II. No. 2.

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American School, November 15, 1921
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Price 10 cents.
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Class Meetings.
flllti!M.ftts a class meeting? Why do
therp class meentings? Why
't they have a name,-a .
name that would separate and
distinguish them from the indivi-
dual class meetings?
And what abont the meetings
themselves? I thought that the
period of the meeting was a time
set apart when the classt:s of the
entire High _School came together
for the purpose of discussing busi-
ness matters which concerned all
the stuJents.
It seems as though the members
ofthe American High School have
a different idea of what such a
meeting should be. This idea is
very interesting and twice as amu
sing. Judgiug from what I have
, _,. (-i he students think that the
_ set asoide for the meetings
..... _.....,.,. ;if" <>ther Friday is a sort of recess,
' with nothing more important to be
done than to talk and laugh about
nothing.
The trouble is that the students
are, not intereste_d in what is going
on around them, and are too much
engrossed in their own conversation
to care. They do not try to do
what they can to make the meetings
lively, interesting affairs.
It is not the president's fault that
the meetings are so noisy and diso_r.
derly, nor that ofthe other officers.
Our student body officers are ready
and anxious to make the meetings
really worth while. I am sure that
the sergeant-at- arms tries his best
to keep order, though his best maw
. a lways be 'Very effective. vie
ot expect one person to keep
OWer among so la rge a number
uftless he has the support of a ll. At
his efforts are always greet
peals of laughter and many
re_marks that are supposed to be
{tfnny.
I lh.ope that in the future the stu-
dents will be more interested in the
business that is bought up before
the meetings and fully appreciate
the value of being orderly in the
The International
May be one ofthe most impotant
events Ofl: the program of the 1st.
Centenary Celebration of the Me-
xican Independence was the Inter-
nationai Students Conference which
took place in this city. I ,, as delegate
to the said Conference for the
chinese students, shall be very glad
to give an account of what has
been done which, I expect, wili be
of some intsrest to my fellow-
students.
This Conference was organized by
the 'Federation of Students of Me-
xico. Early in August, invitations
to participate in the Conference were
sent to 77 well-known universities
of the world a nd to the federations
of students of several Latin-Ame-
rican countries. The subjects to be
discussed, as announced, were: The
Social F unction of the Stedent, the
best methorl to exercise such a
function, the object and value of
the Students' Associations, the
possibilities of organizing an Inter-
national Students' League, and the
bases upon which the International
relations should rest, in view of the
Students. On the 20th of Septem-
ber, 1921, the Conference wos
solemnly inaugurated at the Am
phitheatre of the National Prepa-
ratory School, by the Rector of the
National University in the natiie of
the President of the Mexican Re-
The countries r epresented
at the Conference were Argentina,
Central America, China, Colombia,
Cuba, Germa ny, JapAn. Mexico,
Peru, Santo Domingo, Switzerland,
U. S. A., Uruguay and Venezuela,
the American Delegates being Miss
period that was stolen from their
lessons. Let's all join in to make
our student body o:r: st_udent lea!!ue
meetings really worth while.
A STUDENT.
Students' Conference
Anna W. Wellnitz of New York
University and Messrs. Byron
Cummings, Charles Allen, and Hugh
Rose.
Ever since the the inauguration,
there had been interesting discus-
siqns every day in the regular
sessions which took place in a hall
in the National School of Laws.
Since most . of the delegates were
salient figures ofthe students' circles
or the intellectual world of the res-
pective contries which they repre-
sented, and some ofthem have even
already -enjoyed-credits as writers,
poets, journalists, etc., the meetings
were carried on with not only
intense enthusiasm but also serio-
usness. Moreover, we were very
fortunate indeed to get acquainted
with prominent men of Spanish
literature such as Senor don Ra-
mon del Valle Inchan of Spain and
Prof. Victor . Andres Belaunde of
Peru, who now and then visited the
Conference and whose brilliant
ideas and opinions we were eager
to hear.
One of the resolutions of impor-
tance is the "Best Method to ex-
ercise the Social Function of the
Student" which is as follows: I.-
That the Students' Associations of
every country ought to act as the
technical and active censor ofthe
course of the schools, with the
object of converting them into some
institutions which will a ll ow the
arrival of a "new humanity". II-
That the extension of universities
is an obligation of the Students'
_Acsociations, for the first &nd fun-
damental action that the student
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should assume is t o outs pread the
culture in the societ y froth which
h e has obt ained it, among t hose
who find \t neces!:'ary. III.-That
the solidarity of students should te
atrength as a means to cons,t i-
t ute an effective and permanent
force which will sust a i n and actu
ate w i ch thought and action,. every
movement, construct ive or destruc-
tive, ' 'rig1nated in the s a me ideals
proclaimed. Besides this resolut io'n,
there were 'many others such. a s
the Possible S upport t o Poor
St udents and Establishment of-Free
.Universities which, if put to effect,
will certainly be of great benefit to
many. There had betn a ls0 sugges-
to settle,i11ternational disputes
in Central and South America.
The work of t his Conference was
to be concluded on September 30th:,
but as the period of time was too
short fol' the accomplishment of so
much, it w as not until the 7th of
October tha t the Conference was
formall y closed, At the same time
when the Conference held its mee-
tings, a serie.s of entertainments-
danch, picnics, etc.,-.was a lso
CA,CT.US
going on, bfing organized by
rei.J..t student activities in honor of
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the Delegates, :and on Octobeithe
8tH., iu oft he .
of the work of the Conference, the
Fed era tio.n oL Stuuents of. M.exic->
gave a and a ba]l .at ;the.
Chapultepec Restaurant which
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beyond doubt, wereenjoyed by all
who attended no less than
serious and interesting discussions.
For the first time in Mexico that
a task of this kind of in tern a tiona!
interast has ever been undertaken.
vVe therefore sincerely congratulate
the Students of Mexico for their
ea rnestness to cooperate with the
students ofthe world to help solve
the important and confounded
problems which actually confront
us, and for their high spirit of
enterprise, though the number of
delegations was smal ler than ex-
pected, and the resoluti ons may
not all be effective. It is to be noted
also that this Conference, as the
whole program of t he Centena ry
ma ny other thing s
Ill this country, was full of a gro-
wing spirit of deep sympathy for
t he so-ca lled Lat in -A1'nericanis m
which, a s it is believed, will
d ay become a g rea t infl uence in the
vv-urld.
I was auth ori zed by t he students
of my country to attend this
i nternatioua l congregatic.n for it
was somewha t inconvenient :fur
them t o . send a r epresen t a tive
on account of the ,dist ance,
and X was the only high school
student a mong a ll other delegates
who were college students or gra-
duates, Therefore I considered it
a high honor t o . represent over ten
thousand college st udents of Pe-
king, and an extreme pleasure t o
have the opport uni ty to associate
myself w it h so many learned scho-
lars from a ll parts of the world and
to add something new to my
k_nowledge from t he var ious discus-
si ons.
PoNG CHr HAI. '
Mr. Carter (in English H istory
class) , ' 'Roland, did you study this
lesson hard?"
Rola nd-"Yes, hardly. "
Seventh Grade Notes
THE, CAMERA c'i uB./ Jhe Camera
CIBh :was orgarlized fdr the purpose
of taking pictures of interesting
places and exchanging th.em among
the members of the club and we
, .. , . '
hope to exchangethem with'friends
in different parts ofthe world. We
'h a ve a meeti'ng once 'a 'month, on a
Last mQnth we went to
Chapultepec and took a pic-
tures, but the weather
favorable for kod&.king.
President, Alfonso
Secretary, Horace Madden
tlesey.
Treasurer, Binks Kuhn.
Teacher, Mrs. Somers.
TEAM W oiuc The Seventh Grade
consists Qf four groups or teams.
The ca ptain Square"
g roup is Louise P ric e ; . of t he
" Tri angle Gr oupj' is Mari a For mo-
so; of the "Inner Circle" Maria R.
Malpica; and of the "Swa stica"
group, Helen Bell ato. We sincerely
regret t ha t t he former captai n' of
" I nner Circle," Dor othy Bu rdwell ,
h a s gone to Habana Cuba
The 'to which
g r oup . h a s . best report at the
a nd of eacl;l month for not
ring. best lessons, no ' .
absence. There- is a
on t he wall on which the ca
keep scor e of t h'e points gai ned and
lost bythei r groups. The "vVe Are.
Squa re" gr oup won the g rea t est
number ofpointsfor October, 2,600 .
The "Tri angle'' group won 1,500
po,ints for October.
'!'HE ExPOSITION: On Thursdays,
October 27th, the Seventh Grade
went to the Ex position in the Pala-
cio Legislati:vo. The p eople were
very k ind and explained t o 1Js t h e
making of shoes, the printing office
of '"El UI!iversal," a r elief map of
the Valley . of Mexico, t h e noiseless
typewriter, the t elephone system
and_ many other interesting
inventio ns. There were ma ny agri-
cultur a l _products; cattle a n_d
automob!les . and; tract ors.;
and Agui la oil p r oducts-oils, gr
es, petroleum, etc.; we a lso '
telegraphic instruments w orl
the hydroareopl ane; and
other interesting things.
THE HALLOw'EEN PARTY: W
had aha l low'een party on
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the \v ater is fine"
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October ,28th .. ;Dr. Horn, Gil,
Mademoiselle Caqqi:5
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Mr. Somers
and Mr. Kuhn our' guests at
this party. Dr. Horn won the first
prize in the .guessing contest and
Rosa won in the cracker-
eating contest. Binks Kuhn won
the wig -w11g chair race. This was
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a .masquerade and dress
party. '
Grade
'has begun to make plans foragood.
time R,t Christmas and is already
at work on 'a play to given at
that time.
BORAGE M., WHITTLESEY.
Seventh Grade Reporter.
News Iten1s.
"t
Mrs. Boston, has been
ching the third grade, had to leave
Mexico City in order to join her
husband. Her plaee has been filled
by Miss J Hamer.
Miss Mary Thomas has come
down from the United States to-
teach the kindergarten. She tau-
ght last year in Houston, Texas.
Miss Katherine Troland, who
taughtthe seventh grade la st year,
is spending this year . at home in
New London, Connecticut. She
writes that she sees "Patsy" and
Miss Gan1mons oftPn. She has also
seen Hector Martinez. She hopes
that Dorothy Taylor will be able
to spend the Christmas ,holidays
with her. .
Miss Esther Conger is living in
New'Yorkand attending someclas-
ses there, - Her addres is 430 West
119 St.
Miss Chase has been giving some
lectures on modern plays which
have arou5ed much interest among
the ladies of the Americ,an Colony.
Many members of the High School
:took advBntage of the fi.ve cc;msecu-
ti ve holidays to take a trip outside
of the city. Matilda Jacobs went
to Lake Chapala and Guacia'lajara.
Beth 'Mcintosh sperit the holidays
at her home in Pach11c-a: Probably
mo!:e people went to Cuautla than
to any other. place . . The Cuautla
party included Miss Gil, Miss
StamttJ, Mrs. Somers, Miss Den.ni-
son, Miss 'Thomas; MHry Sobral,
Mariana and Horace Whittlesey,
kirhy-Smith: Sulli-
-\ran, and Est,her Reynolds. , The
teachers all arrived at the trai'njust
in time to see it pull We don't
know what excuse they had to offer
but we hope that it was' a good
one. Luckily for them, that _parti-
cular railroad is ttJost ,
of its pAssengers and sends out
another train shortly after the first
one leaves, which catches up with
the first train an,o belated
passen'gers to transfer. Cuautla is
a dandy place to spend a vacation,
for there is horseback-riding,
ming and a fine hotel.
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The bear went over the
Mountain.
I came for the centenario,
For to see the India Bonita!
First of all bought a canario,
Then I went to Santa Anita.
And when I saw :the chinampas,
And a man eating charales,
My thoughts went back to the
(pampas)
With their colorful jacales.
I went' to the catedral
It's quite pretty
But these was "gente tal"
That I ''casino vi nada."
On the following manana,
After I had heard "el grito,"
I went out to Xochimilco,
Riding on my grey burrito.
The streets were full of p-=lados,
Who had come from "desde lejos,"
And some were eating helados,
Others chicharones viejos.
The fuegos artificiales,
In the noche mexicana,
Seemed to me descomunales
And they deserved a Diana.
MARS.
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YOUK HLU
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WHEN YOUR BLUE
YOUR CROSS
I TRY
I BLUECROSS
H D_ROPS I
Poor old
Everybody smokes at our house,
But my old man.
He puys tobacco for the others
And gets a bit when he can.
Mother prefers Egyptians,
So does Sister Ann,
So-everybody smokes at our
(house,)
But my old man!
We are already beginning to feel
that by the end of the year the
freshman class will be properly
chastened.
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