Adrian High School - Sickle Yearbook (Adrian, MI)

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Yon're lucky! I was copying my book-review. Business before pleasure, you know. Well, I intended to copy mine last night, but I had company and conldn't. The foregoing conversation between two high school pupils is only one example of the too common habit of leaving everything which has to be done until the last minute. In fact, the habit has become so common that we hardly notice it. It is too true that, as Addison said, We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. In most cases this pernicious habit begins to show itself very early in a child's life. When his parents give him some work to do, he often replies, In a minute. But the minute! A man once told this story of his childhood. He had often heard the expression, In a minute, and had noticed also that a long time usually followed before the thing was done. So he gained the impression that a minute was longer than an hour. After he started to school it was very difficult for l1is teacher to make him believe that there were sixty minutes in an hour. In school this same habit is seen. An essay, some kind of written work, or even the daily lesson is put off with the thought, Time enough later. So he leaves this lesson and that duty until he has such a mountain of work that he can neither see over it nor tunnel through it. The natural conse- quence is, that when a busy time comes, he says with a discouraged air, Such lessons as those teachers do give us!', And why is it? Certainly not because the work is too hard, but rather because he has neglected his work at the time when it could have been done easily and carefully. Ijater in life the same habit is in evidence, and, as a result, poor work- ers in any kind of business are made -housekeepers who leave their work until, when they see it has to be done, they do all in one day and then com- plain because they have to work so hard, merchants who never order new stock until the demand has gone by. After observing people in these three phases of life, one will readily perceive that the first is the cause of the second, the second of the third. The reason for this is, I think, that the habit formed in the home is carried into the school life and afterward into the life-work-that a child who puts otf work at home will put off the more important duties later in life. What is the result of such a life? Can a person who has developed the habit Of procrastination be happy when he never has any work finished when it should be? It seems as if he must always be thinking about what he ought to do and yet be dreading the time when it must be done. His excuse is, haven't time. Perhaps he hasn't at the last moment, but did you ever notice that the people who never have time to do anything useful

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67742 Senior Sickle of Adrian High School. PUBLISHED BY THE CLASS OF 1905. Q- EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT .Tsi TH19 NINTH annual publication of the Senior Sickle of Adrian High School is now in the hands of its readers. Though some changes have been made i11 the Sickle of this year, still the general Just 8 Word. plan of preceding years has been followed out. The issue of the Senior Sickle of nineteen hun- dred iive marks one of the most successful years of our high school life. School duties have been undertaken and performed with commendable faith- fulness and success. In foot ball, basket ball, and base ball we have made an enviable record. A new feature of high school athletics is some work in this line for girls. Although present conditions do not afford opportunities of this kind for the girls equal to those of tl1e boys, yet, in the near future, we hope that enough can be done to make girls' athletics a permanent feature of the school. ' All in allfin our work and in our play-the year has been pleasant and profitable. In putting forth the Senior Sickle of this year we have attempted to record the events of the school year accurately and truthfully, with justice to all, and malice toward none. X HER1-I IS my book-review all Finished and ready to hand in. I read the 'Tale of Two Cities' Yon did! Why, I read only 'The Other VVise Do it Now. Man' and my book-review isn't even ready to copy yet. I simply haven't had the time. After a moment's silence the latter speaker suddenly said, Why didn't you come over yesterday afternoon? I didn't do a thing but kill time- didn't have anything else to do. 2

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or unselfish usually have enough for much foolishness? A person who never has time for work but always is willing to play when someone invites him will never be successful. A well known man who has been very successful in his line of work was once asked how he had accomplished so much in his life. His reply was, When I was a boy my father taught me when I had any work to do, to go and do it. He had followed his father's advice. Would it not be very good advice for us to follow? We might not feel quite ready to do tl1e work but are we inclined to be any more nearly ready later? Usually not. Instead, we have had all the worry about doing it and a harder task at last, and then we have still stronger fettered ou ourselves the chains of inactivity and failure. If a man would be successful, if he would be a credit to himself and a help to others, let him earnestly carry out this motto, DO IT NOW. M. P. R DID YOU ever think how many types of girls there are in our high school? There is the steady girl, the copyist, those with aches and pains, and the clique girl. There are sweet girls, kind and OU' High helpful girls, appreciative girls, the injured girl, tl1e School Gifls- disagreeable girl, she who is independent, and the all- around girl. You may always depend on the steady girl. She is sure to have her lessons no matter if she did have a little headache the night before. She hands her work in on time, no asking for more time will you hear from her, unless it is very necessary. She is to be counted on. How we dislike the girl who copies all the time! VVe feel as though we should like to get out of the way as soon as we see her coming. The first thing we hear from her is, Have you the forty-fifth problem? or, Let me see how you wrote those German sentences. And more than likely it was the hardest problem in the day's lesson, on which we had spent an hour, or it may have been the very sentence on which we had racked our brains in order to get the right construction. If the copyist could only realize that she is hurting her own abilities and weakening her mental powers, besides being a bore, we might live in peace. Very closely related to the disagreeable copyist is the girl with the aches and pains. She always feels bad, has the headache, toothache, the toe- ache or some other kind of ache until she is brimming full and running over with aches and pains. Her excuse for not having her lesson is, Well, I had a headache last night. And she expects every one to sympathize with her and coddle and pet her until she feels a little better. She enjoys poor health.