ADMINISTRATIVE NEWS
PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO HIGH LIFE BY THE CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
WyiNG THE CORNER SIONE AT
THE CHARLESJJYCOCK SCHOOL
The new school building on Cyp
ress Avenue has been named in honor
of Governor Charles B. Aycock, who
did probably more than any man in
North Carolina for the cause of com
mon school education. At some time
within the next two weeks the corner
stone of this building will be laid,
and plans are now being made for
formal ceremonies on this occasion.
The builders have been requested to
clear away all material at the front
corner nearest the present Cypress
Avenue School, in order that the citi
zens interested in the educational
program may have a place to stand.
No definite program has yet been
formulated, but this program doubt
less will be announced within a short
time.
High School Statistics of
Absences and Tardies
There are some interesting facts
revealed by the end of each month.
These are of vital importance to the
parents, hence each month these sta
tistics are to be published. During
the month of October there were 17-1'
w^hole day absences—^^the half day
absences ran this number up consid
erably. Of this number there were
28 unexcused absenc'es.
The “sick slips,” or yellow slips,
have been explained in another issue.
There were 60 given to girls and 28
to boys. We need your cooperation
here. We don’t want to run any risk,
and we don’t. Last month we found
three who got sick slips and stopped
down town or at the home of a friend
for a pleasant visit. Our tardies
could be reduced—and should be.
Spelling Match
On or before November 20th.
Supt. T. R. Foust will send to Ral
eigh the names of the contestants for
Guilford County in the State-wide
spelling match, which is to be held
in Raleigh during the Teachers’ As
sembly. Guilford County is to send
one child from the rural schools and
one child either from the city schools
of Greensboro or High Point. Plans
are being laid, therefore, for contests
to be held between Greensboro and
High Point on or about November
17th.
The tentative plan is for five con
testants to be selected from Greens
boro and five from High Point to
meet in the educational auditorium
of the Guilford County Court House.
They w'ill be supplied with pencil
and paper and the words will be dic
tated to the whole group, and the
one who makes the best showing will
be chosen as one of the representa
tives from Guilford County.
A Dental Clinic for Greens
boro City School Children
On October 23rd the Board of
Education let contracts for the con
struction of two grammar school
buildings, one to be located at the
site of the present West Lee Street
school, and the other at the present
Asheboro Street site. It may be of
some interest to pupils and the
Greensboro public to know the plan
of each of these buildings.
The West Lee Street School when
completed will contain twelve rooms,
manual training room, home .eco
nomics room, office and waiting room
for the principal, office and waiting
room for the nurse, teachers’ rest
room, and an auditorium.
The Asheboro Street new building
when completed wnll contain eight
rooms, manual training room, home
economics room, office and waiting
room for the principal, office and
W’ailing room for the nurse, teachers’
rest room, and an auditorium.
These two buildings while large
enough for the present are so design
ed that later on class rooms can be
added as the size of the school in
creases, and preserve the unity of the
plan, as well as its architectural sym
metry. Every preciiution has been
taken by the Board of Education to
have these schools well planned for
the purpose to which they are dedi
cated, and so well built that the up
keep from year to year will be a
minimum of expense. They will be
thoroughly fireproof througho u t
with steel beams on which is to be
laid concrete floor, and in the class
rooms maple wood floors will be
laid on top of the concrete. There
will probably 4e no better built
school buildings in the State of
North Carolina than will be these
new grammar schools contracted for
by the City of Greensboro.
The total cost of these buildings
at the West Lee and Asheboro sites
will be $424,452.32.
^ Dr. A. B. Long, who for the past
three years has been connected with
a dental clinic for Forsythe County,
will have charge of the dental work
for the school children of the City
Schools of Greensboro and Guilford
County. Dr. Long will begin work on
the first of November, and will pro
bably be working in the City of
Greensboro for the balance of the
year.
Mrs. Blanche T. Lambe, our school
^ nurse, already has 516 pupils in the
city schools who are in need of den-
‘ tal work, so Dr. Long literally has
his work laid out for him.
General Science Club
The purpose of the General
Science Club of the Greensboro High
School is to give pupils an oppor
tunity for self-expression on scien
tific projects of individual interest.
The club is divided into class room
units meeting twice a month at the
regular class period. At these meet
ings the pupils demonstrate their
particular jiroject for which they re
ceive additional class credit points.
There will be a room prize and a
school prize given to the winner of
the highest number of points.—F.
Stout, General Science Teacher.
Can You Answer These
Questions?
The High School Library has re
cently-received a set of the New In
ternational Encyclopaedia, second
edition, published by the Dodd,
Mead Company. Each month the
publishers send a list of questions to
each subscriber the answers to which
can be found within the Encyclopae
dia. A subscriber who successfully
answers the questions is entitled to
any book published by the Dodd,
Mead Company, the cost of which
does not exceed $1.25. The monthly
list of guestions is placed on the bul
letin board of the school and any
student is entitled to hand in his list
of answers. A committee of teachers
selects the best, set of answers to be
sent to the publishers.
(Continued on page 2)
Use of High School
Telephone
The regulation regarding
the use of the school telephone
states that it is not to be used
by students except in cases of
accident or emergency.
Recently there has been quite
an increase in the calls from
homes at the end of the day
asking that students call before
leaving, that they meet someone
at sojne place, or' that they get
something on the way home.
While the school would like to
be accommodating in this res
pect, the lime and the office
force is not sufficient to reach
students scattered all over the
plant. This is especially true
under a high school program
which., allows., students., to
change from room to room.
Parents are asked not to call
and ask messages delivered ex
cept in emergency cases.
EDUCATION
The Saturday Evening Post for
October 28th carries a poem by Ar
thur Guiterman which is well worth
being read by every pupil and pat
ron of the Greensboro City Schools.
There is some risk in republishing
this poem, since all of the material
of the Saturday Evening Post is ful
ly protected by copyright. We are
taking a chance, therefore, in pub
lishing this poem in this issue.
EDUCATION
Mark Hopkins sat on one end of a log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
Mark Hopkins came as a pedagogue
And taught as an elder brother.
I don’t care what Mark Hopkins
taught—
If his Latin was small and his Greek
was naught—
For the farmer’s boy he thought,
thought he,
All through lecture time and quiz,
"The kind of a man I want to be
Is the kind of man Mark Hopkins
Philosophy, languages, medicine,
law.
Are peacock feathers to deck the daw,
If the boys who come from your
splendid schools
Are well-trained sharpers or flip
pant fools,
You may brag of your age and your
ivied walls,
Your great endowments, your noble
halls
And all your modern features,
Your vast curriculum’s scope and
reach
And the multifarious things you
teach—
But how about the teachers?
Are they men who will stand in a
father’s place.
Who are paid, best paid, by the ard
ent face
When boyhood gives, as boyhood
can.
Its love and faith to a fine, true
man?
No printed page nor spoken plea
May teach young hearts when men
should be—
Not all the books on all the shelves,
But what the teachers are themselves.
For education is: Making men;
So is it now, so was it when
Mark Hopkins sat on one end of a log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
—Arthur Guiterman.
“HEEL-1T”-A NEW
FI
For the past month the city graded
schools—Ashebro, West Lee, Lind
say, Spring, Cypress, and Training
School have participated in a sched
ule of the game of “Heel-it” which
differs from the Rush or Intercolle
giate game of football by preventing
the dangerous mass play and person
al contact, and yet bringing in some
of the essential parts of the game.
The game is played on a field 50
yards by 100 yards with goal posts
as for football. The positions of
players are the same as in soccer
football. “Heel-it” necessitates a
good deal of running, of playing
one’s own position, and of covering
a certain part of the field.
The punt, being one way of ad
vancing the ball, should develop boys
with ability to punt accurately.
The pass—the only other way of
advancing—has therefore been well
performed by any number of boys.
It is necessary that a player be on
side in order to receive the ball.
“Heel-it” places emphasis o n
catching the ball. A player making
a fair catch is awarded two running
steps toward his opponents’ goal. If
a player, when making a fair catch,
distinctly places his heel on the
ground with his toe in the air before
taking another step, he is awarded
five running steps toward his oppon
ent’s goal. This may be done with
either foot. It is from this play that
the game received its name.
The coordination of heeling and
catching makes the boy think of two
things at the same time and takes the
place of the football player thinking
of the man he is responsible for and
listening to the signals.
There are two ways of scoring in
the game of “Heel-it.” A punted goal
gives a team one point and a drop-
kicked goal gives a team three points.
Both of these types of goal kicking
are giving to the small boy the idea
of how to kick a football and accur
acy in meeting the ball and Judging
the distance.
Having gained the knowledge of
how to handle the ball through this
game, the following graded schools
are about to begin a short schedule
of Rush or Collegiate football. These
are Asheboro, West Lee, Lnidsay
and Buffalo.-—H. W. Park.
Grammar School Football
Championship Series
During the month of November a
selected group of boys from West
Lee Street School, Asheboro Street
School, Lindsay Street School and
Buffalo School have planned to en
gage in the regular American Foot
ball, or as they call it, “Rush Foot
ball.” Only selected boys will be
allowed to play this, and every pre
caution will be taken to see that each
squad has a physical parity wnth the
other squad. , The "LLindsay Street
team will be coached by Cannon
Murchison, the Asheboro Street team
by H. C. Hudson, West Lee team by
T. L. Looper, and Buffalo team by
Harry Dorsett, who coached the
Asheboro teams last year. The
championship game will be held as
early as possible after the Thanks
giving holidays, and either a banner
or a shield will be given the school
which is the winner. Full details of
the contest will be announced in an
early issue of High Life.
(Angelo Patri, an outstanding ed
ucator of our day, at present Princi
pal of one of the large public schools
of New’ York City, has attempted to
show, both by administrative work
and by recent publications, that the
problem of home and school in the
education of the child is one.
In the November Delineator he
has given a very definite and discern
ing review of the problem of home
study. Because of his intimate
knowledge of public school work
and his rather remarkable insight
into child life, Mr. Patri speaks with
authority. Below we are reprinting
in part Mr. Patri’s article on home
work.)
There is much discussion and mis
understanding about home work.
Some parents complain of too little,
some of too much. Some schools give
a great deal, others very little, and a
few none at all. How much should
be given? How little can we get on
with? When and how should it be
done? Why? These questions among
others come up again and again and
are answered according to the beliefs
of the disputants rather than on prov
ed knowledge. Home lessons are an
essential part of the scheme of a
child’s education and they must be
'Considered carefully and done thor
oughly if the home is to hold its
rightful place in the- life of its child
ren.
The later generations of Ameri-'
cans are analyzing, selecting, reject
ing old ideas and formulating new
ones for the basis of their lives. In
their new enthusiasm much that is
good and fine will be brushed aside
unless we are very watchful. The
family tie, the power of parental love
and wisdom and authority, is pre
cious, and anything that tends to
strengthen it, as lessons done under
family supervision must do, is very
valuable.
It often happens that children in
the first blush of new attainments, in
the crudity of youthful ignorance,
thrust their people aside with a de
cisive “The teacher says,” and the
parents, in their loving anxiety, stand
aside and hope that things will come
out all right. They hope that the
teacher and the school know and un
derstand. That glimmer of hope
seems to be the only thing left them
in this fog of misunderstanding and
doubt, and they gradually eliminate
themselves as potent factors in the
education of their children.
Nothing could be worse for the
homes and the children of this coun
try. Home and school are partners
held together by the child. Their
business is to see that he gets the
best possible out of his life, that he
is truly educated. The home in diitv
to itself and its children must insist
(Continued on pa^e 2)
Names of Schools
What names shall we give the neiv
schools which are to be built?
Greensboro has produced some
distinguished men as well as men
who have been useful in educational
affairs. It would be a fine thing to
honor some distinguished son of
Greensboro or Guilford County, but
there will be four white grammar
schools or elementary schools, and
one white high school for which
names will have to be selected. The
pupils of the city schools might well
begin to discuss this matter, and we
might have published in High Life
some proposals from the various
students. a