Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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The Dart demonstrating its good judgment in adding to this library and thereby keeping up the interest of the students. There are a great many things referred to in text books which can be found in no other place than in the library, and it is doing a vast amount of good. sets»» The examinations are now over, and many students have discovered their deficiencies. It is now “up to them ” to get down to good solid work and endeavor to raise their standings, if possible. After your high school days are over, you will be glad that you put a little extra work on your lessons. If you fail to do the work as it comes, it will add at least one study to your schedule later on, if not an extra year or semester. Therefore, it behooves you to raise yourself in your own estimation as well as in that of your teachers. Work! THE WINTER BROOK. M. H. '11. The storm howls up the canon. It is screaming o'er the hill, And the snow scuds 'long before it. And will soon the valley fill. 'Then the brook down at the bottom, Where the beaver used to play. Will make a winding tunnel Hilled with a mist o' gray. In this prison all the winter, It will purl its life away, ''Till the sunshine in the springtime Makes it sparkling and gay. 'Then the waters will be dearer, And the grass will greener grow. After its long imprisonment Beneath the winter snow. 14

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The Dari things they liked and disliked about our publication. These are the things we want to hear and every criticism was welcome. We trust we have produced a paper which the students have not been ashamed to show to anyone. We also wish the new Dart Staff all success and hope the students will give them the same splendid support they have bestowed on us. seNser.» How many students of A. H. S. can tell the trees of their own state or even of this county ? To be able to distinguish between the different trees, the guardians of the home, the regulators of climate and the makers of the fertility of the soil, would be a worthy object for hard study. The majority of the graduates from our colleges today cannot tell an oak from a maple, or an elm from a pine. Let this paragraph soak into your minds, and consider the advantages of knowing the trees. ar»» Our local “ Young Men’s Christian Association is filling a large space in the spare time of young men from this school. There could be nothing better than this for the boys. In addition to the various amuse- ments in the way of games, there is the reading room well stocked with periodicals and books. The gymnasium however is the most popular of all the features of the institution. Here the regular classes meet and the boys get very enthusiastic over the competitive games. In the classes basket ball leagues have been organized and the rivalry is very great between the different teams. On February twenty-first a preliminary debate will be held in the City Hall. This is the contest in which the three debaters are picked for the team which debates against Oberlin on April twenty-first. The question is “ Resolved, that the Federal Government should control and develop our natural resources.” In other words the Federal Government and not the states should conserve the natural resources. This debate with Oberlin is the most important event of the year, and for our team to win, when each team has been defeated by the other once, will be a great achievement. There are six young men trying out for the team, and they are hard at work on their material. The students always evince great interest in this debate atid as it is going to take place at home we expect to make a hard fight for victory. With the money cleared from the various entertainments given this year, the school has added a great many new books to the reference room. This room is frequented by many of the students who are taking advantage of the splendid opportunities offered by it. The school is 13

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A Sunk Swmu: Sin' ifuirat HAROLD C. HOPKINS ’13. FEW years ago my father took a fishing trip to Georgian Bay. When he returned, he brought with him a book which, he said, mentioned some of the places where he had been. I read it, and since then have reread it so many times that I have lost count. This book was “ The Forest,” by Steward Edward White. I have since read eight books by the same author and, altho they were very interesting and entertaining, none of them has quite equalled “ The Forest.” The book has no plot, and is not a story, and is composed largely of exposition, yet it always holds one interested without exciting one. Neither does it tire one by advancing any complex or tedious theories as do other books composed of exposition, Simplicity is, in fact, one of the greatest of its many charms. Its very simplicity has a style and grandeur of its own. The reader cannot help but comprehend every- thing the author says. It is about the great North Woods of Canada, and contains much concerning nature and wood-craft, yet unlike most books of this sort it is not dry or technical. Whenever a fact concerning nature is expressed, it is done in such a manner as to interest and entertain the reader Un- like many books on this subject it does not make one feel that he is preparing a lesson; instead, it fills him with a longing to know more about this vast and mysterious nature of which the book speaks. I doubt if any one who has read it can deny that he feels better acquainted with the whole out doors, and is filled with a longing to be more in touch with the intricacies of the vast and incomprehensible nature. There was a young lady from Mentor. Whose sweetheart some flowers had sent’er. And these flow’rs she did wear To adorn the red hair Which one of her neighbors had lent er 15