Arcata High School - Advance Yearbook (Arcata, CA)

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Qlllasw Mliill VVe, the members of the class of june, '13, of the A. U. H. S., City of Arcata, County of I-Iumboldt, State of California, being at the present time of sound mind and not acting under any undue influence or fraud, and realiz- ing that the days of our life in this great hall of learning are limited, for the personal benefit and progress of the oncoming strivers, do declare this to be our last will and testament. I. To the faculty we leave all the troubles and pesterings of the rising classes. II. To the Junior Class of '14 we do will and bequeath all the honor and dignity of a Senior, with the following admonition: they must not let their heads swell too much, for the door of our room is only four feet wide. We render to them the use of our room and desks which are on the top Hoor. CLaura Myer's desk will have to have new underpinning as the old is cracked.j As an heirloom we hand down to them the glory of not being beaten in football for four years. May they keep up the reputation so that it may be handed down through future generations. III. To the Sophomore Class we hereby bequeath a much-needed pam- phlet entitled I-Iow to keep on good terms with your teachers. It reads as follows: Always obey your teachers, and if they tell you to study twenty-live hours a day, do it. If they tell you to throw your 'peanuts in the waste basket, don't throw in just the shells and keep the peanuts in another pocket. Remember the teachers also like peanuts. Always be studious and take your books home from school every night, even if you have to get an auto truck to carry them. If the language teacher gives you ten pages of Caesar, Deutsch, or Francais, don't groan, but smile and be cheerful, for next time she will assign only twenty or thirty. If you are studious, obedient, attentive, meek, bright, angel-like, etc., etc., etc.,-to eternity, then you will succeed with your teacher. IV. To the ever innocent and timid Freshmen we will and bequeath all our extra boldness, so that they may quickly sprout into full-fledged Sophomores. We leave to them all our endurance and perseverance and hope that it will carry them through the four years of toils, mixed with pleasures and foolish reveries. And realizing that they are on the verge of entering into social events, and are much in need of a code of etiquette we do bequeath to them the same. 'Tis as follows: 1. Never ask your lady friend if she wishes to go by the candy store and smell the odor of fresh-made candy. 2. If you are about to sit down at the table next to your lady, never ask her if you may sit on her right hand, as chairs are usually provided. 3. If you are invited out to supper, never ask the guest for a bottle and nipple, to drink your milk with. It shows a babyish taste. 4. If you are told to bring a muff to a dance, don't get a bunch of beaver skins to keep your hands warm, for that has gone out of style. 5. If you are at a high school football game, and the gentleman at your side says, I think 'our' team is going to win, don't get excited and think that he has proposed to you, because he has laid stress on the 'our.' As executrix of this, our last will and testament, do we hereby appoint Miss Wilkinson, our esteemed class teacher. Subscribed and sworn to before Miss Chamberlin on this 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. CLASS OF 1913, MILTON VVRIGHT, 'l3. Twenty-our

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Qlihitnrial In every city, country, state or nation, there are two classes of people- the f'Boosters and the Knockers, The boosters are the people who have a pride in their city or county and show this pride by helping to the best of their ability to boom all benefi- cent and forward movements. On the other hand, there are the knockers who are lacking in civic spirit and community pride. These people are usually grouchy and close-listed and may almost invariably be counted upon to take a stand against all pro- gressive movements. Nothing that is done is pleasing to them. They are a critical, fault-finding generation. It is not necessary to dilate on the un- pleasantness of having to reside in a community having a large percentage of such people. It is probably well that a spirit of discontent should manifest itself in our make-up. We must not be oversatisfied with our surroundings or there will be no incentive to improve our condition. Dissatisfaction often means progress. The past year has witnessed the publishing of articles in several maga- zines of national standing, criticising our present school system without sug- gesting any methods for its improvement. We who think most highly of it are aware that it has its imperfections, but it is certainly superior to any system of education that has heretofore been devised. VVe hear its practicability discussed. Does it lit its graduates for life- work? It does and it does not. The old academic course with its book- learning did not qualify a boy or girl to enter at once into lifels arena and make good. They had to acquire further practical knowledge or training before they found themselves able to enter on a career of usefulness. The modern high school is introducing courses and equipments that will enable its graduates to step out of the school-room into the arena of active life and become at once bread earners. On account of the expense of starting such practical courses of study, it is only in the larger cities that we find many of these courses being given. The smaller high schools are moving along in that direction quite rapidly, however, and many of them are offering practical courses in sciences, commercial work, agriculture, domestic science, drawing, debating, physical culture, and hygiene. Not many high schools are provided with gymnasiums or teachers of hygiene, but athletics furnishes training that is of inestimable value as an accessory to the usual scholastic equipment. Arcata has excelled in football and baseball and has. had excellent tennis and basket-ball teams, we cannot say the same about track teams, however. It is true, that with the graduation of the class of 1912, the school lost many athletes, but in the other classes there were plenty of students who by judicious training could have become fully as proficient as those who were in previous track teams. There was no satisfactory reason for Arcata not entering a track team in the field-meet last September. The excuse that the boys had to go too far to train was insuiiicient. The field-meet is the one event in which all the schools are brought to- gether at the same time, and the absence of an Arcata team casts a blot upon the athletic record of our school. A track or any kind of team is impossible without co-operation of the entire student body, and it is the duty of all the boys not in training to go with the others to boost them along, the girls, as well, can show their in- terest and loyalty. Wake up, you boys! Enter your men in the next track- Twenty-three