Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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K K F, B. T. McCIjAIX Clerk of of the Board of Education. Iphysician and Surgeon EERCHKR Before Painting KSTIMATKS H’RMSHKD ON AITI.ICATION ATNVOOI). ILLINOIS ' Farm When wanting Fresh Fruits in their Season, call on the Shady Dell Fruit Farm. Telephone No. 1533. ALKX T. GROSS ISetta Jlft. jfabrnhopf TEACHER OF PIANO AND REED ORGAN Will give technic class lessons free of charge to all music pupils. Fitting Eve C.lassoi a Specialty. ATWOOD. ILLINOIS. ATWOOD. ILLINOIS

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with him the gray haired man smiles, anti tells him to go to the superintendent of grounds. The superintendent of grounds is the hardest man to tint! yet, and when he is found he merely signs the receipt, and forwards the hoy on to the janitor of the gymnasium Everything vni to need a permit and yard of “red tape There are so many things required that lie never dreamed of before, that these few hours' experience has drilled him to accept anything which comes his way. On the way to the gymnasium he is stopped by two polite fellows who want to sell him a “Campus Permit’good for free walks on the campus. Twenty-five cents is patd for a big green ticket and the boy walks on ignorant of the fact that he has bit on the first fresh m in trick. AN UPPER CLASSMAN The freshman is gieen, but green things grow. In a short time he is initiated into the ways and customs and. becomes suited to his surroundings. A semester passes along. Doctor Smith has proved to be only an instructor in mathematics. When this first year man find out that his teacher in algebra is the same old man who treated him so kindly on registration day he concludes that lie will have au easy time. The first semester has brought some experience with it. ! Ii« boy now re-fois to his teach eras ‘Old ’ Smith, and has learned the full meaning ot the term PROF. SMITH. Pm I . Alter all, the cl tss work in a university is not the mo-t important part of a student’s course. It is worth something to know what college spirit means. It is a kin I of mental conversion for a man to fall in love with his Alma Mater and learn to give all his support to everything that represents her. The best parts of a tudcnt’s life are the times w hen he can be present at big football games to support the team, and to live through the game with the players. He will watch the ball from start to tiinis, get so excited A FOOTBALL SCF.NE

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that In will forget that he is living, and yell himself hoarse when the team makes a touchdown. If the team loses, he weeps with the team. If the team wins, he goes mad with the rest of the crowd, yells like an Indian, and helps to carry the team off the field. When night comes a parade starts for down town to hold a celebration. Hoards, planks, piano cases, and boxes begin to appear from all directions. Soon, a big bonfire i blazing. Everybody yells and has a good time. Street car traffic may be stopped, and the police force may be called out to put down the riot, but the whole thing is enjoyable, and is an event to be remembered for a life time. Such pranks may seem foolish but I believe they have a place in a man's general education. It is a fine thing to get one's bood stirred up occasionally, and it is always beneficial to work up a little enthusiasm now and then. The best things to be learned cannot always be gotten from books. Books are a fine thing, but they are only a means towards an end. A working knowledge which is to be gotten from books is necessary, but only constitutes the foundation of an education. The “book worn) .or the man whose accomplishments are limited to what he has learned from books, of little value to the win 1 I. The man who can think for himself and knows how to apply knowledge is the one who wins. There is a great demand for people who can stand on their own feet and take part in real life; people who arc wide awak- and ready to get busy. In this lies the value of a university training. There are so many things here to employ one's time and so many opportunities for development that if there is any good in a man at all, four years' university training will bring it out. After living the life of an earnest student for that time one ought to develop enough enthusiasm to last him a lifetime. This is why a university training helps a man to get along in the world. The people who arc ready and willing to work soon advance above the sleeping multitude. The song,“Wait for an opportunity, is the chant of a lazy man. The oppressive age is past. All people have equal chances. Success is not a question of opportunity. It is simply a matter of getting busy. The man who works gains. The man who loafs loses. This is in accord with all laws of nature and rules of justice. What a man becomes varies with the closeness with which he sticks to the motto “Get Busy.”