Hallowell High School - Venture Yearbook (Hallowell, ME)

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The VENTURE 23 We leave the honor of our beloved school, as well as the practical con- duct of its affairs, chiefly to you. Guard well the trust we leave. Work together, put aside personal consid- erations and desire for individual glory. In all things, put the school first. Hand on to 1929 our splendid example of loyalty. Undergraduates : Again we appeal to you. Support your school in every respect. Coop- erate with the faculty in their effort to keep the school in the forefront of progress. Do what you are asked to do, not grudgingly, but promptly, willingly and efficiently. Go out for athletics. Never mind if your chances of making the team are slight: you are helping the school perhaps as much as its star player, and without his reward of personal glory. Here, again, put aside all per- sonal considerations and work for the common good. In all things work to build up what those who went before you helped to create. If you make mistakes, profit by themg do not make the same mis- takes again. Study to obtain self- controlg he who lacks it, lacks one of life's best agencies, but he who pos- sesses it heads one of the keys to success. Play the game, be square, whether on the athletic field or in the class room. Lastly bear always in mind 1927's motto, Labor omnia vincit, Labor conquers all. Stephenson. THE QUESTION Surrounded by numerous pieces of chemical apparatus, a man attired in a fiowing black robe, gazes at the seething contents of a test tube just withdrawn from the flames of a small furnace, noting carefully the changes as the substance cools. The reddish glowufrom the open door of the furnace, playing upon his sallow features, discloses as many changes there as in the contents of the tube. Now his face in the flickering light looks dull and weary, again it glows with an almost hideous expression of savage joy, as his dreams seem about to be realized. At last, after years of hardship, uncomplainingly endured, after experiment upon ex- perimentg test upon test, made under the most disheartening conditions, he has achieved the well-nigh impos- sible. There is gold-ever so little it is true, but real gold-in the tube. See! See the dull, yellowish gleam! One final test of that precious sub- stance and then- Suddenly, he stoops, gazes intent- ly for some minutes at the metal he holds. His eyes must deceive him! There can't be any further change there, and yet, slowly, very slowly, a new tint is replacing the old. The tube slips from his nerveless fingers, and the man sinks into a chair, im- mobile except for the long white fingers creeping so slowly through his unkempt hair. He is a pathetic figure of disappointment! Failure again, when success seemed so cer- tain! It would not be hard to picture the radiant joy that man would have felt could he only have known the aid his failure was destined to be to mankind in the future years. So it has always been and will always be in the history of the world, the fu- ture rests upon the past. It has taken uncounted thousands of years to build the foundation for the huge, intricate structure of modern civili- zation. There is, therefore, little to wonder at that we of the twentieth century are able to make marvelous discoveries in the field of science. Whereas, in the nast, a man, work- ing alone, under diflicult conditions, attained some unlocked-for result, more or less valuable, as the case might be: today. groups of scientists, specialists, in their particular line, concentrate on the effort to tear

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22 The VENTURE two managed to get off duty for a while, so that we could talk. Both girls had taken their training course at that same institution, and after graduation had stayed on. Now Veronica was superintendent, and Yvonne head nurse. We told them all the class news we had gleaned from different sources, and were still talking when the boys came along with the car fixed. We started back to Boston, feeling that the world was but a small place, after all: Though far and wide we roam All,.at last come home. All paths, however, wide apart, Lead through the busy mart, Then one and all unite, To pass beyond our sight. Virginia Hescock, '27, ADDRESS TON UNDERGRADUATES Undergraduates of Hallowell High: To me has been given the honor of representing the class of 1927 in their final words of advice to you, advice of which we know you stand surely in need. During our high school career, we have always en- deavored to uphold the standards of the school, and, whenever possible, to better them. Accordingly, we ex- pect you to keep these standards at the same high level at which we have maintained them. Never let any dis- honor stain the name of Hallowell High. Respect and obey the laws of the school. Laws, Cicero said, Hwerelformed for the welfare of citizens, and the security of states. And what is true of the citizens of a state is equally true of the citizens of that smaller commonwealth, the school. ,When we obey the school laws We learn to rule ourselves and prepare ourselves to be useful citi- zens of state and nation. Freshmen: To you who 'have just completed your first year's work, we extend our hearty congratulations, and with them a word of warning. Some of you may have found your first year rather difficult, but do not think of giving up now. Come back next year, Work harder than before g enter into all school activities, academic, athletic, and social, that you may get as much as possible from your three remaining years. Above all, do not forget to look up to the upper class- men and profit by the example they set. Sophomores : You are now at the turning point of your course. Half your work is behind youg only two short years remain. Do not rest on the laurels you have already won and feel that you may idle through these two precious years. Remember that suc- cess comes only through effortg real- ize the truth of 1927's splendid motto, Labor conquers all. Keep the goal always in sight and play the game. Then, some bright June day, you, too, will sit upon this very platform and will receive that diploma which is the sign and seal of all you have worked for. Take a still more active part in school affairs next year, for in that Way you will be preparing yourselves for duties of Senior year. Juniors: Remember that to you we are leav- ing our most valuable heritage, the leadership of Hallowell High. The class of 1927, whose representative I am today, has led the school the past year in fact as well as in name. Whether the task was the practical one of raising money at Hokey Pokey, lunch counter or ticket selling, or the more literary one of editing and contributing to the Venture, starring in the school dramatics, on the football field or heading the honor list in academic subjects, the seniors have been first. Dirigo might well have been our motto, make it yours.

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24 The VENTURE apart or to combine elements in some definite way to serve some particular end. Perhaps the greatest of the more recent scientific inventions is tele- vision. A group of sixty men recent- ly witnessed in a large research laboratory in New York City, a thrill- ing demonstration of the first practi- cal system for transmitting sight as well as sound. The system had been developed by scientists of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. As the six- ty men looked into the magic screen, they saw the animated face of Her- bert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, shot across miles of wire with the speed of light. He was talking to them from a desk telephone in Wash- ington, and as they listened, they saw his lips move to form each word. To-day, he was saying, as his eyes so many miles distant looked into theirs, we have, in a sense, the transmission of sight for the first time in history. Human genius has destroyed the impediment of distance in a new respect, and in a manner hitherto unknown. Today there has been created a marvelous agency for whatever the future may hold. The faces changed on the screen, a telephone girl appeared, then tele- phone officials in New York chatted with colleagues in Washington. Friends smiled across the miles. Long distance vision by wire was at last a fact. This was not all, however, vision by radio was likewise suddenly real- ized. Living images leaped across the ether, and landed on the screen before which the sixty sat spell- bound. The form of a blackface comedian. transformed into ether waves, for an instantaneous fiight across space, appeared on the screen while his jokes were made audible by a radio loud-speaker. Television is, in its development, typical of the new era in invention- an era when creative men no longer labor single-handed to perfect their ideas, but join forces in systematic research and experiment to solve dif- ficult problems. One man did not invent television, it was the work of a group of scientists and engineers, all coordinating their efforts towards the goal. After this final demonstra- tion, television was sent back to the laboratories which originated it, with the terse instruction, Condition it for commerce. If this invention is made practical for commercial use, there is no doubt that in a very short time we shall see distant men and events by means of radio as we sit in our homes, with as much ease as we now listen to far-away voices and music. One cannot refrain from a gasp of astonishment in trying to conceive the prospect of seeing baseball and football games, all kinds of races, boxing-matches, and similar events transpiring before one's eyes, as if one were in a ring-side seat or on the grandstand. Imagine its uses for opera, vaude- ville, and business. We are unable to claim that this can not be done, for it has been done. Nor does tele- vision stand alone! Let us make a brief review of similar startling de- velopments in other fields. Interest in aviation has, perhaps, never been so keen as at the present time. Records in height and dis- tance are being constantly broken. Small all-steel aeroplanes attain a speed of nearly three hundred miles an hour. A huge sea-plane was re- cently built in Germany, capable of carrying a load of one hundred and ten passengers. Designers of airplane craft the world over embody in their work all the knowledge gained from a minute study of aeronautics since the first successful flight of a heavier-than- air machine, over a score of years ago. Painstaking research has re- sulted in the construction of planes