Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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PERCY J. NEAL, Editor Telephone Piedmont 3121 EARL PARRISH, Business Manager Telephone Berkeley 15 4 EDITORIAL STAFF Gordon Luke Assistant Editor Marguerite Boone Literary Editor Elizabeth Glenn Organizations Fred Ostrander Athletics Ed Valentine Joshes Stanley Arendt Exchanges Harry Harvey Art Richard Stephens Art Frank Darrow Art Joseph Jacobson Art BUSINESS STAFF Robert Stevenson Herbert Mich els Steven Corgiat Carrol Kaufman Gibbert Foote Kursey Griffiths Circulation Manager The 011a Podrida is published at Berkeley, Califor- nia, by the students of the Berkeley High School. Sub- scription rates, twenty-five cents per term ; single cop ies, ten cents. Address all communications to Editor or Manager, Berkeley High School. Entered at the postofifice at Berkeley, Cal., as sec- ond class matter, January 29, 1909. Advertising rates: Page, $10.00; half page, $5.00; quarter page. S3.00 ; one inch, SI. 00. 12

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The closing- number last term contained an account oi nearly all the concerts. The band concert was something fine, the climax of a long series of rehearsals. We owe much to Ir. Ernest LaSelle, for its occasional noon concerts are but a small part of the work the band is doing for the school. On Wednesday, December 14th, Miss Ruth Smith. ' a B. ]i. S. girl, and Miss Dorothy Brooks gave a piano recital that Vv-as received with great enthusiasm. The duets were particu- larly enjoyed. The ten minutes added to the noon period this term will be i: help to the concerts, for the time was too short. Among the important concerts of the near future is one promised by the famous Boys ' Band of the Lockwood School, Oakland. Mr. Herbert von Meyerinck has promised a clarionet recital, ] Ir. Kurt Steindorf one for the violin. Several piano recitals of high class are booked, among them one by Miss Lois Porter of the King Conservatory of ] Iusic, San Jose. All will remember how she took the school by storm last February. We are also looking forward to a program by the B. H. S. Boys ' Quartet, to be given in a few weeks. 11

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OLLA PODRIDA In the last regular issue of the Olla Podrida an editorial was published in which the need of student control of school affairs was sadh ' deplored. Since that time a system of stu- dent control has been inaugurated which corresponds to a great extent in form and execution to the Federal Government of the United States. The crying need of Berkeley High School we believe has been supplied. In his remarks to the graduating class of December, 1910, the Hon. Beverly Hodghead made the statement that the only leason that the democratic spirit of our Union would never develop oligarchical tendencies, and finally end in a monarchy, was because we had founded our doctrine on the correct basis, h.nd this basis was the education of the masses. Berkeley High School is one of the institutions in which the masses are being educated, in which the genius of the .American government is supposedly being inculcated into the ' ery hearts and lives of the growing young men and women, the future citizens of the United tSates. AVithin the walls of rhe educational institutions of our land are supposed to dwell miniature democracies. The government pa3 ' s millions annu- ' lly to support institutions in which to educate its young to Lecome democratic citizens later in life. And yet too often it is the case that these institutions become the most monarchical establishments of our country. Often this condition is due to a despotic supervision of the school ' s affairs by the facult} ' . lore often it is due to the con- trol of affairs by a few students who by their popularity have placed themselves at the head of their fellows. Both of these cases have existed at times in Berkeley High, and too often has a deplorable condition of aft ' airs been reached, due to the limited voice of the students in the government of the school. A e believe now that a solution to the problem of student control in Berkeley High has been found. AA ' e believe that the system which the students have decided to put into eft ' ecr this term is the right one, as far as the working and the vdti- 13