Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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 In the Dramatic and Oratorical Contest at night Avola Seldomridge won first place in dramatics.” No record of the activities of the baseball team was given other than a statement that on account of the absence of a playing field all games would have to be played out of town. We find music was also claiming its share of attention as early as 1910, and that the clubs had already captured their share of honors in Eastern Illinois contests. The Semi-Chorus, a musical organization, was organized during the winter of 1906-’07 under the most able direction of Miss Florence Ensle.” This club won the pennant for first place at the contest in Sullivan, Illinois, in 1907; again in Charleston in 1908. In 1909inadual contest with Charleston they placed THE SEMI-CHORUS—1910 second. The peak of success was reached in 1910 when the Boys’ Glee Club joined the Semi-Chorus in the presentation of the operetta, The Captain of Plymouth.” Immediately after this event Miss Ensle resigned, and her place for the remainder of the year was filled by Miss Elizabeth Robinson.” Later the name of this organization was changed to Girls’ Glee Club. Late in the year of 1910 the first orchestra was organized.” It made its first public appearance at the commencement exercises. The Boys’ Glee Club did not seem to thrive so well, as we find a memorial page dedicated to its memory. IN THE REALM OF THE PHULE The above is the very interesting heading we find for the joke section. We have selected a few of these in which you may be interested. Lost, strayed, or stolen, around the hills of Vermilion — I.loyd Lamb and Leslie Harris.” Lost—a small boy named Don Hamilton. Last seen strolling up N. Main Street. Reward offered. Address Papa.” Wanted—Someone to rid; in my new buggy I’m going to get this spring. Address Howard Piper.” Jean Brown (Translating a line of the Acncid):— Acestes remained seated in the lowest depths of the helmet.” Miss Wenz (in Freshman English):— What kind of an instrument did the musician carry? First Freshman:—It was some kind of a fork. Second Freshman:—I know, it was a pitchfork.” In the advertising section which follows the jokes we find twelve firms are still doing business in Paris while twenty-four have passed out of existence. Editor's Note: All of the pictures in this historical section arc reproduced from the 1910 ARENA. To refresh your memory you will find the names of the Cadets and Semi-Chorus on page 74.

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FOOTBALL TEAM—1910 The personnel of the team was as follows: (left to right) Standing: C. Sniff, P. Cornwell, W. Sudduth, L. Maxwell, V. Wiedcr; Seated: R. Long, B. Colwell, A. Francis, F. Ffoward, A. Myers, O. Jones, E. Price; Front: F. Myers, C. McKinney. Unlike the football team the basketball team, under the coaching of Mr. O. R. Jones, and the leadership of Captain Beryl Black, enjoyed a very successful season. BASKETBALL TEAM—1910 The Tigers shown in the above picture are: Standing: Stanley Wallage, Coach Jones, Elmore Allen; Seated: Captain Beryl Black, Ary St. John, Marce Keys, Walter Bond, and Fau-ver Huston. The Basketball Team of Paris High School of 1909-10 was one of the fastest and best in the history of the institution.” Following is a schedule of games played, which shows ten games won and five lost: Paris 45 VS. U. of I. 20 Paris 38 vs. Kansas 14 Paris 7 vs. Grayvillc 14 Paris 17 vs. Marshall 16 Paris 34 vs. Charleston 32 Paris 19 vs. Rockville 35 Paris 24 vs. Danville 8 Paris 17 vs. E. I. Normal 15 Paris 17 vs. T. H. Normal 14 Paris 20 vs. Rockville 15 Paris 42 vs. Marshall 9 Paris 23 vs. Wiley 27 Paris 28 vs. Charleston 31 Paris 17 vs. Nokomis 32 Paris 36 vs. Shclbyville 13 TRACK TEAM Saturday, May 14, 1910, the E.l. S.N.S. at Charleston gave an invitational Track and Field Meet to all the high schools within a radius of one hundred miles. Sixteen high schools accepted the invitation and sent one hundred nine athletes. Some splendid records were made: Honnold, Paris’ premier high jumper, won out over Byrd in the high jump; Brooks clipped off the half-mile in 2:8, defeating Belnap of Mattoon; while Jones took the measure of Glover in the pole vault, winning at the 10:2 mark. The Green and Gold of Mattoon finished first with 29 points; Milford, second with 20 points; while the Orange and Black, of Paris, had to be satisfied with third place, with a total of 19 points. Paris won the mile relay, finishing in 3:44 1 5.

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DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH SCHOOLS IN AMERICA The school year of 1934-3 5 marks the tercentenary of the founding of the first high school in America, the Boston Latin School. The establishment of this school was due in great measure to the influence of the Reverend John Cotton, who sought to establish in the new world a school like the Free Grammar School of Boston, England, in which Latin and Greek were taught. The following excerpt was taken from the Boston town records: On the 13th of the second month, 1635,—Att a Generali meeting upon publique notice—it was—Generally agreed upon that our brother Philemon Pormont shall be intreated to become schoelmaster for the teaching and nourtering of children with us.” —Town Records. BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL Beginning with the Latin Grammar School founded at Boston in 1635, the course of development of American secondary education has been thru the Academy to the free public high school. Any student who had mastered the elementary art of reading was eligible to enter the school to train for the professions, regardless of race, creed, or purse. Tuition was free and democratic with one major exception; two hundred years passed before secondary education extended the same privilege to girls. Boston boys 300 years ago studied Latin almost exclusively. There was some instruction in Greek, and of course in religion. Among those who in its early years sat on the rough benches of Boston Latin School, repeating declensions after the master on the platform were Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock, all of whom later became signers of the Declaration of Independence. These young hopefuls drilled, declaimed, and translated from seven in the morning to five in the afternoon during the summer and from eight to four in the winter. The grammar schools, however, were never very popular with the people at large. The people who wished their sons to go to college supported the grammar school; those who could not patronize the college were usually unable to see the practical benefit of pursuing a course of study, the main part of which consisted of Latin and Greek. Consequently, in time it yielded prestige to another kind of institution, the academy. The academy, like the Latin Grammar school, also has an English ancestry. The earliest American academy was the one established at Philadelphia in 1751, which afterwards developed into the University of Pennsylvania. The academy struck a popular chord. It began at a time when secondary education was