Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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n THE SPECTATOR The Exchange. - Reviewed H HAPPY and prosperous New Year to all our exchanges! May a creditable “leap” among all of you justify the name of the year of 1904. Surely, if you all begin this year and thus continue as you ended the last one, it will be but a short time until school papers take the place of other magazines in the home. Why should it not be so ? Parents send their children to high schools and colleges, and should certainly know, above many other things, what they are able to do and what their schools are doing. Of course we expect the Christmas issue of any magazine to be its best, but there should not be so general and marked difference between it and other issues. The general cheerfulness and good-will that precedes the joyous season of Christmas, we were glad to note, ran through many of our exchanges. Many interesting short stories wound about Christmas were chiefly the cause of this fact, and took away from the papers that dullness which any paper is so apt to fall into when no special season is at hand. The Mercury (Milwaukee, Wis.) seems to be particularly fortunate in securing a number of short but interesting Christ- mas stories whose plots seem rather well handled. “A Trag- edy” is indeed clever, and in its ending is a humorous touch of skill. Whatever may be the cause, too much space is given in the Wilkesbarre High School Journal to childish personals, although under various topics. The Monitor, evidently a new paper this year, makes a good and earnest beginning. We wish it a prosperous exist- ence. An attractive cover, together with sensible material inside makes the Courant a good paper. However, the advertise- ments might be more abbreviated to suit the size of the paper.

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i6 THE SPECTATOR promises to be a very interesting, entertaining, and elaborate affair: Piano duet, Freda Haller and Clara Thomas; three- minute talks, William Grove and William Elder; vocal solo, Maud Boyer; declamations, Emma Sheeler, Faye Fearl, and Mary Kruger; original oration, Thomas Nokes; selected ora- tions, Maud Countryman and Robert Gipe; violin solo, Roy Galbreath. The committee in charge of the arrangements of this program are Clara Thomas, Roy Cunningham, Maud Boyer, and Robert Entwisle. At a meeting held shortly before the holidays, the fol- lowing members were elected to perform on the T. K. E. anniversary meeting, which will occur on February 22d : Dec- lamations, Ada Wertz and Emily Bauer; three-minute talks, Florence Berkey and Anna Liebold ; political oration, Ephraim Alwine; selected oration, Emma Riale; anniversary oration, Ernest Cohoe; T. K. E. oration, Margaret Trent; salutatory essay, Hilda Berkey. It is indeed needless to speak on this occasion of the merits of this fine program, for the members elected alone represent its excellent worth, while the following appointed committees are very efficient: the arrangement com- mittee, Robert Sagerson, Russel Blauch, Clara Suppes, Freda Brixner, Ethel Pinder, and George Stammler; and the music committee, Hilda Berkey, Katherine Endsley, and Ralph Butler. Near March 24th the Emerson Literary Society will cele- brate its Easter anniversary meeting. The participants had not been elected when this issue of the Spectator went to press, although a committee was at work arranging advisable plans on which the society might act. Again we were disappointed in not having the inter-society debate which was to have occurred on December 18, 1903, but which, after being postponed several times, was finally dropped from our programs. The question which is now before the senior societies is: “Resolved, that, in the interest of the other nations, the encroachments of Russia in the East should be checked.” We trust that this debate will find interest enough to be carried before the two senior societies for dis- cussion. Sagerson (in English)—A bout is a small prize fight. M.----(in German) Marietta whined bitterly. Miss McAdams (in English) What was a coffee-house ? Hager—A sort of cheap restaurant.

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THE SPECTATOR 18 “David Preston, Attorney,” in the Mirror (Central High School, Philadelphia), is an exceedingly well written story with a good plot. We congratulate the Mirror upon its excel- lent exchange column. It is truly as interesting as any story, and far surpasses in this line the dull exchanges of some other papers, whose only object seems to be to ac- knowledge the receipt of exchanges. Some papers still fail to see the benefit of an exchange column. With due appreciation of all other exchanges received, we regret that we cannot mention the interesting or weak points of all. We notice the photographs of many of the school foot-ball teams as supplements in their December issues. Have a look at them, High School, and see whether you would like to try a game with them next fall. H. B., ’04. Athletic. in High School TITfl ITH the f°otba11 season a thing of the past, we can now turn all our attention and surplus energy to indoor winter sports, basketball especially. As regards the general interest which High School takes in this sport, it stands second only to football. ! Although track athletics and baseball received quite an impetus last spring—relay racing in the Carlisle Interscholastic Meet, and base- ball in which we unmercifully snowed the Quakers under—football and basketball still stand preeminent in the list of High School athletics. From present indications there is reason to believe that this year we will have a record-breaking basketball team, even better than the one which won the Johns- town Basketball League trophy, which now adorns the study-hall. During the recent vacation was played what might be called the first official game of the season. This game, which was played in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, took place between a team composed of ex-members of High