Attica High School - Crimson Yearbook (Attica, IN)

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E l i l I l i TI-IE CRINISON and high school teachers are members ol the Annual Educational Conference held at the University: 149 our high school has the privilege oi sending can- didates to take part in the prize examinations in Latin, Greek, Mathematics and English, the prize being a scholarship covering the tuition tees in the Universitytor one year: i57 our high school may send two representatives, one boy and one girl, to compete in the Annual Declamation Contest at the University, the prize being a scholarship covering the tuition tees in the Uni- versity ior one year. We are glad to be thus recognized by so great an institution as the University oi Chicago. It shows that we are maintaining high standards ol scholarship and teaching and it gives us the advantages that must come from a close relationship with a great university. The tact that the work which our students now do tits them to enter the University ol Chicago will serve 'as an inducement tor many ol them to become students there. The privilege ol competing in the declamation contests will be an incentive to more earnest ei- lort on the part ot the students in the department ot Public Speaking. The opportunity to take part in the prize examination in Latin, Mathematics and English will be a strong motive lor more thorough work in these departments: and the tact that the nomination ol a student from the senior class lor a schol- arship in the University is based on the record ot the student lor the tour years ol his high school course will necessarily have a lavorable inlluence on the general spirit ol the school, which is determined mainly, so lar as the stu- dents are concerned, by their industry and selt-control. J. E. L.

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THE CRIMSON LITERARY. Affiliation With Chicago University. A year ago last March the Attica high school was visited by Prot. Paul 0. Kern ot the University oi Chicago. The purpose oi his visit was to in- spect our high school to determine whether or not we should be placed on their list oi co-operating schools. The following June a letter was received by Superintendent' Layton in which it was stated that the Board ot University Relations had voted to place us on their list ot co-operating schools. For some time previous to this we had desired to be thus recognized. and while the studentship oi the school in most respects had a reputation pos- sibly worthy ot a larger school the equipment ot the science department was below the required standard. Last spring all departments ot the school stood the test oi a rigorous examination. The standard oi the work in all the classes had been raised and the laboratory equipment had been increased and improved. When it is known that there are two hundred and twenty-one commis- sioned high schools in the state and oi this number only twenty-six are ac- credited by the University oi Chicago,this recognition can be better understood. According to the provisions oi the commission, til all the graduates ol the high school presenting the University certificate signed by the superintend- ent and the teachers oi the high school will be admitted to the iirst year ol the Junior College oi the University without entrance examination: t2l the high school principal has the privilege ot nominating a candidate for a scholarship in the University trom each oi the graduating classes: CD the superintendent '-YT sits- 3 . AERA it J , ...J.

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THE CRIMSON DEBATEQ3 Senior:Junior Literary Society. The classes in junior and senior English have organized a literary so- ciety. Utticers have been elected and a great deal oi interest is taken in the work, since each class strives tor supremacy. The society will hold its public meetings at intervals trom now until the close ot the school year. The iirst meeting was held in the music room oi the school on Monday, Dec. 17, 1906. The tollowing program was given: Music-Selected - - - - A Girls' Glee Club Reading- A Telephone Courtship -'--- Lillian Voliva Debate--Resolved, That the Telegraph is More Universally Usclul Than the Telephone, Attirmalive- Negative- Frank Feuerstein Robert Colvin Belle Plant Mabel Kerr Jessie Clark Louis Thompson Music-Selected - - - ---- Boys' Glee Club Recitation- .ludge and witncssu ---- Albert Cobb Debate-Resolved, That immigrants Are a Delriment to the United States. Atlirmative- Negative- Herbcrt Hunter Helen Thompson Katie Lemper Edith Williams Oscar Harman Christine Foster Music-- Departure ------- Double Quartet The judges tor the debates were Rev. Mr. A. T. Briggs, Rev. W. D. Vater and Mrs. J. E. Layton, who kindly consented to serve on the committee in the absence oi Rev. Mr. Owen. Each member oi the rival teams delivered stirring speeches. The seniors won the tirst debate by a score ol 2 to 1, and the juniors won the sec- ond debate by a score oi 3 to 0. Our first public meeting was a genuine success in every way.-idler.