Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-19
CONY HIGH NOTES

An important meeting of the Stu
dent Council was held Friday morn
ing at which an amendment to the
constitution and bylaws of the
council was adopted. This amend
ment provides that when student
wins the school letter for participa-
ton in one of the major sports, he
shall be given a school sweater. This
applies only to the first letter earned
by each student. A track man to
win the sweater must have won a
point or fraction of a point at one of
the college invitational meets or
must have been on a winning relay
team at one of these meets. He may,
however, as formerly, win letter at
Joint meets with other schools.
fine talk was given at the school
Friday morning by A. II. MacCor-
mick, alumni secretary of Bowdoin
college. Mr.. MacCormick spoke on
his associations with prisons and
prisoners. His talk was based ON
terms which he had served volun-
tarily in Thomaston and later in
Portsmouth with Thomas Mott Os-
borne. He told many stories about
his experiences in these prisons and
also explained the two different sys-
TENS which are used in different
prisons. These systems are the
"trusty' system and the Prisoners
Welfare League system. In the first
system a prisoner promises that he
will be on his best behavior in re-
turn for some good job which the
warden gives to him. He is therefore
accountable to the warden only. In
the other system all the prisoners
who are formed into a league, prom
ise to do good and in return prison
life is made easier for them all.
Here, if one prisoner does not keep
his word it reflects on all and he is
accountable, to his friends more than
to the warden. This moral obliga-
tion carries much weight as is seen
when one stops to reflect that in
more than one case prisoners have
been momentarily overpowered by
the desire to escape and afterward
they have returned to the prison of
their own free will as it did not seem
to be treating their comrades
square" This system was originat-
ed by Mr.. Osborne.
Charles Whiting gave a fine talk
on the "Cony Cue" The campaign
for this paper will be started Mon
day and already much rivalry has
developed between the different
rooms to see which has the largest
proportion of members as subscrib-
Of
has announced that they will give
a. subscription to the teacher in
charge of each room which has 100
per cent subscription list.
A spelling match was recently
held at Cony. One hundred and
sixty-seven words were given, few
each day. and the different rooms
were graded according to the aver
age for the whole room. A fine
showing was made as is shown by
the following list which gives the
rooms in the order in which they
finished and the names of the stu
dents who missed less than 10
words. 1t might be well to say that
the students in room 27 are seniors.
The list follows: 1st, Room e7- l..
1cWllt, L, L. otdpieS' ! iI' tii hCi' ,
=; l.. Hayden, 3: o. SOule, 3: E. Tay-
lor, 3: T.. Dutton, 4 A. Hendee. q:
D. Merrill. 4: r. Folger, s. NJ. Dam
ren, 6; ID. Giddings, 6: d. Herrick,
6: w. Getchell, 6; E. Glidden. Z; n.
Hanks, {: E. Nelson, Z; D. Goddard.
S; d. Perkins. s; d. Treworgy, 8; w.
True .; and c. Whiting .. End,
Room OR. Merrill, 5; +. Morgan,
s; b. Va&ney, 8; V. Currier, .. 3rd'
Room 34-E,. Gray. 3; j. Bunker. 8:
{. Brown. .. 4th, Room lid.
Cairns, 3: f. Cloutier. 6; NJ. Chap
man. 7. 9TH, Room 32-R. Higgins,
= l.. Sears, 6: NJ. Hickey, 9; A.
Faulkner, Q. 9Th. Room &c. Ian
der. 6; II. Rogers. s. 7th, Room 7
!. Young. s: L. Willett 9. Sth, Room