Strong High School - Mussul Unsquit Yearbook (Strong, ME)

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l'uhlished at the close of each school year by the students of Strong l-ligh School Voruiuii lV STRONG, MAINE, JUNE, 1925 NUMMER l THE MUSSUL 'UNSQUIT EDTORIAL BOARD VIVIAN l,. HAMMOND, '25 l.YDli S. HOWIES. '26 STANLICY Al.l.liN, '25 MARTHA li. RICHARDS, '25 SICLMA M. IXl.xcPl'lAll., '27 ALMA lNlt'L'Ol'RT. '28 URRIS li. RICHARDS. '25 FRANK li. SPEAR, '25 Ifirarf .AI.r.ri.i'lnnl lllt1Iltl!!t l' Elll'f0l fI1'f1l1l-Cf t-l.r.v1'.vtt1nl Editor .-llltlvtic Editor Ii.1't'ln1nyt' Editor .S'ofthomorcEdflor I re.rhumn Editor ffIIXl'I1t'.Y,f illltllltltltw' SARA lllfl.l., '25 SUCOHIIV .-lssisltml llltunigur l'Hll.lP STlNL'HFlEl.D, '26 :lrt liditnr liI.lVl0 MURSIE, '25 Joke Erllilw' SARA lllil.l., '25 flluimm' Editor EDITORIALS ll,-XT is education? This question has probably been asked thousands of titnes by eminent scholars and successful men. Almost every man has a ditierent view point. Some claim that a college edu- cation is absolutely necessary for one to become an educated man: others say that men can he as great without any schooling as with heads crammed with Latin and Greek. They hold up as examples Abraham Lincoln, tlartield and Franklin. They never had what is now called education in one sense of the word, They had no chance to go to High Schools and Colleges as the the youth of today but they had deep in their hearts the desire to get as much knowi- edge from the world as was possible. lt was this motive that made Lincoln sit by the tire at night, reading books borrowed from neighbors tive. ten and twenty miles away. Wellington, one of the greatest men in the world, was considered a dunce hy his parents and teachers. Yet at the age of forty-five he conquered the greatest living general except himself. There are men like Michael Angelo who was made by his parents to study surgery and destroyed his paintings and sketches but what other man could have built and designed St. l'eter's Cathedral. So throughout the world there are thous- ands of cases similar to these. l'eople cram their children's heads with a college educa- tion disregarding. perhaps, the child's natural inclination. If a boy dislikes a thing he will not study it and if compelled to do so he may learn it then from necessity. but in a few years all remembrance of it will slip from him. and it is when we become men. not when we are attending school or college. that the benefit of education comes. There are men having numerous degrees fastened to their names that hardly know how to make change. There are men with heads full of Latin and the dead lanffuaifes 5 FF who know practically nothing of the other branches of education. lt is not only in Colleges and l'reparatory Schools that we get an education but we must learn from the practical side of life. Nature has new lessons far excelling any of those found in college or anywhere else if we but study them. Nobody will say that a good education is a hindrance to a man but if he cannot mix common sense with it he really has no more education than one without an A. lt. after his name but who has a broad outlook on the practical affairs of life. COURAGE OURAGIQ is the boldness to encounter danger: fearlessness in all things which demand the greatest daring and

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TABLE OF CONTENTS llmlicutiun ., .. Iiditnrizlls .. 1 Senior Vlzxss .. I.l'l'ICRARY A lfluwer Among XYc'eds .. The Theft ..,........, The Third XVreck .... Iissuy on Fezu' ........ . . . .. 'I'he Nan XVho XVus Innocent The Revenge .... .4....... The Iizlfhed Inquirel .X Year to Live ........... . ,'X1lx':n1tnges of ll Huckhourd ....... The Ilouhle l' :md Double NVn-dmling .. l'ne .'X1llf'l'iC1liI1C ........... ..... M:wie-Ailtuinette School Notes . Athletics . jokes ., . . IQXCIIHIIHCS .. Amlllllllli ..

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4 THE MUSSUL UNSQUIT valorg and bravery in emergencies. It is the defiance of peril which causes a man to stand out in a crowd and makes people say of him, He is no coward. It is the undaunted spirit of courage and heroism which sends men to their deaths every year while trying to make this world a better one. In another sense of the word it means generosity. Many times it takes real courage to give up things to friends who seem hardly appreciative. Also there is the courage which forces a man to say no to something which he really wants to do very much. The following examples may help to make my meaning clearer. There is the case of Philip Barton who went on to death in the mountains, when a single leap would have saved his own life, to save a train load of people. Everyone will stand up for their friends but it takes a brave man to give his life for strangers. Also there is the brave seaman who stayed at his post and guided the burning ship to safety. But not all the heroes are the ones which we read about in the news- papers. Many and many poor people, on the farm or in the city, give up every day comforts which they might have for them- selves. The little girl who rushes to save a friend from being run over by a car or the boy who helps an old woman across the street when he knows he will be punished for being late are both brave. The soldiers who fought for this country in the World War are perhaps the best ex- amples of courageous men. At any moment they might be killed. A great many of them would never go home again, but they did not back out. All these, and many other, cases of cour- age which I could give prove that it is a thing to be sought after. A coward is not much use in the world and everyone should try to be courageous, bold, and fearless. T is certainly more important for one to speak the English language properly than any other tongue, as English is spoken by eighty millions of the earth's inhabitants. Some of the most interesting topics lose tl1eir point because of the lack of proper words to express them. To appreciate the greater part of the best things in life a knowledge of good English is very necessary. Emphasis should be laid on this need in reading as well as understanding. Influencing the underclassmen. Set a good example to the underclassmen. How may we set an example? How many rules are broken every day? If we kept a few certain rules which we have in our High School the younger students would obey them and be more likely to copy after us. We can set an example in the way we use our school books. If books are given to pupils torn and marked the students will -be more likely to think that the class before them was allowed to do as they pleased and so they could themselves. We can set an example by preserving school property. Not only can we influence the younger pupils by keeping the rules of our school but by keeping politeness, courtesy and friendliness, and so let us try in the re- maining years of our High School course to set an example that will last for years to come. 1 't . 3 Ln