Mentor High School - Cardinal Notes Yearbook (Mentor, OH)

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....... ............... it.............. itiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiniii The Scarlet “The true ship is the ship builder.”-—-Emerson EFORE a ship departs on a voyage, many things are considered—- the state of the weather, the probability of storm, the condition of the tides. But the most carefully examined is the ship. A captain, although he may hazard the Avind, Avaves, and tide, Avill not put to sea in an unseaworthy vessel. He runs her into a dry dock Avhere her hull is scraped, her rigging painted, and her seams calked. And during the entire voyage the care and responsibility for the condition of the boat are left with the creAV. What the crew is to a ship, such is the faculty to a school. The class room work is planned, directed, and led by them. Their enthusiasm and optimism are shared by the members of their classes. If the barometer of their dispositions falls, stormy weather for the unfortunate classes is predicted. The character of the student is molded perhaps more than he realizes by his teachers. In the transition from a freshman, just finding his sea legs, to a senior, a toughened old salt, he is advised and directed by his omnipotent men¬ tor, the instructor. When the student is affected by that peculiar form of seasickness, discouragement, his teacher applies the age old remedies of en¬ couragement and aid to set his eyes again upon the horizon, rather than on the deck. Truly, the faculty forms the frame work of the “M. H. S.” They form the sturdy keel, the tall, strong masts. It is they who build the ship in which the students sail. -O- eight