Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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Cllnntwtz CAPITOLINE STAFF THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENTS SENIORS ATHLETICS FOOTBALL BASKETBALL TRACK BASEBALL ORATORY AND DEBATE DRAMATICS MUSIC AND ART N THE UNDERGRADUATES LITERARY SOCIETIES CALENDAR WIT AND HUMOR ADVERTISEMENTS

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o :::::::::::::::::::ag::EgE?5:ii?53 152555:-7-,-gfT ff ': ' :n - f--.' 44 .:-.,y - A Q if . Q '- . 0' 1 EE ' 4,cf1w.2i' 55,, 5-eeffzf- .- 3 '- --- ---.-.--.. l- - Eiiiii' -::::::::::::::::::::::l ---- --------- I ..---..-- ' ,,, Qbur lirinripal T was only through a fortunate mis- chance that Mr. Allen ever came to Springfield High School at all. He had been intending to study at Colum- bia this last year, but circumstances in- tervened which rendered that impossi- ble. So the School Board, being on the alert, secured him as principal of the High School. The year started off with a rush, and with all sorts of new and progressive ideas floating about. First of all, we had an entirely new program, which allowed time to prepare one's lesson, after class Cproviding the lesson wasn't too longj. Then there was that puzzling fifth period which, to use Mr. Allen's expression, floats-although not Ivory soap. But after two or three weeks of blundering into the wrong classes at the wrong times, we got to understand the scheme o' things and to like it. Then there was the weekly assembly. Early in the year Mr. Allen told us that we should be called together regularly, to be told the news of the week, to hear announcements and anything else that might be appropriate. These assem- blies have become, as Mr. Allen fore- told, most interesting to all of us and before each one we anxiously speculate as to What it 'll be this time. But perhaps the greatest achievement of Mr. Allen ls during the year was the establishment of the Student Council. Early in the second semester, Mr. Allen brought forward his plan of student government. Soon after, the students voted in favor of it, members were duly elected in the various rooms, and the Council was organized. It then took up its work, which up to the time of writ- ing, has proved to be largely a matter of setting itself on record, as a body of representative and influential students against certain practices, and of dis- couraging these practices in every way possible. But in time, no doubt, the 'Council will develop into a powerful factor in school life. While these are only a few of the many improvements in the administra- tion of the High School during the past year, still they serve to point out the progress that has been made. So we, who are graduating, are proud and happy to have had one year, at least, under Mr. Allen 's tutelage and we can wish Springfield High School nothing better than that she may go on under the same sort of leadership that she has enjoyed this last year.

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