MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1926 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES EDUCATION Here is a definition or rather an explanation of education that is worth thinking about. "Education is what is left when you have forgotten all the facts you ever learned." "Tha teacher—whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster—is the real maker of history; rulers, states-men and soldiers do but work out the possibilities of co-operation or conflict the teacher creates."—H. G. Wells. A teacher was conducting a les¬son in history. "What was there about George Washington which distinguished him from all other famous Americans?" "He didn't lie," was the prompt reply. After a long talk on the value of peace, good-will and disarma¬ment, a teacher asked his students if they objected to war. "I do," said one boy. "Good! Now tell us why?" "Because war makes history, and I hate history." A SUGGESTION A pupil has suggested that teachers should be more careful in the framing of examination questions. Pie says these new "hit or miss questions" are pretty good but one stands such a good show of missing that he thinks they could be improved upon. He of¬fers the following questions which he thinks would be very suitable for a general history test: 1.—When was the war of 1812? From what province of France was Joan of Arc? Who is the author of Macauley's history of England? What two countries were par¬ticipants in the Spanish-American war? In what season of the year did Washington spend his winter at Valley Forge? Tell about the Swiss navy. TEACHER MOURNS D. H. Nelson, instructor in mathematics, received word Fri¬day that his mother had died at her home in Idaho. Mr. Nelson left school immediately to be pres¬ent at the obsequies. SCHOOL OPERA Mr. Gammell reports that the opera is well under way and will be presented in about three weeks. He says it's the best opera that he has ever given and that it will make a big hit in Ogden. HOME WEDNESDAY The basketball boys will be home from Chicago on Wednes¬day morning At 7 o'clock. They will be met by a host of students who purpose welcoming in much the same spirit as if they had won national honors. The boys did their best, and that's good enough. We welcome them home. SPRING HOUSECLEANING This is the season when every housewife "cleans house." From cellar to garret every nook and corner must be scrubbed and cleaned to put on fresh spring ap¬pearance. So also are the school custodians waging a war just now against winter's accumulation of dust and grime to make our school home neat, attractive and sanitary. TYPEWRITING AWARDS The following students won awards in the March tests: Certificates. Remington—Helen Grace, Donald Bass, Helen Reardon, Wilburn West, Alma Low, Norene Lindquist, Gene Huband, Thomas Paoletti, Eva Wacker, Margaret Wilson, Adelaide Smith, Dale Wangsgard, Max Stitzer, Ag¬nes Russell, and Frances Malan. Underwood—Donald Holley, Wilma Rubenstein, Philip Finkelstein, Dale Wangsgard, Agnes Russell, Blanche Scowcroft, Roberta Cor¬don, Helen Reardon, Mildred Barnes, Jane Clarke, Edith, Raty, Thomas Paoletti, Verda Shaw. Silver awards. Remington— Charles Foulger, Dorothy Coop, Dorothy Adams, Neta Knight, Lollieta Anderson, and Laura Walker. Bronze awards. Underwood— Dorothy Adams, Florence Leavitt, and Neta Knight. Silver awards. Underwood— Rose Urry. Gold awards. Underwood—Fre¬da Raethel and Henry O'Keefe. Royal—Beth Winkler, Frances Hobbs, Victor Shurtliff. Advanced certificates of pro¬ficiency.—Lizzie Russell. Sapphire awards. Underwood— Harry Rubin. Harry Rubin won the sapphire award, writing 93 net words a min¬ute for 15 minutes. —Ethel W. Franke, teacher. TREASURE HUNT Not to be outdone by the Eng¬lish royalty in staging novelties of entertainment, the Stellae in¬itiated the fascinating and ab¬sorbing feature of a treasure hunt into the city for the first time, and although other clubs may im¬itate it, Friday's colorful hunt will never be equalled, or forgotten. From the home of Ralph Pugmire, where the first, clue was given, until the last, it was a battle of wits. No place for the laggard. Garff Wilson and Mable Reynolds laid the clues in the afternoon and such clues as they were, clev¬er, intricate, baffling. The first two were easy but on the third j clue many went astray. Instead of the depot, not a few visited the coliseum and the Egyptian. On the fourth, "J. J. free meals, no beer." Many forgot the name of the chief of police and they hunt¬ed the directory and the town in vain for a person whose initials were J. J. Some of the passwords were: Do you neck? Where's the fire? Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, etc. And where people did not know of the hunt there were many funny results. The final clue was a crossword puzzle which, when solved, directed the bright ones to the golf links where everybody in the two leading cars dug all over the place for the treasure. These prospective treasure owners were: Mary Rich, Marion Ure, Gerald and Garff Walwork, Ralph Pugmire, Winnifred McConnell, Frank Rose and Bill Stratford. The first five named were the lucky ones, and the five hundred pennies were soon disposed of. After all had finished, refresh¬ments were enjoyed at the home of j Ralph Pugmire and the high spots of the hunt were retold, adding much to the fun of the evening. —Bill Stratford. ENTHUSIASM Mark Robinson, supervisor of music in Ogden schools, address¬ed the students on the subject ot music at Friday's assembly. Ac¬cording to Mr. Robinson the world would hardly be worth living in. were it not for music. We could get along very well without many things that we now enjoy, but music, never. It is the divine art that contributes more to hu¬man happiness and welfare than any one thing. Mr. Robinson also made an appeal to ail music stu¬dents to round out their educa¬tion with other studies. An ed¬ucation in music alone is one¬sided and useless. ANNUAL CONTRACT "To receive or not to receive the contract," is the question "that disturbs school teachers about this time of year. One secures employment in other lines of work and regards himself as fairly secure so long as he does his work satisfactorily. In the school teaching profes¬sion, however, there is the for¬mality of the annual contract that makes teachers feel that their em¬ployment is to last but one year. To be sure, in Ogden, and in most of the larger cities one is reason¬ably sure, if he does good work. that his contract will be forth¬coming each spring, but even at that there is an element of un¬certainty about it that occasions some concern. There are other undesirable elements also about the annual contract that make teachers feel that some plan for the securing of teachers should be adopted, other than that of the formal offering of the annual con¬tract.