I to have a good first team there must be a second team, the players on which have all the work and none of the glory of the first squad; for them it's real work, but after all, it's fun. Yes, it's hard work, but it's worth it. No course is complete without athletics, for only in the thick of things can one learn the fundamentals of co-ordination and sportsmanship. No basketball player ever regretted the time spent in practice and will recollect his training days as his happiest. —Bill. SOCIOLOGY There is one subject which I believe every student should take before facing the trials and tribulations of life. That study is sociology. Sociology is perhaps more closely connected with our daily life than any other study which we pursue. It deals with the foundation of society, Its principles, causes, perplexities and problems. It is a basic study of human existence that gives us an insight to proper social and living conditions, and at the same time gives us a more unbiased view of vital problems. Any student will be benefitted materially by spending a paltry 40 minutes each day at this all-engrossing subject. —Robert Gwin. TRAINING Basketball is not just what most of us see at a game, two teams battling for supremacy on the waxed court. In fact, what we see is only a short conclusion of weeks of hard, intensive training and learning how to dodge, to "cut in" or "follow up." No one knows what a temptation a Hershey or a malted milk really is until he starts to train, or how hard it is to miss a dance or a bob party so as to be in bed early, thereby keeping in the pink of physical condition. The players must also keep their scholarship up to normal or they will be dropped from the squad, and night after night they run their legs off to keep in lin. And 2-8-26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES "Half the schemes for 'regenerating society' rest on the nebulous notion that all that is needed is an equal distribution of 'leisure,' 'economic opportunity,' 'education' and the like, in order to make everybody, even the laziest and most stupid, healthy, wealthy and wise."—Wiggins. A GREAT GAME Perhaps no basketball game, especially in this neck of the woods, was more strenuously fought, nor accompanied by more thrills than that great game on Friday night between Ogden and Box Elder. The teams were evenly matched, and they fought like demons throughout the game—the score now favoring this one and now that. It was no one's game until the final whistle, and when Box Elder got a one-point lead in the last minute, the Brigham City fans were well nigh frantic. A never to be forgotten sight was the ecstacy of a Box Elder teacher, a man weighing near 300 pounds, running out on the floor, jumping up and down, throwing his arms wildly about. The kiddies on the side lines got quite a kick out of it, and were yelling "Free show—watch the elephant dance." Anyway, it was a cause for ecstacy and jubilation and we wouldn't deprive Box Elder-ites one whit of jubilation over their victory. WILL PLAY AGAIN Soon we shall play Box Elder again and it is not at all unlikely that we shall 'repeat the experience of two years ago and beat them next time. That will mean a tie, of course, calling for a play-off game. We are quite confident that this is just what will happen, so we shall have the two big games with all their thrills coming, instead of just one. FACULTY CONVENTION The Ogden High school faculty contend that a thrilling, exciting basketball game like that on Friday night, is sufficient entertainment for one evening and that pedagogically, physiologically, psychologically, theologically, it is wrong to go into a big dance after such a game. Of course it is a fine time to make money as the crowd is gathered and can easily be persuaded to join in the dance. For a number of years, however, the high school has refused to pick up the "easy money" under these conditions. There are some things more important than money. The high school authorities therefore naturally resent and take serious exceptions to any other organization picking up the crowd and exploiting it under these conditions. DAVIS NEXT That our game with Davis this week will be spectacular and thrilling is evident by the fact that Davis recently held Box Elder's fine aggregation to an even score. The game will probably be held on Saturday evening (it is scheduled for Friday) in order not to conflict with the cadet hop. TEACHERS' MEETING An important teachers' meeting is scheduled for next Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Central Junior High school. Miss Lynn of Seattle, vice president of the department of "class room teachers" of the National Education association, will be passing through Ogden on her way to the superintendents' convention and has called this meeting to consider with Ogden teachers vital problems concerning their work. IN FULL SWING Two weeks of the second semester have now passed. Adjustments have been made and all students are now properly registered in their subjects, and are well started in the second half year's work. Every effort is being made to help every student to improve on his first semester's work. GOING EAST Supt. W. Karl Hopkins will leave for Washington the latter part of the week to attend the superintendents' annual meeting of the National Education association, February 25. He and Superintendent Child of Salt Lake will visit the schools of several large cities en route. WAYSIDE DIGEST There is such a thing in life as nobility, and novels which celebrate it will always be novels which are finally loved.—Wella Cather. Anything that is beautiful in itself or ministers to the sense of beauty is essentially religious.— W. J. Dawson. The first generation of boys was Cain and Abel. Fifty per cent of that outfit went to the devil and the other half died young.— Wellengton Pegg. Doesn't this show that the race is improving? If the college professor cannot compete With the athletic coach for the favor of students, so much the worse for the college professor. HAM AND CLUB The "Ham And" held their weekly meeting Thursday night. Our pins will be out shortly, and they will be some pins, believe me. Wait till you see them. Our club banquet, which is our great social function of the year, has been provided for, and we are all looking forward to it. Besides that we have something else up our sleeves, so watch our doings for the next few weeks.—Winfield Hancock. Dear Mr. Merrill: Will you kindly convey to the Ogden High school band our congratulations on its splendid victory in Wednesday's contest in Salt Lake? The band has won many admiring comments here at home by its excellent playing and it is very gratifying to us that it should add further to its reputation by winning this great honor for itself and Ogden. We are all very proud of the Ogden High school and its band and wish them success in their future endeavors. Yours very truly, JESSE S. RICHARDS. Secretary, Ogden Chamb of Commerce. OGDEN HIGH I suppose the averatge person regards Abraham Lincoln as having been very "homely." Indeed, the homeliness of Lincoln has become a sort of tradition. But I have heard portrait painters talk with enthusiasm about "the beauty of Lincoln." Students of art have come to regard Lincoln as one of the highest types of human beauty. Perhaps his lanky, awkward figure would not give him a blue ribbon at a beauty show. Yet a New York physician, Dr. Charles A. Scale, who examined Lincoln's body from head to foot when he was assassinated, told me that it was the most perfect specimen of anatomical harmony and proportional development he had ever seen. He said he had searched all over the world for the past 50 years for a physical specimen as perfect and had never found but one, and that one was not a living mortal, but Angelo's great statue of Moses, which artists have for centuries regarded as one of the noblest of all conceptions of physical perfection." A. E. WIGGAM. THE DEBATING LEAGUE. Ogden High, for the first time in several years joins the state debating league year that is conducted under the auspices of the University of Utah. The team or teams that represent the high school will consist of Garff Wilson, John Griffin, David Camp and Winnifred McConnell. This was determined on Tuesday afternoon when the try-outs were held in the public speaking department under the auspices of Miss Reva Beck. Prof. J. Q. Blaylock of Weber college acted as judge and complimented the students very highly on their work. The question debated was, "Resolved, That the Japanese should be permitted to enter the United States on the same terms as Europeans." TRIANGULAR DEBATES. At the same tryouts teams were selected to participate in the triangular debates with Box Elder and Davis. The personnel of these teams will be: Grant Chandler, Frank Rose, Wilma Bailey and Hal Armstrong. ILLNESS PREVALENT. Attendance at Ogden High was lower during the past month than for years. This was due to much illness. The faculty has also fallen a prey to the flu, and there is scarcely a day but some teacher is out on account of illness. Miss Stephenson of the stenography department was ill Monday and the French teacher Miss Alvord, was ill on Tuesday. AWARD SYSTEM. For the benefit of students competing in football and basketball, the following explanation is given concerning the attainment of awards. To receive an award the student must compete in 40 per cent of the quarters. He must remain in school until the close of the semester in which he competes and receive passing grades in at least three subjects. In track the student must have five points in the division meet and one point in the state meet. No student may receive more than one award a year, regardless of how many he may earn. The awards are the same for all branches of sport. First year, sweater; second year, blanket; third year, pin or ring. The cost of these shall be approximately the same. CONCERT TONIGHT Anyone fond of music—and who is not?—should attend Mr. Gammell's concert at the' high school tonight. It will be rather the most elaborate performance the music department has attempted for some time and we are assured that it will be a very fine entertainment. Indian music will be featured. It is free to the public and begins at 8 o'clock. SEATING ARRANGEMENT The athletic committee reports the following plan for the game on Saturday night. Ogden High school students, west bleachers down stairs; all general admissions and Junior High students, gallery or running track; reserved east bleachers, main floor. GAME SATURDAY. Arrangements were completed late Tuesday for the playing of the Ogden-Davis game in the Weber gymnasium Saturday night at 8:15 o'clock. Davis was very reluctant to change th9 date, but finally yielded in the spirit of accommodation and good sportsmanship. The game was almost, impossible for Ogden on Friday night on account of the annual Hop. On account of the Weber-B. Y. C. game in the Weber gymnasium on Friday evening, we should have been obliged to play in our own gymnasium had Davis held us to the scheduled date. We appreciate the courtesy, Davis, and in return will let you win the game—if you can. A GOOD GAME. The game Saturday night will be a good one, for Davis feels that they have a better team than Box Elder, and since Box Elder beat us, therefore Davis will at least give us a good run for our money. THE BEST YET. For the first time on regular school day since school began last September, there were no notes in The Standard-Examiner yesterday. The reason for this— the notes were lost in The Standard-Examiner office — probably mistaken by the janitor as "useless scraps" of paper. All Ogden, of course, is poorer today for the loss of those notes—for, of course, they can never be rewritten. They are like the first