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Show THE HIGH SCHOOL NEEDS A GYMNASIUM. The remarkable progress and distinction attained by the students of the Ogden High school during the past few years brings attention, with more than a passing thought of tho nicety of the plan the need of a high school gymnasium. Students who have gained for Ogden what members of the high school have secured for this city are deserving of some act of gratitude from the citizens. But beyond even this phase of the situation, the Ogden school has developed into an institution of such high rank that it3 endeavors are handicapped without that which every up-to-dite faculty considers a necessity a gymnasium. Among the achievements attained by the high school students for Ogden during recent years is the showing made at the Utah field and track meet last spring. Still more recently a team of foot-ball foot-ball players representing the local high school linked with Ogden the word "champions" of the inter-mountain country. This matter of a permanent improvement at the local high school should demand tho attention of every public-spirited citizen of Ogden, taxpayer or not. The problem is not by any means an insurmountable insur-mountable one. Hundreds of citizens who are directly or indirectly connected with the high school would doubtless lend their support financially. Then the board of education would probably be willing to make up the deficit in a fund sufficient to cover the cost of construction. Having Hav-ing secured the building, the gymnasium could without the least difficulty be made self-sustaining. Every citizen should display a liberal interest in the development develop-ment of educational institutions along modern lines and a gymnasium for Ogden 's high school is a modern development which has grown to be a necessity. The gymnasium would provide a place where the rising young citizens could develop their body and protect their health. |