The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
THIS WEEKS STAFF.
Editor: Shaler Magaw.
Reporters: First-hour class.


| How these high school students
work. AS an example take two Eng
lish VII students. colleagues on de-
bate Immediately after the subjects
of debates had been posted these en-
! bryo debaters commenced their ses-
sions at the library. For three weeks
| they read references, an endless
stream of magazine articles. Every
day several hours were spent IN this
occupation. The length of time in
icreased as the debate drew near. At
Hast the references were completed.
Then began the work on the brief.
| Rereadings of articles were the chief
feature of this. Finally the debaters
began to write their brief. They be-
gan at four and worked till eleven on
the day before the debate. Neverthe-
less. their speeches still had to be
| worked out from the brief. This con-
sumed four hours more and then one
| of them had to write this story at
three o'clock Monday morning.
The third hour bell rang and he
strobe into the typewriting room with
! a carefree expression. When the roll
| had been called he started to make a
| long and difficult copy. (The rules in
typewriting forbid erasing and mis-
struck letters.) Therefore he began
to CULVER with nervousness. and his
! hands began to shake with fear. This
| Inflated person had nearly finished
! in fact he was writing the last line,
when a desire came for self congrat-
ulation upon his good luck. He did so.
| but in that one exultant moment he
made a mistake. He cast one look to
see where the teacher was, and Selling
that sheet he suddenly wadded it and
sent it half way across the room.
Monday morning the students of To-
peka high school nominal ted by ballot
! most popular boy. and most popular
girl in the senior and sub-senior
class The nomination will in all
probability turn out right as some one
in the classes will get two votes and be
elected.
Crash. Bang. Thump, Into the
/ quietude of room 305 burst an I'M
earthly noise The teacher started
and glanced hurriedly out into the
| hall. She knew that the squeaky old
stairs were freacherously slippery. and
into her mind flashed the memory of
one accident already disastrous to one
member of the school. She dispatched
a boy into the hall post-haste to dis
cover the source o. the racket. and. if
necessary, to pick up the remains of
the unfortunate victim of the. STAIR
case. Two minutes later the rescuer
| returned, grinning broadly. Nothing
serious. 1 guess" he said. TT was
only Sumner Cole sliding downstairs
f Gn his MS heels Sds as he has beeP doing for
The noise had long since ceased.
and once more quiet settled down
! upon the class. The next day no mes
senger was dispatched.
A solitary figure sat at the north
west window of English VI. fourth
hour class in room 305. His head was
tipped comfortably on the back of a
chair and his feet were sprawled aNk-
| wardly on the window sill. His large,
handsome eyebrows were knitted in
deep thought. A chubby finger
swayed rhythmically as an unusually
large mouth whispered these words:
You may spy the fawn at play, the
hare upon the green;
| But the sweet face of LucySGray will
never more be SEEN"
Yes, Willard Jasperson really
learned this poem.
who shall put down for the best
looking boy in scGbol?" For good
ness sake. 1 can't tell who's the most
popular girl, can you %
Excitement grew as the students
racked their brains in an effort to re-
call the faces and actions of theil
senior friends. Only that morninf, tbs
Annual staff had propounded severa
questions of momentous importance
which had to be settled at once. The
answers to these questions were to de
eide who. in the senior and sub-seniol
classes, was the handsomest boy, tht
and the most popular girl. The room