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

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iUnn t ' of (ftnuotion R. A. BULL, President 12

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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.

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iUiavb of (SbucatUnt JOHN SELB. Treasurer. L. P. FROHARDT, Superintendent. ALVIN MOREFIELD, Secretary. FRED W. KOTTMEIER. ALEX. ROBERTSON. J. ODUM. DR. R. D. LUSTER A. F. HOWE. 13