The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-03-27


Let the Hargroye College faculty
not be misunderstood in the action
they took lately in suspandiDg from
school a number OF students for at
tending the balls last week. In the
first place, it is positively against
the rules of the school for students
to attend such places. Boys and
girls cannot attend school and
dapces at the same time and make q
success of both. Which is the more
important the education of the head
or the education of the feet? This is
an important question for parents 10
decide. There is not a first class
school or college in the country any |
where that allows its students to at
tend dances.
We are making every effort in our
power to build up such school in
Ardmore and we believe the people
who have the interest of Ardmore
and their children at heart will stand
by us in this attempt.
Do you want US to help your chill
dren9 Then help as to enforce the
rules and regulations of your school.
No school can claim to be high
grade that does not have rules and
regulations and is not run on busi-
ness basis. Run a school in loose
way and it will go bankrupt as
quickly as the merchant who keeps
no cash account.
We are here to work for the bet
terment of Ardmore by instilling
into the minds and hearts of its
young people high and noble concep-
tons of true manhood and true
womanhood. We are striving to
place before your children ideals and
conceptions of life and duty which,
if attained. will build up in them
truly noble and worthy characters.
The ball room and the dance are de-
mo- alizlng. Bale and other forms
OF dissipation are inconsistent with
the work students should do in the
school. The young lady who spends
half a day in preparing to appear
well and half the following night in
the giddy whirl of the dance and lis
tens to the fiummery of her gay com
panion till the wee small hours of
the night Is in no proper state of
mind or body to acquaint herself
with credit in the class room.
The routine work of the school
room soon becomes dull and unin-
teresting, and she asks papa to let
her stop; if he urges her to stick to
her studies she tells him she is not
Learning anything and he is paying
out his money for nothing. She
knows this will strike tender chord,
as it usually does, and she wins. The
love of excitement and the desire for
that companionship that is found in
such places, has completely banished
all desire for learning and culture,
) and her education is finished. This
is just as true of the young girl oi
3 thirteen as it is of her older sister oi
twenty. No thoughtful parent who
really has the highest interest and
welfare of her child at heart can fai
to see that this is true picture. But
the fact that Mary was not benefited
by the school is never charged to the
ball room, when she lost all interest
in study and all taste for real anC
solid accomplishments.
} Where is the school that can com
4 pete with the modern ball room will
! it's allurements, it's excitement, i'll
!. handsome young men2 Right edu
cation has for its aim the formation
of truly noble types Of manhood anC
womanhood. Who will say that the
D modern hug-me-up dance is not de
: moralizing and destructive of tina
: fine feeling of modesty and reserYI
in woman that commands respec
and admiration the world over?
We appeal to parents who hav'
: sons and daughters to educate. W.
beg to remind you that you have I
responsibility in this matter that yoV
@ can never transfer to another a
> long as the human soul is immortal
and parents are accountable for th'
proper guidance of their inexper
fenced children. What is the heetinl
2 pleasure OF an hour compared to tha
: imperishable gem which should b.
polished and made to shine in heav
ems light forever. The world l
y greatly in need of parents and teach
: ers that earnestly inquire what !
e right and can recognize and rever
: ence the handiwork of God in ever.
. child and burn with q desire to b
instrumental in training It to tn
highest attainment of which it is ca
e pable. Let teachers face the respon
: sibiities of their high Office and lie