Bristol High School - Green and White Yearbook (Bristol, RI)

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THE (iREEN AND WHITE 5 LITERARY [HZ SAVING Saving is a habit and one of the best that a person can have. Anything we do over and over becomes a habit and gets easier each time we do it. So, as we form habits of saving we find this happy development becoming easier all the time. Regular weekly saving, though the amount is small, makes possible the art and ability of saving. We get the habit of saving as well on pennies as on dollars. A penny is an example for the other ninety-nine cents. Many people waste a great deal of time during their lives. This wasted time could be turned into wonders. A large number of business men, who travel every day use the spare time they have while waiting in hotel lobbies and railroad stations, to write ideas benefitting their busienss, or thinking up ways to help their employers and therefore gain promotion. Many girls educate themselves during snatches of time and on street cars to and from work. Loafers by saving their time could become successful and happy. Benjamin Franklin said: “Lost time is never found again.” Saving time instead of losing it means something in dollars and cents later on. When saving, have an objective and system. Some people save money for the pure wisdom of saving it and always have money at their disposal, but the average individual will save and then spend his money for the attractive things in store windows. If he had an objective in view he would not spend his money foolishly but would have a worthy purpose to save it for. Depositing money in the bank every week is the best system that 1 can think of for saving it. The school bank is just the place for students to start their weekly saving habit. A large part of the poverty of the world is due to downright unwillingness to make any effort to do anything but live hand to mouth. Those who scorn saving are the ones who worry about paying their bills. The value of a dollar is one hundred cents. If a high school student saved one dollar a week during the forty weeks of school each year he would have saved by the time of his graduation about one hundred and seventy-five dollars. This is not enough for a college course, but in cases where students expect to work through college it is enough to get established on the campus, get work. etc. It is enough to pay for senior trips, class rings or pins, and othe graduation expenses. By doing this the students can take the burden of graduation expenses from the shoulders of their parents. Students should be encouraged to save by their teacher and parents. Competition in saving between classes or homerooms will make it more like fun than preaching. A student organization which makes banking of and for the students would do much to encourage it. There is much saving in industry today. The Old time butch got some meat from the animal and threw the rest away. Today it goes into the packing house and every part is used. It industry sees that saving is a great thing, students should be able to see it too. Keep money at work. It is the servant of everyone. The nation needs its service all the time. Hidden in a wall or under the floor, a dollar is a prisoner. Let it out and it pays one bill and then another, an to man, store to store, goes that dollar, paying bills, giving happiness, and still worth as much as ever. Deposited in a bank it draws interest for the depositor and helps to construct highways, erect buildings, and operate railroads. It is the power of the world. Malden High School students have written slogans and two of the best are: “A bank book, like a pretty girl, needs attention—SAVP1.” Be like a frog—take to the bank.” EDWARD BLACKMAN, '26. SCHOLARSHIP What is scholarship? What benefits or advantages are derived from it? In other words, is good scholarship a necessity in the building of a firm foundation for our future years and the generations to come? These questions, no doubt, have frequented the minds of many students. The answers are various. Some undecided. It is to the latter, especially, that this article is appropriately dedicated. Scholarship is, undoubtedly, the most essential of all High School characteristics. It will not only make one a prominent and outstanding figure in his school, but in later years will render a person capable of solving many a critical question upon which his success in life is dependent. Yes, it is what we do and accomplish in High School that will build for us a foundation for our future. But,—are we making that foundation firm? Are we building a foundation that will not weaken even in the most forcible and critical moments of our lives? Ah! how fortunate are those who can answer “Yes,” and how unfortunate are those who can not. In High Sdhol a pupil, attaining an average of at least eighty per cent, in all his work, is automatically given the credit for good scholarship. In this regard the following question arises, “Are all pupils capable of attaining that degree?” The majority, judging by the comparatively small number of students on the honor roll, will say “No.” But there are others, however, who by giving the matter a more serious and considerate thought, say that it is possible for one and every student to maintain a high average, unless he or she is mentally feeble or has met with other inconveniences such as a long absence, etc. These exceptions, let up hope, do not prevail in our school. Then why don’t we have a one hundred per cent, honor roll? The question is not hard to solve. It is plain negligence on the part of the student. Yes. negligence; lack of concentration, and lack of effort are the chief reasons. If you resolve to better vour average, and if you carry out your resolution, you will undoubtedly accomplish your goal. First—Show interest in your work bv putting into it your best efforts. Second—Concentrate in the particular work which you are studying. Third—Co-operate with your teachers. If you place these suggestions into prac-

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■-----------■ EDITORIAL STAFF OF “GRFFN WHITE” Sitting. Lett to Right—Marguerite Kennedy. Louis Stabi la. Edward Blackman, Betty Kinder. Dorothy Holt. Standing. Left to Right—Francisco Canario, Elizabeth Dwyer. Ruth Skinner, Beatrice Dubuc, John Victoria.

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6 THE GREEN AND WHITE tiec you will soon notice that it isn’t such a hard task to ascend to a level of honors and fame. But a greater consolation awaits you. however, and that it the fact that you will have built for yourself a strong and reliable foundation for the future, and that you have proven yourself not a liability but a valuable asset in the betterment of all mankind. JOHN VICTORIA. ’27. LIBRARY The need of a library and a librarian in the Colt High School has long been thought of by the teachers and pupils alike. Now that this purpose has been accomplished, it is principally up to the pupils to see that the library is kept at the school. To keep the library at school depends upon these things, as follows: (1) interest in the library. (2) order, while in it. and (3) obedience to its librarian. Interest in the library will perhaps influence the School Committee to appropriate money for its upkeep and perhaps aid in getting new books for it. Order, while in the library, will do its part toward showing that the pupils want the library to study in and not to fool in. Obedience to the librarian will show the School Committee the need and necessity of having a librarian. Books have been stolen and destroyed in the absence of a teacher and so causing the closing of the library. To keep a librarian would prevent stealing and destroying of the books and would cause the library to open again to the students. The library will aid the students in their school work. References are often given by the teachers to the pupils, to be looked up at the Public Library. A school library will aid the student in getting his reference in school hours during study periods. A library will give a pupil more interest in his school and his school work and will make him feel proud to know that his school boasts of a library. A library would improve the scholarship of the school at large and would be a great help to debating teams, a team, which in the past, the school has not ben able to have, owing to the lack of interest and a place in which to meet and to study. Subscriptions to several magazines would increase the interest of the pupils in questions and discussions. This library cannot be kept up unless the students co-operate with the principal and teachers in helping to make it a success. FREDERICK GOFF. ’26. GLEANED FROM JUNIOR THEMES Poetry is the soul of literature. Through it we learn the tales of ancient Greece and the heroic deeds of the Roman heroes. It was a patriotic poem which caused the French Revolution, and won the victories of Napoleon. It vvas poetry which fought slavery in the United States. It is through poetry that we learn the best of nature’s wonders. Poetry is, in fact, associated with the most profound and glorious dates of the world’s history. Storms end, years pass, heroes and stories are forgotten, but poetry remains an unrivaled art. Though some of the greatest poets led unhappy lives, their names remain immortal. Keats, who died at the early age of twenty-six, gained during that short period his immortality. Poe gave himself up to drinking and gambling, living an unhappy and miserable life. Shelly was expelled from the University of Oxford for Atheism. He married Harriet Westbrook, then leaving her in England, eloped to France with Mary Godwin. Byron, who was lame, swam the Hellespont. Coleridge abandoned his wife and children. Riley was a sign painter. Lowell had a law office at Boston, but no clients. He almost lost his degree at Harvard but for his knowledge of literature. Burns’ last days (in contrast to his early days) were darkened, and he feared being sent to the debtors' prison. Whitman was an errand boy, a printer, a teacher, and a journalist. Wordsworth had such a love for the young French Republic that be prayed for the defeat of England in the war with France. Noyes is one of the few living poets who makes his living by writing poetry. From the above facts we learn the following: 1. —No matter how short life may be, something worth while may be accomplished if we make the best of every day. 2. —If we should be so unfortunate as to have vices, there is a chance for us to do some good work to repay for the wrong we did. 3. —There is always money in every profession if we work with mind, bodv and soul. FRANCIS CA'NARIO, '27. KEEPING TIME THROUGH THE AGES Many centuries before Christ, an early Egyptian invented the first sun-dial. It was a crude affair, made like some of our smaller obelisks. This device cast a shadow upon a stone placed at its base. Its chief drawbacks were that it could not be carried about or be used at night. Babylonian kings assembled the sages of their kingdom for the purpose of finding a way for recording time. One of the results was the water-clock. It consisted of two earthen jars, one suspended above the other, the upper dripping water into the lower. Although it appeared accurate, it ran faster when full than when nearly run down. Egyptian glass-workers next came to the fore with the sand, or hour glass. King Ahaz of Babylon had a sun-dial built of very highly polished stone. Rays of tropic sunshine fell through a split in the roof and glanced from one of twenty-four glistening surfaces; hence our twenty-four hours. At Hampton Court. England, a huge sundial is vertically fastened to a large tower, facing the court. Our simple, economic Puritan ancestors, to save time, steps and money, cut notches on the window-sill so that the sun’s rays fell on all but the space of the shadow cast by the stick in the center of the window. Chronologv suffered a period of neglect during the Dark Ages, and it is not until the end