The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-05
High School Happenings
Contributed Weekly The State Journal by the journalism
Students of T. II. S.
Acting E;ditor-Arlo Stewart.
Reporter-F1fth Hour Glass.

Acting Editor-Arlo Stewart.
Reporters-F1fth Hour Glass.
The Honor Roll for the last semes-
ter lists the names of 221 high school
students Sixteen girls and two boys
received all Els. IL girls and 23 boys
received no grades below VIC, and IS
girls and 81 boys grades averaged
VIC. 1t was found that the seniors
lead the other students of the school
in the making of high grades. The
other classes follow in order. the
freshmen at the bottom of the list
The following are the students who
received no grades below f.
Allison, Madge Linn, Lois
Bates Lorraine Mills, Evelyn
Peck Marion Mum, Marjorie
brewster Anna Naylor, Ruth
CoblentZ, Orhan Rosenberg, Dorothy
Fisher Lucille Rosenberg, Helen
Frost, Betty Stanley, Ernest
Gardner, Inez Tippen, Elizabeth
Gardner, Margaret,
On Thursday, March 3, the debat-
ing club held a meeting to discuss a
new name. After a heated discussion,
the name 1Athenian" was adopted.
Tom Thomas, who was to give a talk
on his sailor life, moved the talk be
postponed until a later meeting be-
cause the discussion had taken SO
much of the time. The meeting was
then adjourned.
A new plan is to be tried in Mrs
Terrills first hour French IL class.
The class is to be divided and one part
will study Roux, a French reader, in
which the entire class started study,
and the other division will study
French history.
Vice Principal c. H. Hepworth has
assumed the duties of r. r. Cook,
principal, during his absence. begin
ming last Monday. Principal Cook, to-
gether with Superintendent of Schools
4. ]. Stout, is attending a convention
of educators at Atlantic City. New
Jersey. They will return the first part
of next week.
Fifth Hour Press club was organ
lied Friday by the fifth hour journal
ism class. The following officers were
elected:
Garrett Porter, president.
Arlo Stewart, vice president.
Francis Bond, secretary.
Jeanne KoontZ, treasurer.
Sharon French, sergeant
The girls of the T. H. S. Y. w. C. A.
held recognition services March 1 for
the new members of the club. The
candle service was used. After this
films on Your Country, Your Town,
and Your Girls and Feet Folly"
were shown. Thirty-e eight girls at
tended the meeting.
The senior play committee and class
advisers, with Miss Schoonover, have
decided~on "Billeted'' as the play they
will recommend to the senior class for
consideration for a senior class play.
The committee chose '.Billeted" out of
ten plays that were considered. Miss
Schoonover will give an Interpretation
of the play to the class before the class
votes as to whether they wish to ac-
cept it.
There are really four leading charac-
ters, two boys and two girls, besides
five other characters.
Interesting talks were given at the
regular meeting of the Polytechnic
Science club held March 2 in room AZ.
Noel Kitteli, director of chemistry,
talked on the commercial manufac-
ture of carborundum. The method of
making this product and the furnace
and by-products were fully discussed
as well as the utilization of carborun-
dunn in the mechanical world.
The director of physics, Shaler Ma
gaw, gave an interesting illustrated lee
ture on atmospheric pressure. He
showed the action of a barometer un-
der reduced pressure using water
pump to create a partial vacuum. The
pressure 9xerted by the atmosphere
was further illustrated by using the
Magdeburg hemispheres. Altho the
method for producing the vacuum was
not good. two of the strongest boys in
the club worked for some time before
they were able to separate the two
hemisphere.
An experiment and discussion was
given by Howard Smith on osmosis.
This was shown by using an egg and
also a parsnip with one end in red
ink. The real value and application
OF osmosis was shown.
The Radio club has merged with the
Science club. Several new members
picture was taken, so the club decided
to have another picture taken Friday,
March 4, on the state house steps.
The board of directors and the pro-
gram committee had a short meeting
after the club adjourned.
The predominating feature of the
work of the French club this term is
the dramatization of one-act plays
taken from familiar episodes of
French life. Two of the series have
already been presented during the
class hour for the other members of
the club.
Mrs. Terrill. instructor in the
French department, feels that the
work has proved a great success, in
lAidI II ueNefOpS an ease III speaking
the foreign language for those taking
part in the plays and aids the other
club members to understand French
when it is spoken correctly.
The next play to be given will be
''Trieze a Table" at the performance
of which all the French students of
the city will be invited to attend.
Thru the courtesy of The Topeka
State Journal another column of the
Saturday issue. is devoted to stories