Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922

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English
at the Appleton High School, Appleton, Wisconsin, and one of our very
ablest members, took the first decisive step by organizing his pupils
into an amateur press club, using the =United= to supplement his regular
class-room work. The scholars were delighted, and many have acquired a
love of good literature which will never leave them. Three or four, in
particular, have become prominent in the affairs of the =United=. After
demonstrating the success of his innovation, Mr. Moe described it in
=The English Journal=, his article arousing much interest in educational
circles, and being widely reprinted by other papers. In November, 1914,
Mr. Moe addressed an assemblage of English teachers in Chicago, and
there created so much enthusiasm for the =United=, that scores of
instructors have subsequently joined our ranks, many of them forming
school clubs on the model of the original club at Appleton. Here, then,
is one definite destiny for our association: to assist the teaching of
advanced English in the high