Lancaster High School - Vidette Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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.My jmssage NE of the strangest ideas is that our education is confined to the years we spend at school or college. Education is a continuous process. ,Not a thousandth part of what we know was gained or ever could be gained in any school. Knowledge comes streaming into us every conscious moment of our lives,- through eye and ear, and nostril, through taste and touch, through experiences bright and dark, through surprises and accidents, and disappointments, through success and failure,--and the infinitely larger part of education comes either before or after school. VVe go to school to receive our formal education, training, and mental dis- cipline. It is here where we learn or should learn how to study, to get fixed habits of doing things in the right way. It is here where we come in contact with good books and trained teachers. The acquisition of correct methods and training in logical thinking are all products of the formal school. Acquaint- ances and associations with real people in books and things are made here. The fundamental principles of character and true living receive direction and sanc- tion in school. After the last examination. has been passed and the be-ribfboned diploma is triumphantly exhibited, then comes the school of life itself, and every graduate should plan for his own continuous education. Just what this shall be will depend in large measure uipon the habits of work and study acquired in school. Some alumni stagnate soon after graduation, and become mere Hpraisers of times past. They want their school to remain forever in sta-tus quo and they become reactionaries in economics, in politics, and in religion. Plato provided for all who would be magistrates in his Republic a course of study lasting until they were fifty years old, and any shorter course will certainly give us competent leaders today. The daily occupation of any boy or man ought to compel in- cessant study throughout life, your job should become your school. Above all I would urge the continuous habit of reading if you would escape fossilization. Every one should get beyond the flatsom and jetsom of the ordin- ary News stand, and should read the great books of the world for which perhaps there was no time at. school. Read the Newspapers of course, but the man who reads nothing else becomes mentally scrappy and disjointed and merely contem- poraneous. He loses the background of life and so is easily scared and imposed upon. For guidance in reading it is oft times wise to look up some correspond- ence course of useful study, which has been well planned and thought out. Vtlith all your getting, get the habit of continuous reading and study, and prosperity and success will be yours. School, then, instead of being the end of our education should be the place of its beginnings. Here the good seeds must be sown, that shall germinate into an abundant fruition in later life. The inculcation of the correct principles of action and right living and the sowing of good seed is what we have striven for during the past thirty-four years, both as teacher and principal of the Boys, High School. Just how well we have succeeded in rooting and grounding these habits and principles posterity will answer. B. W. FISHER, 1896-1930.

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Title Page Table of Contents Gijkllb Dedications . . Buildings .... Administration . . . Vidett e Staff .... Class Officers . Class Class Class Class Girls ' 7 Boys Girls ' Boys' Girls' Boys' Girls ' Boys' Motto, Flower, and Colors .... Poem ..... . ...... . ...... . Song ....... Class History . . . Class History Class Will . Class Will . . Sports History . . . Sports History .... Calendar ...... Calendar ...................... Prophecies of the Three Wierd Sisters .... Prophecy of Boys, Class of 1930 ...... Organizations . . . ............ . Snapshots of Doings .. Sports Senior Comm Play ............... encement Activities .... Advertisements .......... Autographs .. , I a