The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-12-23
''DESIRE" Is COST
OF COLLEGE COURSE
Any Ambitious Young Student
Can Work His Way Thru
Higher Institutions
(By School Correspondent

(by SchoOl correspondent
Mr.. Meikle gave the Wednesday
morning talk this week. He spoke of
"Going Thru College" All that is
necessary, he said, is the desire to go
and the thrift necessary to put you
thru. 1t is usually the ambitious
people, not the shining lights, who sue
coed in college. The shining lights
who are satisfied with what they have
done and with themselves had better
stay at home. Mr.. Meikle divided his
talk into three parts: evil College
Pay?" elbow is it Possible to Earn
a College Education?" and"The Pleas
ures and Enjoyments of Having Gone
Thru College"
College will pay. The average earn
ing capacity of man is greatly in
creased. Beside this there is great
deal of value not measured in dollars
and cents one gets from college.
Thrift and desire will put you thru
college. The state pays about $3.50
year for every person who attends
college, in instruction and materials.
If you can learn how to do one thing
and do it well, you will be able to pay
your way thru college. No one, how
ever, will get thru who goes with a
self-satisfed air and thinks someone
is going to put them thru.
The pleasures and joys of college
don't consist alone in fancy balls and
fraternities. The pleasure is in feeling
that you are getting along in life and
accomplishing something. Everyone
feels that his college is the best in the
state and therefore he must make
good. The college is like big family,
and one is always humping into col
lege classmate, wherever he goes.
Rarey Speaks
Rev. C. D. Rarey, who visited Ken
newick the first Of the week, spoke to
the high school Monday afternoon.
He told something of interest about
his boys and of the Lewis and Clark
high school of Spokane, which they
are attending. Then he talked on
Life" Too much help is not good for
one; it is better to do ones work ones
self. Life is something like football
game. When you get out into the
world it will expect you to do some
thing, to succeed, to carry the ball
across the goal-line. But boisterous-
ness is not necessary, as the unseen
and unheard forces of nature accom-
plish the most, so the finer virtues of
kindness often accomplish more in life.
Of all these forces the strongest is
love.
Mr.. Kicks, superintendent of the
Pasco schools, talked to the high
school about Yellowstone National
Park and Mt. Rainier last Friday.
Three spots in the Yellowstone Park
make it the wonderland of America.
Three things are especially worth see
ing: Old Faithful Geyser, the Yellow
stone lake and the Grand Canyon of
the Yellowstone.
Some time ago Mr.. Meikle announc-
ed that there would be three prizes
offered for the best stories and poems
written for the Christmas program,
which will be given by the freshman
class. One is for the best story writ
ten by anyone in the high school, the
other is for the best poem. A spec
ial prize will be given to the fresh
man class for the best story. This was
won by Doris Harper. The prizes for
the best story and poem were won by
Stanley Randolph. Jean Stewards
story was second. The winners had
the privilege of choosing whomsoever
they wished to read their stories.
The two best stories and the three
poems, written by Stanley Randolph,
Laurence Oliver and Ralph Lincoln
will be read.
The debate which was held in Miss
Nelson's division of English II Friday
afternoon, resulted in decision for
the negative, won by two votes. The
leaders on the affirmative, Harold Tay-
lor, chose as his assistants Ruth Hud-
nall, Beatrice Watson and Elsie Hunt.
Glen Puderbaugh, the leader Of the
negative, chose Lorene Kennedy, Lau-
ra Olbrich and Mae VanNorsdall. The
judges were Orlin Fisher, Burdette
Hoadley and Faye Mitchell.
AS there was no Christmas pro-