The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-22
High SCHOOL, happenings
Contributed Weekly The State Journal by the journalism
Students of 7. HIS.

The social COmnlIIe0 are TO De cum
graduated on the success of the party
for their good work
Monday, April II, Miss Grace Viii
son, director of the music department,
presented the five cups which were
won at EInporia April Ia.
The orchestra played Hungarian
Dance No. 5, the selection with which
the members took second place at
Emporia.
bows gIee club won first in Glass A,
and as prizes, a silver cup and $50.
The girls gIee club won first, and also
a cup and $35. The orchestra took
second place. and won a cup and $40.
The mixed chorus took first place,
which carried with it a cup and $50.
For having the greatest number of
points, T. H. S. won the big cup
which the orga nizations brought
home last year.
Miss Wilson is planning to buy a
bassoon for the orchestra with the
$3.50 which was won.
Attractive posters have been on the
bulletin board of the north building
for the last tive weeks. The differ
ent classes compete with each other,
trying to have the most attractive
poster.
The poster for the past week was to
advertise the senior party. The girls
and boys of the senior class are called
the Tx and Tox. This Is illustrated
hands pointing to the hour of eight,
the time of the party.
The salesmanship class of T. H. S.
has started to work downtown. Each
student has to work two hours every
other day or six hours on Saturday
The class is divided into halves, one
half goes one day and the other the
next day The students work for the
different department stores down
town
Layton Rice, who started in book
keeping 1 with the regular class, is
now nearly thru bookkeeping II. He
Is taking both terms of bookkeeping
in one term and is doing unusual
work.
Miss Peers fifth hours art class
has started work on leather-tooling.
Leather pocketbooks, bill folds, book
covers and other useful articles are
being made. This is a new phase of
work for the art department and is
said to be more difficult.
The girls of the English VII class
gave a program Wednesday, April 10,
for the boys of the class who have
lors' club. 1.-The King of the Can
nibaI ISLE a clever plaYlet, was given.
Then, with the boys as characters, a
comedy sketch called gathering
boys of the class were described, and
prizes were awarded the boys who
could guess their character correctly
from the descriptions given
The botany and biology rooms are
filled to overlooking with flowers and
fish. The botany students are bring
ing in flowers for analysis, and the
biology students are studying fish
The penmanship classes have been
practicing on fast writing this week.
G. w. Alexander, instructor, explains
letter and figures, the next step is to
learn to write them swiftly. Un=
familiar words are given, which the
students try to write a certain num-
| Der of times in a minute.
DR.. Greider has just finished giving
his several physiology, classes eXamina-
, tons on the senses and special
senses.
Each member of the Junto club, one
of Miss Bixler's English II classes, will
write a paper on a subject chosen
zine published by another of the Eng
lish II classes, will offer first prize
and will publish the prize winner in
the next issue. The "Swastika" news
paper will offer second prize
The T. H. s. advisory council held
it's first meeting Wednesday morning,
April 10, at Sis o'clock for the dis
cussion of student problems Forty
five captains of advisory groups were
present. The council, having not yet
organized, the discussion was led by
Mr.. Cook. Plans were made to raise
| the percentage of students who are
observing bank day by making de-
posits. A list wig be made showing
which rooms are represented by 100
per cent of pupils who are bank de-
positors- Recognition will also be
given to groups having the most stu
dents on the honor roll and those hav-
ing the fewest tardies and absences.
Besides doing work like this. the
council will, in the future, give sug-
gestions for assem- blies. The MEM
organize soon.
The physics II classes are still work
ing on electricity. Mr.. Richards has
performed experiments before the
class on electro-plating the fall of po-
tential along conductor and volt
meter and ammeter.
| These experiments were too difficult
or to expensive for the students to
perform. Next week is the last week
for electrical experiment and every
student must have eight experiments
on electricity finished.
A new trophy case will have to be
installed in the hall of the north build
ing if the students of T. II. S. win cups
| in the future as they have in the past
The case now contains thirty-three
cups and will soon receive five more
that were won in the musical contest
that was held at Emporia recently.
The present trophy case was given
to the school by the class of June '21.
Altho it was made larger than the one
preceding it, it is getting crowded
again.
L f1 n
school for his classes Thursday, show
/ ing the average wage earned by an
uneducated person and that earned
| by the educated person. This chart
( education pays.