not arid appeared to be animated, interested, concerned. We rather think it would be a good idea. Then again we are not sure but that it would react favorably upon the students themselves. Perhaps if they faked "interest" for a while they might, in time, arouse in themselves a real interest that would react favorably upon themselves. We are inclined to believe that the experiment is worth trying. COUNCIL REPORT. Vice President Winifred McConnell presided at the regular meeting of the council. The roll was called and the minutes approved as read. Paul Skeen reported for the club committee, reading a letter prepared by the committee to be sent to the various clubs of the school. The report was accepted on motion of Miss Leonard. The report of the junior dance was postponed owing to the fact that Mr. Skeen was unable to give the definite results. The meeting was then adjourned. ELEANOR WEEKS, Secy. ATTRACTS ATTENTION. The article in Tuesday's notes regarding the athletic situation, attracted considerable attention and has evoked much discussion. This was to be expected, as it points to quite an innovation in the state. The directors of the Utah Athletic association have gone on record as favoring the national policy of doing away with athletic awards. Schools are to do as they see fit during the present year as to giving awards, but next year, being a member of the national organization will prohibit the custom of giving awards of intrinsic value. When once the public comes to see the problem in its proper perspective, we believe that every one will agree that it is a distinctly forward step. NEW FIELD. The action of the city commissioners Tuesday in deciding to give the city a new athletic field on the east bench next year meets with the hearty approval of all high school students and teachers. Will it not be wonderful to play upon that fine soil formation next to the mountains? SEVENTEENTH PAGE OF THE LOST DIARY. Phew, Diary, these teachers must have a grudge against us or something. Mr. Oberhansly gives an assignment to keep you out of school for a week preparing it—the same applies to Mr. Smith and Daniel Wangsgard. Also they have conceived the quaint idea of locking you out of class if you happen to be late (funny? Well I should say so). I wish all the Smiths and Wangsgards would get mixed up and then maybe they would know how I feel. The English teachers are not much better, either. "Conjugate the verb 'to eat.'" The only thing I do with the verb eat is to apply it where it will do the most good. I can smell a test coming (I hope it gets delayed on the way) and when I smell them, they nearly knock me down. Sometimes they are stale, but most of the tune they are a kind of stale that I know nothing about. Mrs Chambers and Miss Hibbard sure know how to assign the themes-long. short and otherwise. If they would stay out of a few colleges we would not have to work so hard —we work so hard anyway. When Mrs. Irwin makes an assignment you sure realize it, she is a rip-snorter when it comes to history. If some of these statesmen had died in infancy I would surely bless them now (as it is I NEARLY cuss). Well, diary, as I was saying—the lessons are still waiting and no one offers to do them for me, so good-bye until next time. P. S.—Mr. Oberhansly made a mistake. He found a voice but it wasn't his own. He will have to lay off and let it grow up. (He must have found a little boy's voice with a cold). GIRLS' ASSOCIATION. THURSDAY EVENING Dec 2 26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES A SMILE A smile. A gay “Hello” Is all I ask From you-- A tiny gift For you to give, But what a treasure It would be To me! --Robert G. True. HEAVY EXPENSE. Running the schools is a rather expensive business. For that reason as well as many others the work of the school should not be interfered with except for very extraordinary reasons. A gentleman called the other day and asked to call a special assembly as he had a special message for the boys and girls. He wanted $25 for the message. He was quite annoyed because the assembly was not called. He perhaps didn't consider that the high school employs nearly 40 people, each of whom is delivering daily "special messages." The average daily cost of running the high school for instruction purposes alone is about $395. How foolish then to call off this working force for the sake of one man, and then pay him for spieling. ENGLISH TESTS. The general English test given on Tuesday of last week awakened the students to the needs of knowing the foundation principles of the English language. The average was just a little lower than the average of the best Wisconsin schools—but much lower, we think, than it should have been. The average for groups was as follows: Seniors. 77.02; juniors, group one, 71.7; group two, 75.5; sophomores. 61.8. COLLEGES BLAMED. High schools are subjected to much criticism, but they do not get it all. Sometimes the colleges get solar plexus blows. A recent graduate from Harvard, for instance, begins an article in a popular magazine with this: "Our college faculties are choked with dead wood—professors who won their academic spurs by work so deadening, so futile, so utterly at variance with the obligations they are expected to fulfill that it is a marvel they themselves have not been forced by conscience to confess the hypocrisy they are daily enacting. In becoming doctors of philosophy, they wasted three of the best years of their lives and bent their minds into as tortured positions as Buddhistic fakirs twist their bodies." INTERRUPTIONS. Again we ask parents and friends not to call high school students by telephone except in case of serious illness ox very important matters. During the present week there have been calls averaging 25 per day. The office repeatedly reports, "We cannot call students out of class, it seriously interrupts the work," yet the calls ring in. If parents and friends will kindly consider it from the school's standpoint, we believe telephone calls will be reduced by about 90 per cent. GORGON'S PEDAGOGY. Always appoint an hour at which you'll see a man, and if he's a minute late don't bother with him. A fellow who can be late when his own interests are at stake is pretty sure to be when yours are work or play but you mustn't break into the principal. More men die from worry than from overwork; more stuff themselves to death than die of starvation. More break their necks falling down cellars than climbing mountains. EIGHTEENTH PAGE OF THE LOST DIARY. Dear Diary: Whatcha know about that—the high school was turned into a political rodeo today and they were holding a big election in our new rest room and so the girls who usually take a little rest every day didn't get arty. All day long the men and women folk was pouring into the school house. Gee, but I was scared, for I was afraid pa and ma would come and most likely ask my teachers how I was getting along. I wasn't prepared for this as I haven't got along so very well since I et so much turkey, and besides I've kinda ignored my teachers lately and haven't spoiled them much with chocolates and candy and flowers and things. This was no time for my folks to come to school and they didn't; cause, as I learned too late, they don't live in this here election ward and so I had all my worry for nothing. That's what you get when you're not educated and don't know in advance how things are a going to turn out. And another thing. Diary, I don't see why they keep electing boards of education. I think it's time to elect a brick or two of education or maybe a cement slab but, sure enough, this is no lumber age and I think they ought to change their nomenclature if they don't change their education. Olive oil, Dear Diary.—Girl's Association. Look in a man's eyes for honesty; around his mouth for weakness; at his chin for strength; at his hands for temperament; at his nails for cleanliness. I want to say that I'm a great believer in the simple life, but some people are so blamed simple about it that they are idiotic. The world is full of rich people who talk about the simple life when they mean the stingy life. Health is like an inheritance— you can spend the interest in