La Junta tribune., 1915-03-13
SCHOOL COLUMN.
Katherine o'x~il. Cl... Of 'i5, Editor

| has been given for long time. Ac-
cording to one OF the girls who has
been with the Glee Club for three
years, this Is the only high school
which has been favored with encores.
The Glee Club sang "Our Menu" and
Jolly Fellows Miss Helen Web
ster read "The German version OF
Barbara Fritchie' and Il Wish I
Wasn't Fat" The quartette sang
the Hawaiian Melody" and also the
Cookery Maid" Mr.. Foster. the
last on the program sang Because
and the Whale Swollered joiner
The last number the Whale Swol-
Tered joiner" is still being echoed
through the high school by number
of students.
The boys basketball team won a
game from the Denver University
Glee Club team last Thursday after
noon by score OF 80 to o.
Miss Meryl Black was elected last
Friday from the Senior class as May
Queen for the festival which will be
given May lst under the direction OF
Miss Preston.
Miss Mildred Mendelson is teaching
the history class this week In the alb
sence OF MIR. Hunt who is out OF
school with the mumps.
H..
ing from Greeley paper says OF Ter
renee Allsworth, a graduate OF the
La Junta High School In the class
OF Is. THE reading of MIR. Ais
worth showed the artist to be equal
ly at home with humor. pathos or
descriptive, and his frequent en-
cores ELECTED some different and
pleasing selections" We always
thought that Terrence would be q
genius and now we are assured Of
II.
The Philomathian Literary Socie-
" had the most interesting meet
Ing which they have had this year
at the High School Tuesday even
ing. The program was - follows:
Comic rseding. ..... Robert Sevits
Defamation $3.50. .Perley Lewis
Grafton lin Latin) Frank Seeley
Essay ............. Amanda Ellis
Literary Society Paper ........
John Austin and Meryl Black
Extemporaneous Debate
Affirmative
80. Frank Seeley. Robert Sevitz
Negative
Periey Lewis. Braton lnman
Mr.. II. A. Kennedy. the state stu
dent secretary Of the Y. n. &. A..
gave the following splendid talk In
assembly Tuesday morning:
Men Of iron are men with grit and
determination. They are the men
who achieve and have back bone To
stand against the crowd for what
they believe.
A young lad who vas senior In
high school was deciding to which
college he would go. lie decided
upon Princeton and as his father
approved Of the choice II was prac-
ticaily settled. The Princeton
foot ball game was TO be played one
afternoon 80 the father and son went
out TO see Il. Many thousands Of
people were there. The Yale men
were pulling the yeils out Of those
thousands Of men. On the other
side sat Princeton. Here also the
cheer leaders were pulling yelis out
Of thousands OF men. On this side
sat the father aud son. The players
advanced onto the field and they
looked more like nys on . plate than
men playing on . large field. The
game WAS over and Princeloa had
won. The cheer leaders Of Prtnce.
ton pulled the yelis out Of men With
vigor. Yale was not still. It's bench.
- were just ~ loud With yells ~ be.
fore. The team retired 70 the drcss-
teg rooms 10 plan for another. sea-
son. The Princeton leaders gave .
signal aud the mea filed out Of the
stands six abreast and marched dova
the streets. bannsss iiyias and yell.
ias with oil their power. Yale did
the same. marching behind them and
you could not have found out from
he behavior Of those men who had
won. TIE same thias would have
happened n Princstoa had been
beaten. That aisht the young lad
said that he vas soins % Yale where
NEE Of iroa were made Who aid not
know vhsa they we're defeated.
remember oace ws wsss haviag Q
croas ceunssy race. We were 70 run
three tiass around . track Q mile
ieas. started out but sooa became
voPv elRoh. Beautiful ohnde tfees