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The Rimrock Echo (Billings, Mont.), 23 April 1931, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/TheRimrockEcho/1931-04-23/ed-1/seq-2/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
an ■ ■ Li) ED A—lst Ave. North. B-2nd Ave. North. C-3rd Ave. North. D-4th Ave. North. E-5th Ave. North. F-6th Ave. North . G-31st St. H--30th St. I-29th St. J-28th St. K-27th St. L-26th St. 1—Northern Hotel. 2—Grand Hotel. 3—Babcock Theatre. 4—'Congregational Church. 5—Commercial Club. 6—American Lutheran Church. 7—Methodist Church. MaritattNtrentte61 ah \\• Office. 9—Christian Church. Rules Governing State Music Meet Eligible Schools. Public high schools of three and four years ac- credited work shall be eligible to enter contestants in the Montana Interscholastic Music Meet. Classification. High schools hav- ing an enrollment of 300 and over shall be placed in class A; those having less than 300 shall be placed in class B. This division into classes shall be used only in the band, orchestra, glee club and mixed chorus contests. Class A schools may not enter class B con- tests. Class B schools may enter either class A or class B contests, but not both. RULES PERTAINGING TO JUDG- ING, POINTS AND AWARDS Number of Judges. There shall be only one judge for each event in both district and state meets. Basis for Judging. Each number shall be judged strictly on rendi- tion of the music as written except in cases where some general change is deemed advisable, which change shall be specifically noted in the bulletins. Rating Sheet. The Kansas rat- ing sheet for judging contests shall be used in both district and state meets. The judge in each contest shall also indicate the contestants winning first, second, and third places. Comparative ratings shall not be made for any contestants except those winning first, second, and third places, unless there be eight or more schools in a contest, in which case honorable mention shall be given to fourth place. Judges' Decisions. No results of contests shall be made public until the meet is finished. These shall be given out at the time of the presentation of awards. Awards. Medals or banners shall be awarded only in events in which there are two or more entries. Award to Accompanist. Any award for the best accompanist shall be judged on the basis of all selections played unless a particu- lar list be mentioned in the first bulletin sent out. POINTS FOR SOLO AND GROUP EVENTS Events Points 1st 2nd Orchestra, Band, Boy's Glee Club, Girl's Glee 3rd Club, Mixed Chorus 15 10 5 Girls' Sextette and So- prano - Alto - Baritone Chorus 12 8 4 All Quartets 10 6 3 All Trios and Duets 8 5 2 All Solos 5 3 1 Rating Used by Judges Honor Rating I, Highly Superior. Honor Rating II, Superior. Honor Rating III, Excellent. Honor Rating IV, Good. Rating V, Average. Rating VI, Below Average. Rating VII, Inferior. 2 THE RIMROCK ECHO THE RIMROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA NORMAL SCHOOL at BILLINGS, MONTANA Student Editors Hazel Trescott, Marion Hazelton, Nettie Jensen Staff Class in Advanced Composition Faculty Adviser Mary J. Meek Assistants—John Abrahamson, Ethelyn Allen, Edna Brockway, Gertrude Daniels, Ella Dunlap, Florence Hansen, Evelyn Rhodes, Gladys Wag- ner, Pearl Young. EDITORIALS SAFETY FIRST Do you know that more people have been killed in the United States in automobile accidents in the last eighteen months than were killed in the last eighteen months of the World War? HOSTS If there were to be a big party at your house, if any number of friends were coming in from out of town for the week end, you'd hardly leave your home and go somewhere else until they had gone. That would be the height of rudeness. This is the situation that we face at the present time. Beginning Thursday, our school is to be host at what is probably the biggest house party it has ever held. Representa- tives from high schools all over the state will be here, expecting to be entertained, or at least given a little attention. As students of the Eastern Montana Normal School, it is our duty to play the hosts to the best of our ability, and not leave town or take ourselves away from the sessions of the music meet. To do so would be as discourteous as to ignore friends in our homes. If we can't give rooms or cars to the good cause, we can at least lend our ears and our shining faces to their programs during the meet. Remember that so important a thing as the good name of our school depends upon our cooperation during the state music meet. \Yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision; but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.\ Life is full of problems. He is most successful in overcoming who faces his difficulties fearlessly and does not permit himself to turn aside until he has met his issues and mastered them. • MUSIC AS A LANGUAGE Music- is in itself a language understood by every one the world over, regardless of race, creed or color. We need no interpreter in order to understand the mood of the composer while he gives us bits of his cherished dreams or longings. If he is happy and gay, we instinctively catch his spirit; his mood is reflected in ours, and we dance and sing perhaps not visibly or audibly, but within ourselves. Perchance the composer, a victim of circumstance, is touched by some great loss or sorrow. Then his subtle use of minors and cadences can wring from our hearts kindred emotions. Who has listened to the throbbing of an organ and not felt the thrill of some emotional reflex? However, this language must be taught just as any other in order that we become proficient in its manipulation, as well as come to appre- ciate and understand it. The child learns to speak his mother tongue at an early age, but that is not enough. As he grows older he delves into that language in search of its many secrets and traditions and in that way becomes adept in its uses. Just so with music. It must be studied and allowed to grow upon us if we are to appreciate it to its greatest extent. True, we can not all be accomplished musicians, but everyone can derive appreciation, in- spiration and consolation from song. What can the schools do in safety education? One out of every 1200 People in the United States is now being killed by accidents. WANTED—BONERS Worms turn—regardless of the kind of worm. For many decades struggling teachers have wept over boners which they have harvested from their examination questions. These same teachers have actually been known to fling these same boners unmercifully into waste baskets from which they eventually met their destiny in the janitor's fire. The worm has turned. Teachers! Stop throwing boners into the waste basket! Covet them—gather them to you and send them to the Viking Press of New York City where, if they are truly boners, they will be published in the Book of Boners, and the contributor will be given a complimentary copy of \Boners by Those Who Pull Them.\ What fun it would be to start off an examination by hearing a few choice examples of errors made by others in the past. Many victims of a stern teacher's inventive genius in flunk-producing questions might ease off that teacher's ire by furnishing some prize-winning boners. Who knows?
