South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-11-13
HIGH TEAM To
PLAY DESPITE
BOARDS ORDER
Students Guarantee Enough
Funds to Bring the Wendell
Phillips Team of Chicago
Here Saturday.


1880 O'Clock this morning at the high
school. Members OF the Boosters
club will be present and talks will be
made. Ii is thought that possibly
some plan whereby the athletic privi-
leges will be returned, may be made.
Despite the ban placed on athletics
by the board OF control at the high
school, the students may be able TO
see the men from their school par
ticipating in a football game Satur-
day afternoon. The management at
Wendell Phillips high school, Chicago,
has been wired and there is a strong
chance that the game Will be played.
Following the announcement We'd
nesday morning that athletics of all
kinds were tabooed, a public sub
scription was taken up and about $50
students agreed to pay 25 cents each
towards getting the Chicago team
here. The men will be taken to the
homes of the students for their
meals. as a means of keeping down
expenses.
There was much talk around high
school during Wednesday TO the eff
feet that independent teams would
be organized 10 represent the school
this coming winter or until the ban
is lifted. The telegram sent to the
Chicago school is the first step in this
direction.
A Boosters club was organized by
the students Wednesday afternoon.
Donald Livengood is president and
Everett Leisure, secretary. II is the
purpose of the organization to arouse
more interest in the affairs of the
school. Plans for increasing the In
terlude circulation and the sale OF
athletic tickets were made.
Through the two societies the
Euglossian and Cleosophic, which in
clude in their mem bership every stu
dents in the school, the joint meeting
Wednesday was possible. These joint
meetings have been suggested as a
means through which the pupils
would be able to conduct athletics on
an independent basis.
A big parade Friday night will be
pulled off if the game with the Chi
cago team is secured. 1t is proposed
TO have as many students as possible
march through the business district
as a means of advertising the event.
The action means the suspension for
an indefinite period of the following:
All athletics, including the
abandonment of the remainder of
the football schedule and the dis
banding of the team which has
not been defeated this year. Bias
ketball, track and baseball will
not be taken up during the SuS-
pension.
The abandonment of the Elm
terlude", the school paper, after
the issue of Friday.
The discontnuance of adj class
meetings and the abandonment
of the debating club which was
just being organized.
The abandonment of class par
ties, receptions and dances, or
CheStra, dramaticS.
The designations of all student Off
GERS with the exception of the officers
of the EuglosSian and CleoSophic lit
erary societies were accepted" i'm
mediately, Principal Sims announced.
The two societies saved from the sink
ing ship of student privileges have
been in existence nearly since the
founding of the school and for this
reason the school authorities an
nounced they would not allow them
to perish for want of support OF the
present students.
Lack OF Support.
The reason for the wholesale sus-
pension of privileges assigned by the
principal was failure on the part OF
the students to support the various
enterprises, and lack of control or a
sense Of personal responsibility in the
student body. The lack of student
leaders was declared by the authori-
ties TO be the main contributing fac
tor. There are only a few who can be
depended upon for cooperation II was
stated.
Principal Sims declared that TO
continue the present policy would be
attitude of the student body.
I'VE will quit trying to run high
school on a college basis while we
have, as the Developments of the last
two months have shown, body or
kindergartenerS who are unable to
conduct themselves in the manner 10
be expected of students of high school
age" said Mr.. Sims
The resolution of the board of con-
troll was almost unanimous. II is said
there was but one dissenting vote,
that of the president of the athletic
association. The board of control is
composed of eight members four or
whom are students and the remainder
teachers. The concurrence of the
three student members of the board
with the faculty members is taken TO
indicate that the students leaders are
in accord with the authorities In de-
nouncing so-called kindergarten tao
tics" and lack of support.
Among approximately 1000 stu
dents in the high school there were
only 300 subscriptions 10 the Inter
lude". and about the same number OF
athletic tickets admitting TO all games
Of the year were sold. Sims stated to
show the iacH of support
But this failure would not have
caused the suspension of the athletics
was hardly able TO creep thisshrdluun
had Il not been for the disregard or
regulations OF which the principal
complained, IL was intimated. he
prefaced his announcement by re-
reciting a long list OF the attractions
which eliminated in the sweeping sus-
pension of privileges.
Many OfenSeS Charged.
Among other things the students
have been guilty Of the following Of
lenses, the principal said:
Marring the furniture i'm the
new building. scratching yarniSh
of desks, breaking inkwels,
writing love notes on the white
walls. lOOSening arms OF audi
forum seats.
Forging and taking" excuses
for absences from class. One for
gerry was detected because the
student misspelled his fathers