Lyman Hall High school - Singer Chronicle Yearbook (Wallingford, CT)

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Senior Play Cast

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The Chronicle June, 1935 Senior Issue President Vice-President Secretary..... Treasurer... . CLASS OFFICERS Charles Bellows ... John Heath . . . Sylvia Hall Theodore Craig Class Motto: Do right; fear naught. Class Colors: Blue and White Class Flower: Gardenia

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THE CHRONICLE 9 NEW SCHOOLBOOKS FOR OLD Essay with Salutatory Rank Welcome, parents and friends, to these graduation exercises. We of the Class of 1935 are especially privileged, for we have two three hundredth anniversaries to celebrate. We are the only class that can ever be graduated from this school during the Tercentenary of Connecticut and during the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first high school in America. It is, therefore, with this fact in mind that we hold these exercises. Again I bid you welcome. Ever since its beginning in 1635, American secondary education has been associated with textbooks. The schools of America have always been “book schools.” The use of textbooks has been developed to a great extent in this country, far more than jS1 Europe, and a great many changes have been made since early Colonia mes. The textbooks of the seventeenth century seem to have reflected the life of those times. Looking through a book, one could picture the life of the people. In a Latin grammar written in the difficult days of William and Mary, one comes to phrases like this: “Knaves confer with Knaves when they are about to plot against the King,” or “They that design the destruction of the King, first detract from his Honour and his Wisdom in governing the Commonwealth.” The textbook writers of the eighteenth century put a great deal that was imaginative into their books; in fact one person speaks of an eighteenth century arithmetic textbook as being “delightful reading. lie quotes the following problem in geometric progression as an example of this: “A merchant having a soft young man to son, covetous enough, but scarce able to keep a shop-book, was minded to purchase for him considerable lands in the country and bid him inquire out some handsome estate that would be sold, and he would buy it for him. The young man, overjoyed at the news, runs to an inn, where he heard divers country gentlemen lodged, and in all haste asked them if any one of them would sell their estates? Most of them were very angry, and near beating of him; but one of them being a facetious gentleman, resolved to play a trick upon him and told him that he had a neat hall with a goodly park and manor on the bank of a pleasant river, and a great number of sufficient tenants, all of which, with the royalty of a fair, market-town, and patronage of a parish-church, belonging thereto, should be his, upon condition that he would lay down one penny on the threshold of the porch-door belonging to the hall, twopence at the next door, fourpence at the third door, and so on, doubling till he had gone through all the doors, which were sixty-four in all. ‘I will have it,’ saith the young man, ‘and here is a piece in earnest,’ and in all haste tells his father what a purchase he has made, wishing him to give him a hundred pounds, for that, he thought, could not but abundantly satisfy. ‘Thou calf,’ quoth his father,' the King of Spain's revenues would not pay what thou hast promised, if they were sold at twenty years’ value; much less can my estate, for it will not bring thee past the twenty-fourth threshold. The best is, the gentleman knows thee not; but I will warrant he is making merry with a fool’s earnest.’ Now I desire to know what the sum laid down on