Hemingford High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Hemingford, NE)

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 ROQER. C SMITH Athletics HE purpose of athletics is to develop self-restraint, motor-coordination and an unselfish point of view of sacrifice for the team. Sportsman, ship is taught better in athletics than in any other course of our school cirriculum. Sportsmanship means a real application of the Golden Rule. It is the winning and losing like a gentleman with no alibis and the giving of the other due credit. Football should develop in the young man initiative, resourcefulness and the ability to think for himself. It is largely a contest of wits, and teams who have played the game properly gain considerable benefit mentally as well as physically. A REAL MAN “The test of a real man is the fight he makes. The grit that he daily shows. The wav he stands on his feet and takes Fate’s numerous bumps and blows. “A coward can smile when there’s naught to fear. When nothing his progress bars. But it takes a man to stand up and cheer While some other fellow stars. “Keep coming back, and though the world May romp across your spine, Let every game’s end find you Fighting in the scrimmage line: For when the One Great Umpire Comes to score against your name. He’ll write—not that you won or lost— But how you p’ayed thp game. —Chords

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Commercial HE Commercial Department has become a necessity of every modern high school curriculum. Any course in this department reflects our artistic temperament, punishes us for our dreamy moods, and com- pensates for oui- concentrated efforts. No other course so fittingly portrays the “satisfaction of a task well done” as the result made possible by the finished product of a commercial course. Since the commercial course is more universally and extensively used in every office than any other course, it behooves us to be ever on the watch for newer and better methods of instruction. Because we realize that the methods of today will not stand the test of tomorrow without much alteration and modification, we do not offer anythin we may be doing as the last word in methods or results, but we do feel a con- scious pride in the extensive and comprehensive outlines and syllabi which wp have so laboriously endeavored to prepare for our department. Modern business has challenged us to more ably prepare our boys and girls that they may keep abreast with the ever-changing business methods which the commercial life of today makes more and more complex. I

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HE fundamental principles upon which the study of Mathematics is based have become so much a part of our thinking that we often fail to recognize them as such. We have reached that stage of civilization in which it would be impossible to live a normal life without employing numbers in one form or another. In every prase of our lives we employ Mathe- matics in innumerable ways. The study of Mathematics is valuable not only for the content of the subject itself but also for the mental training that it affords. Clear, organized thinking, efficient methods of procedure, patience, preservance, and a logical way of meeting the problems of everyday life are a few of the results of the study of Mathematics. “My only talent is to look steadily at a problem until I see it through.” —Sir Isaac Newton.