ADVOCATE September 27, 1921
THE ADVOCATE VOLUME XXVIl·
SELECT NEW srAFr I FRESHME~:~~~~~~~~E~OUNCIL l
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION POPULAR WITH GIRLS
student·s~Jncoming
Kew fresh-I men were entertamed by last semes-1 tcr's student council Monday afterMildred Ames Wins Editorship-Has noon, September 12, in the auditorium., 1 j A committee composed of Helen Tom.Experienced Staff to Work i, son, chairman; Sarah Towne and 1 With. !'Douglass Orr was in charge. 1 j Mr. Shepherd welcomed the fresh- i MISS COLBURN NEW SPONSOR men, explaining t•h at he was as new --I1 as they, and recounted a few of his The 1921 Advocate staff Ls, with four I experiences when entering >school. 1 exceptions, composed of students who ·wendell Berge gave the freshmen an J were on the staff las! semester. I ~dea of what they were soon. to m~et j 'flhe editor chosen for this semester m school and asked for their entire is Mildred Ames, promoted from the !'·cooperation with the new student position of girls' sport editor which council. · I she held last semester. She is a memAn introductory talk by Helen Tom- ! ber of the G. A. A.. and the Write.rs i son, a solo by Sylvia Cole, a dance hy I club. I Bernice Ray and a reading by Frances 1 Hugh Cox has been given the posi- i Carrothers were other features of the tion of managing editor. He is a ! ·p rogram. From the auditorium the member of the Forum and the 'Vriters j freshmen went to their new home club, and has held the presidency of !, rooms and were regi£tered.
One '.'.lundred more girls are regis-1 tered in the gymnasium and swimmin~ classes this year than last, accordin~ to Miss Emma Breitstadt. The regiR- New Principal is Introduced by tr[l.tion thi.s year is 500, and last year"" SL'perintendcnt of Schools. rr.gistration at this time was 330. All girls wishing to take swimming or SHEPHERD MAKES SPEECH fioO"r work must sign up .for each separately, according to the new proMr. She.p•h erd , the new principal of • m which Mis-s Breitstadt and Miss Lincoln high school, chose the assemIrene Springer are introducing. The bly of Monday, September 5, in whi~h girls taking floor work cannot take to make .his first official appearance swimming unless they sign up for tbe befo re the student body. The idea of after . sc:houl class, and those taking his first talk was to bring home to swimming must give up floor worlc Lis hearers the purpose of this high The physical examinations will school as an educational institution. probably end this week. Dr. R. A. A musical trio composed of Miss Warner, who has been giving the ex- Little and Mr. arnl Mrs. Charles B. aminations, has been at the high Righter gave three excellent selec· S(hool every afternoon for the last tions as the first number <Jn the proweek. gram of the assembly. --- -- - - ---"I have made a study of the high ·,. schools over the United Sta.tes In
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HOMER P. SHEPHERD
l j Homer P. Shepherd, principal of ,.. . .. . debating team and last year he made j tl:e high school, co:nes from Kan 3.as Shepherd.. An average city of Linll. City, Kansas, where he was the prmboth the Junior class debating team i . 1 coln's size has only 1,200 pupils In and. the school debating team. In ad_-1 cipal of one of the junior high 'school<;. - - -· I high school while Lincoln has 2,200. Mr. Shepherd received his master's dit1on he has been a student council Eighty Candidates Turn Out for 1921 , Lincoln high school graduates more degree at the Unh·ersity of Chicago I · member, a secretary of that organiza- I Tea·m. , pupils per thousand citizens from its hst summer and it was while he was Eon, a home room representative, a ! English Department Gets Largest high school than any other high I ::;t11dyi11g th E:rn that he was offered his · member of the carnival committee and, Share of Arrivals. ! school in the United Slates except a member of the Links staff. present position. I Vlith more than eight y football per- •those of Beaumont, Texas, and PasaThe business manager, Ben Gadd, I' " .., I ormers contesting for positions on dena, California. We ask you to con· was promoted from circulation manOf the ninety-four teachers in Lin.his year's eleven, t~e Red and Blaclr i tril:-i1t.e every bit you can' to the school ager le~ving his old position unfilled coln high school, eighteen are new to Isupporters are lookmg forward to a i and as our contribution we have obBen is a member of the Hi Y and· the l foe system. The English department state champion&hip. I tained Mr. Shepherd !or you. He has Forum. I has the most, eight of the number, .i \I ~ Earl _Johnson is working the first, tl::!ree outstanding qualities which hia John Allison, the advertising man-1 bc,ing in that department. The home·\ ----squad 111 the absence of Mr. Me:i.d. ! recommendations showed. First, he ager, has been on the paper two se- hold arts department comes second St d t C . Meets . j The cand·! dates are be:ing drilled in I is interested in the problems of the . h five, artd the soc ial s·c ience . en_ with . preli'mi·nary wor k on 1y. N. ex t wee k ,, school. Second, he has shown himmesters before, the first as an assist- j wit and I u _ ,omm 1ttee ant circulation manager and the sec - 1ihe commercial department each has' F .. culty .o Make Nominations. jthe. Red and Black squad will start to ' self a friend of boys and girls. Third, ond as a special reporter. Besides two. The modern language depart· i --; I scrimmage. [he believes in setting a stanc\,ard and this he is a member of the Forum,' men~ has o~ly o~e. Nominations fur the student council . . The. first aggregation at the yresent ! reaching it. Writers club, Mummers and the Hi Y. M1~s Adella Wmt~r, one <Jf .the ne:' i were made by the committee from i time includes Thomas, capta1~, fun. \ "For two weeks," said Mr. Shepherd, Miss"Dorothy Colburn is advisei· for English teachers, will not arrive .until i the home room representatives last ba~k; Olds and ~rown, halfoacks; j "I have been busy ln gPtting a-cquaint· 1 the publication in tlrn place or Miss I 00tobe:;: 2. Mrs. Fay T. \Vells. of t!w I T.hursclay after school. This comm\t-, W1~son and Hardm, quarterbaclrn; 'ed with the faculty and with you. You Amy Armstrong, who helrt the position I same department, is a graduate of the ; tee met with the four faculty mem-1 Krieg, full~ack; Mcintyre, Gardner have probably been aware that I have last year. Miss Sarah T. Muir, . University in 1917, and has taken rbers in a sess ion . lasting until :;ix I and. Morrrnon, ends; Drummond, been looking you over and I know sponsor of the paper for several years graduate work in the University of !o'clock. The committee was made 1 1p ;Lewis and Kelley, tackles; Randolph that I have been aware that I have will be with it again this year. California. 'S he is a member of Phi I of the following faculty members and ;and Cummings, guards; Hutchison been looked over. In that t:wo weeks The organizations ;editor is Doris Beta Kappa, honorary scholarship fra- ! students: Mr. Shepherd, Miss Pound, i and Din.ges, center; Harper, tackle. I have come to the conclusion that Trott, assistant circulation manager J ternity, and of the English club. She! Mr. Culler, Miss Muir, Hugh Cox, John j The reserve team is made up of the there is here a wonderful faculty, a or last semester. She is a member of · has taught mathematics at Red Cloud. j Allison, Helen Oberlies, Alice Springer i following gridiron men: Marx, Mc- fine school and an extraordinary group the Forum, the Mummers, the Writers and. for th.e last t':o years has been an and Douglas·s Orr. IBride, Worrest, Du_risch •. Marr.s, Te~- of students. 1 club and the Student Standard cabinet. aRs1stant m the history department at' After careful consl<leration of all. rick, Gordon, Merritt., Dickerson, Gil- i Twenty-one hundred shares of high She was a member of the jumor-senior 1the ?niv~rsit~ of Nebraska. . I who were eligible and who :'.ere j laspie, Jones, McMahon, Warde, U1~- i school. stock were purchased at the committee last year and has taken 1 M!ss v alerm Bonnell, new m the , thought to be fitted for the pos1t10n, I derwood, McPherson, Newe~s'. Cm- . beginnmg of the school year," con· part in two plays, "$1200 a Year" and i modern language department, was ! the following students were nomi- ., tafn, ParsfJall, Gentry, Wh1t~mgton, ! tinued Mr. Shepherd, "and each share "Behind the Scenes." I gra?uated from the University of Ne- i nate·d: . Englebrecht, Des Jardien, H1ckmirn,. has cost $116 according to the statisArchie Arenson is taking c•harge of l·braska in 1914. She was a member of Scnio•' Boys. jM~rx, Schernrnrho~n, Curran, Hay, I tics from last year. The question ls the boys' sports. ! Phi Beta Kappa and Black Masque, i John Allison /Hill, Neeley, Watkms, Tayler, Joh.11- ! whether you'll hang on to this stock . son, Black, Baker, Blake, Clary, Davis, · long eno. ugh to maim good on the Viola Fairchild, the exchange editor, i now M'Ortarboard. She took post Hugh Cox came from the McKinley prepartory ~ graduate .work in the University of Ne· FTancis Cummings Dean, Bernard, Ghode, Hager, Jen- investment." 1 in 1919 and will make high school iu braska, Columbia University, and one I Frank Dinges nings, Bain.' Kuntz, Ko~n, Sitn~r, "Loiter, scowl, get the put off habit, 1 1 two and a half years. She was one 1 year at a private school of languages I Clarence Drummond i Leath, Morns, Marsh, Malt1son, Muma, see no good in anything, cultivate bad o: the home room representative m Lucerne, Switzerland. For the past ! Fr0u I•'unke I Mulligan, Pick, Patterson, Shostack, companions, trust to luck, cut the corridor guards lctst semester. year Mis3 Bonnell has been teaching I Ben Gadd ! Saxton, Sheldon, Todd, Taylor, Ww- corners of a square deal, have a cateT'he three special reporters are in Cheyenn3,, ~'yo., and previous to I Millard Gump ! and, Woodle, Winsor, Burress. Jess appearance, have no ambition, use Kenneth Anderson, Ernest Bruce and that she taught at Harvard and I<"'rf.-1 Raymond McMahon I 'l'hR initi<Ll argument wil.l be with no self control, let your mind be full Maurice Wing. Kenneth Anderson is rnont. I Albion Speier i York at York, October 7. The Gage' ot hate, treat your work as a bore, a .member of the Orpheons and the ; Miss ~lorence Gri_mm, another ne~v J Mat:.rice Wiug II county met_rop~lis, Beatric:, wil~ con- I ~ever study"-Mr'. Shepherd's effec· H1 Y. Ernest Bruce is a member. of teacher in the Enghs.h department. is • Ralph McGoogan te~t the. p1gskm sport w.1th Lmcoln .11ve formula for failure. the Forum, the Writers club and the a graduate of the University of NeSenior Girls. his yea: as usual. . I According to Mr. Shepherd there Hi Y. Maurice Wing was a special i l1raska in 1912 . . In 1917 s_he completed Bla nche Burt The 11rst squ~d duect~d by ?~~ch ! are three main objects oir a high reporter last semester and is a mem- ,·her work for the master's degree at I Viola Fain.:hild Mead, confines its practice activities school education. ber of the Forum, Mummers, Writer;0 I this university. Last summer she took Martha F iegenbaum !.to. th.e new athl:tic. field. we~t of the First-To help the student to find club and the Hi Y. Iris Ludden 1bmldmg. The JUmor p1.gskm squad 'is life's work. 1 work at Madison, Wis., in the univerOn account of the large number <Jf I s:ty there. She is a Phi Beta Kappa. I H elen Oberlies ~nder Coach Browne's guidance limits Second-To give the students higher students who have registered for .Eng- I She ~as taught at Stromsburg and Gladys Ramsdell !'its a~Uvities to the field nort.h of the ideals. lish VIII this semester it has been Super10r for five years. Th elma Sexton building. Third-To teach ~he short cuts to decided to reduce the number 0 .f reMrs. Lucile Foster, Lincoln high's I Pauline Tait The complete schedule follows: learning. porters on the paper. There will be new dramatic coach, will finish her I Do ,- is Trott : Sept. 30-0pen. "You've got to get in the game and only three special reporters and the work at t'he state university next 1 Rut11 Virtue I Oct. 7-·York at York. play it. There is no lift in the house versona1 reporting will, for t•h e pres- spring. She has attended Oberlin colHelen Vorhees · Oct. 14-South Omaha at South of .success." ent, be given over entirely to the lege for two years. She has been act- 1 Margaret Watson Omaha. The musical program, which pre. ninety news writing .students. ive in dramatics at the university, tak- .1 Junior Boys. Oct. 21-Gr:mcl Island at Lincoln. ceded the talks, was ushered in by ing the leading role in many plays, and Rkhard Arnold Oct. 28--Superior at Lincoln. Mr. Ferguson, in his usual characterFOOTBALL SQUAD HAS is assistant to Miss Howell at present. Jere Mickel Nov. 4-0pen. istic manner, with the singing of NEW COACH AT HELM Mrs. Dean Schmidt, a new history Douglass Orr Nov. 11- -Cambridge at iLncoln. "Fight, Fight for Lincoln" and "Lin· teacher, received her A. B. degree from .John Reasoner I Nov. 18-Beatrice at Beatrice. coln Will Shine Tonight" by the stu· Illness of Wife Calls Mead Away- the University -0f lfowa. She attended Paul Reed I! Nov. 2'1- Xorth Platte at North dent bod:y. Following this, a trio Johnson Takes His Place. Chicago . University and for the past L e Roy Toohey Platte. composed of ::Vliss Miriam Little, year has taught in the East high Junior Girls. J cellist; Mr. Charles Righter, violinist;, A new coach took over Lincoln ·school, Des Moines, Ia. Margaret Hyde TRAFFIC IS and Mrs. Charles Righter, pianist.. 1 CORRIDOR high's football team last Friday when Miss Lila Drollinger of the houseBlanche Larabee \ HANDLED BY STUDENTS gave a short program consisting ot Telfer L. Mead left .for Aurora, Ill., r.old arts 1d,0partment, was graduated F: 1.i zabeth Shepherd i Fifteen students from last year's "Extase" by Ganne. "Dance o! the ·where his wife is seriously ill. from the University of Nebraska in Alice ,Springer home !room representative body and . Dolls" ("Poupee Valsante") .b y PolEarl Johnson, physical d.frector in '1!118. She holds a bachelor <Jf scienc~ Ruth S:.; nderland j·;tudent council are managing the traf-1 dini, and an encore, Beethoven's 1 the Lincoln public schools has .taken 1degree and is a member of Omicron Katherine McV.r'h innie fie in the halls, awaiting the election .. minuet in G. charge of the pigskin recruits in his t·Nu, honorary home economies fra- ! Sophomore Boys. of the new home room representatives. 1 - - - ·- - - - absence. Mr. Johnson has had pre· ternity. She taught at Hastings colOtho De Vilbiss Three bodies, one for ea•ch lunch peGUIDES FOR FRESHMEN vious experience in tihe coaching lege la.st year. John Skiles /·riod see that the restricted halls are To reduce tardiness to classes to a game, having turned out several state l\Irf:. Frances K. Smith, of the Lat!n Sophomore Girls. · kept free during that period. minimum, upperclassmen were pla.ced college machines. Mr. Mead is ex- department, was graduated from th•-,. Hazel Olds Those who are' serving are Helen i.J the halls to guide freshmen and new pected back this week. University of Nebraska and has been Dagmar Sommer Aach, John Allison, Charles Benbrook, tudents to their elaHses !or the til."'St A telegram came Thursday stating teaching for thirteen years at Pawnee Sam Bignell, Blanche Burt, Hugoh Cox, .wo days of school. that Mrs. Mead was ·m and that it city, Sheridan, Wy-0., and other towns Miss Gere was at Estes Park dur- Viola Fairchild, Mai-tha Fiegenbaum, John Allison, Hugh C-Ox, Otho De would be necessary to operate Satur· Miss Elizabeth Wittman of the Eng- ng the summ er. Sl.ie ~pent part of Ralph McGoogan, Frederick Sanford, Vilblis,s, Viola Fairchild, Ralph Mcday. Mrs. Mead was vdsiting her lish department attended the Univer- her time rebuilding a chimney to Elizabeth She·pherd, and Ruth 'Sunder- Googan and Douglass Orr carried on varents in Aurora when taken sick. (Continued on Page 3.) make it draw. land. , this work.
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