Auburn High School - Arrow Yearbook (Auburn, NY)

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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,

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THE ARROW ANNUAL--1927 the neck and hustled back to his chamber. 'Tis a lucky thing, he thought as he passed from hall to hall, that I know my home so well. What if I had never played about the halls with the pages? I would be lost now and would never be able to reach the banquet room. Softly he stole across the foyer and slipped into the huge hall unnoticed. This chamber was a magnificent place gaily decked with trappings and tapestries and lighted with a huge candelabra of at least a hundred lights. He crept along unnoticed keeping close to the wall until he reached an obscure corner. All eyes were turned upon a man who was just rising to speak. He was a burly fellow with cruel, sly, crafty green eyes which now were glitte1'ing at the thoughts of what was soon to be his. Slowly he gained his feet and began to speak. My friends, said he, I am very glad you have helped me carry out my plan. 'Tis indeed gloriously well done and you will all be rewarded for your help. When your master, my half-brother, returns he will have a pleasant surprise wait- ing for him, will he not? We have rid ourselves of those who remained faithful to him and when he arrives, he and his cavalcade, spent and weary, 'twill be an easy matter to put them out of the way and seize this castle. No more will you have to be at his beck and call. I shall let down the bars a little and you shall eat and drink to your hearts content. Well do I know that his enemies are many and powerful and that thine are several men who will stir up his warriors to rebellion. 1 put them there myself. What few do remain faithful will go clown before the onslaught of the foe as wheat goes down before the scythe of the reaper. Then shall I reign and you shall do my bidding. - A look of stark terror spread over the boy's face as he listened and but one thought kept pounding in his brain, Tell Daddy! Tell Daddy! Tell Daddy l The wind had grown to be a very gale now, the lightning was followed more quickly by a clap of thunder and, in the flickering candle light he managed to crawl out unnoticed. Once in the hall, he sped from place to place looking here and there for some- one. As he rounded a corner, he forcibly encountered something and he and the something went down in a heap. He heard a slight tinkling of bells and as they seemed to come from the something, he knew it to be the jester when he put out his hand to make sure, it was seized violently and he was crushed passionately to a heaving breast. God be praised, said the jester. I thought they had killed you. I went to your room and you were gone and the good Lord knows what that beast will do if he gets his belly full of wine. Where have you been? Oh, Nolo, I know not what to do. They are all in there drinking and I crawled in and they didn't see me an-an he got up to speak and he said that he was going to kill daddy when he came home and he was going to take the castle away from him an-an everything. You mean that he expects to rule as king in your place? Oh, the good saints help us if he does. l've never seen a more cruel man in my life, Peter,