ADMINISTRATIVE NEWS
PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO HIGH LIFE BY THE CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
ATMOSPHERE OE HAPPINESS
The Greensboro High School boys
and girls are happy in their school
life. It would be well worth the
time and energy of the “grown ups”
of the city to spend a few hours
down on Sprnig Street in getting in
touch with the greatest dynamo of
happiness and health in the entire
community.
From the time they march jn.
fresh and full of vigor at 8:30, un
til they rush away at 3:30 at the end
of the day, they are having a good
time, largely because they are busy.
The most unhappy student at the
High School is one who will not
work. He is so unhappy that he
makes others unhappy by his trou
blesome ways. It can be said that
there are very few of his type. The
chapel period is getting to be a very
joyful time. With the leadership of
the excellent orchestra the music is
full of life and interest. The few
vacant corners on the grounds are
always full of groups playing some
game or engaged in lively conver
sation.
Nothing bad can ever happen in a
happy group. Greensboro citizens
should always strive to make con
ditions favorable for youthful hap
piness as the greatest protection for
the ideals of the city.
A hearty laugh is always in order
at the High School.
In spirit and ideals it has no su
perior. With every citizen a booster
for the High School it will grow in
usefulness to the city.
Voices from Spring Street.
Our school opened this year with
e^ght teachers and three hundred and
twenty pupils. We feel very much
as parents feel when their children
go away, for our senior class had to
be sent away to school. It was with
a great reluctance that we bade them
farewell and sent them forth to paths
untrod and pastures new.
As soon as the teachers got set
tled in their new homes and their
trunks unpacked, the Parent-Teacher
Association, which is always plan
ning something pleasant for them,
gave a beautiful reception in their
honor at the home of Mrs. C. E.
Leak. A large number of mothers
called, and we felt as if this school
year was bound to be more succes-
ful for such a hearty send-off.
Our next Parent-Teacher meeting
was well attended and the number of
new mothers on our list was very
gratifying. A special effort is be
ing made to interest mothers whose
children will soon be ready to en
ter school and whose cooperation we
confidently anticipate.
On this occasion there was a gen
eral meeting and then the mothers
gathered in groups in the rooms
where their own children are taught
and parents and teachers consulted
together as to the ways and means of
helping each other. Miss Lee’s pu
pils had prepared a little play with
which they entertained the mothers
who called to see them.
On the twelfth of October, under
Miss Capp’s leadership, Columbus
discovered America for the second
time, and Spanish royalties, bold
navigators, and ignorant savages
met in Spring Street School and en
acted the events of that stirring per
iod of four hundred and thirty years
ago. In another grade Christopher
Columbus and John Cabot, both of
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THE NEWBUILOINGS
On October 23 the Board of Edu
cation will let a contract for two
grammar school buildings, one to be
erected at the present site of the
Asheboro Street School, and the oth
er at the West Lee Street School.
These buildings are so designed by
the architects that additions can be
made without in any way destroying
the symmetry of the plant or the
architectural value of the building.
Each will be designed to house the
first six grades of the elementary
school.
When the building program is
completed, there will be for the
white schools of the city, four
school centers which w’ill have in at
tendance pupils from the kindergar
ten through the sixth grade. At one
central spot in the city there will be
a large high school building which
will house grades 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and
12. This high school plant will have
a capacity of approximately 1.500 to
2000 school children.
The new Aycock school which is
in process of erection on Cypress
Avenue will very probably be ready
for occupancy at the beginning of
the second semester, or about the
first of February. Probably there
will be housed in this school for the
remainder of the year, grades four
t'O seven inclusive, now at Lindsay
Street School, grade four from Simp
son Street School, and grades four
and five, and six now housed at the
Cypress Street School.
Develop Musial Talent
In Your Children
Music is a source of perpetual en
joyment, both to those who produce
it, and to those who listen. Con
vinced of this fact, the school au
thorities are exerting every effort to
develop music in the High School
this year. The High School String
ers and the orchestra have already
contributed much tow'ard the ac
complishment of this end; but both
of these organizations lack players
of certain instruments. Mandolin
players are badly needed by the
“Stringers,” and cello, bass viol,
flute, clarinet and trombone play
ers by the orchestra. If your child
can fill one of these places, he de
serves the experience of helping his
school and of feeling the thrill and
inspiration that music alone can
give. If he is not ready this year,
it is suggested that you let him study
one of these instruments this year
so that next year the school may be
able to develop a musical program
that will be a credit to the city of
Greensboro. The inquiries of any
interested parents will be gladly ans
wered.
Better Speech Aims
for This Year.
The following list was given the
editor as suggested for better speech.
I saw; I did; He doesn’t; Be
tween you and me; He and I are
here; It is I; The bell has rung;
About him and me; I drank the milk.
I lay down yesterday; I heard of his
going; None of the girls is going;
I am as tall as he; He does his work
well; Do as I do; This kind; that
kind; This book is different from
that; It seems as if you are right;
Several of us boys and girls.
It has been suggested that we have
an Index Expurgatorius which will
include not only incorrect sentences,
but glaring errors in words. Next
week High Life will have a suggested
list for this Index.
I The Home Study Hour.
I May / suggest that parents
? consider very carefully the fol-
? loiving statement:
? A close study of the failure
? groups of the first month
? proves beyond a doubt that 90
T per cent of the failures were
s directly due to lack of home
I study. Almost every student
I ^vho failed has admitted this
fact.
The school is glad to as
sume every reasonable respon
sibility, but frankly, here is a
place where parents must help
if the work is to be done.
No average student can do
the work expected in less than
one hour and a half of actual
study outside of the school
hours.
1 f your child does not do
at least this much, do not ex
pect too much in the way of
grades. If you cannot get this
much done how can the school
be expected to 5^ that it is
done?
October 21th will end the
second school month. Where
will you and your household
stand? —G. B. Phillips.
THE NIGHHCHOOL
At the need of the first month of
school the records show that 819 pu
pils had enrolled for work in the
High School. Recently 1,there has
been an addition to the number that
makes use of the High School build
ing. Four classes are being taught
each night on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. There is a class of 55
English students taught by Mr.
Charles Phillips. This class will
probably have to be divided a little
later on, in order that each student
may get just exactly the proper help
in his work.
Miss Ada Viele has enrolled 37
students in the Shorthand class and
31 students in the Typewriting class.
Mr. T. K. Musick has enrolled 19
students who spend one and one-
half hours in sltudying bookkjfeep-
ing and the Arithmetic related to the
bookkeeping. There is also a class
of 12 students who are taking arith
metic without a teacher, but in the
course of the next four or five days
a teacher will be secured, and there
will be conducted five classes for the
help of those who want to improve
themselves for their work.
During the past four or five nights
each one of the classes have en
rolled several new pupils, and it is
hoped that by the end of the month
each member of each class will be
regular in attendance, so that the
progress of the classes can be steady.
An eager group is now in attend
ance during 3 nights of the week.
Football Squad Makes
Splendid Record.
Of the 34 members of the main
squad of football men only two (and
they members of the 34-d team),
failed to pass the required amount
of work. In reality, only seven
failed on a single course. In view
of the fact that these boys work each
afternoon until late on the field and
are tired from the strenuous exer
cise this is an unusually good record
The public should know that
scholarship does count and that
this squad is living up to high stand
ards.
FATHERS’ NIGHT, OCT. 11
Schools need the personal sup
port of the fathers as well as the
mothers of the pupils. In arranging
for this support, a meeting is being
planned at which the fathers are to
be the chief guests.
Every effort is being made to
make this the greatest meeting of
the year. There are seven hundred
and three homes represented in the
High School, and from this num
ber there certainly should be a large
number of fathers and mothers pres
ent on this occasoin.
The civic clubs of the city ask for
one hour of the business men’s time
at regular periods. This time is giv
en gladly and to the profit of the in
dividual and community. The boys
and girls of the High School are
asking for one hour of time on Fri
day night, Oct. 27th. . Certainly this
call is a worthy one and a hearty re
sponse can but bring joy and profit
to all concerned.
A special feature of the program
will be the numbers rendered by the
High School orchestra. Where this
orchestra plays men are going to of
fer assistance in every way to com
plete the success of the organization.
Remember the time, Oct. 27, the
place, Greensboro High School, and
the people, tRe fathers of High
Schools students.
Keeping Children Out of
School
There seems to be some slight mis
understanding with regard to regu
lations for attendance. The princi
pals of the schools have found that
it disturbs a grade very seriously
for a child to be taken from the
school room. In the first place the
work is interrupted, while a child
packs up his books and leaves with
the various “goodbyes” to his
friends. For a period of possibly
fifteen or twenty minutes—all are
wondering just what is the cause for
this child’s leaving; others are won
dering why they cannot be taken out
too. For this reason parents are
urged not to send to the school to
have a child dismissed during the
day. If the occasion warrants it,
keep the child at home all day. Of
course, it is serious to keep a child
out of school for a whole day, but it
is far more serious to interrupt for
two or three recitations the work of
possibly thirty-five or forty other
children.
It is something like going to
church. Every man has a right to
go to church, but it is greatly to be
questioned if the man has a right to
go to church and wait until the cli
max of the service to arise with some
ostentation and leave the building.
Good taste certainly forbids this kind
of thing. In just the same way a
sense of fairness to the school and to
the morale of the grade prevents the
majority of parents from interrupt
ing the work of the school by taking
a child out in the middle of the day.
Home Study Suggestions
1. Provision should be made for
a quiet room away from the family
discussion.
2. Study should be done alone.
The group usually depends upon
one to do the work.
3. A regular time should be set
and adhered to strictly.
4. Reasonable reference work
ought to be provided.
5. Amusements and parties should
not be allowed on school nights.
“OVER TIIEJACyPS”
There are four hundred and six
ty girls in Greensboro High School,
over half of the enrollment! They
are dear girls, too—bubbling over
with youth and life. They have
their wild desires and their faults;
yet after all, they anen’t so very dif
ferent from the girls of other days.
Tliey live in a different age from
their mothers. They need leader
ship and careful guiding, too. The
day has passed when girls may be
driven. Several schools have awak
ened to the fact that the girls of our
High Schools need such a person as
an adviser for the girls. A person
to guide them; to be a connecting
link between the school and the
home, to act as “big sister” while at
school; and to help each girl devel
op to be the best woman possible.
This year we have a plan which
we hope will prove helpful to the
girls in every way. Once a month,
a council, composed of a represen-
ative from each session room meets
for the purpose of discussing and
planning things that go for making
a better G. H. S. This council also
serves as a forum for the girls. From
time to time you will hear from
“Over the Teacups.” This group of
girls has already done effective work.
Please don’t forget that you have
at the High School one deeply inter
ested in the walfare of each girl—^
in her absence, her tardies, her fail
ures, her health, her social life, and.
in all her problems.
Let’s work together for the best
interest of our school and our girls.
Lillian Killingsworth.
An Ideal for Our School.
A good many years ago Dr. Ed
win A. Alderman, who was then
president of the University of North
Carolina, in one of his eloquent ad
dresses voiced an ideal for the Uni
versity with but a few slight chang
es might well be
An Ideal for Our School
I have an ideal for this school.
My desire would have its place
where there is always a breath of
freedom in the air; where a sound of
various learning is taught heartily
without sham or pretense; where the
life and teachings of Jesus furnish
forth the ideal of right living and
true manhood; where manners are
gentle, and courtesies daily multi
plied between teacher and taught;
where all classes and conditions and
beliefs are welcome and boys and
girls may rise in earnest striving by
the might of merit; where wealth is
no prejudice and poverty no shame;
where honorable labor, even rough
labor of the hands, is glorified by
high purpose and strenuous desire
for the clearer air and the larger
view; where there is the will to
serve all the high ends of a state
struggling up out of ignornace into
general power; where pupils are
trained to observe closely, to imag
ine vividly, to reason accurately, and
to have about them some humility
and some tolerations; where, finally,
truth, shining patienty like a star,
bids us advance, and we will not
turn aside.
Tardies
Quite a few pupils are on the bor
derland of suspension because of be
ing tardy. Pupils must come to
school on time. If there is any ac
tual reason for the tardy, it is ex
cused, otherwise it is an unexcused
tardy, three of which lead to sus
pension.