Kingston High School - Kingstonian Yearbook (Kingston, PA)

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1 7.71 W 1 r . mn Ed1toI'1a1 All graduating classes have offered pages of history of variant sorts to their .espective communities. The Class of l933 has contributed a page of unprecedented history in view of the fact that it has the distinction of being the first class to have completed its entire four years in our new Soldiers and Sailors Memorial High School YS X ffl O . -' --- QM 1. 2, fl X , M A This class as the outstanding beneficiary, has not yet become so familiarized with the new high school as to regard it as a common place of learning, or to accept its comforts and conveniences as a natural course of affairs. The novelty of its newness still remains, and all seem to delight in the diplomatic compliments of on-lookers. The architect, the contractor, and the designer have erected for us a building which in itself should make every student proud. But our admiration consists not in the beauty of the structure, but in the spirit which forms the basis of all pride for one's Alma Mater. Our pride is not intangible, as emotions are usually thought to be. It is a feeling which shows a. visible bond of good-fellowship and it is a lesson of social obligation to our classmates. School is considered primarily a place for the training of the intellect, but intel- Iectual and moral training can hardly be separated. Outside of the home there is no influence so potent for good or evil as association with teachers and schoolmates. The principles of love and obedience, so essential in the family, are indispensable in the school, where community life is broadened and so many new relations arise. The best moral training comes when there is obedience and mutual love, and when love conceals obedience it beams from the eye, radiates from the face, breathes its bene- diction in the voice, and discloses itself in movement and bearing. A noted educator said: All the world goes to school today. He doesn't intend that we should interpret this statement too literally. He must have been encouraged to this conclusion by reason of the rapidly increasing school facilities in all civilized countries. Interest in schools is universal and no other public cause brings about such a willing expenditure of money. And yet, with books, and time, and everything needed for work, there are many who consider it hard to do under these pleasant conditions what others, in years gone by, thought worth doing under the greatest difficulty. The thought of what we owe our community should be inducement enough to effect unusual records of scholarship and learning. The readiness with which citizens have contributed a fair share of their time, money, and influence for the interests of this public education is a mark of public spirit and a manifestation of social virtue. The financial problems and reverses have been no light burden to a community alive with anxiety for the future. And with what uncommon fortitude and resolution our benefactors have faced and coped with each adversity! Have we, and our benefactors too, fully appreciated the fact that there has been little need to be embarrassed with a delicate, yet serious problem-that of opposing corrupt orunprogressive administration? The excellent proficiency of this body, our school board, superintendent, principal, and teachers is placed far above reproach. This institution has been guided by splendid administration-administration origi- nating from the most capable hand and proceeding through a long line of teachers. The fact that this institution has continued four years in such striking harmony gives us complete assurance that our under-classmen guided in a like course, will reap increasing benefits, and will feel the same appreciation as the members of the Class of i933 , -Margaret lane Seiple, '33. 14 QF, 4,4 SI aft

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