Arlington High School - Indian Yearbook (Arlington, MA)

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4 THE ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CLARION Mid-Years. We go on with our work as before except that a strain and fear has been lifted from our minds and our heads feel lighter. Our tasks in- deed seem lighter but we must all be on our guard for now the germ of an unsuspected restlessness is in the air, and on our right and left we see our comrades fall beneath its fatal influ- ence. I have seen some wandering aimlessly about school with no interest in work or play. They are thirsting terribly for something new and think they have spring fever. But no, not yet. The germ that makes them rest- less is the anticipation of spring fever. The most sweet air and the melting snow give a false suggestion of spring, and help the willy old restless germ. Oh, woe betide the man or maid who falters for they will not recover ’till spring. Woe betide the books for the will lie unused ' till they are furied in their own dust. So to save our friends from this peri 1 we must all write and work together. This, then is the next step — to be wide awake. This is the next task to accomplish — to banish the germ of restlessness. And we must go into school to do this. To be sure Mid-Years are over but the evil germ is abroad seeking its prey. We must all watch out. At school, to be sure, is a great life if we don’t weaken at the first false sug- gestion of spring. Hilda Frost. FORGET — BUT — Forget the slander you have heard. Forget the hasty, unkind word: Forget the quarrel and the cause, Forget the whole affair because Forgetting is the only way. Forget the storm of yesterday, Forget the chap whose sour face Forgets to smile in any place; Forget to even get the blues, But — don’t forget to turn in news. Library Notes A library makes life better morally, keener mentally, sounder physically, and richer commercially. IMPORTANCE OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES There seems to be increased interest in the use of school libraries. Both school officers and teachers are coming to see that if the school library is properly selected and administered it is the most valuable part of the school equipment. The following are its most important functions : 1. Training the children to read for pleasure, that they may form the read- ing habit. 2. Training them to read for infor- mation, that they may acquire a fuller knowledge of geography, history, sci- ence, and other subjects taught in the school, and at the same time form the habit of reading for information, a habit which will be of value to them all through life. 3. Training them to read books which will tend to rouse in them the desire to make the most and best of 1 hemselves. 4. To form the library habit so that not only after leaving school but be- fore, they will use the public library, a habit which will be to them a source of pleasure and profit as long as they live.

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THE ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CLARION lEMtorials SOPHOMORE ISSUE This issue of the Clarion is culled the Sophomore Issue not particularly because of Sophomore contributions, but because the last three issues of your paper were planned as the Sopho- more, Junior, and Senior issues res- pectively. Owing to the illness of our •little” Editor-in-Chief the work of carrying through this issue was in the hands of other members of the Board. Here’s hoping that ‘“Little Joe” is feeling hale and hearty, ready to re- sume his task of Editor-in-Chief in his usual efficient manner. C. A. H. “LATE HOURS AND BRILLIANCY” Late hours and brilliancy do not go hand in hand. If one desires to be adept in his pursuit of knowledge, then let him shun late hours. If, on the other hand, he desires to trip the light fantastic until the small hours of the morning, then lie must sacrifice any hope of ever being termed brilliant. If one has any wish to reach a mate- rial goal, to ascend to the heights or fame, he must keep that purpose in mind, he must ever see that goal plainly before him, or he is lost. Regardless of the fact that some people can play two games of cards while they solve six problems mentally, I maintain that knowledge is gained by intensive con- centration on a subject. The best hours in which to study are, I say most emphatically, not those just preceding midnight. When one returns from gay festivities just as the dawn is breaking in the sky, l feel assured that he will not consider the writing of an English theme a choice task, nor will he greet it with superfluous enthusiasm. Therefore, the fact re- mains that one must choose, in all things one must choose, with perhaps the exception of the most difficult ques- tion in an examination. There, of course, a choice is never permitted. So, if one would visualize his footsteps imprinted on the sands of time, and his name ranked among the immortals, let him have for his motto, “Early to Bed and Early to Rise.” Margaret Donahue, ’25. NOW THAT MID YEARS ARE OVER— Now at last Mid-Year Exams have come and gone and we feel relieved and satisfied (?). One-half of the school year is over. Unconsciously each day of this first half we have been anticipating the relief we would feel when the exams would be over. Now we have that relief, we have finished this great task and most of us are ask- ing ourselves, “What is the next step? What is our next task to accomplish? Where do we go from here?” Obviously we go on with our work. We open our books and begin to study at the point we left off to review for

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THE ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CLARION ESSAY ON A QUADRUPED ANIMAL SANS PI EDS The animated canine, otherwise known as tin hot dog, is a peculiar specie of dog, now found on the Atlan- tic and Pacific seaboard, infesting mostly the pleasure resorts. Professor Zvarklberg, an eminent dogologist, declares, after many years research, that this specie is the mis- sing link in the prehistoric chain of sausage. The origin of this animal lias been traced to Germany in a section known as Frankfurt. Hitherto all re- search in this line was confined to the bologna, a larger specie, found in Italy and the North End of Boston. The nearest relative to the bologna, states Professor Zvarklberg, is the dacha bund, but, during some process of elim- ination, the tail, legs, and other encum- berances have been lost — undoubtedly in the grinding machine. The animated canine is usually rec- ognized by a growth, composed of Hour, water, salt and yeast, and a yel- low plant juice of a rather trenchant taste, but not intoxicating. A series of lectures will lie given by Professor Zyarklberg, beginning next Saturday evening at twelve-thirty with: “Where Do Dead Horses Go?” — Anon. SPRING FEVER “Spring has come Ho-hum.” There are many diseases and many kinds of diseases. They come in all the desired (or undesired) sizes and shapes — long, short, hard, soft, made- to-order, and incurable. Most of the last mentioned are not at all pleas- ant, but ther e is one of them in which most people seem to take a peculiar satisfaction. It’s part of the disease, I suppose — Spring Fever. Spring fever, I maintain, is the di- rect result and disastrous after-effect of Mid-Year Examinations. No, it is not too early for spring fever in March. Ask any normal high school pupil. Be- sides March is the first of the spring months by the calendar, and the time when the hard worked student begins to look forward, count on his lingers, and say, “Only three more months of school !” Then he remembers that the reward for his labors will be nothing less than another set of exams even worse than the just passed ( ?) Mid- Years. lie groans; then with a final spurt of energy (the last for inany-a- long day) he summons up the courage to revolt. He resolves with good and bad reasons that under no circum- stances, forced, enforced, or any other way will he do any hard work. No!