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CAN YOU DEBATE?
TRY-OUT FRIDAY
TRIANGULAR
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY THE HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL
VoL. XIII, No. 19
High Point, N. C., Wednesday, February 20, 1929
Five Cents a Copy
A Valentine Program
Is Presented Seniors
At Wednesday Meeting
Old Fashioned Songs By Quar
tets Are Part of Holiday Pro
gram—C. L. Gray Also Sings.
Class Mascot Is Present.
An unusual program suggestive
of the valentine season was pre
sented at the regular meeting of
the senior class Wednesday morn
ing, February 13th in the audi
torium. Eloise Best, who is pro
gram chairman for the class, had
charge and read the devotional for
the morning.
A group of four girls dressed in
Colonial costume and four boys
sang “Love’s Old Sweet Song,”
“Down By the Old Mill Stream,”
and “Cornin’ Thru’ the Rye.”
Those singing were: Dot Rankin,
La Verne Hudson, Margaret Neese,
Dot Franklin, Robert Alorrow,
Robert Davis, C. L. Gray and
Lucas Abels.
C. L. Gray then sang “In My
Garden of Dreams,” accompanied
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COItliflEESWl SELL
lOSI-fOiD mCLES
Objects Now In Booth Will Be
on Sale In Two
Weeks.
COIEEGE 6EEE
ENTEIIIK IN mPEL
Enjoyable Program Brought to
School By Mr. Marshall’s
Home Room Features Guil
ford College Students.
The Lost and Found committee
of the Student Council decided at
the lAst committee meeting to
change the method which they
have hitherto used in dealing with
lost and found articles. Several
articles have been in the booth
since near the opening of school,
and take up a great deal of room.
The decision which was reached
by the committee was that they
would sell all articles after they
had been in the Lost and Found
booth for two weeks, and had not
been called for in that length of
time.
Several caps, vanities, hats, pairs
of gloves, purses, combs, strings of
beads, overshoes, trousers, shoes,
notebooks, library books, and text
books of all descriptions are now in
the booth, but will remain there
only two weeks, after which they
will be sold to any student desiring
them. There is also a sweater
which, so far, has been uncalled
for. Anyone who has lost an article
is urged to communicate with the
Lost and Found committee in
their booth. In this way, the
article may be found and returned
to the owner.
The Guilford college glee club
were the guests of the school Fri
day, February 15th, at the chapel
period and rendered a most en
joyable program at this time. The
glee club is composed of twenty
under-graduates of Guilford col
lege who are being trained m music
by Mr. Max Noah, conductor. The
chorus was of mixed voices, with
no one predominating.
They opened the program with
“O Valiant Sons” by Eville, and
then sang as follows: “Glory of
Dawn” by O’Hara; “Gypsy Trail”
by Galloway; “Still, Still With
Thee” by Gerrigh; “Lead Kindly
Light” by Buck; “On the Road to
Mandalay” by Calvin Wray;
“Winter Song” by Bullock; “Alul-
ligan’s Muskeeters,” “Capital
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JUNIORHDVERIISE
TRIP THROUGH FRANCE
Make Bulletins Based on In
formation Found in Stevenson’s
“Travels With a Donkey.’’
Alembers of Aliss Derrick’s ju
nior English classes have been mak
ing bulletins, advertising a trip
through Southern France. These
trips, as advertised, are supposed
to cover the same territory through
which Stevenson traveled with his
compaionable donkey, Modestine.
The students selected different
titles for their tours, such as:
A Tour Through Southern France,
Following the Stevenson Trail,
and Touring Southern France.
Different abilities in art were
shown. Some of the bulletins were
sketched, and some were type
written. Some very interesting ones
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VON Ml) PHESENIEO
CONCESl HE«E FIIIDAV
Richard A. Von Calm, Salvation
Army soldier, who is being pre
sented m a number of concerts here
by the local post of the army, gave
a pleasing concert at the high
school Thursday evening, Febru
ary 14.
Von Calm, a son of a Russian
baron, played a number of different
instruments during his concert,
and each selection was well re
ceived by his audience.
Mr. Von Calio is a talented
musician, with diverse abilities.
He plays twenty-two different in
struments. For a while he played
with Sousa’s band.
While in this city, he has visited
High Point college, where he gave a
short program, and the Crown
Hosiery Alill where he entertained
a delighted audience during the
noon hour.
Class Writes Newspaper Ac
counts, Letters, Ads, Diaries,
Telling of Life of Villagers.
HIGH AVERAGE SO FAR
Statistics for Daily and Monthly
Circulation Are Favorable—
Librarians Are Pleased With
Result.
According to statistics for the
first term, the library is a very
popular place, probably the most
popular room in the school.
During the month of September,
2,140 books were borrowed from
the library. That is above the
average, and showed that at the
opening of the school year, the
students were Interested in the
library and its material. For Octo
ber, 4,047 books were circulated,
which is the highest number re
corded for any one month so far.
In November 3,320 was the num
ber of books to be taken out of the
library. In December the students
borrowed 1,605 books, and in
January 3,278 volumes were cir
culated. The average circulation
per month for the five months was
2,878. This is a very high average
and it is to be hoped that the
students will continue to use the
library as well for the second term.
The average circulation per day so
far: is September 142.6, October
183.9, November 153, December
229, and January 198. The average
circulation per day for the semester
was 181.5.
The librarians are much pleased
with the circulation records so far,
and hope the record can be broken
or at least mainfallied,- for the re
mainder of the year.
SENIORnAiTESEG
GENE ONE BV GEAIE
School Will Receive State Rat
ing from These; H. P. H. S.
Score Well Above Average
Last Year.
The seniors of High Point high
school on last Thursday took into
their hands the responsibility of
the school’s rating in this state
for this year. The responsibility
was in the form of the senior tests
which are sent out each year by
the state inspector of high schools.
They cover practically every sub
ject which the average high school
student has studied in four years
of work. These subjects are some
phases of science, English, foreign
language, history and mathematics,
as well as a little of the general
intelligence tests. The test papers
will be sent to Chapel Hill where
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Aliss Derrick’s classes of sopho
more English have been spending
the past week in Raveloe, Eng
land; that is, literarily speaking.
At least the members of the class
have formed close associations with
the happenings of the town as well
as with Silas Alarner, Godfrey
Cass, the Lammeters, Kimbles,
and other people met in George
Eliot’s “Silas Marner.”
For two days, each student
imagined that he was a reporter
on the “Raveloe Herald,” and
wrote up the mysterious disap
pearance of Silas’s money in news
paper style. This account was fol
lowed closely by a write-up of the
accidental discovery of Dunstan
Cass’s skeleton in the stone pit
arid the recovery of Air. Marner s
long lost money. Some students
printed their accounts on yellowed
paper, giving the appearance of
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A wedding of interest to the
students and faculty members of
High Point high school as well as
to their many friends m the city,
was that of Miss Lyda Freddy to
Air. Roscoe Wilmont Sowers which
took place Saturday afternoon at
the home of the bride’s parents on
South Main Street. The ceremony
was solemnized by Rev. Al. T.
Smathers and was witnessed by
only a few relatives and friends.
Prior to the ceremony, C. L. Gray
sang “At Dawning.” The bride
wore a becoming dress of blue
gorgette with accessories to match.
Immediately following the wed
ding the couple left for Aliami,
Florida, where they will spend a
short time.
Mrs. Sowers is the attractive
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Three One-Act Plays To
Be Given In March By
Dramatic Club Members
El
OBSERVE CLASSES HERE
Dr. Monroe Stowe and Miss
Mason, Are Visitors to School
to Obtain Information on
Secondary Education.
Dr. A. Alonroe Stowe, head of
the department of education at
Randolph-Macon College, Lynch
burg, Va., and Miss Mason, his
assistant, spent Tuesday at High
Point high school observing the
work of the teachers and the pupils.
The reason given for this survey
and visit is that Dr. Stowe plans
to have Miss Mason spend a week
out of every three studying the
problems of secondary education.
Miss Mason was present on
several classes. She observed the
folowing: Alisses Beard, and Bar
ker, and Messers Partrick, Owens,
and Sloan. She said, afterwards,
that the instruction and evident
results were superior to the aver
age she had hitherto seen. The
fine discipline of the classes was
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MIEEON’G niEIIIS ARE
PICIBRED 61GENIORS
Mr. Patrick’s English Classes
Do Unusual Work In Depict
ing Scenes of “L’Allegro’’ and
“II Penseroso.’’
The interest in Milton and his
best loved poems, “L’Allegro” and
“II Penseroso,” was furthered last
week in Mr. Patrick’s English
classes by many unusual and ori
ginal illustrations of some specific
phase of each of the aforesaid
poems.
Every member of the classes was
required to hand in an original
piece of work. As a result a variety
was found in the collection, one
which shows much cleverness and
skill. There are many attractive
designs or booklets and some very
artistic paintings. Each piece of
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IS GIVEN TO STUDENTS
Students who secured material to
aid them in writing their chemistry
contest themes, have turned it over
to the library for the benefit of the
chemistry department in general.
These pamphlets have been put
in the pamphlet boxes, and may
now be found on the science shelf.
Most of this material deals with
the relation of chemistry to na
tional defense, to health and dis
ease, and to the silk industry.
O
CHANGE IS ANNOUNCED
IN LOCALS’ SCHEDULE
A Fantasy, a Tragedy, and a
Comedy Are Included in the
Program—Part of Cast Al
ready Selected.
“Aria D’Amor,” The Valiant,”
and “The Man in the Bowler Hat,”
will comprise the program of three
one-act plays to be presented by
the Dramatic club on March 15, in
the High School auditorium. Try
outs have been in progress for two
weeks and a possible cast for each
play is now at work on the plays.
The program will be varied enough
to suit the taste of any audience
and serve to exhibit the varied
talents of the members of the
Dramatic club. Admission to the
performance will be by invitation
only.
“Aria D’Amor’’
The program will open a fan
tastic ballet danced with Velva
Hayden and Robert Davis. The
play is one that stresses beauty of
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lincoenIsSTect of
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Miss Beard’s Group Enjoys
Valentine Box, Also Stories
and Songs Appropriate to
Occasion.
Two interesting programs on
entirely different subjects were
presented in the home rooms here
last Wednesday. The first was
given in Room 202 and dealt with
Abraham Lincoln whose birthday
was commemorated lately. Billy
Foster read “The Birth and Boy
hood of Lincoln,” a story which
told of the hardships that the boy
who was to become president had
to endure. The reader enlarged the
story, describing the obstacles
which Lincoln met in his search
for an education, and how he sur
mounted them. “The Emancipa
tion of the Slaves” was given by
Oscar Chastain. Bernard Hunter
read “The Death and Victory of
Lincoln,” telling how Lincoln met
his death, and the effect his death
had on America.
Room 209, Miss Meek Beard’s
room, had a valentine ’ program.
The origin of the valentine, which
has puzzled so many people, was
explained by Katherine Gentry.
Norma Anderson related the story
of Cupid and Psyche. “Sweet Gene
vieve,” a song appropriate to the
occasion, was sung by the group.
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There has been a slight change
in the basket ball schedule of the
girls’ games. The game scheduled
with Eli Whitney there will be
played on the local court. Officials
have also arranged a game with
the Salisbury girls to be played
here Friday, February 22.
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If beauty lived for ever, it would
die; and seen for ever would be
seen no more.—Arthur St. John
Adcock.
BESOLDINLITTLESTORE
Science magazines, beginning
with the April issues, will be on
sale at the Little Store, under the
auspices of the Retort Chemistry
club. The Radio News, Popular
Science Monthly, and Science and
Invention have already been or
dered. The April issue of the Popu-
lat Science Monthly will be here
after March 3; the other two, after
March 15. The price of these
magazines will be 15 cents, 10
cents less than the price asked
down town.
Students who wish a particular
scientific magazine sold, or who
wish to subscribe to one, will see
Carl Smith, or Miss Tucker.
Any profits made will go toward
starting a fund to be used by the
Retort club for scientific projects.