p¡¡ .SECTION SEP 2 9 1930 /WU All Going to See Only One Day Left Tech Beat Ignatius? to Buy That Season You Bet Your Life! EAST TECH SCARAB Pass for One Berry VOL. XIV, NO. 2 EAST TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 193b PIVI CENTS POSTERS IN ROOM FACULTY SORROWS 444 SUGAR-COAT Posters Make Grammar Easy AS "PINK TICKETS" SCHOOL TO HAVE GRAMMAR RUtES ARE DISTRIBUTED E ATHLETIC FIELD By DALE McADOO Grief, and lots of it, came to a con- 11 In room 444, a small (comparative- siderable number of the East Techni- ly) fourth-floor classroom lit by a sky- cal faculty Wednesday of last week. light, a new system of teaching Eng- The first signs of distress might lish grammar is being tried put. The have been noted early in the after- peculiar thing about the system is that No Definite Date for Starting noon. Now and then a teacher would probably pupils who attend classes hurry out of the building with a wor- Letters Intended to Increase Work on Project Has there do not even know that they are ried look on his face, and presently Sales Mailed to 2,500 being taught. But they are, neverthe- return, grinning sheepishly. Yet Been Set less, according to Miss Mary L. Gard- Former Graduates ner, who introduced the system at The cause of these excursions and East Technical. Already an improve- alarums was a sudden enforcement of SITE TO COVER TWO ACRES ment in their grammar is noticeable, the city ordinance against parking in ALUMNI ALSO GET SCARABS she says. certain areas on East 55 Street and Portland Avenue. Playground Will Be Locatec The students are taught grammati- Approximately 18 faculty members, Pupils Urged to Find Football cal principles by means of attractive West of Greenhouse students, and school employees re posters, which were painted by the Patrons Among Friends ceived that little pink curse of this boys of the commercial art class (right motor mad nation. East Technical's dream of an ath next door) one morning when the pro- Twenty-one homerooms have • al- letic field of its own is near realiza- found ignorance of Miss Gardner's Among those who sit up nights now ready been reported 100 per cent tion as the result of a Board of Edu classes had moved her to try some- trying to figure out some place in in football season ticket sales, accord- cation announcement, made during thing out of the ordinary. which to park their roaring chariots ing to Mrs. G. B. Frost, head of East the summer, that such a field would One poster, lettered in gay white are: Principal P. H. Powers; G. H. Technical's office personnel. Many probably be provided in the near fu and red characters on a black back- Taylor, English teacher and faculty more will .probably be 100 per cent by ture. However, no definite date for ground, sets' forth the correct use of adviser to the Sd'arab; Ernest Bower, tomorrow, she thought. starting work on it has been set. "lie" and "lay" in verse. It reads: head of the science department, Two hundred anp> fifty dollars' The proposed site of the field is di- When you put down an object, and D. J. Schaefer, chemistry instruc- worth of tickets were turned over to rectly across Portland Avenue from Why, lay it you may; George Ferko and Phineas Dumond, pupils in one of Miss Mary tor. O. C. Hursh, in charge of East Tech- the school. All houses between Outh But when you are sleeping nical's bookshop, to be sold exclusively waite and Portland Avenues will be ner's English classes, appear to be getting a "kick" out of a grammar lesson. You lie and don't lay. to alumni. Booster letters urging the razed, and the ground sodded and This peculiar situation is- the result of a new system being tried out by While if offered a chair „ purchase of season tickets were seeded. The field will cover two acres. Miss Gardner. mailed to 2,500* graduates early this Be sure that you sit; ., J. E. LEE Just west of the greenhouse houses week. Mrs." Frost expects the sale of will also be razed to make room for a If a table—why, set practically all of these tickets. playground for the benefit of the (Continued, on Page h, Column 1) Alumni Get Scarabs crowded Woodland Avenue East 55th Need of Alumni Organization Free Copies of the first issue of the Street district. Believes Talks by Well-Known Scarab were also sent to the alumni, Facing Kennard Junior High School DIRECTOR OF ENGLISH. Questioned by School Heads Lecturers Should Appeal according to R. W. Hill, adviser to the an administration building will be business staff of the Scarab. to Students erected containing an indoor swim- Principal P. H. Powers Believe« Small Graduate Group, "We believe that many graduates ming pool which the students here who see the Scarab will want to sub- may use. An outdoor pool will be lo- Like That of Freeman Wreckers, More Talks by well-known Clevelanders, scribe for a term or a year," said Mr. cated to the east of the administra- Writes'Robert the Roundhead,' Practicable Than Large One athletic rallies, plays, orchestral pro- Hill, grams, an Honor Day program, and a tion building. Story Dealing With Time Homerooms that had announced On the corner of Outhwaite and Does East Technical need a live Nshrieimas vacation week until 1919, freshman assembly are the high spots 100 per cent season fobtball ticket East 46 Street, tennis courts will be of Cromwell up-and-doing alumni organization when it Was abandoned because of of the semester's auditorium schedule, Sales by Tuesday are: 88, M. J. Hor- constructed which the school's netters that will vitally interest itself in the problems this affair presented to just announced by John E. Lee, who is kan; 29, E. Litchfield; 119, J. W. Vick- may use. "Robert the Roundhead," latest the problems of the school? The the school officials. chairman of the auditorium committee. erman; 106, Karl Kuehn; 90, A. R. The playground, swimming pool; work of Dr. Clarence Stratton, direc- Scarab doesn't know. But it But I am sure the graduates would "A big treat is in store for the pu- (Continued on Page U, Column %) administration building, tennis courts, tor of English in the Cleveland wants to find out. If sentiment welcome the idea of a series of in- pils here when they hear such na- football field, and community center schools, was released by the publish- here and out of school favors formal meetings. The alumni have tionally famed sportsmen and lec- will cover approximately 80 acres. ers Thursday, September 18. such an organization, the Scarab always splendidly supported all of turers as George Moriarty, Geoffrey 10D CLASS MISSPELLS ONLY The Board of. Education will control The book was published by the Ox- will do all in its power to. bring East Technical's Festivals of Fun in Morgan, and Art Young," declared only the football field, but East Tech ford University Press in two editions, one into existence. the past, using the Annex, as their Mr. Lee. 1.7 WORDSjERPDPIL IN TEST nical pupils will have access to the one for school use and the other as a The following story is the first headquarters. Mr; Moriarty is an umpire in the ppoi, courts, and other facilities. gift edition. of several that will probably, deal Y. D. Hawkins, assistant principal: American League and a former big Group m Charge of B. D. Herr Makes "Robert the Roundhead" deals with with this subject.—The Editor. The School has had one alumni organi- league player and manager; Mr. Highest Score; Has 18 zation. It died. I doubt whether an- the Cromwell period in English his- By Harry Volk Morgan is a college teacher and well- Perfect Papers FIRST WEEK SCARAB SALES tory, a period that had considerable Should East Technical attempt to other could be started. The alumni known lecturer; and Mr. Young is a effect on American history, because are widely scattered now, and outside famous archer, conservationalist, and have an alumni organization compar- An average of only 1.7 errors the trouble in England in 1639 drove activities connected with work or col- big game hunter. TOTAL mM R- W- HILL able to college organizations of the pupil was the record set by B. D» many people to America, according to lege claim most of their time. same sort? Faculty members and Following is the complete program Herr's 10B11 English class in a de- Dr. Stratton. The book, which is E. W. Budd, head of the placement alumni associated with the school for the rest of the semester: - partment spelling tests held here last week. Drive for Semester Subscriptions Con- adapted from the Earl of Clarendon's department: Our school has long felt were uncertain when interviewed Wednesday, Oct. 1, football rally. The class had 10 perfect papers. tinues; Goal Set by Business classic, "History of the Rebellion," is (Continued on Page It, Column 6) Wednesday, Oct. 8, open date. Monday. Nearly all admitted the 9B, -9A, and 10B English classes historically correct. Wednesday, Oct. 15, talk by George . ' Staff Is 2,100 value of a strong graduate organiza- took a 50-word test, and 10A, 11B, Moriarty. Its 25 chapters are filled with excit- tion, well officered and managed, but and 11A classes took an 80-word ob- HAVE YOUR CHANGE READY,' Friday, Oct. 31, rally for the East One thousand, six hundred and ing situations, such as only the Eng- some questioned the possibility of get- jective test.