The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16
HIGH SCHOOL GAL ONE -. /.
Vernon Eldred, Editor
Fifth Hour Glass, Reporters.

days at Topeka high school. The
shortened periods were adopted be-
cause of the exceedingly hot weather
and the Kansas Free fair. On Mon-Hi
day, September Is. the students of the
Topeka high school returned to their
regular sixty-ninute periods.
Tuesday. September 5, the opening
day of school. new students of To-
peka high school were furnished with
a copy of the Answer Book, a little
booklet compiled by the faculty. This
booklet is well named for it answers
practically every question presented to
the new student concerning the To-
peka high school. The location of the
class-rooms, the significance of the
various bells. various school orga MIA
lions, and everything that will be of
aid to the incoming student are clearly
and concisely told.
Eight letter-men of the football
squad are back at Topeka high school
this year. They are: Boyd (captain),
Graefe, French. johnson, R. Carr. Jol-
ley Carmain and Hall. In addition
to the eight letter-men. Coach Hurt
| has some good material in sixty-five
| new second string men,
Psychology is proving extremely
popular with students this term. Psy-
chology classes taught by Mrs, nellie
Terrill, now in Room 203, are filled to
capacity and Mr.. Cook has ordered
that no more enrollments can be ac-
copied. This term is the third term
that Mrs. Terrifl has taught psychol-
| ogy in Topeka high school.
| In Miss CaIvert's room there is a
variety of mathematics There is one
class each of trigonofnetry and algebra
III and three classes of geometry.
In the trigonometry class students
are studying logarithms and the func-
| lions of a triangle. The week of Sep
Etember IS the geometry I students will
be laying out roads with compasses
| and protractors.
New magazines are now being or
| dered for the library. Forty one maya
zines were subscribed to last year.
Listed among these were: American
Cookery, American Forestry, Ameri-
B, can Historical Review. Art and Archie
| ology, The Century, Classical Weekly,
| Drama, Fashion and Dress Good
! Housekeeping, Modern Priscilla, Mu-
steal Courier, Popular Science. Scien-
| tificl American, System, Theater Maya
zine, Current Opinion and Century.
An essay contest offering prizes
| amounting to $500 in cash, is open to
all high school students of Kansas.
The subjects of the essays are: my
Home Town" Fire Prevention"
Duties of the Mayor" and Civic
| DuIleS OF a h1Sn SCHOOL It.
| In length they may range from 1900
to 1000 words. The object of the
! contest which is being forwarded by
| the League of Kansas Municipalities,
is to secure city government, and to
educate a more responsible body of
| citizens. Students desiring to enter
this contest may obtain further infor-
nation in Room 305.
Locker keys were in great demand
| the first afternoon of school. More
students than usual thronged the
| south assembly hall between the hours
of 1880 and $3.50 o'clock. AS there are
not enough lockers for each student
to have one, the lockers are assigned
to pairs of students.
Miss WoIcott's botany classes are
studying weeds now. They learn the
correct names, characteristics and
habitats of twenty-five or more weeds.
] insects. They plan to make a trip soon
into the country or to Gage park and
Central park, for the purpose of gath
ering insects for the collections each
student is required to make.
Topeka high school made a good
| showing this year at the fair when the
art department won the third prize of
$50 in cash. The first prize was won
by University of Kansas and the sec
L
The art II class voted that the money
should be spent for Improvements in
the art room. A committee was elected
to select curtains for the windows and
cabinets, paint for the boards on
which the best work is hung. A COM
rnittee of eight vas appointed to make
heavy parchment shades for the lights
in the room.
Miss Grace Wilson's music classes
CT rfa in
are sixty-five students in the orches
ira class. This is an unusually large
class, and in spite of the fact that
the ajority of the students are in
prospects for an excellent organiza-
ton are bright, according to Miss VII
son.
The boys and girls glee clubs were
successful in taking first place at the
contest at the Kansas Free fair Tues
day night. Each club won first prize,
which was $40. The clubs will use
the $50 to aelp pay for the trip to
4 Emporia this spring. Tryouts for new
members will be held soon.
All history classes are filled this
year In Miss Maud Hulse's history
w class there were at first thirty
seven students, the number has now
been reduced to thirty students Every
Pupil is required to have two years of
history, so the classes are unusually
large this term.
The Topeka high school cafeteria
was remodeled and refinished extern
,sively during the summer vacation. All
the woodwork and tables and chairs
were re-varnished. The floors were
given three coats of paint. A val
liable addition to the cafeteria is the
new electric potato peeler. The ma
chine is capable of peeling 200 pota-
toes in thirty minutes. The large po-
tato nasher and mixer already in use
was remodeled.
Miss Baker stated that the cafeteria
would serve about 500 pupils a day
when school was in regular session.
Sewing classes are busily engaged
4 in discussion and notebook review.
Real work begins the first week of
regular periods