South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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vs 'Zap 2 . , ,fig ' ,,A, l Q . , , X The T1 ev -X Q?-aw! O On Wednesday, a student program was given in the Auditorium, consisting of a morality play, The Rescue of Youth, in which the characters represented good speech and bad speech, written by Alice Anonsong a speech by Burton Beidelmann, warning South High against our enemy Bad English, and the presentation of the Schureman loving cup to the Juniors by Frances Curran, a Senior. On Friday, the last day of Better English Week, Mr. ,lohn Seaman Carns, of the McPhail School of Dramatic Art, gave a program of choice readings, which was much enjoyed by all. The following members of the faculty had charge of the campaign: Mrs. White, chairman, Misses Alice Smith, Jacobson, Blaisdell, Lucas, Fish, and Ferguson. ALMA ERATH. ITS IMPORTANCE The enthusiasm at South High during Better English Week should be as great as the enthusiasm during a football game. The Better English campaign is a much larger and important game than the battle between two football teams. South High's football team consists of only eleven players, but its Better English team is made up of every boy and girl attending the school. The opposing team is known as Bad English. The Bad English team is composed of many fierce, ragged, invisible personified characters known as: Slang, Vulgarity, Profanity, Grammat- ical Errors, Mispronunciation, Repetition, and Poor Sentence Structure. The pupils of South High will have to fight hard to win this fight. Without the co-operation of every student in the school, it will be impossible for South High to win. Many of us will have to fight more than one of our enemies at the same time, and if we are not on our guard all of the time, Bad English will overtake us and force South High to yield. Let us all join in the game with plenty of enthusiasm and unity, then we will surely win. After we have overthrown our opponent, South High will celebrate the victory as if we had slain a horrible dragon. The spoils will be divided proportionally as to the amount of fight put into the battle, by each in- dividual. The students who kill the most enemies during this fight shall be rewarded by receiving the greatest future benefit. The enemies that weiplay during Better English Week will bother us no more, and we shall be freed from them forever, but if each pupil does not kill each and every player on Bad English team, those that are left living will continue to molest us until they are beaten, therefore, spare none of your enemies, and South High will be victorious. Louis LABOVICH. Page 29

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,.,4f':'-1l w if The T1 er ' i to .-.', f Q NR leadership in the Continental Army which, tho without supplies and munitions, was made up of men of spirit, determined to win their fight for freedom. '4Then we think of his election as the first president of the United States, and of how he, with such statesmanship and Wisdom, piloted the country thru its first eight difficult years, lastly we think of his retirement to his beautiful home at Mount Vernon. But the greatest and most important thing in regard to Washing- ton, is the sort of government that grew out of that which he helped to establishf' LECTURE ON PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Dr. Paul Doeltz, a graduate of South High, '95, recently returned from the Philippines, gave an illustrated lecture in the auditorium Monday, March 7. Dr. Doeltz was sent as a missionary to the Philippines by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Besides his missionary work, he also teaches in school. '6The majority of the people in the United Statesf' said Dr. Doeltz, 'fthink that the people of the Philippine archipelago are an ignorant race, composed chiefly of savage, head-hunting tribes. There are only a few savage tribes on the islandsg the greater part of the people are an intelligent lot engaged chiefly in agricultural pursuits. 'They live in thatched huts raised about six or eight feet above the ground. Their chief food is rice and fruitg rice cooked in many ways, and a good deal of fish. Under Spanish rule, there were very few schools, and those that were did not amount to much. The pupils, chief studies then consisted of prayers and verses in a language that they did not understand. Under American rule the old schools have been cleaned and improved and new ones built, and the course of study enriched. G'American sports are also becoming popular in the Philippines. One baseball team has won the Ear Eastern championship several times. All track sports are popular, and there has recently been erected a fine athletic field near Manila. The girls started to take up basketball but found it a little too strenuous for them. BETTER ENGLISH WEEK The Program HE campaign for Better English began November eighth. The week opened by the circulation of a confidential letter written to every student by Vernon Swenson. Each day opened with a different slogan appearing on the walls of the different rooms. The first slogan was, Use No Weak English, this English Weekf, On Tuesday, orange tags were sold on which was printed in large, black letters, Good English is a habit, get the habitf' Wednesday brought, uHelp pull South High out of the mud of bad Englishf, On Thursday, '4What's your hurry? Think be- fore you speakf' appeared, and Friday brought, '4Be patriotic, don't murder the language of your country. Page 23

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:r we i1,,: ' , 'Yfls 1 .A ' '-1 zfillpi x ,M fb, X - . ' Q v X ' Q, y, .A, ' The T1 er THE HISTORY OF OUR TROPHIES Not the quarry, but the chase, Not the laurel, but the race, Not the hazard, but the play, South High men enjoy alway. Henry Ward Beecher says: There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air. The wise for cure on exercise depend, Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. THE BEGINNING HE history of Championships at South High dates back prior to the erection of even the old section of the present building, to the original South, which was on the third floor of the Adams School. Before football, basketball, tennis, track, hockey etc., in the year 1891, South High achieved its first team of championship caliber in the good old National Came of baseball. This you will note was thirty years ago, and baseball has been a game only seventy-five years. Since that time South has maintained an average of second place in Athletics. Baseball South 'has had in reality five championship groups in this branch, and each group won trophies from two to five years successively. South High teams have averaged better at baseball than those of V any other high school in Minneapolis, but it has now been several years since a trophy has been won. South has always been conspicuous for team work and clean playing rather than individual stars. Football The first team from South High to take part in this branch of athletics was in 1893, and the first championship team was either in 1894 or 1895. Success has been obtained by several South teams since that time, and in no year has a team from South been a weakling. No matter what the odds, South has gone into the game with grim determination, and the other team has always been given a real battle. Basketball For several years the powers that ben tabooed this game as an inter-school sport. South girls won Championships in 1907 and 1908. South boys have had several successful years. Conspicuous mention is due the 1920 boys' team for win- ning at Northfield the Silver Cup for appearance and conduct. lnterclass contests at basketball have featured many years. Page 30