Auburn High School - Arrow Yearbook (Auburn, NY)

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AUBURN ACADEMIC HIGH SCHOOL I understand why those prospective grads walked the hall last June with such -ager faces. And I pitied them! Poor misunderstanding child! Do I not love the school where I have spent so many happy hours, you ask? Assuredly I do, and the dear old place is still beautiful, but is soon to be my home no moreg I must look for larger quarters. Now I have chosen them, a frenzy of excite- ment and accomplishment is upon me, a metamorphosis of but a single year. What if I should flunk! -MARGARET IX-Iacnrirn, 227. Commencement Time Is Inventory Time Seniors! The time has come when we must take an inventory of ourselves. Business men always take an inventory of their stock at the end of a fiscal period. Immediately after they have completed their inventory, a new fiscal period of their business begins. Right now we must face the cold facts. NVQ have ended a tiscal period in our lives and are compelled to take an inventory of our stock. A business man first goes through all his stock, checking and itemizing each article. Seniors, let us look back! VVhat have we gotten out of our High School course? That's simple, we all say. VVe have gotten out of it just what we have put into it. Have we derived all the good we possibly could out of it? Have we distinguished ourselves scholastically, or have we just skimmed through all our work? Most of us have excelled in the latter, I dare say. Let us glance over the subjects we have taken during the last four years. Have we worked out all we really should have from them? liach one of us must answer this question for himself. Let's play up and be square with ourselves, we have to face the facts sometime and if we do it now, it may save us some embarrassment later. A good business man, when he finds that he has a lot of one line of stock left over, doesn't buy that same stock in carload lots, does he? Life is a business proposition after all. Are we going to load ourselves down with four more years of education if we find that our High School education has not proved of value to us? A business man does not buy his stock to please himself alone, he buys it to sell to other people. He thinks of other people when he purchases. Is it actually going to be worth the several thousand dollars it is going to cost us to go to college? Why should we make our parents sacrifice t.hings that are real necessities for them so that we may go to college? , It certainly is not fair to them unless we go to college with the express idea of getting all we can for our money. When a business man loans money, he expects to get back not only the prin- cipal but also a certain stated amount of interest, after a set length of time. Then ...IS-..

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ww li! V Was.-a. aa 3? Q45 .ef f .. ,,falQi We, the Class of IQ27, take this opportunity to express our Appreciation . g ll: 1 i - bf: 't at sd 'C A 3 2-sit M W4 ' to those teachers who are leaving Auburn Academic High School at the close of this school year. X'Yords cannot express our gratitude for all they have done for us, but our good wishes go with them to their 11ew fields of endeavor. To the students of Auburn Academic High School who have supported or contributed to their school magazine. The Arrow Staff has received many compliments on the literary material which has appeared in the Arrowette of this year and we welcome this opportun- ity to pass on this praise to those to whom it is due. As Junior, as Senior Is it not strange how tlte passage of a single year can influence what one believed to be final, definite convictions? Only a year ago, I was pitying the pros- pective graduates. Poor things! They were leaving such a beautiful place with so much to go through ahead of them. XVeren't they dreadfully frightened about finishing their so-called childhood and stepping forth ? For after high school one is never again a child: one is grown-up and must face the world. Gradua- tion activities seemed almost frightful to me: 'twas the last fling before oblivion. I was certainly glad that l was but a junior. At least there was one year still before I had to face the Senior's problems, thank goodness. lt gave me a pang to think of leaving the old school and going. goodness knows, where. Yes, I was contented with my lot as a junior. But only a year-now, l can scarcely wait for graduation excitement, buying clothes, final exams, thrills galore! And after that, a whole summer of planning and dreaming of the college joys so near, with the dreams all rosy colored now. The haste of completion is upon me. l long to be away and free, to meet new people, learn new things, to love new places. My whole outlook is changed. Now

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THE ARROW IXNNQUIXL-IQZ7 our parents can justly expect us to pay back, not in gold bullion, but in our own personal knowledge not only an amount equivalent to their loan but also an in- definite per cent of interest. A business man buys only the best quality of goods because he has his patrons whom he must satisfy if he expects them to trade with him again. He buys to sell. We must do the same. VVe must get the best college education we possi- bly can if we expect people to pay us for our work after college is over. Like a business man we get our education to sell it, in service, to some one else. A business man will spare no cost if he knows that the results will net him profit. If proof can be given that a college education, book learning and theory, will net us a profit in the long run, provided we work in college, we will feel no hesitancy in forfeiting four more years to study. Marshall Field, late executive of one of Chicago's huge department stores, gives us a proof that higher educa- tion is a sound business proposition. Marshall Field took two boys from a well known Chicago High School, both of whom had nearly the same average in scholarship. One of the boys he started at the bottom of the business and told him that he had every chance to work up to better positions. The other boy he put in a mid-western college, where he re- mained for four years, studying faithfully the theory and basic principles of business. At the end of his college career, Mr. Field put him at the bottom of the business where he had four years before, placed the boy with a High School education, giving him the identical chances for advancement. In two years the boy with the college education had far surpassed the boy with only a High School education. This is as strong a proof as anyone could wish, that a college educa- tion is worth the time and energy spent. lt is therefore a good sound business proposition. Now after taking an inventory of ourselves, if we decide that we are really ready to play fair with ourselves and that we are willing to do our very best in college, we can, at commencement time, wisely and knowing full well what we can do, take a step into a sound business proposition-that of ri college education. A good business proposition is good only when all parties concerned are benefited. If we get all we can out of college, we are, beyond all doubt, deriving benefit for ourselves. Our parents will be satisfied if onlv we make a success of our lives and our respective employers will be thoroughly satisfied if we can do our work well, carrying the bunt of our burden on a firm foundation of basic knowledge. -PAUL ALLISON, '27,