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The first effect of war on athletics was registered when our military
examiner discovered that from 33 to 50 per cent of the recruits were
found wanting in the physical test set for them by Uncle Sam.
Eortunately for us, however, we have learned that the fault was not
with our methods of physical education and athletics but in the lack of
an organization and a system that would bring our athletic methods into
more general use.
The result of Uncle Sam’s “athletics for all” program was that our
doughboy caught the spirit of play and vigorous competition and entered
into the athletic contests and recreational games with thorough enjoy
ment. He developed from a slab-sided, stoop-shouldered, hollow-chested
and meager or flabby-muscled youth into a vigorous, well-set-up, well
developed, self-respecting young man “raring to go.”
And when this young man did go over the top he did it in such a
masterly way that the European world is still marveling at his adapt
ability.
And the interesting thing about it is that our allies so generally attrib
ute a large share of our military success as fighters to our athletic pro
gram that several of them have already asked for our experts to introduce
American games and athletic methods into their armies and also their
school systems.
This history-making athlete, having in mind the benefits he derived
from his athletic opportunity while in the army, will demand the same
opportunity in civilian life, and especially for his progeny.
Thus the after effects of war on athletics will be a strenuous demand
for a system and an organization in our schools, colleges, industrial cen
ters and communities in general that will make it possible for the benefits
of recreational and competitive athletics to be shared by all.
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The Roosevelt memorial fund com
mittee collected about $170 in all.
On Monday afternoon Messrs. Hazelet
and Foster met the pupils who served
in this worthy cause, thanked them
for their efforts, and excused the com
mittee as a whole from further work.
A few members will be retained as a
standing committee to aid in solicit
ing donations from boat and train pas
sengers who pass through Cordova.
The members of this committee are:
Katherine Boyce, William McGowan,
Harry O'Neill, Billy Field, Don Foster
and Elizabeth O’Loughlen.
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Items culled from the principal’s Oc
tober report to the commissioner of
education:
Grades 1 to 8 inclusive—
Total enrollment.103
Total number tardies. 13
Number neither absent nor tardy 66
Average number belonging.100.25
Average daily attendance...... 98.2
Per cent of attendance. 98.2
Per cent of punctuality. 96.6
Number visits by parents. 9
Number visits by school board 2
Number pupils whose work is
not satisfactory . 6
High School—
Total enrollment . 14
Tardies . 0
Number neither absent nor tardy 11
Average number belonging. 14
Average dally attendance. 13.75
Per cent of attendance.. 97.85
Per cent of punctuality.100
Number visits by parents. 5
Number visits by school board 2
Number high school assemblies 3
Number pupils whose work is
not satisfactory . 6
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A report has been sent to Mr. Hen
derson, commissioner of education, of
the amount saved by the pupils of the
Cordova school in war savings stamps,
Liberty bonds and savings deposits. A
similar report will be sent from all
Alaska schools, so as to keep track
of how saving the pupils in the schools
are.
The school savings report for the
month ending October 31 is as fol
lows :
Liberty bonds .$ 750.00
War savings stamps. 544.00
Money in savings banks. 448.00
Total .$1,742.00
Grades— —
Liberty bonds . $4,687.00
War savings stamps . 1,424.00
Savings banks . 53.00
Total .$6,164.00
There are but nineteen pupils in
the whole school who have no savings
of any kind. We hope to have a 100
per cent thrift club soon.
Every month the pupils will be
asked to report the amount saved by
them during that time.
-—John Rosswog.
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Save and Succeed
(By Florence Milner in Normal In
structor for October, 1019)
Not so very long ago extravagance
was held to be a mark of financial
superiority; economy, something to
conceal, and to practice, if at all, in
secret, like prayer. Those who could
not afford to spend lavishly pinched
where it would not be seen in order
to flaunt a semblance of wealth in the
public eye. The very word "thrift”
was a synonym for stinginess. The
tremendous experiences of the last
four years have changed all this. Ex
travagance now is vulgar; waste is
wickedness.
A new obligation is here placed on
the schools. In the training for effi
cient citizenship—that now means the
girls as well as the boys—lessons in
thrift, in economy, in conservation in
every direction—money, time, food,
material, health, energy, spiritual
power, and moral force, become of the
utmost importance.
We can no longer treat the matter
in a haphazard manner, neither can
training in thrift be left entirely to the
home. In every school, whether it be
at the remotest crossroads, in the
slums of a great city, in the comfort
able small town ,or in the exclusive
private schools of the rich, systematic
teaching in thrift should become a reg
ular part of the school work, varying
according to local conditions. The chil
dren of the rich must be taught that
“Unto whom much is given, much
shall be demanded In return.” The
very poor must be instructed in ways
of earning money, of putting it to the
best possible use—buying proper food,
value of intelligent cooking, impor
tance of saving a bit, let that bit be
ever so small; and eventually the pos
sibility of lifting themselves by their
little earnings to larger earnings until
they become self-supporting, self-re
specting citizens.
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“It seems to me that the school
houses dotted here, there and every
where over the great expanse of this
nation will some day prove to be the
roots of that great tree of liberty
which shall spread for the sustenance
and protection of all mankind."—
President Wilson.
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“In an experiment recently made,
two classes in the same grade were
given the same lesson, one by printed
text alone, the other by the use of
picture illustration. Six months later
each class was called upon to write
on the subject of the lesson. Only 5
per cent of the class taught by the
printed text could remember any part
of the lesson, while fully 80 per cent
of the class taught by the visual in
struction method bore testimony by
their essays of a clear and definite
understanding of the subject.”
The above paragraph, quoted from
an article by Carl Hardin Carson,
president of the Visual Education As
sociation of California, offers one of
many strong arguments why every
progressive school should have a mov
ing-picture machine of its own, to vi
talize the teaching of history, geog
raphy and nature study.
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Eyak lake being frozen over and in
good condition for skating, many of
the pupils and some of the teachers
have been enjoying this sport, and
skates are much in evidence about
the school. The freshman class gave
proof that the skating season is here
by coming to algebra with lesson to
tally unprepared, thereby receiving an
urgent invitation to spend some time
with Miss White after school Wednes
day evening.
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Miss Edelbrock, hailing from San
Diego, has never seen much snow, and
has been as enthusiastic as any of
the children. We wonder what she
will think by the time spring comes!
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“We can not plow a field, build a
house, paint a barn, or splice a rope
with words. When we go out into the
world to make our way we will not
be asked how much we have read
about things, but how much we can
do. and how well.”—P. G. Holden.
How many of our boys and girls, if
forced by circumstances to leave
school now and make their own liv
ings, could meet the test?
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On October 24 the school playroom
was the scene of a Halloween basket
social, given by the senior girls of
the Presbyterian Sunday school. This
makes a fine place for such a gather
ing, and now that it is heated and
the school board generously donates
the use of it, it may be possible to
have more of such community affairs, j
— Edna Thawley.
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Miss Wright was absent from her
work on Thursday afternoon and Miss
Keever had charge of her room.
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All the high school classes have
completed the first twenty-five drills '
in penmanship to send to the Palmer
company for corrections.
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