The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-30
cOIN THE SCHOOLS OF BRIDGEPORT 01
HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTERS
By PEDDA COG.

The official H. $. periodical, 'sThe
 Criterion,' is scheduled to make its board, aided and abetted by Miss Ruth Everett, again elected Faculty
 Advisor, will adhere to the style of
 the past three seasons. The .'Criter- iOn'' will be issued as in the past, in
 newspaper form. As yet the board is
 undecided concerning the adviSabiI-
 ity of publishing the Literary Supple nlent, which organ has been a vehicle. for the literary efforts of the students. Not entirely successful last season,t it's publication seems to many to be an inadvisabIe venture.
 The Debating club entertained it's members with it's first debate of the
 season; the subject discussed was. the value of gymnasium work The
 negative speaker dropped a bombsheli
 into the affirmative camp when he
 sprung his argument
 He pointed out that under present
 conditions the students were recelV- ing but 80 minutes a week tuition in gymnasium work, and that only 40
 minutes period was devoted to this work. This, he maintained, allowed the participants hardly time enough to set to their positions and fairly inn mersed in their work. The gymna- sium work itself is strenuous, what there is of it, according to the speak CT. Denied, and this was the big
 point, the benefit of locker room and
 changes of clothing, the gym worker must needs dash back to his next class after the gym period closes, covered with grime and precipitation. since he is also prevented by the l zhortness of time to properly cleanse himself in the showeT-bath-
 Thereafter throughout the day the perspiry gym worker is an object o1 the dark glances of his classmates, who lose little tim ein widening the space be, ,ween the offensive one ana the offended. Not only are the per sons who are subjected to the melo- dorous presence offended, but the source of the nuisance is in imminent danger of catching serious cola. Friday morning dawned on the finest assembly it has been the good fortune of the high school pupils 10 | witness since the school year Dgsans ns
 Mr. Alvin BrueI in his usual role oi leader of the group singing was the | feature of the program, varied anu interesting as 1t was 1t seemed 70 us as though the 1900 young voices | hoobed out tine harmony with Httle
 more melody and dash than hereto fore.
 crack athlete, made his debut as an extenlporaneous speaker during the assembly. Rays efforts to inspire his | schoolmates into Wholehearted | boosting of the football team and the
 new coaching regime met with suc- cess desrpuite the grid hero"t appar- | ent dislike of the spokesman's role. Rays brief experience on the roStfuhi | evidently convinced him that as an 1 oratorLc fs the best broken field run-
 ner on the football team. Rev. Dr. Eakins, formerly of | Bridaeport but now loccupyina a
 Hartford pulpit, was the speaker of 1 the occasion His talk was appre- ciated by an interested audience. Hy students were given their first opportunity to test their vocal equip uleut when the cheer-leaderS took I advantage of the slightest opportunity l to leap upon tho d1as where, amid a | wild waving of arms. the thunder of l 300 voices expressed in no uncer- tain tones their approval of things in general.
 May these 1eather-lunged cheerers | appear en-nasse at the Ansonla- | Bridgeport football tilt today. The l concensus of opinion seems to point l toward a hectic session in the Housa- 1 tonic River town when the Park City That the football team will need more than the moral and vocal support of l it's rooters seems certain,
 Ansonia is out to avenge itself for l the handsome trimming it received in l1e18 at the hands of the Red and l Black cohorts; that, the up-r1ver lads are possessed of about the best high | school eleven in the state is a fore | gone conclusion. We prophecy a busy l afternoon for the Bridgeport team. Dean Margaret Veronica Riley, tc l prefix her new title, is firmly eStab-
 Iished in her private office, third hool back. The Dean Is on the job througi
 both sessions attending to the needs