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HIGH LIFE
March 2, 1298
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HIGH LIFE
Published Bi-Weekly by the Students of
The Greensboro High School
Greensboro, N. C.
Founded by the Class of ’21
Charter
Member
March
1925
Entered as Second-Class Matter at the
Post Oflice, Greensboro, N. C.
SENIOR STAFF
Managing Editor . . . Irene McFadyen
Editor Eugenia Isler
Business Manager Ed Davant
Associate Editors
Elvie Hope Rose Goodwin
Doris Hogan Daphine Hunt
Graham Cochrane
Assistant Editors
Charles Marsh Marino Geoghegan
Ewell Crawford Raymond Willis
Art Editor Ed Turner
Typists
Sadie Sharp Flora Mclver
Yirginia McKinney
Reporters
Neville Watson Mary Jones
Edith Ellington Estelle McCormick
Mary Q. Omahuiidro Ruth Long
Edwinna Jones Rosa Mann
Carter Williams Anna Lyon
Faculty Advisers
Miss Laura Sumner
Miss Rena Cole
Miss Nell Chilton
Miss Laura Tillett
On March 8 '‘Our Gay Defend
ers” leave for New York. We wish
them the best of luck.
Posters! posters! everywhere.
Here’s hoping they have served
their purpose, and that good Eng
lish will be put into practice at
G. H. S.
"Don’t give up the ship,” sink
ers ; maybe you eventually will
have the luck of getting out at the
end of the seventh period, too.
It seems that the list of great
bankers is going to be increased,
judging from the number which
are starting on their career in 103.
It makes us almost homesick to
think of our grandchildren eating
their lunch under the shade of the
new trees.
Why is it that boys are always
called upon to take part in the
declamation contests when girls do
all the talking?
Don’t by any means think our
senior mascot is the under dog!
The glee club girls have become
quite dainty in their actions and
very coquettish in their manner
during the past week. Why? The
girls chorus for "The Mikado” is
to be picked soon.
We prophesy that there won’t
ibe any more tardies since we get
fout at the beginning of the eighth
period.
Some of the girls in Miss
Dosier’s Economics class had a
cold, so she decided to take them
to Vicks Chemical Company.
The Girls’ Council
Despite the fact that the Girls’
Council has existed for six years,
the G. H. S. student body knows
comparatively little concerning its
accomplishments. Many questions
are asked; such as, what does the
organization do ? How does it func
tion? For what purpose does it
exist? Some have heard nothing
of its numerous activities. After
all, everything that glitters is not
gold. The Girls’ Council’s work
does not glitter, but still it is of
the greatest importance to the high
school girls.
From the beginning this organi
zation has had as its foundation a
two-fold idea. It gives the girls a
chance to have a voice in their af
fairs through their representatives
in this organization; it gives the
dean aid in establishing a spirit
that will permeate the school. The
Girls’ Council carries on an exten
sive program of work. Just be
cause its every deed is not glori
fied, some think that it is idle. The
Girls’ Council is continually at
work. The general purpose is to
establish good moral conditions
among our high school girls. Often
problems which are of vital im
portance, are placed before these
representatives. They settle the
question in their own way, and we
are satisfied just because they rep
resent us. A closer relationship
between parents and daughters has
been one of the aims of this organ
ization. They have sponsored ban
quets and open forums for the pur
pose of giving parents and daugh
ters a chance to understand and see
each other’s viewpoints.
Mrs. Bertha Sternherger
To us of the Greensboro High
School, Mrs. Bertha Sternherger
perhaps meant most as a member
of the board of education. We
know that it was, to a great extent,
due to her efforts that the city
school system has its music depart
ment.
To those, however, to whom it
was given to know her well, she
was a woman to be loved and re
spected. Her kind and generous
nature, her ready sympathy, and
her ardent desire to aid any worthy
person endeared her to the many
people with whom she was associ
ated.
The cases of her financial sup
port of the various organizations
of Greensboro and of individual
gifts toward the advancement of
culture and education of both the
negro and the white race are many,
yet her generosity was not the cold
charity that marks the gifts of
many so - called philanthropists.
She made herself a part of her
gift. If, in adition to financial aid,
her presence and a cheering word
might add to the comfort of some
unfortunate, she was only too glad
to mak5 some personal sacrifice in
order that he be encouraged. Con
siderate and thoughtful, had she
possessed not a penny to give to
charity, she would still have been
loved as a friend and honored as a
citizen.
Out of all the fifty thousand peo
ple who make up the city of Greens
boro, perhaps there is none of
whom the poet could have said
more justly than of Mrs. Stern-
berger:
“None knew thee hut to love thee;
None named thee hut to praise.”
A Cultural Center
Every student in Greensboro
High School should avail himself
of the many cultural opportunities
offered him in Greensboro. Our
city is so centrally located that it
has developed into a convention
town and is rapidly becoming a
cultural center.
Dor 1927-’28 the Civic Music As
sociation has made possible the ap
pearance of such notable artists as
Percy Grainger, who have delight
ed their audience in every instance.
The expression of such talent, fre
quently amounting to genius, has
done much to lift the music stand
ards and quicken the desire for the
best among Greensboro people.
However, the cultural oppor
tunities of Greensboro have not
been confined to music-lovers alone,
for Greensboro has enjoyed many
prominent authors and lecturers
through the Open Forum and the
college lyceums. Interest of G.H.S.
in this from of education was man
ifested recently at a meeting of the
open forum when a high school
senior showed himself informed on
current topics by asking thought
ful and pertinent questions.
Intelligence Tests
The recent intelligence tests giv
en to the seniors have occasioned a
widespread discussion among the
students of Greensboro High
School. This discussion ranged
from the extreme of facetiousness
to the extreme of seriousness. Both
extremes are well represented in
this school. Both seem to ques
tion the value of the tests a s
a reliable index to worth of in
tellect. Now these students neces
sarily are forced to base their opin
ions on a very limited experience.
Nevertheless, they have reasoned
in a common-sense way, and they
have raised questions that must
command serious consideration.
Boiled down, the questions they
raise are two: do the tests test in
telligence; and if not, is what they
do test important? The first of
these questions is certainly not to
be answered in any off-hand man
ner. It involves another and still
more difficult question that is being
argued by psychologists today—
that is, what is intelligence ? Now,
if the gauge of intelligence is to be
the ability to deal with new situa
tions for the mind, it seems to us,
one can well question the value of
the tests. It seems apparent that
anyone with a well pigeon-holed
memory could go very far in some
of the tests given to the seniors the
other day. The ability to think
creatively, to reflect, to analyze, to
synthesize, was not required. One
or two of the tests required a cer
tain exercise of judgment which
could not have been gained only
by conning school books. But in
these few the judgment required
was of a special variety that would
scarcely be an index to the sum
total of a person’s intellectual abil
ities.
Now the question arises whether
what these tests do measure is im
portant. We would not venture to
answer that without a qualification
and even then advisedly. The abil
ity to give a set reply to a set ques
tion seems to be the basis on which
the colleges of our country admit
or reject youth. Doubtless such
knowledge is important in its
place, but isn’t is overemphasized?
one 5(De
It lias taken four years of high school
to make me realize one of my greatest
mistakes. When I came to high school,
I thought that the proper thing to do
was to see how much fun I could make
of the class officials, and the other or
ganizations at our school. If my favor
ite candidate did not secure the elec
tion, I spent the rest of the year try
ing to point out the defects of his vic
tor to every person who would listen
to me. Herein lies my mistake, which
is a common one for students to make.
The course that I should have taken
was to forget my prejudices and to
help my candidate’s victor as much as
possible. There are too many students
in our classes for everyone to be given
a job which will make them stand
above his class mates; but each in
dividual can do his part in helping
his president or any of the officials
make his class successful in any of
the projects undertaken by having the
proper attitude towards class meet
ing and class work. By this I mean
not to laugh and talk at the class meet
ings, but act as if you were a mem
ber in the House of Representatives.
If the president asks you to serve on
a committee, don’t make excuses, but
give everything you’ve got trying to
put it across. This above all; don’t
make the mistake of knocking your
superiors.
As another June graduation ap
proaches, the age-old question is before
the seniors—Should we go to college?
This topic has faced many high school
students for an innumerable number
of years, and has more or less been a
crisis in the student’s life, for it has
proved to be a turning-point.
Seniors, by all means go to college;
it is of value not only to equip one’s-
self for the business world and the
continual acquirement of knowledge,
but the learning of fellowship, sports
manship, and companionship that is
always necessary for one to form a
well-developed character. College life
affords these pleasures and many
more, and should be an earnest desire
of every high school graduate.
Today is a day of science, experi
ments, and inventions, and every one
is trying to live life at its fullest and
to obtain all possible knowledge. A
college education forwards these dis
coveries, so, seniors, in order to have
your hopes, aims, and ambitions
realized, go to college!
lence struck my ears as heavy a blow
as the great noise had done in times
past. The excess chatter had suddenly
ceased. Why this sudden and awe
inspiring change, I wondered? Then
my eye found the explanation. A
poster, two posters, in fact, posters
were all over the walls, bearing such
captions as “Better English,’’ “A Man
is known by his speech,“ and “Watch
your English.”
Let it not be said that the pupils
were afraid to speak because of the
horrible menace. Bad English; oh, no,
they were just careful. If you do not
wish bad English to creep insidiously
into your speech, is not silence the
very best preventive?
At the beginning of this semester,
Mr. Phillips organized several unsu
pervised study periods. The students
in these periods are left without a
teacher. They are on their honor to
do the thing that is right.
So far, the plan has been success
ful. Each student has co-operated by
assuming his own responsibilrity jn
keeping order in the room. This is the
first time that this plan has been tried
out in Gerensboro High School but is
thought by all to be an unusually good
one.
The old saying, “Silence is golden,”
certainly proved true last week at G.
H. S. Never before in the history of
this high school has the silence been
so impressive, in fact, so uncanny, as
it was last week.
As I entered the sacred halls of G.
H. S. on Monday, the twentieth, si-
The students of Greensboro High
School do not practice economy. It
seems that there are very few who
ever consider being economical either
in time or money.
Reams of paper are destroyed every
week by pupils. A good part of it even
is left on the floor to be thrown aAvay
by the janitor. After using paper on
one side, why not save it for working
out mathematics problems for the next
day’s lesson Many people think that
because paper is only five cents a pack
age, they should not be economical in
using it. The old saying, “Cents make
dollars,” applies very well to this
situation.
However, that is only one side of
the economy question. What about all
this time we are wasting? One does
not succeed in the world simply by
dreaming. Instead of idling away the
time, how about reading a good book
or a magazine? Reading does improve
the mind, at least.
Let’s get the habit of practicing
economy, and it will follow us all
through our lives.
For life is a mirror of king and slave,
’Tis just what we are and do;
Then give to the world the best you
have.
And the best will come back to you.
—Madeline Bridges, in Hill Top, Mars
Hill, N. 0.