Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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0 I-'ff m m f- tm i rW-cet ff- fr-f Geal 'fb 4'-,ka f 1 gr . a.. 5. , Q If CLASSES I.. ERE, in Townsend Harris Hall, to a greater extent than in any other high school in the city, the class is an extremely important factor. .5 Each is a separate entity and each has certain duties to perform and matters to regulate. Since every Harrisite is interested in his class 2 Qiif, first and foremost, there is a great deal of friendly emulation in the student body. The various inter-class tournaments, both in the athletic and non-athletic fields, are whole-heartedly supported by the students each term. These activities are followed with the greatest interest and their outcome is quite an important local event. Particularly during the spring term, when the balmy weather stimulates interest in things athletic, there is much activity over at Jaspar Oval and in the environs of the school. Then hundreds of students turn out every day to play on, or at least root,' for, their class-teams. Two innovations during the past year have greatly contributed towards stimulating rivalry and competition between the classes to a greater degree than ever before. These are the inter-class swimming meet and Eield Day, both introduced and sponsored by the General Organization. These events have a distinct advantage over the inter-class tournaments in that they give all the classes an opportunity to compete against one another at the same time. Besides, the results are much more conclusive. Introduced last term purely as an experiment, these meets proved so successful that from now on they will undoubtedly take their place as permanent events on the school calendar of activities. In the non-athletic field there is the inter-class debating tournament which always proves to be very interesting. This activity attracts even more students than the athletic contests do. Boys at the high-school age, for some inexplic- able reason, take great pleasure in voicing their opinions. Deprived of this great joy in the classroom, they are even more anxious to give vent to their thoughts outside, where there is no stern teacher to disapprove. Hence their interest in debating. Since the Varsity Debating team was abolished a few terms ago, the class which wins the prize is usually conceded to be the team equivalent to the varsity. In addition to these activities a paper is issued by every class and all vie with one another for the distinction of having the best publication on the bulletin-board. These papers afford valuable training to students interested in journalism and furnish material for the staffs of the Crimson and Gold and the Stadium.'y The main reason for the pre-eminence of the class in Townsend Harris is its small size. Ini a school of five or six thousand students it is impossible to center activity in the class for this would result in conflict and confusion. However, here, where fortunately we number only about eleven hundred, each student is familiar with all his classmates, there is a bond of union among them, and it is possible for all to co-operate and work for the welfare of the class as a whole. S E - x fl , lij fill' Q14 r 'Est Y- Vg' . K 0 'V had . 0 . Page Sixty-S even

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