Presque Isle High School - Ship Yearbook (Presque Isle, ME)

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if-K in P. I. H. 'Of course, scholarship isn't the on- ly thing that counts! Character, per- sonality and ambition are always es- sential. Nevertheless scholarship is a worthwhile thing to add to these other splendid characteristics. A little learning is a dangerous thingy Drink deep or touch not the Pier- ian spring.-Pope. V. Powers '32 NOT IN TEXT BOOKS Boys and girls who are planning to enter highschool usually think only of the benefits they will derive from study of numer-ous text brooks. In reality they learn more in many wa-ys from their new associations, than from the lbooks. There are several im- portant things to lbe learned in high school that are not printed in bo-Olks. C oaperatiorz is one of the important lessons to be learned. The townspeo- ple give a goioid example .They are backing up the school in whatever we undertake. Cooperation with the teach- ers is essential for advancement. Pu- pils whc' are ready to get help from their teachers receive the highest marks. SHIP 11 Manners are not far ffrom being the most important. If a person would a- dapt himself to school life, I should pay that manners were a very present help in trouble. It is no difficulty at all to keep from the Whispering Squad, if you act courteously. Sportsmanship is constantly in prac- tice in high -school. You are a good spontsman if you can accept defeat at any time. The boys that will get ahead are those who, after working hard and long, do not make the squad 5 but keep working in the hope that next year they will have improved their game enough to be eligible to a place on the team. The person who is ready to take the hard knocks smil- ing, is the one who will come out on top! Fair Play runs hand in hand with spertsmanship. It .is not doing you any good to win honors if you have not used fair play. A good exam- ple of clean athletics is the State Championship won by our boys. The high school has many exam- ples to show us what Cooperation, Manners, Sportsmanship and Fair 'Play have done. Other things than text books have lessonsg try to be a lesson to associates. I. Guiou '33

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wi mf WW WWW H P. H. Dow. But fortunately for the convers- ing couple no such drastic action was neces-sary. To go on with my story I'll let you imagine who was the first person whom I examined. Of course you know,-Walter Shaw, the fun of the class. How could he help but be the first when he was posted directly a- cross the hall? According to the X- Ray his mind was very much taken up with English literature, especially that of the Elizabethan Period. This was the most outstanding subject, yet there were other traces of literary knowledge. Back quite deeply in the main part of the brain, I could see very dimly written such literary per- icds as Dorothean, Indaean, etc., but since I did not recognize them and did not like to 'be so aware of my own ignorance I quickly shifted my mach- ine to Harold Glidden. He was at the door of the office talking very politely to the principal, and-land of love !-the entire debate which is to take place next month was carved very artistically upon his brain, If the 'forgets his speech classmates, please: don't look around or look sur- prised! if you hear me prompting him. The debate took up so much of the space in Harold's head that I could not in any way recognize his other thoughts so again I shifted the focus of the camera-like instrument. This victim was Leona -Crandall, what didn't I see?-IPoor Sozia and and Blind Nydia chasing Tim Thomp- and Ace Bishop around Leona's son seat in History Class. Lf. you can draw conclusions from such a picture any as that I would like to survey your mind for it certainly must be super- natural. I concluded that her mind was in a chaos about something or other, and so I focused the little instrument S. SHIP 13 upon Elwood Harmon, who was stand- ing near Iby. At first glance I could not see a thing. After waiting and watching carefully for about 30 seconds I de- tected a little ball shining brightly in the bottom part of his brain. It was not more than 1-16 of an inch in dia- meter but printed very finely upon the top were these words: TI-IE BALL OF KNOWLEDGE - This will grow larger as knowledge increases. Satisfied by this encouragement I trapped Helene. She was laughing and everytime she stopped! her brain went blank. When she began to laugh again her brain would shine like gold, and this is the conclusion I drew, She does well in her studies because she laughs, when she laughs her brain functionsg s-o, classmates, there's the successful prescription for making the 'honor roll. Well, here comes. Claude, so the magical instrument focuses its lens upon his cranium. When the picture was developed I looked in vain for a sign of life. After a long search I dis- covered in one corner a weazoned old idea, which gradually was dying in solitary confinement. This was not so encouraging, so I turned to Helen Boyle. I couldn't skip her, our manhater and joker. No, not one trace of a ro- mance could I find, but of all the pic- tures! Girls, if you only coufsil have seen as I did Helen's high school days outlined! Very distinctly were written all of her funny notes, pictures, and secret plans, which so successfully had been carried -out these four years. Recess is nearly over and th e Sweetser twins are passing. Ralph's brain can hardly be seen due to the fact that a large, solid gold, basket- ball is perched directly on top of it.