The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-05
Opportunity

Opportunity
Your job is a drawer in which you
are placed. At first you do not fill
it; but after a time, you do, or you
ought to. Now if you just fill the
drawer and on more it will slide
easily-will it not. Very well, you
just fill your job and no more. There
is no reason why you should be taken
out of it and put into bigger job,
which, you demonstrated that you
cannot fill. Opportunity is not in the
business world-it is yourself. Each
of you have within your being the
source of opportunity if you will but
look for it. That impelling inner
force, which causes you to make an
opportunity right where you are, is
ever present. The will to succeed is
the fertilizer which develops and
strengthens that force which makes
one his own opportunity.-Gregg
Writer.
Our Negative debate team met
Olivia, Thursday, January 20, only to
be defeated. Of course, we should
like to have won; but we realize that
Olivia had some very good debators.
We certainly wish them all the sue
cess possible.
Senior Class Activities
Our Commercial Law class has dis
cussed competent parties in relations
to contracts, the agreements and con-
sideration of contracts. We find
some parts of our Commercial Law
to be very interesting and we can
understand fundamentals in the right
and the wrong way to draw up con-
tract.
The Social Science classes are still
discussing the qualities of our popu-
lation. This last week we discussed
recreation, acquired traits of our po-
pulation, moral ideals, the family
and the school. Our last discussion
was the school and it's various de-
velopments since the colonial days.
Our French II class has studied the
lie Petit Journal for January Is, and
have taken several lessons in our
grammar books the past week.
We have just finished our study Of
Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country
ChurchyarT and will start the per-
iod of New Romanticism in English
Nv.
Junior Class News
Our American History class has
taken great interest in the politics of
the United States during the jack
sonian era.
We have all anticipated in the cleo
ton; put forth our reasons for our
doing so.
This second semester, thus far, has
been a real treat to us Juniors in
English III. Our study has been
centered around the literature of
America up to the Civil War period.
In addition to the regular class
work of the French l class we are
taking up the study of few OF the
French authors.
Sophomore Activities
English finds us continuing our
study of words. Projects are in the
making and each student goes about
with brows deeply furrowed, wonder
ing what sort of cover he should
make.
Projects in Biology too! These,
however, are different type. Mr.
Christensen has given us definite
questions to answer and drawings to
make. Don't take me wrong! These
aren't any easier!.
Revolutions Not South American
ones, indeed no, the one we History
students are interested in are Euro
pean ones. Right at present we are
engrossed in the Industrial Revolu-
ton in England.
In Latin we have come to chapter
six in Caesars first book. 1t deals
with the Helvetians, telling about
their plans and plotting to get q
greater territory. They were selfish
people!
A Look Into Our Commercial
Department
Typing II
Something new! We are going to
have an orchestra, the instruments OF
which will be our typewriters. In
order to ge good typists we must
have rhythm. In order to "get'
rhythm we must type to music. "The
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" is
the selection that has been chosen fol-
our typwriting orchestration for this
project, each one learning series OF
varying movements, combinations.
words and phrases, all fitting into
the common background and giving
the impression of a well-organized
drum corps. The typists will be di-
vided into three sections; the first
group will double the time and with
their staccato notes represent the
piccolo and solo parts. The second
section will play their keys only one
half as fast as the first group, in
other words "play the music" as it is
written. The third group Will strike
only one key for every two beats Of
music thus representing the drums
and altos, or the elmer section" We