Smyrna times., 1919-09-17
ADOPT StLF-GOVERNMtNT
At SMYRNA HIGH SCHOOL
FIVE CLUBS ELECTED AND OR
CANNED BY STUDENT BODY.
u. o." Club; Agricultural Club: Lit
erary Club; Household Arts Club
and Faculty CIub.-NOtes.

and Faculty CIub-Notes.
Inc principle which underlies al
student activities is that student,
learn to do by doing. The period OF
High School age is particularly ia.
vorable to the developement of self.
government because of the FOLLOWING
characteristics: Gregariousness. al.
trulsm, restiveness under restraint
Since the nature of the student is
fundamentally social, his highest de-
velopment can only be obtained
through cooperative activity. The
immediate aims which PROMPT self
government are the following: Self
control, self reliance, initiative. adap-
tlbility, leadership, spirit of co-opera-
tion, the ability to see the other side
OF a question, the sense of personal
and group responsibility, the respect
Tor law and order or sense of distinc-
ton between liberty and license. and
the high ideals of citizenship leading
to the active participation in COM
munity life. The general aims are
social efficiency, better school spirit.
and better community spirit. 1t is
therefore, the duty and opportunity
OF the High School, (D to teach pu-
pills to perform better those desirable
activities that they will perform any,
way; (2) to reveal higher types of
these activities, and to make them
both desired and, to some extent pos
slble; (3) to see that each member
OF the school participates in such of
these activities as will best sui6 his
interests, aptitudes, abilities, and
needs; (4) to give to each individual
student that training in, moral, social
and civic efficiency which is necessary
of the democracy of the school, and
which will later make for the de-
mocracy of the U. S.
Clubs Organized by the Student Body.
The following Clubs have been or
ganized by the student body: Gen
eral Organization Commonly called
the G. o., composed of the entire stu
dent body. The purpose of this or
ganization is to stimulate good whole |
some school spirit. Any matter of
general school policy may be brought
up for discussion in this body. The |
officers elected by the students are:
President, Richard Long; Vice-Presi-
dent, Cornelius Tilghman; Secretary,
Pauline Pryor; Treasurer, Miss Kulp;
Board: Miss Maxwell. Miss
Kulp, Pauline Pryor Richard Long.
Agricultural Club: President, Ronald
Stevens; Secretary, Charles King;
Advisory Board: Miss Kulp, Mr.. K.
S. Covey, Ronald Stevens, Charles
King. Literary Club-President.
Helen Shapley; Secretary, William
Patterson; Pianist, Doris Nichols;
Advisory Board-Miss Maxwell, Miss
Helen Shapley, William Pat
,erson. Household Arts CluB-Presi-
lent, Doris Nichols; Secretary, Helen
Shapley; Vice-President, Elizabeth
Scotton; Advisory Board-Miss Ethel
irieves, Miss Kulp. Faculty Club
President, Mr.. X. S. Covey; Secre-
ary, Miss Maxwell; Executive Com
Grieves, Miss Maxwell
Hiss Holland.
Recommendations are Being Urged.
We especially recommend the ac-
ivities which lead to an appreciation ,
f the town in which the school is I
Ocated, and which help the towns :
eOple to cooperate with the school
nd appreciate the work which it is
ding; We recommend the common
Orm of athletics, with the emphasis
n interclass contests. We want to
ee a larger percentage off the bleach
rs and on the field; We recommend '
nat school credit be given for debat- I
lg and such project work as is adj c
4uately prepaTed;' We recommend !
le usual musical activities with equal n
nance for girls and boys; We re-
ommend a school paper with a large ,
egree of freedom for the editorial ,
aft, in that it may best express the :
)irit of the school.-C.W.W Schantz. u
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