Cecil Township High School - Codicil Yearbook (McDonald, PA)

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---THE SCHOOL--- School Atmosphere. Seventeen years ago Cecil Township High School was established. In recent years she has been enlarging the borders of her realm of service. It would be strange indeed, if during these many years of life and service, certain traditions had not grown up with the institution. The most marked of these, perhaps, is what may be called school atmos- phere. To undertake ito define such a statement is a diflicult task. However it is both beautiful and contagious. No student breathes it long with- out its impulses and influences being strictly felt upon his own life. Nor can he live in it for four years and be the same thereafter. It is inspiring, there is that about it which stirs within 'the student a desire for 'the larger and better things. Ig 7,,

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS T. D. Gladden-President ..... ...... . H .. .... McDonald, Pa P. G. Walker-Secretary ........ 132 Greenside Ave., Canonsburg, Pa J. L. Cook ...... .... M cDonald, Pa., R, D. No. 3 A. W. Hickman ..... .... C anonsburg, Pa.. R. D. No. 1 W. L. Hutchinson .... ..... C ecil, Pa 5.

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THE SCHOOL CConcludedD School Spirit. There is a distinct spirit about the school which is also marked by everyone that visits the school. It is the spirit of honesty and friend- ship, that which forbids littleness, meanness, and insincerity. This is shown not simply in the relation of the students one to another, but likewise in relation of Faculty and Students. The .spirit of the school is the spirit of devotion to the best things. There is not a disposition here to allow the good to be the enemy of the best. The school is peculiarly free from the clique spirit and from the dis- position to fence one's self off and to separate one's self from the common crowd. The school spirit is therefore a spirit of real democ- racy. Each one is as good as the other if he behaves himself and does his work earnestly and honestly. The Ideals. The Ideals of Cecil High are varied. First of all, when one thinks of a High School he thinks of what may be termed the distinctly educa- tional ideal. For several years the standards of the school have been the standards required by the State Department of Instruction. The ideals of the school educationally demand of her that she keep abreast of 'the educational progress of the State and Nationg that she stand for the highest individuals idealsg that she measure up to the standard in the matter of an efficient leadership in her faculty, having men and women thoroughly equipped for the work which they undertake to do. The Purpose. The real purpose of Cecil High School is the development of a virilc manhood and worthy womanhood. To this end all her energies are bent in the direction every one climbs, for this purpose all members of the faculty daily striveg as a result ideas are changedg ideals are set up toward which men strive with all their might and an increasing number of splendidly equipped young men and women are going forth from the school year by year to take in higher institutions of learning their place and to do their full share in the most efficient way of the world.