The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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OUR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
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On Thursday afternoon there were sports of every
character staged in the gym, the Seniors vs. Juniors,
both boys and girls, being the contestants. All sorts
of contests were staged and fought out to the end—
which was a tie.
In the evening, from 6:00 to 7:00 o’clock, the little
fellows enjoyed a social hour in the big gym.
After
that the place was given over to junior students for a
reception all their own. For a couple of hours the
young people enjoyed themselves to the utmost. To
their great credit, everything was most decorous from
start to finish.
On Friday afternoon the sports scheduled for the
entertainment nf the many were staged in our big
gym. The boys and girls of the sophomore and
freshmen classes were the contestants and they entered
into the spirit of the occasion so enthusiastically that
they put on a really fine show. As event after event
was pulled off the score zig-zaged, first in favor of one
class and then the other, until near the close when the
sophomore girls won out in basketball and took the
honors for the day.
In the evening we enjoyed our first game of basket
ball of the season against an outside team. Our boys
beat the team representing the Anderson sporting
goods store of Salem in a score of 29 to 22. It was a
good game and enabled all to get a line on what we
will probably have in the way of a team this year.
Saturday evening, December 28th, was given over
to the high school students for a ‘ ‘social” all their own,
and they really had a most enjoyable party.
During our chapel exercises of the Sunday evening
following Supt. Lipps told of a recent visit that he had
made to Hampton Institute in Virginia, and of the
wonderful progress noted there. He gave many inter
esting facts regarding the management of that great
school, and he compared the progress of the negroes
and Indians, educationally, and all must admit that
our young people must bestir themselves if they are
keep in the lead in the struggle for supremacy. Mr.
Lipps gave a splendid talk—facts that should have
made a deep impression. During the evening Mr.
Kunkel played a lovely negro “Spiritual” as a violin
solo, the orchestra contributed a number, Robt. Perat-
rovich, now of Seattle, played a group of saxophone
solos which were well received, and the choir sang
an anthem.
On Monday afternoon the sports contest was be
tween teams representing the Junior and Sophomore
classes. Much enthusiasm was in the air and good
sportsmanship prevailed. The Sophomores came out
ahead in what proved a most interesting series of
events.
In 1he evening the annual spelling contest took
place in the auditorium. Contestants were representa
tives of the four older literary societies—Nonpareil,
Winona, Reliance and Excelsior—and the rating after
the final reckoning of the judges was announced
placed the standing of the societies in the order given
above. Mrs. Stewart pronounced the words, and Dr.
Sisco, Miss Judd and Miss Gunn were the judges.
Cecile Pepion proved the best individual speller in
the school.
On Tuesday, New Year’s Eve, an idea, sponsored
by Principal Mote, was carried to a successful end.
It was in the nature of a carnival, or mardi gras, and
held in our big gym. The affair was staged after
supper and it is impossible to picture the enthusiasm
and all-around good time that marked the accasion.
Mirth and good humor staged a riot. There was every
thing there—side shows with snake charmers and fat
ladies, fortune tellers, monkey acts, and fake doctors.
At the proper time all repaired to quarters and thus
the old year closed.
On Wednesday evening all enjoyed a movie, “Frozen
River,” and in this way ended our mid-winter holi
days. It was an unforgetable time for all.
ESCORTS
Jan. 12—McBride..................................... -
Mr. Kirk
Mrs. Kirk
Winona............................................... Miss Peters
Miss Roddy
Hawley ------
Mr. H. Kunkel
Miss Mountjoy
COLLEGES, CHARACTER AND CAREERS
The dean of one of the chief engineering colleges
has said that when the employment managers of the
great electrical concerns come to him to “get a line”
on the kind of men who are soon to present them
selves as applicants for positions in the engineering
field, they never ask to see academic records. These
employers of men who are to plan superpower sys
tems and device improved electrical facilities in count
less variety want to know most of all the character of
prospective workers. They give little heed to scho
lastic grades.
True, they usually want to know if the student is
likely to graduate, and they assume that at least an
average quality of academic work is being done. But
after that they prefer to have a quiet man-to-man talk
with him, to discover his attitude toward his superiors,
his attitude toward his work, how he gets on with his
fellows—in other words, to essay his social and moral
metal. The engineering college must, therefore, in
order to meet the actual demands of the field which
it is established to serve, pay greater and greater atten
tion to the other-than-scholastic qualities of its stu
dents.
Recently' the following came from one of the great
professional centers of England:
The social capacity that comes from mixing freely with one’s
contemporaries in a university, and the broad culture it implies,
are actually as useful in securing a job as the intellectual dis
tinction indicated by the best of degrees.
Furthermore, one is constantly hearing of men and
women obtaining good positions in the professions be
cause of the personal impressions they make, rather
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