Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TAKES EXCEPTION
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To the Editor of the telegraph :

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
1t has always been the policy of
the Central High School Argus" to
refrain from entering into any news
paper controversies and to refrain
from criticising newspaper articles
at any time. However in your edi-
torial Don't Do It," which appeared
in your paper Saturday, February
%. you made such abusive state
ments about Central High school
that on behalf of the students, the
faculty, the alumni and the admirers
of Central we must take exception
to such a pernicious attack. 1t
hardly seems conceivable that any
newspaper would make such malig-
nant attacks on an educational in
Stitution as you have made on q
high school of your own city when
you said: '1t is unquestionably true
that the Technical High school is a
better school than the co-educational
Central High school ever was. Its
spirit is better and the results at
tanned there are superior. This is so
apparent even to the casual observer
that it requires no demonstration,
but if proof is needed it can be found
in the records, we have no doubt
Let us not blot out of ex-
istence the only real high school the
city has for the doubtful expert
ment of co-education." We can
hardly believe that such an article is
the work of an editor of an up-to-
date city newspaper. By such a
statement you attack the students,
the faculty and the alumni.
G..
school than Central" Do you know
that Central High school has put
Harrisburg on the map of the school
world? Do you know that Central
graduates have done the almost i'm
possible by taking the four year
course at Columbia in three years
Do you know that scholarships have
been given to Central by colleges and
universities all ovfr the country on
account of the Excellence of her
students work in the higher insti-
tutions? You speak of the records
which will back your statements.
Perhaps you ought to look up the
records and compare the percentage
of 'fiunks" and 'auitters" at Tech
with those at Central. You might
also compare the scholarship rec
ords of the two schools and face the
facts. Perhaps you remember Cen
trails debating team of few years
ago which beat Techs team so de-
cisively that she has not since been
able to get team out of nine hum
dred boys OF course this counts for
nothing
OF course her faculty is nothing
although it is as fine as any in the
State. Most of them, have been teach
ing for years, one of them for
twenty-five years in the same room.
Many of them are alumni of the
school and these are all honor stu
dents. Do you know that two Cen
trail teachers are the only teachers
who have passed the teachers ex-
aminations with 100 per cent?
OF course 1.-The results obtained at
Tech are far superior to those OBJ
tanned at Central" Our alumni
amount to nothing although they
fill important positions the country
over. Gaze about at the positions
! held by Central men throughout the
city. Look at your own newspaper.
Look at the teachers of the city, the
Dauphin County Bar and the busi-
ness world as a whole. Everywhere
Central graduates have reflected
honor upon JnelT SCnOOl. Ih6y nave
distinguished themselves in the
army, in the navy, and in the scien-
tific world. They have surpassed
"Tech" graduates even in purely
technical fields. In fact it would be
hard to find the name of one Tech
graduate in u who's Who" of Har-
risburg.
You say Tech has a great school
spirit. Winning athletic teams al
WAYS bring this about. Until two
or three years ago Techs school
spirit was dead but Centrars has
| never even been asleep. We admit
that they have great athletic teams
but it does not take a scholar to play
football or basketball and many thai
play are far from being such. Ever
| Central constantly defeated Tech un-
til Tech became so superior in num-
| bers q few years ago.
| Column after column of fact:
| could be given but they undoubtedly
| would have no effect.
| However, after this you should
become acquainted with the facts
before you become responsible for
such an abusive editorial as the one
referred to.
This letter expresses the though
of student body as a whole.
Hoping that you by this time real
ize that you have made statement