Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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E LLIP It rs often sard that lf It were destmed for a man to make good nothing can hold him back Many thlngs can hmder hxm and up permost of these IS lack of educatlon Some men wlth llttle educatlon are successful, but these are the unusual cases The average successful man has m some way been prepared for hls work and for thrs preparatlon we find It Increasingly Important to be equlpped w1th a college educatlon NI H MY FIRST EXPERIENCE AS AN ORATOR I was only a Freshle yet I was destined preclsely at eight o clock to take my place rn l1ne with several other vlctlms march brave ly up the steps take a seat on the platform and anxlously awalt my turn to thrlll the multitude of hsteners wrth my oratoncal powers Thls house of fame for rather place of torturej was none other than Wrlbur Hall and the occasion was the first night of publlc speaklng during my Freshman year Ever slnce I had been old enough to reallze the benefits derrved from such an experrence as our instructor words rt I had been looklng ahead, fearfully for my first attempt But lt was not until I had started learning my selec txon and the date of my executlon was as slgned, that I began to really grow nervous and then I certainly made up for lost trme Of the few hours before my debut I can remember scarcely a thing but can easily rmagme my feelmgs I remember taking my seat and facing the crowd and oh' what a sxght greeted me There was a dance and other entertam ments on that evenmg and several people had assured me that there would be only a few spectators present Thls talk had served its purpose and had consoled me but how I was deceived It looked to me that outslders had got their dates mlxed belleved this to be the bug Fmals and all the towns had turned out en masse to cheer on to vrctorv thelr local partlclpants Of course this was not the case but that was the way It seemed There wasnt a seat empty and people were stand mg up That one look was enough, thereafter my attertlon was fixed on nothlng rn particular m the vrcrmty of about ten Inches from the end of my foot I remember xaguely wonder mg to myself rf all those people had come just to hear me but I was soon brought back to the reahzatron that there were nine others on the stage besides myself by hearlng It an nounced that speaker ko 1 would render such and such a selectlon Thus brought on an at tack of shaklness ln my legs whlch lasted untnl she was nearly half through Then as I became lnterested m what she was saying my fear left me but It was again brought on as that speaker frm hed and I realized that there were only four more to speak before myself Ihe next speaker had hardly got started when he had to be prompted Alas' This brought on a new and greater fear VI hat 1f I had to be prompted? I hadnt thought of thls PUOQSIIJIIIIY I'ever1shly searching ln my pocket I fished out mv prece and trred say mg xt to myself But this undertaklng falled mlserably Belng seml consclous of the other speakers words I got mlxed up and couldnt even start my prece Thls went on to the fifth speaker The next selectlon was mme Hastrly I glanced ln the audience dxrectlon Oh dear' They were stlll there Then speaker No 5 fimshed and mv own selection was announced Awkwardly I got to my feet and stlll more awkwardly and rll at ease I managed to get out onto the mlddle of the stage and faced the wutmf' audlence I know I wondered to myself what was the first l1ne of mv plece VI hat lf I had to be prompted at the begrnnmg? Thls seemed rather funny to me and thrs feeling helped me out of my drlemma All at once rt ran through my mxnd 1ust as natural as everydav conversation, and I beffan speaklng It bothered me at first to swallow and talk on account of a lump ln mv throat as large as a hen s egg This caused my vorce to be straxned and unnatural but It soon cleared away But all the trme my knees shook dreadfully and cau ed quite a breeze ln mv rmmedxate vlcmltv Thus I falled to stop or prevent As the lxghts shone on the faces of the spectators xt seemed to me that exerx I0 TI-I PI-II IAN A . . . . , - . r . Y . , ' 1 I ' T , Y . . . D.I. .32. , . ' A v .S V . Y . . . , v Y . ,, Y I - 1 4 . 9 I a ,, . ' . . . Y ' ' ' ' 1 was 1 nu n Q . . Y , ' , 7 ' 1 v . y ' .I ' , X Y ' a w 1 rs . . . ,- V V ' I a a v - 1 ' L 1 Q ' v I n I n n K I i Y , r -5 - v s - l e I G 7 ' ' v .' , . I, , S . . V Y. H l . . ' . . Y . ' ' v V

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E D I , LITERARY DEPARTMENT X5 THE VALUE OF GOING TO COLLEGE There are a great many colleges scattered about the Lmted States colleges of yarIed types courses purposes theorIes rulmgs, yet all yvIth one end In IICW a preparatlon of the mmd for a hIgher goal In lIfe lhIs method of preparatIon IS In many In stances the only way of attaInIng the funda mentals on whIch success IS based today POSITIONS WVl'llCl'l a few years ago called for a hIgh school CClllCdIlOl'l now requlre thIs col lege educ 1tIon Prom the POIDL of NICW of preparatIon for lIfe yyork the hIUh school educatIon has great ly deprecI tted In value In a short tIme A gen eratlon Ivo anyone graduated from hIgh school w Is consIdered mentally equlpped for Ilmost any yvork whIch mIUht offer Today a college educatIon IS looked upon as hardly more Important than was that of the hI h school of twenty tIye years ago lhus we see the IncreasInv Importance of thIs adyanced learnlnv Xet there are a great many thlngs to be taken Into consIderat1on before statIng how great IS the Importance of attendmg college Lpon grIduatIon from hIgh school a person should haye a general IdeI of what career he yyIshes to enter lf he choose a trade or profes sIon requIrIng some sort of specIal traInIng lt IQ possIbly I waste of tIme Ind money to fro to college Ind there I I cert llll class of people whlth ls neIther bc-nented by a colleve educatIon nor ls yyelcome In a college those who vo only for a good tIme Certalnly the college It elf I no better oft tor haymg these people Ibout lf anythlnff Its reputatIon Is hurt by a mob of un tlldltlll and unruly student ITIITLIBITCHIU theIr more tractable schoolmltes Into unde I' I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I l?'s?u?r-Quik:-ful' I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I J sIrIble ways NeIther IS It of benent to them to spend thIs t1me In school If they wIsh I wood tIme It seems to me there are better places to enjoy themselves than at a school establxshed for study and hard work not for a playground There are many IndustrIous people It IS true to whom for one reason or another a col lege educatlon IS not practIcal There are those to whom learnmg comes yery hard They are generally better off to enter upon some trade There are those who haye not the health necessary for the grmd and routlne of college lIfe Health IS of vxtal Importance and should be especlally consIdered They wlll only wear themselves out wlth the straIn and at the end of college be wholly Incapable of usmff thIs preparatIon because they employed all theIr strength In college These are better off to sperd these years In earnIng money In a SIITI and resources lhe good TISIITQ from I college CClllClll0l'l Is a most Indefimte thIng Fhere are many col lege graduates who are not nearly so well oft as others IIIIITOLIL thIs foundatlon some to yy h0lT1 It Is of pr IttIcally no outyy ard yalue Set If I person ls not I success yvItlI thIs CCILILIUOIT thInk what he mlght hlye been wIthout It IIe see l'llTTT as I total fIIlure for the E'llllC'lIl0n dId hIm no good and CCFIHIIIII If wIth all prepIr1tIon he ls not successful ll I most doulmttul whether IITIIITIIT' mould gun uues for hInI But the ffreIt maIorIty ot college graduates are greatly benentted by haymv made the effort The endeayors are made IIp for by the returns Nlany succesful people of todly would not haye been yyhere they are lI Id they not made thI truffgle T I-I P I-I I L L I , A N . 9 f . .. -.4-. -.fu - ul- -.Q--in . -4-.ln . .. ny.. .. ,f-..,,.,f..f..,,--.,,..,,. ,,,, .. I ,'I.T I I if! I ' I I ' 4.I,y.. I 'rf - I Ii , 5,7 I 8 ' I -1- 4 - -.f- -. Ill- - - -- - - I - -1- - -1- If- -If . . . -1. .4-. ...pug ..,,-., . ,,. P . I lc D . J ' ' ' . I ' 7 Y K . y . . . N - . z ' . , , ' ' ' ln D - I . v . . .Z . l A - . I . 1 7 . Zh 'V t ., . . 1 . H . V . c L H i I 'V ' . . - , I V 1 ' -' 1 ' ' . rs ' . ' Y ,V Y ,, ple. less tedIous way, lllllltllnfl up strength . ' C . s ' r- ,. .Q. . Z 2 . ,- .R . . . , I I c s n - n L , V V M - ra . I 4 l ' I ' I' . s ' , I I . - I . . Q K . 4 c - s c . 1 ' v I 1 n . , C , , , - 2 , . 1 Q' ' 1 3 ,. .' .- 5- R2 ' ' ' ' ' 2 ' L. . . H x I .L . . . , .u Q ' .K I 5 i 1 t ' ' 2 2- ' ' 2 .' fs . . ' . T ' .V ' , ' . 1 1 . i T .. . . 5 I . . , - - . . K . 'Y 5 4- S -'S 5 V. ' v. . v' 5 I I D L 'I ,., . , Z . . C I - ' 4 ,I ' 'S '. lan, I 2.' S ' s Q j s ' ' - ' - ' ' f - 1 ff ' . . 5 1 i ' - Q 'S 5 ss -

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THE PHILLIPTAN Il eye was faxed upon me, watchrng me expect antly hoprng that I would farl have to be prompted or do some thrng equally as bad Ihrs drd not tend to help matters rn the slrghtest The next thrng I realrzed was that I was frnrshrng mv prece and oh how good those last few lrnes drd sound I remember thrnkrnv they ought to be rmmortalrzed as one of the great savrngs of lrterature On hnrsh rng I stumbled to mv seat and blessed the gods that rt rs not possrble to grve encores at thrs krnd of a peakrng contest Afterwards my frrends asked me rf I was not afrard durrng the speakrng I replred rn the neffatrve but I ffuess I fuled to convrnce them Ever srnce thrs ercperrence I have taken a frrm stand agarnst compulsory speakrng rn Phrllrps Hr h School E F MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENTS We of Amerrca, lrvrng rn the twentreth century flnd rt drffrcult to rmagrne a countrv such as Greece or a crty such as Rome, or Troy Unless we have seen the rurns of an crent burldrngs or better strll have heard storres of the actrvrtres of ancrent peoples from ancestors who have dwelt wrthrn the bounds of these countrres and who have en gaged rn therr wars the fact of therr exrs tence remarns an rmprobable dream I wrll attempt to tell a lrttle of the storres of Greece and Troy whrch have come down rn my frmrly throuffh an ancestor who was taken captrve bv the Trojans and who fought shoulder to shoulder wrth Achrlles the mrf htv Greek warrror rn the famous sreve of Trov The ancrents were gurded rn everv phase of therr lrves bv superstrtron Iavervthrng that was done was done bv the wrll of a ffod lf a man fell rn brttle rt was because a ood had forsrken hrm a man who turned tr rrtor to hrs countrv drd so not because of hrs own ba e desrres but because an unfavorable god had rntlrrenced hrnr when a man had a dream a vod w as present rn that dream and the man drd whatever the God drrected no matter w hat the con eouences countrre made peace because the hrvh power sard Fnough and not because thev were wearv of trffhtrnff In war the ancrents were wonderful, not rn a moral way, for they seem to us to wage war wrthout adequate cause, but rn methods and physrcal abrlrty Every man was an ath lete and he fought merely for the lust of war and the joy of wrnnrng A freld of battle was a glorrous srght mrl lrons of men clad rn shrnrnff armor beautr ful shrelds upon therr arms lances flashrng rn the sun mounted on sprrrted horses, surgrng back and forth for hours Here and there were the charrots sweeprng the field wrth lrnes of brrllrant colors In the drstance was the sea where the shrps lay rdle Strong shrps they were resemblrng on the most part huge brrds or trsh and requrrrng the skrll and strength of a hundred oarsmen to drrve them After a battle a sacrrfice was always made to the gods These sacrrhces were often very rmpressrve 'Ihe greatest sacrrfice was the hecatomb A hundred oxen were slarn by some great warrror and after havrng had bar lev thrown between therr horns for the sake of a good omen they were burned on the altar and so on rn therr work and rn therr relrv ron they were the same superstrtrous and warlrke rndustrrous and brave, prrmrtrve rn therr wav of thrnkrng vet capable of dornff great thrngs They left behrnd them to aston rsh the modern world therr crumblrng rurns therr burred treasures and therr crude lnscrrp trons all that remams to show us that such people ever exrsted thrnffs whrch rn therr dav thev would have doubted ev en hr fh Jove capable of dorng V A CU RIOUS INCIDENT I'hrllrps Ihrllrps' Next stop at Phrllrps loudlv crlled the conductor of the trarn rs a shrrll whr tle blew The trarn stopped -X strrnge character a negro wrtlr a south ern drawl folded hrs paper prcked up hr bar' and alrvhted He was told upon rnqurrv that he mrfht obtarn a lunch at a place onlv a number of vards up Nlrrn qtreet Crossrng the street w here Depot Qtreet and Nlarn itreet form rrffht anfles he walked alonff and from ' I I 4. V v 7 ! , Y . v 7 Y I H . . . , P' 7 - I . , . . Y . ' v . ' 3 ' . F' V ' F1 i Q g . on, 1 1 H. . . 30. , , . A v V ' L n . - v 1-v' I n n n n . . , . , g . . . v. , V 1 - . . A . . . - , , Frvrlrzatron has overwhelmed them, done 2 , 1 u Q n rs n Pg , 4 I V ' V n u ' ' A D . ' 7 4 L . ' A -Z ' v , 7 . . . s f D. E. . 31. Pi 1' , , 1 . v - . 1 v 1 , 4 u, 5 . , I , v ,N . . , , . . - , . . ,.. 1 s , C, C I., ' T' ' ' T ' z ' ' 1 r . z' V' 2 ' 1 -2 + Q ' . A Q ' s ' s . . . :S -u fl, L T ' A - I P- 4 '- Q C rs ' ' - . . z V L C . L g . 5 4 ,., 'g c 1 1 1 y-.- 1 .H ' '- . I , .Y . y , V P' ' 1 T L . 4 . ' ' 5 1 g K r -2 . - 2 . . ,. F ' N ' ' 4 Q ' K E, I A -, L M . . . . 'Q ' 5, Y 5 1 L 'I 'L ' . Q., t