High School Sentiment from Parsons, Kansas • 7

HIGH SCHOOL SENTIMENT. 7 far this year, and there is, plenty of talent in our school. There was a time in the history of our school when every member of it had to stand before an audience and participate in a program ance each year. liut now scarcely one-sixth of the pupils ever have an opportunity to stand on the platform and give an oration, essay, debate or declamation. More time should be spent along this line.

Some of the, boys of the upper classes would like to exchange places with some of the boys in the class downstairs (only for dismissal). Alumni Notes. The holidays were made brighter by the presence in bur city of many of our alumni, who came home for their vacation. Among them we noticed Hazel Reid, Edith Sedgwick, Paul Cory, Will Cloughly, all class of '09 Otis Davis, Roger Brewster, Charles Kimball, Miss Beebe Thompson and Will Mosher. Some of them came out to the High School to give us a call and encourage us with a speech.

Miss Thompson entertained us with a charming description of life at Kansas University, and gave us good advice. Otis Davis also made an excellent speech and so accurately described to us some of our football friends that we recognized them at once. The university is your school, not somebody else's. It was your parents who put it and who support it. It is for you to It is a place where you may study.

Some people say that there is a great deal of caste at Kansas University, but that is not true. It is the bright people who win, not the moneyed students. There are fully fifty' per' cent of the students who pay their own way. Some tutor, some carry papers, others write, draw, paint, etc. Still these people go in the very best society and are in every thing as much as the rich, Is this caste? No eifort, money or thought lias been spared to make things comfortable, beautiful and inspiring.

They might have put the school where land was cheaper they might have placed the building in the valley, in order to save fuel, where the cold winds blew up from the river. But no, they put the school where it would be enjoyed where the beauty of the scene from hills, might calm and strengthen and build dp our character. All wished she could have talked longer, not to 'kill a period," but because her talk was interesting. Roll of Honor. TWELFTH GRADE.

Ray Wilson 95 per cent, Mayme Morgan 93 3-5 per cent. ELEVENTH GRADE. Number in class, 33 Highest averages! Bessie Pollard 97 per cent, Agnes Covalt 97 per cent, Walter Baggerly 94 2-5 per cent, Elizabeth Boyer 94 per cent, Onie Boone 93 2-5 per cent, Nell Gillies 91 per cent. TENTH GRADE. Number in class, 5(5.

Highest averages: Sadie Reynolds 9(i per cent, Rosamond Morlev 9(5 per cent, Delana Reynolds 93 per cent, 13es-sie Callen 95 per cent. NINTH GRADE. Number in class, 02. Highest averages Ray McGinnes A Treat. Wednesday morning, January 2d, at the ringing of the last bell, great applause shook the schoolroom, for who should enter with Miss Schaub, but our former teacher, Miss Beebe Thompson, of this city, who is now attending Kansas University.

After devotionals she was introduced by Miss Schaub, and, after expressing her pleasure in being able to look again into our "bright faces," she turned our thoughts toward what was uppermost in her mind Kansas University..