The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-11

ton work.
The mid-term grade cards will come
out Tuesday, November IA. This COM
pletes the first nine weeks of school,
During the school term unsatisfactory
work cards are given out every three
weeks
A spelling contest was held between
Miss Bernice Fuller's fourth hour
English III class and Miss Ruth
Tuesday.
The public speaking class has been
organized into the Eta Alpha Pi So
ciety. The Officers are: Donald Myers,
president; Harry Old, vice president
and World reporter; Helen Wilson,
secretary and treasurer; Beatrice
Swords, parliamentarian.
Every two week programs are given
by various members of the society.
Fred Baker was chairman of the pro-
gram committee this week The pro-
gram was as follows:
Ilano solo, --..-......- :. . huIh ScheII
Reading .-.-......s.-.-.-E Esther Herleman
Vocal duet ......---..-- Marjorie Martin
keadlng .......-....'......; .Nadine Buck
Piano solo. Charlotte Bailey
Ten experiments are required to
make a passing grade in physics I
for the first half of the first semester.
Twenty are required for q passing
grade at the end of the semester.
Thirty are required for a passing
grade in physics IL for the first half
of the second semester and forty by
the end of the term. According to
VIM. Barnett, instructor, the more ex-
periments handed in before the
semester is over, the better the grade
will be.
A fire drill was held Thursday
morning. The students passed out
spective classrooms. Within two min
utes after the ringing of the alarm,
which consists of three sharp rings
repeated at intervals until the build
ing is vacated. the students We're on
their way back to their classrooms.
drill is to be held once month in all
schools
English teachers have found it
n necessary to require certain students
to purchase pocket dictionaries be-
cause of inability to spell correctly.
Aside from looking up words which
they cannot spell, they are required
to add new words daily to a vocabu-
larry list.
Topeka's high point man for the
first five games is a lineman, instead
of backfieId player Walter John
son, end on the high school eleven.
leads his teammates with "a points.
Johnson scored four touchdowns. He
is Closely followed by Captain Boyd,
halfback. Boyd has made % points
for the school. All but six of these
points resulted from his accurate
kicking. Three field goals. one touch
down and eight goals after touch
downs gave Captain Boyd his points.
Grotewohl. quarterback. has three
toAchdowns to his credit, giving him
Is points. Brewster, end, and Taylor, |
fullback, each made six points from
scoring a touchdown In the five |
games. Topeka has lost two games and
won three, with II points to their OPP
ponents' 81.
The sixty-yard dash was run by the |
boys in the physical education classes
last week. Coach Hurt said that the |
record was not equaled by anyone.
Those who made the best time in each |
class were: First hour, Howard |
rhorne, 71-5 seconds; second hour, |
hour, Henry Kastin and Kenneth |
Oglesvie, each running it in seconds; |
fourth hour. Gerald Lees and Emmett |
Cook, who made it in Z 2-5 seconds
The high school journalism classes
are making reports on newspapers. |
These reports must contain five hun |
1red works each. This report must |
printed. The subscription rates, num- |
Der of pages, quality of news, book |
reviews, literary, musical and dra-
NAUTICAL criticisms and editorials are
4 few of the things which must be |
on.
The winners of&he essay contest on
My Home Town" have been an
Fort Scott. SECOND to Dodge City; I
third to KincaidJ and fourth to Abb
lene.
NAll he
signed to the civics class. The students
will report on two during the term.
The World exchange editors have a
way to keep track of theH
papers which come in from otheril
schools. A set of filing cards hasil
been. arranged. These cards will bell
kept in alphabetical Older which will
make the checking much easier forll
the exchange editors. II
The sub-senior< and the junior
classes voted for candidates for the
nesday, November s. Each class has
two on the editorial staff and two on
the business staff. The sub-seniorS
elected Dean Perry and Philip Lewi5
for the editorial work, and Ralph /
Fisher and Donald Myers for the BUSH |
ness The juniors elected Alice Benz |
ming and Madeline Stewart for thR /
editorial staff, and Ernest Stanly and !
Tom kiene for the business staff. The /
four editors and the four business /
managers will elect a chief for each I
The physiology classes, under the !
direction of DR.. Grieder, examined a \
section of the human brain Thursday /
9. The section was pre-
sented to- DR.. Grfeder by a physician \
who lectured to the abnormal pAy-i
choIogy class of Washburn college I
night school
About five thousand tickets for the I
Little symphony concerts have been !
Sold in tie Topeka public schools and I
college
"A half-hour program given yester- +
day afternoon, by the high school or J