San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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WHITE AND GOLD 7 into the possession of a profession. The boy or girl entering the high school can choose any of five courses, the history, literature and science course, the agricultural course, the teachers' course, the elementary tech- nical course, or the commercial course. What are perhaps more showy than these mere facts, are the splendid buildings that we have for high schools. They represent thousands and thousands of pesos coming directly from the people themselves; they were all eager to give, if only to the extent of one peso ta half dollary and those who had nothing else to give, went out and chopped a load of logs and gave that. On its broader and more significant side the work of teaching which I have described to you is even more important, for the reason that it is bringing about equality between the whites and Malays. Ever since Da Gama sailed across the Cape of Good Hope there has been mutual mis- trust, strife and misunderstanding. It is the work of bringing about un- derstanding and trust that our government has undertaken. At any rate, the American teachers are getting very, very close to the hearts of the Filipinos. A MONOGHROME. Cold, cold and gray, The earth,the sky and the sea; The spray breaks high on the rocks, The mists drift back toward the lea, No sound but the sea-birdls cry And the wind as it wanders free; The waves show dim Through the fog,s dark rim. Cold, cold and gray is the sea. --LUTIE MIMMS.

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6 WHITE AND GOLD unless you have some one responsible. At the present, in each province there is a division superintendent Who is an American; he appoints teachers, settles salaries, superintends the financial work, is responsible in every way. Each province is divided into districts, and in each of these is an American teacher, who has the supervision of that district; this means the supervision of as much as two hundred square miles and about fifty thousand people. Some of these district supervisors get up early in the morning and travel all day on foot, on horseback, by sail or canoe, often in weather when it is raining ten or fifteen inches a day; that's pretty heavy rain. These four hundred men are the most splendid, fearless, heroic body of men it has ever been my lot to see. They have escaped death in a thousand ways, have actually met death by violence, by drown- ing and by smallpox; often they go into communities where there are any- where from fifty to two hundred children stricken with smallpox in its most malignant form. And they never realize that the work is heroic. The primary is not the only school, however. We are trying to give all the children three years of instruction and some of the children more. This school, which might be called intermediate, takes children between the ages of thirteen and sixteen. The girl has three years of house- keeping; the first year she learns to clean the house, disinfect it,fight dis- ease germs and sew; the second year she learns to cook; the third year she learns to tend the sick and take care of the little children. The boy, after his three years of English, may choose to be a doctor, a lawyer, a beggar- maneany old thing. He can have three years of industrial work; either in the farming-school, the school work-shop, or the school fisheries. It has been said that the Filipinos donlt like to work, that they prefer to wear good clothes, patent leather shoes and stiff collars. The Filipinos WILL work. They have a facile hand and an accurate eye; they can do with the eye and hand work as delicate as that done by the Japanese. As a people they have an ardent admiration and high respect for manual dexterity; even down in the Mohammedan country, the man Who can make a creese, the sharp sword that will take a manls head off at one stroke, or the man Who can build a boat, is looked up to and called t lextremely clever. l l ttThroughout the islands the man skillful with his hands is respected and admired, as he should be in all countries. Yes, the Filipinos Will work and work hard; they may not enjoy it but they can be made to if their imagination is appealed to; they may not care to raise beans, but they will raise beans if you cast a glamor of romance over it. uLastly, there are forty high schools, one in each province. After the six years of primary and intermediate work, those who can afford it attend the high school. It is different from the high schools over here, being a sort of technical training-school, Whose aim is to put the student

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8 WHITE AND GOLD WITH THE OLYMPIANS. A Series of Four StorieseIIeHearts Lie Deep. Last year we had a real, live romance at school. The heroine of it was Miss Mountjoy, the geometry teacher. She was a dear, young and awflly well dressed; not exactly pretty, but terribly aris- tocratic looking, with a straight nose and carried her head high, and had the loveliest hands and nails. You know every once in so often the book men come from the different publishing houses to talk about the new text-books to the teachers. This man that came,he was the her0,wasn,t much different from all the rest-men all look alike when theylre dressed up. He was well- dressed and clean-looking, like all the others, and was polite to all the teachers in the same waye-so we didrft dream he had any preference. The way we got to know his name was this: The next morning T erry and I went up to school early to ask Miss Mountjoy to explain some geometry problems to us; and while she was talkingeit was awfully early yet-a messenger came in with a big box with her name on it. Of course she didnt open it while we were there, but when we went to class, there were the most beautiful Katharine Mermet roses, with great long stems-a dozen or more-on the desk; the box was in the waste- basket, with the wax-paper and all, and on the floor, where I slpose sheld dropped it, was a cardel could see it just as plain, and it read HMr. Carey Shelby. N We girls were crazy about it, but didnt know, of course, who Mr. Carey Shelby was. But they were married during the Christmas vacation, and then it all came out: who he was,how they were both from Boston and had known one another from the cradle, and how she wouldnlt marry him because he was too rich; then he lost everything in the Equitable and had to work for the first time. Its funny how news travels up here at school. Everyone knew all about them the first day after vacation. They went to Boston to live. So Miss Mountjoy left us and Miss Blair came to take her place. And thats what I started out to tell you. We didnt like Miss Blair very welle-Terry especiallyeebecauseel dont know exactly why, but she was queer, and weld been pretty fond of Miss Mountjoy, so it was kind of a comeadown to have her successor so ordinary. Miss Blair wasnlt pretty, either, but she didnt make up for it by being well-dressed or aris- tocratic-looking. She did her hair plain and wore glassesenot the nice kind that have no rims and a little gold chain that fastens in your hair,