Blake School - Reflections / Call O Pan Yearbook (Hopkins, MN)

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CallpyiCn a f 7 n J. xa=bfc f-T y Y9m On the November Honor Roll the Browns added 147 points and the Whites 102. At this time a number of the Browns in the Sixth Form held a meeting and discussed matters, trying to adopt methods that would make their division tlie winning side, for only a short time before, Mr. Newton had announced that the winners would be given an elaborate banquet. This inducement, of course, fired both sides with vim and a determination to win, or at least to give the other side a “ run for their money. ” At the close of the first term, December 20, after adding in the December and the Term Honor Roll points, as well as all Debate scores and the Cross Country Run, it was found that the Browns, for the first time during the school year led with a score of 699 to 550. From then on the Browns held first place, although closely pressed by their worthy opponents, the Whites. On February 6, the score was 828 to 645, the Browns leading. Several debates and extemporaneous speeches were held during February and March, and on March 28 the close of our second term, the score was 1426 to 1015, in favor of the Browns. On coming back after Spring Vacation, the Whites realizing that they only had six weeks in which to win, began a hard, uphill fight for first place, and, incidentally, the banquet. At the time this goes to press, the Browns are leading with a comfortable margin between themselves and their opponents, and unless some unforeseen action on the part of the Whites takes place, the Browns will undoubtedly win the contest, the dinner and the banner. Edwin H. Winter. Pierce Van Dorn. P fi£:f • =• !✓ ? '(H l C ..

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 i fl !W THE LIBRARY We are happy over the setting of our school; we are more than pleased with our building and its equipment; but our crowning glory is our library. To Mrs. M. B. Koon, Mrs. C. C. Bovey, and Mrs. C. I). Yelie, who, in memory of the late Judge Koon, have donated a sum suffiicent to place us at once in possession of a good, working library, we are gratefully indebted. The selections for this nucleus have been most happy. Of reference works there are Nelson's, Appleton’s, and the Americana the last contributed by Mr. G. B. Clifford and numerous lesser, though equally useful, books on science, art, and music. The history student can enjoy not only the familiar Macaulay, Green, Prescott, McCarthy, and Guizot but the more recent Park man, Fiske, Lodge, and Wilson. The “Story of the Nations’' furnishes in an abbreviated form much attractive reading. In addition, there are volumes relating to the intimate life of peoples, both ancient and modern, that offer opportunities for much interesting and profitable reading, besides many entertaining biographies. “The Call of the Wild has a full shelf to itself, books attractive to the average boy, all of them well chosen. Of general literature and fiction full sets, many of them attractively bound, line the shelves; Shakespeare, Cooper, Thackeray, Eliot, Poe, Dickens, Scott, Lowell, and Kingsley. Stevenson, Mark Twain, and Kipling come in for more than .-IT JK A a w 11 J. A Hlrw c • -