The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

was larger IIdh II mas peeA AoA oSS
eral years.
The journalism classes are busy
working on a double number OF the
World for Christmas. This is the first
time a double issue has been at
tempted in the mid-year and the stu
dents are eagerl looking forward to
an entertaining issue.
Twenty-Five girls of the fourth and
fifth hour gym classes have taken up
the mile marathon. The girls do n't
follow the idea used by the boys, run
ming along Topeka avenue. They fi8-
ured out that fifty times around the
girls part of the gym equals one mile
and they are now using the gym as
their race track.
The members of the high school Y.
W. c. a. cabinet visited the Washburn
meeting, Monday. December 5. The
purpose of the --isit was to see how
other clubs are conducting meetings
and to obtain new ideas. Those who
attended were: Miss Salie Glass, ad-
wiser; Alice Benning, president; Helen
Stoddard; Genevieve Mum; Mar
Neiswanger; Blynn Corwine; Lois
Linn; Lois Gish; Doris Gilmore; Mary
Buck.
A bulletin board has been placed
in the hall on the fourth floor for the
iects. The board was put up at the
suggestion of Mr.. Hendrix, teacher of
penmanship, bookkeeping and sales
manship. Only items pertaining to
the commercial department are to be
posted here. The board will enable all
commercial students to know about all
lectures and meetings of interest to
the commercial department.
The Polytechnic Science club meet
ing was postponed from Wednesday,
December z to December II, because
the announcement failed to appear in
the bulletin. Plans for the stunt to
be given at the all-sehool party have
been formulated and look promising.
Miss Kerr's English V class have a
program for the members every Fri
day. Usually four or five of the stu
dents put on a play, which sometimes
is original. Sometimes speeches are
given and sometimes they go to the
auditorium and have some music
Their orchestra consists of the piano,
drums and a saXophone.
At the meeting of the colored Hi-Y
on Thursday evening, December l, Mr.
Hascall spoke on the Hi-Y work and
presented a plan for the county con-
ference in January. The Hi-Y clubs
Will be the chief hackers of this con-
ference and will have charge. The
delegates who attended the state OIder
Boys Conference at Emporia gave
reports. The boys who attended from
the colOred Hi-Y were: Enoch West,
Archibald Chinn, Goelet Watson, Ar
thur Burton and Doyle Moten.
Each class and organization is to
| have stunt at the all-school party,
December 16. All of this week the
committees have been busy making
plans "Wednesday was the busy day.
The committees of most of the classes
held meetings to plan for the party.
The typewriting department of T.
H. S. is badly in need of some new
typewriters. There are forty machines
in the department now, and half OF
these are in need of repair, Some
are minus keys: on others spacers are
| broken; in general they are in bad
shape. The class would be much
| larger if the department had more
and better machines.
A meeting of the senior class of I.
H. s. was held Wednesday, Decem-
Der z at which time the class voted
to buy new stage drop for the audi
torium. The drop will be used in the
| play THE Fortune Hunter" and will
then be presented to the school.
The proceeds of the Christmas can
tata, which will be given Tuesday
night, December 20, will be. used to
help take the glee clubs and the
orchestra to Emporia next spring.
Last year the music department
gave two entertainments, one in To-
peka and one at Carbondale, to raise
the money. AS both organizations are
larger, this year more money will be
needed to defray expenses.
A vocabulary list of about 10 words
has been made in one of Miss McEI-
roy's physiology classes. The words
pertain entirely to physiology. A bet.
ter knowledge of the subject can be
attained by this method.
Frances Esterly was elected queen
and Albert =. Dyal was elected the
held December 6. This election was
held during the faculty period ,Decem-
ber 8.
All jobs for the printing department
| hereafter must be approved by the
principal Such a large amount of
work has been coming into the shop
| that 1t took the entire class time to
complete it. AS some class work is
desired, Mr. Cook requested that all
for approval Recent jobs calling for
much composition and few copies has
made the ruling necessary.
programs LOT the next term are be-
ing prepared in the faculty groups
The students are to have the desired
programs completed before the Christ
mas holidays as the office force is to
spend that time in arranging the pro-
grams. The reL 1rting period has been
extended to 80 minutes for Thursday
December 7. and Friday, December 8,
to give more time for consultation of
the students with their faculty ad-
visers.
The exchange department of the T.
H S. World has a complete exchange .
list Of high schools and colleges. More
than 200 papers are received as they
are published, and these are filed in
a large cabinet. Nearly every mail
brings a letter from some school that
wishes to exchange publications.
Schools from every state are on the
list althO Kansas has the largest num-
Der.
The T. H. S. orchestra had a group