Honor Societies in Secondary Schools

Abstract

Student clubs uncontrolled may interfere with the progress of a high school just as adult social organizations sometimes interfere with progress in communities; but, rightly guided and guarded, they may become the means of intellectual, civic, and moral uplift of the student body. The high-school age is the period of life when organizations make a strong appeal. Clubs or societies have been formed for nearly every activity, real or imaginary, in the high school. The badges and other insignia are often objects of envy to outsiders. The athletes have been called up before the school, given their letters, and crowned in the presence of the rooters. Their names often appear in large headlines in the town or city papers, and they are sent to the colleges by loyal alumni. The members of the debating teams appear before the public. Those active in literary societies come before the school on many occasions. Pupils interested in music represent the school in the chorus or orchestra. The school plays offer opportunities for those with histrionic ability to appear before the public and to receive the applause of the school and glowing accounts in the