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Eighth Gracers Diseuss Current Events -at Stolp The three eighth grades at Stolp school. are. having current event. Classes each F'riclay afternoon. The pupils bring to class,- important events of the. present tiffe, These are dlscussed -by the members and teacher of -the class. WVhen we are discussing an- event,* alîthose wishing to may express their own opinion.of the matter. If anything is nlot clear to us, it is exe- plained by Miss Chase. our teacher. At first many of uùs didflot realize the o bject, of current events. Miss Chase said. that it is- important te know of. theý happenings of the pres- ent time,. because of the effect they will have on us. [<ast week. we studied the gold situ- ation. We also discussed the inifla- tion and the gold standard. The time spent on these discu- sions is net wasted because everyone profits from them as well as enjoys them.-Betty Claire. Ellis, Stolp 1C. Students Finish 3 Units for Social Science Notes. Last Thursday afternoon we were> to hand our social science notebooks in, but owing to the fact we were to have literature, Miss Chase said it would be ail right to band them in * F'riday morning. We were to have ail three units done and as many project pages as possible. We do net expect to have theni returned for quite some time. - Marie Hardin, Stolp 1C. 1INTERESTED IN PERSIANS In Miss Larson's room we are « S stuclying about the Persians. We are gigte have a discussion on tbem. The Persians built the greatest en- pir e. The Persians are very inter- i * esting people.- Anna Jean Pifer.L Howard 6C.s -Grid Ckampiionship Stolp A134 won the football cham-, pionship of the AB class. WVe won seven,,games and lost one. The only game we lost was to Howard- AB-2. The, players on our team were1 Roddy Joyce. l3ud Drak e, Gordon Fairman, Dan Sieden.,, Don, Myer, Culver Hand, Charles1 Moon, William O'Brien, Charles-Gregory, Bihll6mes, Clinton Carpenter, Harry Shabino and Jarvis Lingel,, captain. -jarvis Lingel, Stolp IC. Seventh -Graders Make Maps of Ten Countries The seventh grades of Howard have. made. maps of ten countries. We have put in the cold sections, desert- sections, jungle. sections aind m.ountainous places. We have shown thethree places of th.e world where miost of the people live and have found tha'three-fourths of them live on one-fourth of the ]and area. After that we colored the maps. Mrs. Groves bas started to correct and grade, them.-Betty Haley,, How- ard 7A. Wilmette Heavies B eat Gross Point in Final 'The heavies had their final footbal game last Saturday. We defeated a Gross Point team, 7 to 6. We did flot have three of our regular players. They were Bernard Regan, who was badly .missed, Chuck Moon and Bob Ehmer. We played pretty well. Gross Point had some pretty big fel- lows but we had enough players to hold them out.-Bob Lonergan, How- ard 8A. TO PRESENT DRAMA In Miss Flaskered's room we are preparing to gîve a play which she is directing. She is reading us a story, "Old Pipes and the Dryad." We will choose characters and give it as a play.-Richard Hirsch, Stolol Club Members to Read Books in Spare Time In our club meeting Thursday, we decided we wouid have a book to read if we had any. spare tîie after club., A committee was chosen to get a Iist of books to vote on. Some of the booksý were: "'.The Red Knight of Germany," "Wonder of the War in the Air," "Smoky,"' "Bruce,"P "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'" "Riders of the Wind,".,"A'ces, of the Air" and,"Tales f rom Dickens." One of the committee was -absent, s0 we, didn't vote on any certain 'book- David Kendrick, Stolp, 2C. Dreaming, Children See Story Book Characters The Howard eighth grade gave a play for- book week. The eighth, seventh, sixth, and flfth grades were invited to this play' which wasdi- rect-ed by Miss Flaskered, the 8B home room teacher. The play was based on books for children. There were a boy and a girl who did flot like books. Their uncle gave them a book and they did not like it. Soon they fell asleep and then the book characters came- on the stage1 and played sorne part of the book. t Maurine May, Howard 6C Pupils at Stolp Hear Recital by Orchestra t The sixth, sev.enth and eighth grades of Stolp were excused from *vheirlse Friclay m'orning to hear addition to -,everal orchestra num- ber,-, the offerings included a flute solo, a violin solo, and a 'cello solo, accompanied by the piano.-Eliza- beth Hoesli, Stolp !C. Here's Modern Student;, Says Grammar 19 Fun! In Miss Perring's grammar class we had a conteet on parts of speech. Someone would read a sentence such Orchestra Gives Three Programs in Single Week T'he orchestra has. been working pretty hard lately. We gave-a con- cert at Howar d school on Novemiber 8 and we also- played' at Stolp.on November 9. We Plaved for the fourth, fifth, sixth. seventh, and eighth grades- of each school. Our big day, however, Was Monday, November, 13, when we played at, the teachers' meeting at the Evanstoti High school. I think that most of the memnbers of the orchestra enjoy it and like our leader, Mrs.* Wagner. We may'have- to get up early for rehears.als, but in, the long run, it's lots of fun and gie one the experience we alt need.- Rosamond McMillan, Stolp' 2A. Lightweîghts Win Three of Season'.s Five Games The lightweights played their last football game November 18. They had a good team this year. They plaved five games, winning the flrst three, losing. the: fourth, and then ty- ing the last gamne with the same teani. The coaches were: Mr. Da- vis, for the heavies; Hap Gathercoal, lightweights; Dudley Stone,. pe.e- wees. The boys who will get their letters had to play rnost of the gaine and he zgood players.-Milan May, Howard 8A. TAKE POSTURE TEST The Parent-Teacher association had its annual card party in the gymnasium Wednesday. The 8B girls have their gym on Wednesday, so we had it on the stage in the auditorium. Mrs. Fanckboner gave us a posture test, ýand the.majority of the class passed.-'Mar.ian Goode, Howar-d 8B. HOME WORK FOR ALL Everyone does homework every day in Miss Theman's arithmetic class.. We have hacl long division, division of decimals, and decimals in our homewor.k. - Harriette Jones, Howard 6C. A boy in our room was hui.iming. We are studying figure drawi The teacher said, "Corne up ini the Miss Donnelly's rooni. It is ver front of the room and hum for the teresting. At first we started class." He . did not want to, as he the simplest forms but we are was ashaaued of himself. 'Jean Lind- getting to the difficult part ofd stroni, Howard Se. ing. ii detail-Jim Wolff, Stolp ARN PERCENTAGE 'tnetic We are learning per- It is a lot of fun to change ths ta~ 75 percent; or with Spoint, the 75 percent to 75 .-Louise Grahain, Howard àYMNASIUM BATTLE Every Tuesday, 5C lias gyrnnasiumi. Mr. Stone divided us. The ones .were on the right side and the twos were on the left side. The ones conquered, .3 to 10.-John Sargent, Howard SC. 2