The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-09
ALUMNI OF
HIGH SCHOOL
Students Start Movement for
Organization Of Graduates
Of A. h. S,
tFrom tuesdays Daily)

(From Tuesdays Daily)
There Is a movement on foot to
organize an alumni association OF the
High school. Amarillo has many
graduates who will never enjoy the
pleasures OF other institutions and to
these the organization will be OF spe-
cial pleasure.
Athletic Enthusiasm.
Much interest 90 being shown In
athletics In the High school The
school spirit which has 80 much to
do with the success OF the school,
has Improved, a fact due, probably
TO the enthusiasm inspired by the
basket and baseball games, Indian
club swinging IL enjoyed under Diff
floulties. There Is not an available
space within the building large
enough for three persons TO swing
clubs and SO The work is carried on
In somewhat deaultory, unsatlsfao-
tory manner on the campus.
The Spanish pupils enjoy the con
vocational method employed by Miss
whitman in teaching the language
Amusing plumbers sometimes occur,
for instance one young gentleman
insisted in correct Spanish that the
teachers collar was not clean. lie
Is stu attempting to apologize.
Practical Nature Study.
The fact that our spring comes so
late in this high altitude has al
ways been hindrance to nature
study IN the public schools. The
grade teachers have found a way 10
overcome this difficulty by having
indoor gardens. Boxes OF sweet peas,
nasturtiums, pansies, beans, radish-
en- and other plants are placed on
window lodges and sunny desk tops.
Owing to the crowded conditions OF
the rooms, boxes are overturned oc-
caslonally; mice anticipate the fruit
ing stage and dine on tender stems
and leaf stalks. But good is being
done for each little pupil has a claim
on flower, and, in watching II de-
velop, each little heart Is learning
of the sweet miracle Of life.
Pleasant April Fool Joke.
All Fools Day was celebrated in
the usual way. Some hints OF tru-
ancy we're heard but discretion evil
IDENTIFY won the day. After noon the
only pupils missing we're two SEN
Tors, Jennie Lee Hedrick and Edith
Dewitt. surmlses as to their where
abouts and expressions OF surprise
az their detection were rife among
the faculty. The mystery was solved
after recess when the teachers were
urged TO come at once 10 the dark
room in the laboratory. With many
fears and evident reluctance they
answered the call finding TO their
surprise that the joke was OF an I'M
usual nature, The two missing SEN
tors, together with Pearl Reid, a
third senior, who had Joined them,
were found. They had spread q
snowy lunch cloth on a table; let
tuce leaves served as plates on which
we're sandwiches, pickles. olives and
cheese cubes; cake and fruit form
ed the center-plece. Ice cream fol-
lowed and then minis left pleasing
reminders OF the good things that
had been. Had this been Barma-
ride feagt the teachers could have
expressed their appreciation but so
unusual q surprise and so delicious
a lunch left them truly speeches..
The tenth grade has taken up the
study OF the Merchant OF Venice"
Amsbury Entertained,
Wallace Bruce Amsbury gave a.
reading Tuesday evening In the High
School auditorium. His French Ca
madam dialect selections were per-
haps his best numbers. but the eighth
grade pupils present gave sympathet-
&c attention % Kipling's "LEnvoi,"
which had furnished entertainment
for several 4 o'clock receptions dur
Ing the first month OF school.