Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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T HE I) A R T 21 ®1 ip Sart Vol. VIII. JUNE. 1916 No. 5 Published Six I imes a Year by The Senior Cla s of Ashtabula I ligh School TWENTY CENTS PER COPY Entered at the postoifice at Ashtabula, Ohio, ax second clam inntter. We are Members; why aren't you ehr taff JOHN STEWART MARY JOHNSON ( CLARA SEAMEN THERESA SMITH MARGARET STAPLETON IDA SEVENEN DAVID FORD Editor -in- Chief Associate Editors Joke Editor Exiharge Editor Alumni Editor Athletic Editor HARRIET GALLUP -CLIFTON SANBORN WALTER STEWART ( GEORGE DUCRO GEORGE POTTER . Art Editor Business Manager Ass t Business Managers Circulation Manager The Law for Women Last October two interesting events in educational history were recorded. Vassar, the first college, fully equipped and exclusively for women with the exception of one, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. In the ?ame month the Cambridge Law School for Women opened its doors. The first event carries us back fifty years when even our intellectual leaders considered the education gained in genteel funishing schools, quite sufficient for the girls of the day. The second event brings us to the present or at most to the near future when in every field woman is to be considered as mentally efficient as man. For years women have been able to get their degree in law but the new school offers such surprising advantages that it is expected a large number will seize the opportunity. The instruction is identical with that given the men altho the I larvard Law School and Cambridge Law School for Women are separate institutions. The law seems to offer unlimited opportunities for women of that turn of mind. Professor Beale who is in a large part, responsible for the founding of the school is one of its most enthusiastic supporters. I le does not hesitate to speak plainly in regard to this field for women. He believes that many of the great firms who at present have in their employ young men graduated in law to gather evidence and prepare cases will very soon take young women who have had the same training into their offices. I le maintains that their judgment in business matters with which they are familiar is as sound as men’s, their accuracy and care as great and their reasoning power quite as exact.

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20 T II E I) A R T On the same night South Hi of Youngstown, sent the following negative team to Ashtabula: Messrs. Datson, Zeve, Kaufman, speakers, and MacDonald, alternate. Our affirmative team was prepared for the Mahoning county organization and defeated the Youngstown team by a unanimous decision of the judges. This affirmative team was composed of Howard Nazor. Jane Dickinson and Clifton Sanborn, speakers, and George Shiya, alternate. Ashtabula has every reason to be proud of its debating teams this year. I hey have established a record never yet equalled by any two debating teams representing A. H. S., by acquiring the unanimous decision on both the affirmative and negative sides of the same question. The closing of the school year of 1916 leaves A. H. S. a record of eight victories and three defeats in its debating history, a record which would do credit to any high school, and of which A. H. S. is justly proud. May the teams of the coming years keep this record as favorably balanced as they receive it from the hands of the teams of 1916. l’se siltin’ here so solemn, l’s lonesome fru’ and fru I want a little sweetheart. Say, don’t you want one, too? I sat me down and thought profound, T his maxim wise I drew: “It’s easier for to like a girl. Than make a girl like you. A lady was looking for her husband, and inquired anxiously of the housemaid, “Do you know anything about your master’s whereabouts? I’m not sure mum, replied the maid, but I think they are in the wash.” Safety—“So Jack is engaged is he, and Fanny is bride-to-be?” First— No, she is the tried-to-be.” Metrical Translation Book V. Line 605-623 Jane Dickinson And now while various sacred games about the mound they played, Saturnean Juno, from heavenly climes, sent his, fairest maid. To seek Troy’s ships, and sent fair winds upon her weary ways, She boded ill to Troy, nor lost her wrath of former days. So now fair Iris swift flew out her multicolored bow And down a secret path she fled, lest some should see her go. Beheld she there, the mighty crowd, she saw the coast before, She saw the harbor wanting all, the crafts alone amid the roar. Off on the strand, alone and sad. the 1 rojan women wail, “Anchises gone! and, looking out to seawar strong hearts fail. Cry they, weeping, All is lost! what reefs and rocks endure! What shoals ar.d shallows lie between us and the grassy moor! They all together beg to rest, sea life is bad at best. So Iris, wisest of the wise, came to them on her quest. First shedding ruthlessly, God’s look and mien divine. And as Beroe, garbed and lined in clear define, Doryclus’ wife, the I ruarian man, once possessed of sons, race and name. So to the I rojan mothers, in such form the maiden came. The old man’s wife was getting into a carriage, and he neglected to assist her. You are not so gallant. John, as you were when you were a boy,” she exclaimed in gentle rebuke. No,” was his ready response, and you are not so buoyant as when you were a gal.

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22 T II E I) A R T The Law is without doubt one of the most broadening of the professions for a lawyer can say with Terence—‘There is nothing in all the affairs of men that does not concern me. A True Democracy We are living in a country which our ancestors founded and called a Democracy. I hey were earnest and industrious, lending a hand to discouraged neighbors and living a simple, wholesome life. This democracy was our heritage. The ancestors who by their labor founded our present democracy, founded it on the principle that all men are created equal— to use a common expression—each is as good as his neighbor. Yet in the struggle to appear as “good as anybody. we lose the very spirit of democracy. It seems to be the eternal struggle to wear as fine clothes, to live in as beautiful a house and to drive as expensive a car as our neighbor. When the people of this so called democracy come to the realization that wealth is not the measure of a man, then can we begin to render a valuable service to the world—to preserve and protect the democratic spirit in its true sense—for by this spirit alone can the finest race of men and the highest type of civilization be developed. J. D. I6. The Dart As this is the last issue of the Dart this year, and in view of the fact that from a financial as well as a literary standpoint, the year of 19 I 5-1 6 has been a very successful one, it seems that some space should be devoted to comment upon the loyal support that we have received from the student-body. A census of the various papers of the state was taken recently by the Sandusky high school paper, the Fram , and in its May number are printed the results of this census. In making the canvass the exchange editor sent to each high school a card on which questions were asked as to total enrollment and total number of subscribers. The report shows A. II. S. ranking fourth in the state, with 5 I 5 enrolled and 425 on our subscription list. I his is a record to be proud of. The staffs feel quite certain that a paper of such rank could not have been issued had not the students responded as they did. This year the faculty followed the rule of last year, appointing associate editors and assistant business managers, and then promoting them to editors and business managers the next year. 7 he system has proved a success because of the fact that during his or her apprenticeship, he can learn what is expected of him, and in this way turns out better work. The staff wishes to thank those outside of the staff who contributed work, especially Harry Rowe, whose artistic work improved our paper fifty per cent. In leaving the work of publishing th» Dart to the staff of 19 16-1 7 the Seniors wish them every success in their undertaking and hope that they meet with as favorable support as we had this year. On page 14 we print a picture of the 1915-16 Dart” staff. From left to right they are as follows: Standing—Lina Smith. Clara Seaman, David Ford, Harold Johnson, Howard Nazor, Jane Dickinson. Fay Sweet, George Potter. Martha Stone, Walter Stewart. I heresa Smith, Mary Johnson. Clifton Sanborn. Seated—Margaret Stapleton, Lola Remick, John Stewart, Harriet Gallup. Ida Sevenen. Cicero said that many great men of Rome left at their death, likenesses of their bodies, not of their minds. I le inquired if they should not prefer to leave some written expression of their character and ability. Could any staff ask for a better rewaid of their service than that when they were graduated, they might leave behind them not a statue of the class, but an image of the minds of the members of the class? So the Dart Staff of 1916 desire that this, the last edition of the Dart, may be a true picture of the character and ability of the Class of 1916. M. T. 'I 7