minimum Wage Law; Garff Wil­son, The Monroe Doctrine; Opal Burt, A High School Student's ! Contribution to Patriotism; Jack Craven, Admiral Evans; Fern Jude, The Unfinished Story; Wini­fred Mans, Immigration Should Be Regulated, Not Limited.