Show POOR TASTE on the day when monroes monroen Mon roes high school quint the cubs came over to play their old rivals the basket cers of richfield high school known as the wildcats a telephone wire stretchy stretching hf g across slain main street at center street was decorated with a dummy dangling down from the wire the dummy symbolizing mon roes students slaughtered in the game by the students of richfield while we ire heartily sympathize with keen athletic rivalry we do not and cannot sympathize with such a display of poor taste athletics have their due place in any high school curriculum scholastic success of any student ought to be based on something else but book work to be fully successful the student must acquire scholarly knowledge first and then he must take active part in the i life of his school editing a school paper reporting for the press managing school entertainments playing on athletic teams this all has its share in developing a well rounded character and must not be neglected debating and athletics more than any other school activity have as a premise and a consequence the tendency of keen and astute rivalry and this is a very good and commendable tendency 5 iff properly cultivated to stay a driendl friendly Y rivalry always j and not to degenerate into bealo jealousy ausy and hostility and the first step towards degeneration of this character I 1 is the display of so go poor a taste as was shown by hanging in effigee the rival competitor rivalry developed dev elopes in men the power of action but action only becomes genuinely powerful it it is guided by critical sense and trained judgment I 1 A true athlete has to be a true sportsman and a good sport taste wo we do not know who was responsible for the exhibition of bad taste on that telephone wire but whoever it was he ought to have thought a little before doing what he did |