Granite City High School - Warrior Yearbook (Granite City, IL)

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Permanent Name for Annual.— When this year ' s class decided to publish an Annual one of the many obstacles met with was the selection of a suitable name for the book. It was the intention of the class to adopt a name that would be a little out of the ordinary. A name that could be remembered because of its oddity. A name that would possibly be ac- cepted by future Annual-publishing classes as good enough for their book. Perhaps an ex- planation of the name would not be out of the way. “Granois” is a compound of the two words Granite and Illinois. The accent is on the last syllable. The pronunciation is “Gran- oy’.” We think that it is about time a permanent name is decided upon for the Annual that will undoubtedly be published at Granite High School every year, from now on. We are of the opinion that until a school adopts a permanent name for its year book it is behind the times. Of course, our opinion is nothing compared to the opinions of some people we know. However, it is our opinion, and as such we ask the future Senior classes to think over the matter of a permanent name. Merely as another expression of opinion (thank goodness, we are permitted to express our opinion anytime, and under any circumstances) we think • Gran- ois is just about as good anti approprite a name as could be discovered or invented. =:■ t Honor Society— An Honor Society proposed and entirely directed and composed of stu- dents would be a great undertaking. A Society inaugurated with the particular intention of uplifting the standard of the school would be a noble undertaking. The sum and substance of an Honor Society is that it is an organisation to which a person can aspire only after he has accomplished certain honorable deeds which are set down as req- uisites for entrance. These requisites should be of a prescribed number and applicable to the four different classes in School, viz : Senior, Junior, Sophomore, and Freshmen. The list of requisites should be drawn up by a Committee (elected by the whole school) in consultation with the Faculty. A detailed announcement of this list should he made. From that time a record of the notable deeds accomplished by the students should be kept. At the end of the first semester, before the student body, the names of those who satis- factorily fulfilled the nominated requirements are announced. After that the Honor Socitey is formerly organized by those persons whose names were announced. At the end of each semester thereafter the officers of the Society make the an- nouncement regarding the admittance of persons to their organization. Cap and Gown. -When any new project is launched there are objectors. That is natural. If that project is at all weak or narrow in its conception those objections are considered. Hut if the ultimate adoption of the project will without doubt better the conditions, then there no need to consider very seriously the objections. The particular project we have in mind is the passing of a resolution by the Board of Education permanently, adopting the Cap and Gown as the official or regulation garb of the graduating classes of Granite High School. The fact that it costs entirely too much to graduate from the High School in this city has been proven by a little talk Principal Coolidge made before the Senior Class at one of its first meetings this term. Mr. Coolidge said, in part, that he had received complaints that did not in any way credit the school. The complaints came in the form of threats. The threats meant the following: If the Senior Class did not take the matter in hand, the complaintants would place the matter of “High Cost of Graduating” before the Board of Education request- ing that body to limit the graduating classes, with regard to dress, etc., during commence- ment week. After Principal Coolidge ’s talk “cap and gown was placed before the Senior

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To The Right AlwaysI ® b i t o r i u l s 9 : Twenty-five Dollars To Ath. Ass n;— The ( ' lass of 1914 makes no apology for the many new things it has started during its Senior Year. It makes no apology for the precedents it has established. It has been out of love for the Alma Mater that the work has been done. When the Athletic Association found that it needed money to send the Basket Ball Team to the Western Illinois Tournament, the Senior Class started the list of subscriptions with twenty-five dollar . This is the first time, we believe, in the existence of Granite City High School that a class has responded, to the call of any organization with a donation. All the honor lies in the little phrase “We started it!” i t The Why and Whereof Answered.— This book is published with the belief that it will prove a good investment, and yet the possibilities of the same from an educational standpoint have been borne in mind since its inception. Consequently in decorating the book the har- mony of the example and of the paper, ink and type has been considered. In all ways the effort has been to make the book an honor, not only to the CLASS of 1914, but also, to the printer’s art, in the hope that the various illustrations and articles shown will be suggestive and beneficial, and instill a further desire to produce only such printed things that are really worth while. Therefore, if the book is at all successful along these lines it will in some measure have served its purpose. 9

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©Mtovial Class as tlie only solution for the evil practise. The subject was thoroughly discussed. A good majority of the elass was heartily in favor of the new idea and upon the recommendation of Superintendent L. 1’. Frohardt and Principal W. F. Coolidge the resolution was passed by the Board making the cap and gown the official dress. This is one of the best moves the Board of Education has made in many a day to improve the educational conditions of this city. Many students have deliberately quit school in their Sophomore or Junior year simply because they were afraid to graduate; afraid that some of their classmates who were in better circumstances would have a dress, or dresses that would completely outshine them. The action of the Board will tend to destroy this attitude. t 1 Class Tournaments. The High School Athletic Association held its first class tournament in Baket Bail at the opening of the season of 1913-14. The four classes in the School each placed a team in the race for supremacy and some very good exhibitions of the game were “pulled off. The class rivalry was of the kind that aroused just the proper amount of fight- ing spirit to make the games interesting. We are of the opinion that class tournaments are just the thing to start off any kind of a sport. If Granite High places a baseball team on the diamond this year we think a class tournament should be held first. When training is commenced for the Alton District Inter- scholastic we want to see a class tournament “run off ' in order to select the best men. That is the big point in favor of class tournaments. They enable the coaches to get a line on the good athletes under them so that their time and work can be directed at those athletes who are a “little better than the rest in order to get them into the best possible condition for the handling of their various events. We think that the class tournaments call into activity the class spirit of the Freshmen and Sophomores that would probably lie dormant until they became Seniors. We want to see more of them. Habits. Habits are funny things. They are more particularly funny when they concern you in particular. It is an awful thing to have three particularly, funny habits within three short years. We have been accused of having them although we are very much of the opinion that we have been accused falsely. Our habits came in the usual run of habits and we can- not excuse ourself along that line. To make matters less complicated we will give a brief summary of our particular habits. In our Freshmen year we were accused of bashfulness. Maybe we were and maybe we were not. We will not say. Others probably can. Tn our Sophomore year we were said to be extraordinarily wise. Again we admit the possibility. In our Junior year our habit was sarcasm. Again we positively refuse to answer the question. And now in our Senior year we are said to be conceited. To this last charge we say No. We are not conceited. We do not think ourself better than any-body else in the world. Far be it from such. Who are we. Generally speaking we are Nobody. We do not profess to be anything as yet, but we are going to make something of ourselves. We are not conceited and we do not like to be accused of it. A word to the wise we deem sufficient. We are not mad. Hardly. It takes more than a little thing like that to make us mad. Up to date we have been the most good-natured Class in the High School, and that is saying a good deal. Good-naturedness has been one of our good habits. Nothing has been said of our good habits. There’s an excuse for that. Human nature decrees it, therefore it is. Any how habits are funny.