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THE POINTER
Wednesday, April 24, 1929
THE POINTER
Published Every Wednesday by
HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL
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STAFF OFFICERS
MARY ELIZABETH HARLLEE Editor-in-Chief
MARGARET YORK Associate Editor
GLADYS CULLER Associate Editor
FRANCIS DOUGLAS Associate Editor
THOMAS CARPENTER Associate Editor
SAM CLAPP - Boys’ Athletic Editor
VIRGINIA HUNT ..Girls Athletic Editor
CARL SMITH. .Business Manager
JAMES LADD Club Editor
ALBERT PRUITT Assistant Club Editor
ALMA ANDREWS Exhange Editor
HARRY COBLE Humor Editor
INA McADAMS Assistant Humor Editor
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MISS HELEN DERRICK Faculty Manager
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High Points
We suggest that some of these boys who are so industrious be put
to work cutting the grass out front. We’re sure they’ll thank us for giving
them this suggestion, for how extra time does drag around a school—
that is if you can ever find anyone who has extra time!
There have been a number of
guests here lately. On Tuesday
Mrs. Guthrie’s mother had lunch
here. She has been a guest at her
daughter’s home during the past
week. On Monday Mrs. David
Macjester and little daughter took
lunch in the cafeteria, and Mr. and
Mrs. Abels were also visitors the
earlier part of the week.
Charles Coble, former student
of H. P. H. S., was a visitor here
on Thursday.
Miss Mary Young, dean of girls
at High Point College, accom
panied several co-eds for a visit to
the school Thursday afternoon.
They were observers on classes.
Hartford Smith, a member of the
freshman class, sang several bal
lads for the enjoyment of Miss
Louise Shipman’s second period
English class last week. The stu
dents in this class are studying the
ballad at present, and they were
delighted to hear someone singing
the old numbers.
Miss Elizabeth Shipman helped
Mrs. Jackson with the work in the
general office last week.
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THE FLAG IN OUR SCHOOL
The recent Hag contest, which by the way is not by any means a
thing of the past, has called to our minds the intensive study which we
used to put on our national emblem. It was right after the World War
that we studied the flag so much from the standpoint of history, mean
ing, and use of the stars and stripes. This is usually the case after
something stirs the national feeling of the people. They are willing
and anxious to make up for their lost opportunities. So the students
were drilled in the “etiquette” of the flag, and the oath of allegiance,
and pledge.
d ime has, however, made us Inclined to be rather careless about
our flag, just as we were before the war called its glory and wonder to
our attention. It was probably in cognizance of this fact that the flag
contest was started, and if it turns our thoughts to this subject and
teaches some of us a few of the things that we should know about the
Red, White and Blue, then It has accomplished something entirely
worth while. The contest also makes us wonder if it wouldn’t be a good
chance for us to start learning some more about our national emblem.
Home room programs offer unlimited opportunities for this work.
Interesting exercises could also be prepared for the chapel period, and
all in all, the students as well as the teachers would have chance to
get a better idea of how to reverence our flag.
It is not that we are guilty of an offense that is uncommon today;
it is just that we have let this matter be shoved form our attention.
But now that we are thinking about it, why not “put It over” and “put
it over big”? We owe it to our country to know something more about
the colors that fly above us as a guarantee of our “life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.”
The dual debaters spent Thurs
day afternoon m Greensboro at
the library of N. C. C. W., looking
up references for their work. The
debate will be held May 3.
The sophomore English classes
under the direction of Miss Helen
Derrick have been having intensive
training in letter writing. They
have studied both the formal and
Informal type of correspondence
and have had a good deal of com
position writing m connection with
their regular study.
Raymond Ritchie, president of
the senior class, spent the week
end with friends at the University
of North Carolina. He was an on
looker at the high school track
meet Friday afternoon.
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Club Notes
Senior Girl Reserves
The program on art, which was
given last Thursday morning be
fore the senior Girl Reserves proved
to be very interesting and instruc
tive. Famous paintings were
passed around the room, and the
members of the club wrote down
from memory the names and
painters of the pictures. This con
stituted the entire program.
Senior Hi-Y
At the meeting of the HI-Y
April 18, it was decided to order
Hi-Y pins for the new members.
Alfred Moffitt, Harry Williamson,
and Bob Hubbard were appointed
as a committee to write a note of
thanks to the Girl Reserves for the
party.
“Joseph the Dreamer” was the
subject of the program. Herman
Stevens had charge of the devo
tional. Henry Strlckler and Bill
McAnally made short talks on the
subject. They showed that Joseph
was the first great dreamer history
records and that most all great
inventors such as Marconi, the
Wright brothers, and Robert Ful
ton, have been dreamers. Follow
ing the talks, there v/as discussion
on the great dreamers of history
and their dreams.
NATURE STUDY BOOKS
ARE NOW IN LIBRARY
As the later months of spring
are nearing, all nature lovers usu
ally begin to think about their
gardens and their flowers. Others
begin to see new birds that are so
far unusual in the vicinity, or to
notice how some old tree has come
out with new buds.
Thinking that such a state of
affairs would be inevitable among
the students and teachers. Miss
Foster has compiled a list of books
that deal with flowers, trees, and
birds. This list is as follows:
Blanchan, Wild Flowers.
Holmes, Common Forest Trees
of North Carolina.
Lounsbury, Southern Wdd Flow
ers and Trees.
Mathews—Field Book of Amer
ican Trees and Shrubs.
Miller, First Book of Birds.
Pearson, Birds of North Caro
lina.
Reed, Bird Guide.
Reed, Flower Guide.
All of these books will be found
on the science reserved shelf for
the use of the students who may
find them helpful In some nature
study either pertaining to school
work, or some private enterprise.
The librarian though the biology
students will find them especially
interesting.
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INFORMATION ABOUT COLLEGES
Mr. Owens has prepared the following chart showing facts about a number of colleges, for the benefit
of the seniors and their parents. He has carefully studied the catalogues of all schools in which he thought
the High Point students might be interested, and this chart is the result of his work. At the last parent-
teacher meeting the chart was explained and several copies were given out. In order, however, that all
the seniors might see just what the different colleges offer them, the chart Is being published here;
HIGH POINT NEVER QUITS
Last week Mr. Charles Hazehurst who first put the ideal of High
Point high In words and placed it before the students, was here. His
visit, the first In six years, cocasions a little thought on the subject of
the school motto: High Point Never Quits.
The story of how there words came to be those engraven on our
memories and, incidentally, to make High Point high school’s history,
was told in last week’s The Pointer. It is an inspiring story for all
that, and we have conscious pride In It, for we know that It is more
than four empty words.
The story goes that when Mr. Hazelhurst was describing the
track meet to the student body, after he, and the team had returned
from Chapel Hill, he astonished his listeners by the use of the adjective
“beautiful.” The scene was a muddy, slipper track course, the rain
was drizzling down, and the High Point runners were weary almost to
the point of exhaustion. All of this, however, did not keep the boys who
was running for our school from yelling back at the jeering crowd that
High Point was never through. If such a picture as this seems a little
heavy for the word “beautiful” it Is not hard for us to understand Mr.
Hazelhurst’s enthusiastic use of it. In fact, it seems that there is a very
definite use for it.
The motto can be used well after we leave high school, for the man
who never quits is the man who is going to get ahead. Anyone who is
willing to give up a job at the first hard knock Is never going to “put
it over” successfully. The biggest boulders come at the end of the road
rather than at the beginning. If we can't turn the little rocks over then,
how do we expect to get by the ones that are matched for every bit of
our ability and determination?
All of this leads us to one thing: He who never quits is the one
who will end at the goal on which he originally set his eyes. If this is
true of every student of High Point high school, then certainly our school
will win—because “High Points Never Quits.”
COLLEGE Degree
Eng
lish
His
tory
Plane Solid
Geom. Geom.
Alge
bra
Sci
ence
Latin
Foreign
Lang.
Units
Req.
Honors
Cost
about
Agnes Scott
A.B.
3*
2
2
2 or 3
15
$700
Asheville Normal _ . _
B.E.
3*
2
1
2
2 or 1
2
15
200
Brenau _
A.B.
3*
2
3
2
15
P.B.K.
700
B.S.
3*
2
15
Catawba"’* -
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
1
3 or
3
15
B.S.
More freedom
allowed.
Converse
A.B.
3*
1
2
4
2
15
800
B.S.
3*
1
2
2
2
2
15
Davidson..__
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
4
15
P.B.K.
640
B.S.
3*
1
1
2
4
15
Duke University* .. -
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
4t
15
P.B.K.
500
B.S.
East Carolina Teachers College. _
A.B.
Graduation fi
om an approved
high school.
400
Elon**
A.B.
Graduation from an aunrovec
hieh school.
375
B.M.
Flora Macdonald--
A.B.
3*
1
2
4t
15
400
.
B.M.
3*
2
1
1
2 or
2
15
George Peabody**
B.S.
3*
Graduation from an a
pproved high school.
15
750
Georgia Tech . .
B.S.
3*
1
1 K
2
2
15
K.P.K.
600
A.B.
3*
1
15
850
Greensboro College for Women..
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
4 or 3
2
15
350
Guilford**
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
2
15
400
High Point** .
A.B.
3*
1
Math 2
1
Language 2
15
400
Hollins
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
3 or
3
15
800
John B. Stetson**
A.B.
3*
1
2
3
15
450
Meredith
A.B.
3*
1
IV2
4 or 2
15
300
B.S.
Same
as for A.B.
2
N. C. C. W
A.B.
3*
2
1
2
2 or
2
15
400
B.S.
3*
2
1
2
2
2
15
N. C. State**
B.S.
3*
2
1
IV2
1
15
450
N. C. University**-
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
4 or
2
15
P.B.K.
500
B.S.
3*
—
1
2
2
Queens
A.B.
3*
1
11
2
1
2
15
500
B.S.
3*
1
1
2
1
Randolph Macon
A.B.
3*
1
134
3
15
P.B.K.
700
Salem _
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
2
2
15
300
B.S.
3*
1
1
2
2
Shorter
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
3t
2
15
600
B.M.
Same
as for A.B. plus special
ability
in music
Smith . _
A.B.
By examination.
P.B.K.
900
Vanderbilt U.**
A.B.
3*
1
2
4 or
15
P.B.K.
600
B.S.
Same
as above for A.B.
2
2
Vassar
A.B.
By examination. At least 2
units oi
Latin.
15
P.B.K.
1500
Virginia M. I
B.S.
3*
2
1
15
P.K.P.
900
Wake Forest . . _ _
A.B.
3*
2
1
2
4t
15
400
B.S.
Same
as A.B
except
2 or
2
Washington and Lee .
A.B.
3*
1
1
2
2
15
P.B.K.
600
B.S.
Same
as for
VB.
Winthrop
A.B.
3*
2
1
2
15
350
B.S.
Same
as for j
4.B.
Note: ’"At least three units; student must have had four years in high school.
fFour units in language required; either four of Latin or two of each of two modern languages.
**Co-educational institutions.
Select College with these things in mind:
1. An institution offering the courses that pupil desires to pursue.
2. A college that is properly recognized by regular accrediting agencies.
3. A college that has organization of national affiliations, especially of an honorary and scholarship
nature.
4. An institution in which contacts worthwhile both for present and future happiness and also for
later social and business connections.
Remember that a college with a reputation in a special field helps, although individual effort counts
for most always.