Show HIGH J CHOOL S CHOOL V VA A y P RIVALRY ALRY A few years ago there was was a lively spirit of rivalry between the Salt Lake High School and the University of Utah which occasionally showed a hostile tinge and partook actually of the aspects of a rivalry between two colleges of equal rank Between three and seven years ago this was at its height but hut since then has gradually waned This year the relations relations relations re re- lations of the two institutions have become completely changed and we we may safely predict that the old days of the H. H S. S S.- S. U. U U. U feeling have had their place in the history of the two institutions and can never be revived again The causes are readily to be seen Seven years ago the leading students of the Salt Lake High School were men old enough to have been college graduates This continued more or less true for several several several sev sev- eral years with a gradual decrease in the average age of High School students until until until un un- til now the average must be very nearly the ordinary high school age of from 14 to 18 During that period therefore the High School students were close rivals of the University in athletics and often our superiors This condition was aided by bythe bythe bythe the fact f fact fc c th that that- t tU U University ri v athletes were were r rf 0 mostly from t J JI I I the r p preparatory t p school arid and ld also by the Che I fact that F undoubtedly undoubtedly there there were ve t f s pf the theold ol old l f famous indus It H. H S. S t r r Jr i m who J q continued 9 x in ig i a a Sort of pf attendance at school chiefly for the pur purr p rl pose of playing in the team This at once gave a broad basis for rivalry between between between be be- tween t the e t two institutions t It w was as accentuated accentuated ac ac- d f further th r by the e f fact t that the former principal of the the High School had forn formed h. h an g Unexplainable i n a prejudice l against g a this this' institution N Ji There is now a comp complete ete di change ge The two institutions are more moie cordially i elated related through the respective faculties as well as the student bodies Dodies And they are are fast assuming the positions positions' which a a public high school and a state university ought to assume assume if if th they y have ve not t alre already dy done doneso so The The- gradual decrease in the average age of the High School stud students has gone gone so far that t the U University i in athletics is now entirely out of the High School class the two institutions can never ever be rivals in athletics athletics athletics ath ath- again The attendance at the U Uni- Uni ni- ni of High ligh School graduates has in increased increased increased in- in creased each year of late until this year yea there are forty five in number Pupils have left the High School to pursue normal normal normal nor nor- mal and preparatory courses leading to degrees in the University and of of these there are now over fifty This intermingling intermingling intermingling inter inter- mingling has been a cause as well as as' as a re- re sult It has doubtless been largely the result of the U University's s becoming by degrees more generally appreciated bythe by bythe bythe the citizens of the State and perhaps also partly the result of the present principal of the High School showing a w worthy rth attitude toward the institution in contrast contrast with the former principal ri i The stude students ts of the U. U of U. U should never lose 1 f r occasion to strengthen th this 1 cordiality cordiality cor cor- col di between J the r. r two institutions ht 8 s. s and d also s' s between n. n f the fhe University ni rs Yi and d. d all alla high schools throughout the State t tt for for it will vill tl th thereby eby strengthen t e the the ie education tion l t. t I. 11 11 f. f fJ 2 1 of of Utah r fT 2 |