Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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Tin'i PAXTOX HIGH SCHOOl REFLECTOR which I nobly aspire.' After you have found your ambition and bravely expressed it, the next thing is meditation. A little solitude is good for a person and will never in- jure him. Weak indeed is he who cannot take a little time once in a while to meditate in solitude, to make resolutions, to think over failures, or to strengthen and build up his char- acter. What will a person ever amount to if he is never happy unless with a crowd of noisy, unambitious people, who care only foi fashion and society! Laughing is all right at times for— Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone.’ So are fashion and society when con- nected with ambition; but it is the unambitiousness of it that I am criti- cising. An ambition—if you don’t know what it is—is a burning, gleaming light, which is foreever walking be- fore you, marking out your course in life, trying to lead you so that you will not stumble over hidden rocks. I believe firmly that everyone is born with an aim in life, but the trouble is that he makes out a false one and follows false lights which give him f’lse pleasures and lead him to a false swamp like the Will-O’-the-Wisp. There he is stranded. Now I will conclude by urging you, O Sophomores, to find an ambition, express it, follow it, in after life. Having done so, there will be no need for you to say, as so many have said before you: “It might have been.” “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these. It migat have been.” Georgia Strebeck, ’ll 5 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS NOTES One of the most important conven- tions held at the University during the school year is that of the two weeks’ course in agriculture and stockmen’s convention held this year from January 16 to 28; and the school for housekeepers conducted at the same time. There is an annual atten- dance of from 800 to 900 representa- tive farmers from all over the state, who assemble here to do practical judging in various lines of agriculture and also to hear lectures by noted men from all over the country who speak both on technical and also on general subjects. This convention is considered a big advertisement for the University in that it enables the ru-al population to see and study the University which later results in the enrolling of the younger visitors at this institution. The Illinois Union, an organization of all Illinois men—recently staged a play with a cast of student talent ex- clusively. The proceeds are to go towmrds erecting, in the future when sufficient money is raised, a club house. In a general way the club house would include: (1) A large living room or parlor for students, alumni and vLstors. „ (2) A suitable place for the meeting of University organizations. (3) A large assembly room for meet- ings, class smokers, etc. (4) A library and reading room. (5) A room for all trophies won in Illinois athletics. (G) Bed rooms and a dormitory for distinguished guests and alumni. Athletic relations in respect to foot- ball will be renewed with Minnesota next fall, wrhen that school will battle with the Illini on the Urbana gridiron November 25. The second annual

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Paxton tfiinh £ rluml iRrflrrtor Published Monthly by the Paxton High School (Office with Eastern Illinois Register) SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copies . ... 10 cents Yearly Subscription .... 75 cents Editors of Sophomore Number, . . . . . Reuben Huxtable, Bessie Kirkpatrick Exchange Editors . Swan Swenson. Ruth McCracken Athletic Reporter . . Prof. C. C. Strickland Business Manager .... Elam Stewart Assistant Manager . . . Wendell McCracken Faculty Adviser .... Mary Gourley CLASS REPORTERS Senior Class. . . Emil Sandstedt. Ruth Kelly Junior Class . . Mabel Larson. Edgar McKegnek Freshman . . Karl Fagerburg. Florence. Cruzen TO THE SOPHOMORES Perhaps, O Sophomores, when you read this query and advice which I have written for your benefit, you will jeeringly exclaim: “Well, why don’t she practice what she preaches? How does she ever expect us to fol- low that dry advice, when she does the opposite? In other words, “Show us the way! Make good. The first thing that I wish to ask you, members of the Sophomore class, is—whether or not you have any am- bition or ambitions. If you haven’t youd better obtain one—maybe it is too late, maybe it isn’t. But you’ll never amount to anything in this world if you haven’t one You’l! drift along with time like the snow drifts with the wind. This is danger- ous; for, the wind may dump you into a ditch where you can’t get out, or it may blow you off the earth. What then? Drifting is at first pleas- ing, but wait until the end comes. Won’t you wish you had had an am- bition ! Secondly. If you have an ambition do you exercise it, use it, aspire to things along your line? If you don’t that ambition will never make much of you. Seize your opportunity and alove all do not hesitate to make it known, no matter how humble it is at first—just so it's honorable. For in- stance: if you wish to be a lecturer, don’t be afraid to talk to the class in Literature when you are a Senior; if you aspire to the rank of a poet, don’t be too modest to sign your name to your verses as some of the Freshies were; if you wish to be a preacher or a teacher, don’t be afraid to preach for that s practice, and “Practice makes perfect”; no—come out and bravely say This is my ambition to

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i6 THE PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR Fall Home Coming of Alumni and visitors will take place at that time. The Board of Trustees of the Uni- versity met recently in Chicago to make out a list of requests to the state legislature for expenditures dur- ing the next two years. The Deans of the various colleges of this institu- tion recently appeared before the Board and explained ».he nature and extent of their needs. At that time the requests in total amounted to very nearly $4,000,000—an amount as one member of the Board expressed it, litterally appalling However, the general belief is that the Board will petition the legislature for a larger amount of money than it has'ever ask- ed for before, being governed by the economic principle of asking for “all the pressure will bear.” At every election in Champaign, the question of the right of students tc vote comes up. Those residents of Champaign, who are on the opposite side of the fence from the majority of the students, always make a big howl about the illegality of the student vote and seek to intimidate the University people by all possible means in an attempt to prevent them from casting their ballot. In the recent election over Commission Form of Govern- ment, those who were opposed to this form sought in every way to threaten the students winning out by a verv small majority. From the day that students come back atfer the Christmas holidays un- til the end of the first semester is a time of fewer social functions, burn- ing of more mid-night oil, and a great- er amount of conscientious work in preparation for a successful ending of the first half year of work. ATHLETICS The main topics in athletic life no v are basket ball and the anticipation of base ball. All of the colleges and most larger high schools are deep in the process of elimination and the season’s victors are now beginning to loom up in the basket ball world. In base ball the larger leaguers are pre- paring for the annual trip south to weed out the undesirables and give all a chance to ‘limber up’. Of course the schools wait until basket ball en- thusiasm dies down before they cad for recruits, but indoor practice for those who want it is in many cases provided and after indoor base bail supplies the deficiency. Below are given most of the scores that have put teams out of the run- ning as ‘would-be’ champions. Indiana triumphed over the Univer- city of Chicago at Bloomington, Ind., Saturday of last week by the score of 22 to 14. At no time in the game did Chicago lead Indiana. Wisconsin 20, Illinois 17. Wabash 39, Notre Dame 21. Illinois 18, Minnesota 17. Bradley Institute 25, Knox College 2.». Lincoln College 19, I. L. N. U. 1G. Illinois Freshmen 30, Northwestern Freshmen 13. St. Vi3ters 91, Onarga 11. Pontiac Y. M. C. A 30, Fairbury 18. Dwight H. S. 59, Pontiac H. S. 13. Lockport H. S. 23, Hyde Park H. S. 15. Hinsdale H. S. 2G, Evanston H S. 22 Evanston H. S. 41, Morgan Park 24. Lake Forest Academy 44, McKinley H. S. 20. Entry blanks have been issued for an indoor athletic meet to be held n the Evanston athletic meet to be held in the Evanston Y. M. C. A. gymna- sium Feb. 10. The meet will include