Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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from outside the University to give addresses on topics of general interest in each of the three languages. —Decaturian. The number of students enrolled at Monmouth College is 410. Of the 410 students 254 are returning, while 1 56 are new students. There are 61 seniors, 75 juniors, I 17 sophomores, 144 freshmen, and 13 special students. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Monmouth College several weeks ago it was decided to rush the work of the new college gym so that the building would be ready to be turned over to the college for acceptance by the middle of January. Phidelah Rice, one of the greatest living mon-actors, appeared in the first number of the Lecture Course at the auditorium on Friday evening, October 3. His reputation is nation- al and he is recognized as an authority in his art. Because of his mastery of expression he has been ranked with Irving. —Monmouth College Oracle. The third annual Community Fair was held at the Bono school house Friday afternoon and Saturday, October 1 1 and 12. On Friday evening the play, ‘‘Nothing But the Truth, was given by local talent. On Saturday were exhibits of afi kinds, a circus and a minstrel show. —Bono Breeze. The Treble Clef Club of Hyde Park will sing over the radio from the Daily News Station, WMAQ. It also has engagements to sing at Woodlawn Presbyterian Church and at the December meetings of the Teachers League. —Hyde Park Weekly. IF— If I were an English teacher I’d just say— Your lessons have been fine each day; I’d leave all the classics on the shelf. And let MacBeth weep over himself. If I were an algebra teacher I'd just say— You seem to get better day by day;” And if a chemistry teacher I’d chanced to be, I would charge a pretty big chemistry fee. If 1 were a Latin teacher I’d find out If Cicero did all we read about; And if in history I should teach. I’d excuse all answers out of reach. This is what I d do, if I was— But I can’t be what I’m not. So 1 11 do as usual to settle the fuss And answer each question, I cannot. —Aline Kroon. —Page Eleven—

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EXCHANGE NOTES The Augustana Observer of Au-gustana College has been adjudged the best college news publication in the state of Illinois by virtue of its victory in each of three contests conducted by the Illinois College Press Association and judged by H. I. Harrington, dean of Medill School of Journalism of Northwesern University. The announcement of the award was made to the editor the last week of school last spring. Very nearly half of the total number of students enrolled in Augustana College this year are local students. There are 500 on the roll, which includes all departments except the conservatory and the seminary. There are 185 freshmen, 100 sophomores, 65 juniors, and 45 seniors. Augustana riedpath-Vawter Lyceum course is to open Oct. I 6. The new course contains nine numbers. Four numbers of particular preeminence will be Everette K mp, the man with a million dollar Pugh,” reader of plays and novels; Private Peat, lecturer; the Zedeler Quintet, and Wherahiko Rainer, the South Sea entertainer. Three organizations, the Augus-t=»na Male Ouartet, The Harmonv Four, and Howard Nelson and El-wcod Kraft, represented Augustana musically throughout fourteen states during the vacation period just past. The party consisted of seven persons and traveled in two automo- biles, covering over three thousand miles. Steps have been taken to expand the Augustana Museum and to have it open to the public for one hour daily. Those in charge hope to eventually have a complete collection of available relics and memoirs such as furniture, clothing, books, tools, and work of the early pioneers of the Augustana Synod of the Lutheran Church. —Augustana Observer. The English Club of the James Millikin University has secured Lew Sarett, modern writer and poet, for a lecture to be given March 31. This lecture will constitute the one large event of the English Club this year. The Millikin Conservatory is this year presenting the most pretentious Artist Series which has been offered Decatur for many years. The most interesting will no doubt center in the appearance of Jascha Heifetz, a Russian violinist. The second number will be given by Allen McQubas, tenor soloist. The first recital will be given by Madame Louise Homer, who at present is one of the most popular members of the Chicago Opera. A Spanish Club, a German Club, ir. addition to the French Club, are new additions to the activities of the language department. Thes clubs have bi-weekly meetings with interesting programs in Spanish, French, and German. There will be native speakers at least twice a semester —Page Ten—

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VILLAGE ROMANCING Closely surrounded by tall, sentinel-like firs, the village of Golden Rod lay nestled in a picturesque little valley, lazily basking in the sunshine of a June morning. A few sages, the eminent and wise personages of the village, had already arrived at the Golden Rod village post office (which joined the general grocery store) and had comfortably settled themselves in the only available chairs with their corn-cob pipes full of home-cured terbaccer,” and their high-booted feet propped against the posts supporting the roof. Others, who had unfortunately arrived too late to get chairs, were seated on the steps, while some were in the back part of the store, in the little room where the village championship checker games were contested. Today two old-timers were settling a debate on the red and black battlefield and justice was rapidly being demolished by the king's horsemen. In the front room of the grocery store, perched on the counter, knees crossed, hands clasping the handle of a broom at the top, and head resting on her hands, sat Sally Jane Perkins, the belle of the town, and the daughter of Sam Perkins. And so you have the typical village heroine—always beautiful, always innocent, and always having someone fall in love with her. Sally Jane went several steps better, for she had many village admirers. But, somehow, they seemed unreal—so did everything else—as if only a preparation for the wonder- ful day when her Prince Charming would come riding by as he did in the books which Sally Jane had read. But time passed, and the only hero Sally Jane knew was the village lad, Sim,—that is if anyone would call Romulus Simpkin, the life-long victim of hay fever, a hero. He was slow, awkward, and homely, but dependable Hay Fever Sim to Golden Rod. He talked little, was said to move most when he sneezed, and in short, was a total failure as a representative of man. I hough slow Romulus was constant in his devotion and weekly sent Sally Jane his usual gift of lemon drops. That little token always kept a warm place for Romulus in a little corner of her heart, and she did not have the desire to hurt him in any way. Pages could be written of the varied and many changes that occurred meantime in the village, and perhaps this story could be more interesting if I could relate how Hay Fever Sim ' became a great man, or tell of Sally Jane’s wonderful career, but I cannot. And now, “nigh onto thirty years later, we find the village still a village with perhaps a few additional houses. Hard roads have come and autos are parked close to the general store, which still remains. Sally Jane barely escaped being an old maid, but today we find her among clean white clothes gaily flapping in the breeze, in the yard of a cozy whitewashed bungalow Page Twelvi