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HIGH 33323993 ENQLEJBH The familiar'saying,uThe sun never sets on the English flag,n could aptly read, UThe sun never sets on the English Language.W This language acts as a common mediumto over two-hundred millions of the earth's population and plays a highly specialized role in almost every phase of our practical social living. English is the most composite of all languages inasmuch as it shows a direct tendency to adopt many words and forms from other languages. To fully appreciate the English language, along with its many idioms and colloquialisms, one cannot study just the 'speech of the Americas and the British Isles but must direct his train of thought toward every corner of this globe He must travel from the fiords of Scandinavia to the fertile fields of New Zea- landg from the sunny shores of France and Spain to the dreary steppes of Siberia. He must go to Cresent City of the Golden Horn and the sun-baked veldt of the African Union to the land of the Morning Calm and the coral strands of India. Your travels must take you back through the ages to the civilizations of Constanti- nople, Babylonia and Carthage, to the geniuses of Greece and the linguists of the Roman Empire. From such sources is our present English language derived. It is a beautiful language and is shown as such in the form of poems, music and stories. Probably nothing is needed more in everyday life than atleast a working knowledge of English. Nearly every phase of living makes its use necessary and many times people are judged by how well they speak it. This all goes toward making English the most important sub- ject in high school. English is a compulsory course and each pupil must have four years of it. The course deals primarily with the basic principles of gram ar and spelling, teaches the student the many different word forms and their various usesg goes on to show how these same basic fundamentals are used by authors, poets and dramatists in the writing of their famous masterpieces of literature. Joseph Perham '51 ?U3l,lQ BPEJRKJDJSE At West Paris High School,one of the most interesting activ- ities is public speaking. To the public the contests are only ordinary school events, but to the contestants they mean a long, tedious period of study and rehearsal. The greatest value to be secured from public speaking is the feeling of self-confidence gained by many public appearances. In future business contacts, this confidence will prove to be of in- estimable value.
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Mrs. Anderson,cmr excellent instructor, deserves much credit for her untiring efforts to Uive us the benefit of her many years of experience in elocution. Our director of public speaking for this year has been Miss Kera J. Chaplin, who has arranged our programs. The first League meet between Woodstock and West Paris was held in our gymnasium on February 27. The Woodstock coach, Mr. Robert Stetson, brought the following contestants: Lucelia Lord, Jeanne Carini, Hargaret Vullins, Althea Rogers,Iatricia Scribner, and Alton Hathaway. Our contestants were: Miriam Briggs, Eleanor Ring, Eleanor Proctor, Jeanne Lamb, Richard Brett, and Franklin Stone. The final contest in West Paris High School was held March 5. This year the selections were judged in separatei divisions ac- cording to subject matter. In the Oration division, Joseph Perham and Franklin Stone were the prize winners, in the Dramatic divi- sion, Constance Dolphin and Patricia Tamminen were the ,prize winners, and in the Humorous division, Irene Hillett and Eugene Stone were the prize winners. Joseph Perham and Margaret Perham represented West Paris at the Spear Regional Contest held at Bates College on April 19. At the University of Maine Contest on April 28, Joseph Per- ham, Eugene Stone, Patricia 'Tamminen, Constance Dolphin, and Franklin Stone will speak in the Original, Humorous, Dramatic, Poetry, and Oration divisions respectively. On Hay 5, Margaret Perham, Irene Iillett, and Harold Waisanen will represent Vest Paris High at the Oxford County Speaking Con- test at Rumford. Franklin Stone '52 ef' IDP NF fi FFT Df...N1x.j,Ii Dm I L ml.. The first daj of school! The fourth period rolled around and a group of sixteen boys and four girls ftwo of whom dropped out later! walked noisilj to the laboratory. There we faced our Principal and teacher, Mr. Slack. He handed all of us big heavy brown books with the words Usenior Sciencen written on the cover. It was shortly after this that we sent for work books to go with our text. These helpful little books made the work much more interesting and easier to understand. They contained all our questions for our iuizzes, smthis gave us a chance to puzzle them out first. The first half of the year, we were given an extra assign- ment. We had to write a five thousand-word thesis on the vocation that we have chosen for our life's work.
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