The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
IN THE
HIGH SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT
Contributed Weekly in The State journal blythe
Journalism Students of T. H. S.

I was silent. Suddenly brilliant
Thought darted into someone's mind,
and he Immediately impaired it to his
| neighbors. Soon pencils were scratch
| ing in all parts of the room. and then
| there was another pause, followed by
a similar inspirational outburst. Final
| ly the bell sounded. and a mad rush
! ensued, in which names were hastily
written without much consideration.
| Still discussing the contest, the stu
dents dashed toward their first hour
classes.
! "Are boys better students than
girls p" was debated at length Friday,
April % by Dale Bartlett and Schyles
Jackson, affirmative, and Florence
| Eaton and Ruth Carswell, negative.
! There is a smaller percentage of
boys on the honor roll but yet the
| honor roll does not contain the names
| of all students. The affirmative con-
tended that boys were deeper thinkers
while girls often bluffed, but the mega
tive answered by quoting statements
from different high school teachers to
the effect that girls are more con-
| scientous than boys and seldom talk
on subject on which they are unln-
! formed. The boys claimed that a girl
spends most of her time putting on
and powdering, while the girls claimed
| a boy spent as much Of his time comb
| ing his hair. "Girls study while boys
| answer the call of the wild stated
one speaker. Her opponent answered
by saying the girls were the call OF
school teachers believed boys were
i better students than girls and vice
! versa, while a number We're neutral:
| The debate was decided in FAVOR OF
the affirmative. but from the in1orrnai
! discussion which followed, one could
easily see the question was unsettled,
The feature of the discussion was
Bernard Hamer, who talked first IN
| favor of the boys, and then saying ne
| had changed his mind, talked in favor
| of the girls.
| The first time I saw him. he was
! slowly emerging from the region Oh
the transmission of his small green
car His long legs came out first,
moved themselves wildly In the air,
| and were soon followed by long wav-
| ing arms. resembling those of 1cha-
| bod Crane and a head, with much
disheveled hair. His race, When
brought to view. proved to be by no
means the least part of him, but
showed a very happy and well-worn
grin on a face not much the worse Tor
| a few feet of grease removed from the
under region of the car.
He pulled up his trouser legs. re
veaIing a few inches of Partisan
striped stockings and proceeded to
dust them off lovingly. With final
wipe of his hands on his trousers, he
got in the car and drove off.
Later I found his character much
like his stockings. A background of
| good humor, with different stripes OF
sudden spurts of studying. various
! times of cutting and never bit of i'll
humor.
| oh, it's nice to get up Monday
| morning at some utterly unearthly
hour. TO brush from your books the
big cobwebs, try to study and labor
and scour. Your brain that's been
idle is clumsy, for you hadn't thought
blossoms before so you firmly resolve
| late any more. But that's easy to say
when you say it. and the next week
end soon rolls around, finding you
| with a bunch of long lessons, by last
Mondays good vow hardly bound. So
the books and the papers lie idle,
! while perhaps you attend good
show; next day you're too busy to
| Then on Monday in class to dear
! teacher you repeat some old moscow
cred tale, that is meant to uphold your
old standing-but it's twenty to two
i that you fail. Now the foregoing
facts are gust general, each case
might be different forsooth; but any
way Mondays the blue day-fellow
sinners, now amt it the truth?
The room was so still the insignifi-
cant disturbance caused by the col
1ision of a pin with the floor could
!, have been heard all over the place.
The very atmosphere conveyed the
: suspense which permeated the room.
. A theme worthy of the brush of
Michael Angelo existed in the stu
! dents bumped over their desks. their