Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL MIRROR The following is the program: Roll Call............. I ext Hook Work—Brief for Debate.................... p ]•' Neverman Current Events................................................Ray Parr „..nr •..........................................Russell Nelson rree Miners Law in the Klondike .......................Archie Helwig Debate: Resolved, That the United States should maintain a large navv Affirmative—Lyle Howard, William Moy, Leland Lamb. Negative Earl Robinson, Harvey Rond, Romeo Koepp. Business Meeting. Interest in the coming league debates is increasing and many of those who have done good work in the preliminaries have been selected as probable candidates for Afondovi's three league teams. League tryouts will be held January 15. High School Notes 1 lie sale of Xmas seals was lessened by the enforced vacation. The sale during the first few days totaled almost $30. or twice that of the corresponding tune last year. The total sale, together with the winners in each grade, will be announced in our next issue. I he business men of Mondovi certainly did Pie handsome thing by offering substantial prizes for the winners in each grade. This excellent spirit on the part of the business men of Mondovi would have led to an unprecedented sale if the schools had continued until the holidays. No Nautilus program appears in this issue of the Mirror .on account of the enforced vacation of the schools. Related programs of all three societies will l c held during the first week of school and will appear in the next issue. Blaine Ellenberger finished his work the first semester and has received his diploma. It is this kind of grit that wips in the end. CURE FOR LAZINESS. A hrench scientist has discovered that a hypodermic injection of formic acid will cure the most obstinate case of laziness on record. Experiments have been made in France which have proved this conclusively. A tired type of Parisian hobo was the subject of an experiment. A few drops of formic acid were injected into his vaccination mark. The tramp cut and split four cords of wood that afternoon, and when night came refused to stop work, but was forced to. He was so enthusiastic that he sat up most of the night waiting for morning that he might again hie himself to the wood-pile and wrestle with the axe. Another subject for the experiment was a Paris copper. W ith a few drops of formic acid in his system the officer actually covered his beat once during the day. I hose who watched the experiment sav that not once while on duty did he fall asleep. One more experiment was made, on a messenger boy, who wore out two pairs of shoes in three hours delivering messages, and when his day s work was done pleaded to be permitted to work all night. Formic acid has not yet been tried on the woman who dallies to get her hat on straight, nor on slow trains, nor on Xmas shoppers, but we are now only in the infantile experimental stage with this wonderful “get busv drug.”—High School Students' Notice.

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Wednesday Evening, November 20. 1912. The regular meeting of the Debating Club was held November 20. The .eature of the program was the oration by Thomas Lee, “The Rebirth of the i rue American Spirit.” The debate was spirited and brought out many good arguments I he decision was in favor of the affirmative, the teachers'of the lugh school acting as judges. Although the debate was interesting, better preparation might have been made. ll the preliminary work for these regu lar debates is in the hands of the debaters I he following is the program: Roll Call.......................... Text Book Work......................................... Songs ............................ ” I-he World’s Rid for a Man ................... Current Events....................... 1 he Rebirth of the True American Spirit ............ Rudimentary Principles of Parliamentary Law........... Debate: Resolved, I hat I nited States Senators be electe I . F. Neverman ....Coy Knowles .... Elmer 1 Hiker ....Thomas Lee ....R. L. Cundey d by direct vote of the people. Affirmative—Merrill Brobst, Raymond White. Rex Claflin Negative—Sherman Farrington. Russell White Francis Pabst Business Meeting. The meeting of the Debating Club of December 4 was marked by an almost perfect record of attendance. One noteworthy fact about the program was that nearly one-half of the speakers were Freshmen, appearing before the club for the first time. The feature of the evening was the debate, wInch considering the inexperience of most of the speakers, was highly interesting I hey are to be commended for the increasing spirit, accuracy of statement and quick thinking shown in the debate. Members of the high school faculty acted as judges and gave a four-to-one decision in favor of the negative 16

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The second monthly meeting of the “Studenten Verein” was held Tuesday evening, November 2f . The following program was rendered: Vereingesang—O Alte Hursehenherrlichkeit..........................Verein Appell—Sprichworter.............................. ................ Anekdoten.........................................Herr Joseph Silverness Violine Solo.....................................Frauldu Arvilla Heineck Geschichten von Detitschen Stadten— Hildesheim.................................Fraulein Frances Broadfoot Rothenburg.....................................Fraulein Julia Whelan Nurnberg.................................... Fraulein Velma Armour l)er Volk-tanz ................................................... Vereingesang--0 dtt lieber Augustin...............................Verein The papers and talks, on three of the leading cities of Germany, were very interesting. They brought out points of historical interest, as well as the principal legends connected with the cities. The last feature of the program, a German folk dance, given by six of the members in peasant costume, was greatly enjoyed by the society. This act of entertainment has a certain amount of educational value, and is a great factor in keeping up the interest of the students. The last issue of the Wisconsin Journal of Education has an interesting article on the folk dance in the public school. A great many of the public schools of the state have introduced the folk dance into their gymnasium and playground work. Where the folk dances are put on “in costume’’ they seem to create a desire among the pupils to become more familiar with the language and geography of foreign lands. u