Toulon Township High School - Tolo Yearbook (Toulon, IL)

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NOVEMBER, NINETEEN TVVENTY-FIVE ing gum. Margaret James, Sophomore, says one should not chew gum because it detracts from one's appearance. Who thinks that one can chew gum and look attractive and well mannered at the same time? Imagine a beautiful girl chewing gum! Gerald Sweat, Sophomore, thinks it is alright to chew gum because it whitens the teeth and is healthy for a person 9 it also gives one something to do. Edgar Claybaugh, Senior, says chewing gum is a poor way to spend one's time, you chew it just to annoy the teacher. If we would spend this time on a lesson, we would have less names on the flunking list, and every one would have to go to some other place to find out something to gossip about. Ruth Schmidt, Junior, says chewing gum is one of the worst habits one may have. It does not look nice for a person in school chewing while studying. It detracts from the ap- pearance of the school and gives it a bad reputation. ' Roy Burcham, Freshman, says there are several reasons why chew- ing gum in High School shouldn't be permitted. Some of them are: When you chew you cannot studyg other people cannot studyg it does not sound good, it makes too much noiseg you cannot get interested in your workg and it hinders -other people. Irene Burcham. I ELIZABETH ENTERTAINS UNTIL HER MOTHER COMES. Elizabeth, said her mother, here comes the company that I am going to have this afternoon. You run down and talk to them While I finish dressing. Elizabeth ran down the stairs to let the ladies in. Her mother was to entertain one. of the clubs that after- noon, and several of the members had arrived before she expected them. Come right on in. Mamma will be down pretty soon. She has some U 9 beauty clay on her face, and can't come down just yet, said Elizabeth. The ladies went into the parlor and sat down. One of the women who was one of Elizabeth's mother's new friends had never been to their home before and remarked, My, what beautiful chairs these are. Yes, I think they are pretty, too. answered Elizabeth, but they don't belong to usg mamma borrowed Mrs. Jones' for today. At that moment the doorbell rang, and a maid appear- ed to answer it. One of the ladies said, I see your mother has a maid. Oh no, that isn't our maid. Mam- ma just had her come for today, replied Elizabeth. My, but it takes mamma an awful long time to get dressed. She had that old black dress made over to wear, and I sup- pose she can't get all the pins in the right places. Oh, my! what was that noise? I suppose that girl dropped one of the .plates and they are Mrs. Brown's best ones, too. Iwonder if shehad any salad on it. Mamma only had enough to go around, I hope she didn't. l At that moment ,her mother entered. . 'Tm sorry I was late but I hope my daughter didn't annoy you. . Oh! no, she is just too cute for words, replied one of the guests. Yes, wepenjoy having her with us, said another. And they all agreed with her. . Dorothy McClellan. - English, I. COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS. A few years ago it seemed as though a man or woman who wished to attend college had to be able to talk to the old German butcher, the French cook, the Greek banana peddler, each in his respective language, besides knowing a few dead languages, being able to say the alphabet backwards till he was black in the face without making any mistakes, also being cap- able of saying the multiplication tables up to fifteen. Altho these were

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Turnbull, Genevive Rutherford, Richard 8 Aby, Donald Benedict, Ruth Bennett, Bernard Bowman, John Bragg, Paul Burcham. Roy Bulen, George Burns, Grace Churchill, Milo Clucas, Frank Colwell, Madalyn Crowe, Emily 'roULoN HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERLY p F R E S H M A N . Edwards, David Edwards, Faye Fell, Lucile Fuller, Ruth Gibson, Jack Green, Alice Headley, Walter Heaton, Rollin Hollars, Geneva Ingles, ,Opal Knapp, Hazel Melntosh, Alice McKee, Rachel Y Montgomery. Ruth Morris, Irene Nelson, Mable Packer, Mortimer ' Pierson, Alice Rhodes, Gerald Rist D 1 , ae Robinson, Blanche Sillinian, Minott Smith, Paul Smith, Clifton St. John, Elizabeth Stover. Robert Strahorn, Arthur Stubbs, Edward Swank, Harold Titlow Dorothv Eckley, Harold McClellan, Dorothy Knappenburger, Mary Seckman, Raymond Welsh, Bonnie Shults, McKenzie Wilkinson. Florence lllllIIllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllll IlllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IlllllllllllIIIIIIIIITHIITIIIIIIIIIIIII l lllllllllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllll IlllllllllllllllllllllIIIIlllllllllllllllllllIIIIlllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIllIIIllllllllllllllllllllllHll2lDHn WmmlllHHHHlllIlfllllllllll llll SCHOOL GIFTS. Some one going by the Toulon, High School would no doubt say we have a very beautiful school building and this is true, especially when the cam- pus is green. But they would sup- pose the-interior to be as beautiful as the exterior and would expect to find such things as fine statuary and pictures' inside. These things our High School does not possess. Other schools, for instance the High'Schoo1' in Granville, Illinois, are having a plan, The Forward Move- ment, carried out. They have me- morials to different men and of spe- cial occasions, wonderful' objects of art, and on the third floor they have a museum. In education nothing can be. too good to have in the schools, and articles as mentioned above are some ofthe very best things to have. Toulon High School has received several gifts from the graduating classes. They are: Class of 1915-Columbia phono- graph. Class of 1916-Bookcases. Class of 1917-Pictures. Class of 1918--Flag pole. Class money. Class Tolo. Class of 1925-Library of Ameri- can Authors 151251. Some of the classes did not present of 1919-Still have their of 1922-Gave money to . p A. ,F the school with anything. The Glee- Club of 1925 is giving to the school-a Victrola. They raised the money by the operetta, The Gypsy Rover. To have a new ma- chine will be very fine because of its value in developing musical apprecia- tion. We have some good places for fine pieces of art and statuary and they would make the rooms, seem more pleasant. A show case with mount- ed specimens would make a very in- teresting feature in school. L E WHAT D0 YOU THINK OF CHEW- ING GUM, IN HIGH SCHOOL? Gum chewing is prohibited in our High School because it is unhealthy, does not look well, and one cannot chew gum and think at the same time. As there seems to be some difficulty about this rule, the Tolo's lnuuir'ng Reporter has decided to test the stu- dents' opinion on the subject. The following students have been asked what they think of chewing gum in High School: Jack Gibson, Freshman, says that gum chewing should not be permitted in High School because people can not study and chew gum at the same time. School is not the place to chew igum. It does not look very Well to see a few people in the school chew-

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io not the exact requirements, they were about as sensible. But, in the course of time, the college professors decid- ed that even if we couldn't converse freely with the wops, the sheenies, the dagoes and a few others, it was no reason why,We couldn't receive the benefits ofa higher education. They also agreed that the foreigners in America 'did not always talk the way the books said anyway. These college professors, whom we always joke about their absent-mind- edness, in time came to agree that it was not fair that -just because a cer- tain boy had left out a year of Eng- lish, a half year of, mathematics or some small detail, fthat is small com- pared to one's life workj, he should be robbed of all the future prosperity and happiness brought by a college education. As colleges became -more numerous 'about the country, the requirements were somewhat lighter and they found by experience that the boy or girl who had skipped one or two of the minor requirements for gradua- tion from high-school was not always at the foot of the class in college. . Now, we find that some of the leading colleges of Illinois such as Bradley, Loyola, Lake Forest, Eureka, Lombard, State University, Illinois Wesleyan, and the Illinois -State Teachers' College, have requirements such as: The student must have graduated from an accredited 'high school with fifteen full credits or thirty semester hours and shall have full credit in the following: , Three years of English, one year of Algebra, one year, of Geometry, one year of Sciencefand one year of fHistory. A few schools such as Knox, Rockford, Monmouth, and Lake'Forest, require two years 'of a foreignlanguage, and in some cases Latin is specified. N Thelelective subjects of practically all of the schools'may be foundin this list together withthej amount required: Advanced ' Algebra ............... 36 Botany . .......... ..... 56 Chemistry ...... ..... 1 Civics .... .. ..... 1742 or 1 f TOULON HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERLY Commercial Geography Economics ....... . ......... .... .. E l' h . . 16 1242 1 ng is . . . . . ........... . . . . French .......... . ..... ..... 1 or 2 History ....... ..... 1 to 4 Latin ........... ..... 1 to 4 Physics .. ....... ..... . . . . 1 Solid Geometry ........ .... 'za Bookkeeping ............ ..... 5 if or 1 Commercial Arithmetic . . .... BQ Domestic Science ...... .. ..... 1 or 2 ,Mechanical Drawing .... - ......... 1 Tvpewritling .......... - ....... 1 .... 1 Manual Training ................. 1 or 2 From this list and the preceding data you may form a very good idea of what is required for college en- trance. The tuition ranges from S5125 ,per year up, in most cases it is from S75 to S100 per semester. Catalogues may be obtained by writing to the registrar of any school. In that way you will get all -necessary information about entering college. John Cole. THE OLD DESERTED FARM HOUSE. The old deserted farm house is lo- cated near a lake and not far from the road. 'It has been deserted :for about four years. The neighbors say -it -is haunted, as they and passing people have seen a small, dim 'light in the building, not only at night but through the day, and it flashes at times all over the place. They also claim they have seen figures walking around in the rooms.. Theiapnearance of 'theifarm is very disreputable, as might be expected. The.g1'ass and weedsihave grown up around the house till they are quite high. Thepaint, which was white, is very dirty andpeeling off in some places. Some ofthe shutters are off and others swing by one hinge.'Win- dows are broken- and shades are hang- fing' in only ' a ffew' rooms. None, of the neighboring .people ever hadnerve enough to go in and investigate. 'But one day a man from the city came out there, and he, with another man, decided to look' through the house. Theyufound the first door to be unbolted, so they went -in. -They discovered that -the - downstairs 'did I QR., L , . -...zghg,..,.-1,-L. -,rsh -