The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-15
High School Happenings
Contributed Weekly The State Journal by journalism
Students of T. H. S.
Robert Akers, Editor.
Fifth Hour Glass, Reporters.


Fifth Hour Class, Reporters.
More than 1000 copies of the T.
H. S. annual have been sold, and one
half of this number has been paid
for. The subscriptions for the first
day totaled 9SS.
There are thirteen rooms which
subscribed 100 per cent The teach
ers of these groups are: Miss Ansel.
Miss Ewing, Miss Wolfe, Miss Bishop,
Mr.. Greider. Mrs. Shortt, Miss NOEL
roy, Mrs. Terrill. Mr.. McSparran. Mr..
Dickson. Mr.. Richards and Miss Hunt.
The girls of the domestic art classes
are selecting costumes for a fashion
show which will be given in assembly.
April %. The costumes will show
the correct way in which high school
girls should dress. The domestic art
classes and the Y w. C. A have
charge of the program.
Alice Benning was elected president
of the Y. w c. A. for next year at
a meeting held Tuesday, April IL. The
other officers elected were Mary Stitt,
vice president; Gladys Magill, secre-
tary; Virginia Scholle, treasurer. The
annual reports of all the committees
were read.
Members OF the scribblers' club
spent the class hour Thursday, writ
ing for the Scribblers' magazine. Each
IleIlDGE
contribute an original idea, which
might be of use in compiling the
magazine.
An Easter party will be given Fri
day, April IA, by the sub-junior class.
The program the first part of the
evening will consist CT dancing, and
the last part will be old fashioned
games and Easter egg hunts.
Eight members of the Athenian
club are planning to try out for the
debate team which will meet a team
from Kansas City early in May. The
first try outs will be held Thursday
afternoon, April 81. in room 81.
A different method in trying out
for the debate team is being used by
the Athenian club. The members who
desire to try out are given. a place on
a debate team and take part in a de-
bate. Those making the best showing
in the debate will be. chosen for the
inter-schooi debate
The senior party will be given Fri
day, April 21. The arrangements
have not been completed but an ex-
ceptionally good program is expected.
The Spring Frolic put on by the
sub-seniors Thursday evening, April
10, was one of the most successful!
parties this class has given. An hour
was spent in dancing, and the remain
der of the time in a program and
games.
Miss Effie Hand has returned to
Topeka high school TO resume her
duties as a teacher in the mathe-
mates department Miss Addie Gel
ger took her place in her absence.
when Miss Hand was injured last year.
Several of the teachers will be out
of town for the Easter vacation. Miss
Wilson is to be in Emporia, Miss
Boughton, Mrs. Short, Miss Minnie
Stewart. Miss Elmore and Miss Ewing
will spend the holidays in Kansas
City.
E. H. Scott of the Capper Publ
cations will speak to the fifth-hour
Journalism class next week. Mr..
Scott is a. former member of the staff
of the Chicago Tribune.
At the assembly on Thursday April
10, Darius A. Brown was the speak
err. Mr.. Brown is a graduate of T. H.
s.. a Kansas City, Missouri, lawyer
and former mayor of Kansas City.
Missouri. He is now connected with
work. The boys glee club
opened the assembly with 'Coppah
Moon"
The geometry III classes are max
ing another set of figures. The re-
CURED figure is difficult to construct.
IL IS composed OF three SoIld tr1angleS
which must fit together in such a
manner that they will form a triangu-
lar prism.
Miss Crawford's Spanish II classes
have finished their work in the gram
mar and are now using Harrison's
Spanish Reader, which is composed of
short stories, jokes and riddles.
What is Life and Education was
the subject OF an interesting talk given
in the high school auditorium on
April IL, by DR.. d. w. Kurtx
president of Mcpherson college. The
sneaker said that hecausa education