New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-26
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From thoughts of the deadly German
submarine and the deadlier speed laws,
the Senior mind turns to contemplation
of such subjects as dancing. Several
Seniors took occasion, under the rare
liberty of perfect and untramelled free
dom of speech and the press, to question
some of the decisions of the 'powers
that be-" The peculiar logic which
sanctions and at the same time froWns
down upon dancing received it's slap
on the wrist.
''The two greatest social events of
the school year, the Junior reception,
and the Senior return, have always
had dancing as the principal form of
entertainment In the years past, be-
cause of lack of suitable rooms, these
affairs have always been held in some
public hall. But now that we have a
new building, and a large gymnasium,
and empty rooms, it seems no more
than proper that these affairs be held
in the school building. And yet there
are objections. The school is no place
for dances. 1t was built for educa-
tional purposes and not for entertain
ment. But there have been other
affairs held there which could not be
considered educational, merely enter
tanning. And again, if we have been
granted the permission to dance, and
have our affairs in the name of the
school, and still have to go to public
halls, it is in way lowering the STAN
dard of the school, and by doing this
the aims of education as they are today
are not being secured. Education has
a greater function than merely giving
young people all the knowledge they
can get out of their studies. It has a
social function, that of developing
individuals morally, socially and physi-
cally in order to fit them for their places
in the social organization of the world.
| Another Senior, writing on the same
subject, says, ''Some complain of too
high taxes. But is not the whole edu-
cational world shouting about better
use of school buildings and the making
[of the school the social center of every
! community? Next year the school will
have to be lighted up every evening for
the commercial courses, and if then
complaints are silly because the school
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mention expense when the school at
tempts to perform one of it's proper
functions?''
School sports received their proper
share of the general criticism. Otto
Zimmerman, who has always been an
active and earnest advocate Of strenuous
/ exercise, dotted his several halos of
athletic glory and condescended to
remark apropos Of the Mortified track
meet. "Our team was lucky enough
to get a second place through some
unforeseen accident. Some second, Al
to is points! And that after the coach
had spent two months trying to persuade
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!! the meet that morning.
| One baseball enthusiast delivered him
self of the following: Baseball is a
national sport which is played in all
parts of this country, in every college,
school, city, village and corner lot with
the exception of the New Ulm high
school He followed this with strong
appeal for loyal support for a baseball
team. Yes, let us have more of this
kind of spirit. We want baseball team,
and if several more men felt like this
we would have one.
! The declining interest in the literary
programs received a healthy boost in
j the editorials written by Willibalda
Eibner and Alma Falk.
! The programs Of the societies have