English High School - Brown Owl Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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tucket League. Our team, consisting of I. Robert Sweet, VVilfred I. Girouard, Cyril R. Broadhead, and Raymond F. Reed, will meet the Hope Street debaters on the question: Resolved, That the city of Providence should own and operate its electric lighting and power system with a view to owning and operating its public utilities in general. The team is devoting all of its time to the preparation of the debate and prospects look very bright for a victory for English, 'lEnglish will debate Pawtucket early in May, 1911. In View of the facts that we put up a good fight forthe cup last year and that we not only have a part of our last year's team with us but have some very promising material in the Society, we are conident of being able to bring' to English the trophy of the English-Hope-Pawtucket League. 1 Marco V. Montagano is the chairman of the committee to arrange a series of inter-class debates, and we feel confident that under his able direction, we will have a series of debates that will prove very interesting. If the Debating Society keeps on along the lines on which it has been started this season, it is certain that the English High School Boys! Debating Society will be one of the best in the city. Perseverance brings successf' 42

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ff X 4! g Zz J7x2 Z..-Q ,if .2 Y Am, fu, , X557 EBM' NG SOC IETY HE Boys' Debating Society held its first meeting on Wfednesday evening. Oct. 5, 1910, and the following officers were elected: I. Robert Sweet, President, Wfilfred I. Girouard, Vice President, Cyril R. Broadhead, Secretary, and Marco V. Montagano, Treasurer. ' On December twenty-third, our second team, composed of Raymond F. Reed, Captain, Maxwell Harrison, Edward Mulligan, and Wfilliam A. Wlatson. will meet the Classical Second Team to debate the question: Resolved, That Roosevelfs proposition, namely, that the large powers unite to enforce inter- national arbitration, is wise. English will uphold the afhrmative and expects a victory. ,, January 20, 1911, is the date of the First debate of the linglish-lrlope-Paxw 41

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SUBJECTS FOR ANTHONY MEDAL CONTEST, 1910 1. The American Flag at the North Pole. 2. A Trip Down the Bay. 3. Should Cooking and Sewing be 'Taught in the Grammar Schools? 4. Character Sketch of Sir Roger de Coverley. 5. Flying Machines of To-day. it 6. The High Cost of Living. 7. Public Playgrounds a Necessity. 8. Is Roosevelt's Hunting Trip justifiable? 9. VV'oman's Right to the Ballot. 10. The Heroines of Shakespeare. 11. The Autobiography of an Automobile. 12. A day in a Canoe. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Somebody, fond of gathering together statistics, has collected all of the many reasons offered as to the why's and wherefor's of the high cost of living, and has discovered that, thus far, there has been advanced thirty-two different causes for the same. Think of it--thirty-two different reasons why We pay more for food, more for clothing, and more for our dwellings, than in former years. No Wonder that We have investigating committee after investigating com- mittee to discover the true cause, and, sad to relate, they are just as likely to discover another reason to add to the thirty-two, as they are to verify one of the theories already advanced. ln spite of all this investigating of the high cost of living, the fact still re- mains that we are paying more today for our necessities and our luxuries than did our grandfathers fifty years ago. One of the main causes to which the high cost of living is said to be due is the increased amount of gold in circulation. Every day, more gold is being thrown on the market. Gold mines are be- ing developed more and more in all the gold mining countries of the world. from Alaska to South Africa. I-Iow does this increased amount of gold effect the cost of living? In answer to this question volumes might be written, and then there would be some points that only one who has made a life study -of the question could understand. Wfhen gold was adopted as the monetary standard for this. 'and the major- ity of other civilized countries, it was adopted for the reason that it was the most stable mineral known that could be used for coinage purposes, that is, there was not enough of a difference in the amount on the market from time to b time to change its value. 43