Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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The Year Book of Achievements Page Seven

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The Twentieth Century High School URING these days of spectacular events, such as breath taking trans-Atlantic flights, conquering of the English Channel, record-breaking speed in railway transportation (The Twentieth Century Limited), Brookville High School, too, has been making spectacular advance. Our achievements may be seen by turning the pages of this book. We have kept pace with the twentieth century by achieving greater scholastic standing. The proof of this is shown by the fact that Brookville High School has been placed on the list of Accredited Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland. The importance of this can be seen in the diagram at the end of this article. Another achievement in the scholastic standing is the acceptance of Brookville High School as a member of the National Honor Society of Secondary Schools. We have improved our equipment. Our laboratory has the modern implements necessary for science. Our library has most of the latest books and many excellent reference books and encyclopedias. Our auditorium, with its curtain, plaques and other improvements, is an art museum in itself. As a result of these improvements, our attendance in the High School has increased from 163 students in 1912 to 472 in 1928. Briefly, we have raised our scholastic standing, we have improved our equipment, we have increased our numbers. In other words we are a twentieth century High School. IPF.RCENT RECOMMENDED ■PERCENT SUBMITTING REPORTS PERCENT APPLYING I'OTAL SCHOOLS OF STATE

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L’Annuaire, Brookville High School What Does It Mean to Be a Graduate of Brookville High School I. First of all a diploma from Brookville High School qualifies the graduate to enter almost any first class college without further training. Every student is proud that our alumni are on the acceptable lists of the colleges. It is well worth while to build on the splendid foundation Brookville High School furnishes. II. Those who do not go on to college have chosen and partially prepared for vocations, as a direct result of the “Occupations” Course. Early in high school, the student studies all kinds of work and professions, finds advantages and disadvantages, and finally chooses the one most favorable to his natural inclinations. As soon as he has decided on his career, he begins to “specialize” in his classes along a certain line. When a boy or girl has been preparing on a small scale for one thing almost four years, he is bound for success. III. The graduate has a clear, clean conception of life. From his sciences he begins to understand the physical world; from his mathematics he perceives the reason for the precise, though hard hearted ways of the world; from his art and music he catches a glimmer of a finer world which exists only in imagination. He is ready and eager to grapple with life. IV. Daily under the influence of cultured, well-educated teachers, the graduate has gained a valuable asset in higher personal ideals. The effect a teacher has upon his pupils at this formative period of life will follow them to their graves. In Brookville High School none but the finest is good enough. That means teachers, especially, and that is what we have. V. The graduate has learned the value of friends. Many high school friendships are life long. Sometimes high school friendships crop up pleasantly in later years. By constant personal contact, the high school student practices getting along with the world, forgiving petty faults, and developing a general good-will toward everyone. To him the road is made pleasant by companionship. VI. A graduate of Brookville High School has become acquainted with and absorbed some of that intangible something, school spirit. Through school spirit the impossible is accomplished. School spirit belongs not only on the diamond or basketball floor, but in the classroom and in the halls. Clean up day on the school grounds proves our school spirit. Every boy or girl rolls up his or her respective sleeves and toils for beauty and cleanliness at Brookville High School. VII. The graduate has learned how to speak well—to drop self-consciousness, bad grammar, and shifty construction. He is able to utter a distinct thought in convincing and pleasing English. What is more useful to anyone than self-confidence and ability? It can be applied in every walk of life. VIII. The greatest benefit the graduate derives is appreciation, appreciation of people, of books, of music, of health, of art, of life itself. Until a student has opened his mind to do the unlimited possibilities everywhere, his real education has not begun. When he is ready to graduate, he usually has formed his own ideas about life and is ripe for the school of experience. Page Eight