Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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0 THE TOOT word borrowers of all nations. All the countries and peoples with whom 1 li English had any political or commei' cial relations in modern times wer. made to contribute to the English vo- cabulary, French, Spanish, Portugese, Germans, Persians, Chinese, Russians, Malays, Hindus and the American Indians. English is the commercial language of a large part of the world today and its influence in this field is steadily growing. Jessie Molt THE RED AND WHITE It seems as tho in the past the or- ganization of a school paper lasted for a short time. In September 1925 a column was started in the Bee- Journal under the name “High Scho 1 Notes.” Herman Miles and Leo Rob- erts wrote it one week and then An- tonio Balducci and Charles VanZan P wrote it the next week. In September 1927 Mr. Milmoe kindly presented High School with a whole page of his paper. A staff was organized under the name of “Red and White,, and started the year with some good is- sues with VanZandt as Editor-in-Chief Tony Balducci as Associate Editor. In January Tony resigned and it was a case of missing and missed. The paper struggled along till June. At this writing the paper is planning to put out its last issue for this year. On the whole the Red and White was quite a fair success in the year 1927 1928. We Always Wondered The nervous old lady stopped the conductor. “Are you quite sure the train will always stop when you pull that little rope?” “Of course it will,” replied the con- ductor. “The other end is tied around the engineer’s neck.” George Wash- ington Ghost. Athletics And Physical Culture In High School As the years advance we notice that greater stress is placed upon athletics and physical culture in high school. In former days the school be- gan at 9 A. M. and with an hour re- cess at noon ended at 4 P. M. The pu- pils recited and studied during this period with no relief from the monot- ony. Now, nearly every day the pupil has relief from the studying in the form of physical culture. After the school day there are different forms of athletics for both boys and girls. In the spring there is baseball, ten- nis and track, in the fall, football, in the winter there is basketball and hockey. These are the main high school sports. In former days there were few sports for the student. If he indulged in athletics, the pupil had no instruc- tor to make him proficient in the sport. Today, nearly every high school has an athletic instructor and a phy- sical culture teacher. Since there were very few sports in former times, few students wished to remain in school after they were sixteen. With the advent of athletics into the modern high school curricu- lum there is an inducement for the older student to continue his high course. Sports also cause a student to get higher marks in his studies since he cannot participate in athle- tics unless he has a certain average. Each year more stress is being pla- ced upon athletics. As newer methods of teaching are being developed high schools can well afford to give more time to athletics and physical culture. Harold A. Armstrong A Boon To Humanity Goo: “How did the professor make his million?” Magoo: “He put fenders on grape- fruit spoons.” —Penn. State Froth,

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THE TOOT JUNE 1928 PUBLISHED BY CANASTOTA HIGH SCHOOL The Five Main Languages Language is the whole spoken and written body of words and methods of combining words used by a nation a people, a race. There are many different languages and among them the most important are Latin, French, Italian, English and Spanish. Latin was the language of Roman Republic and empire and was used in western Europe and in the Mediterra nean basin. In spite of the breaking up of the Roman empire, Latin con- tinued to be the language of the liter- ary and scholarly classes for many centuries. With the coming of the barbarians the Latin was gradually modified and with it as a basis there were formed a number of new lan- guages called Romance language. They are Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese, Roumanian and Rhaetiau The French language assumed some thing like definite form in the mi,idle of the ninth century. There wne var- ious dialects in different parts of France but soon two supplanted oii others; the language of the north of France and the language of the south of France. Modern French was weii formulated by the seventeenth century and is known for its polish, clearness, and conciseness. It has been the dip- lomatic language of the world since Hie sixteenth century and is still largely used for that purpose. The Italian language in its literary form was the old Tuscan dialect and w°s given literary form thru the writ- ings of Dante, Petrach, and Boccaccio in the fourteenth century. Although Italian is spoken by all educated peo- ple of Italy, there still remains num- erous dialects throughout the penin- sula. This language is spoken in Ita’y, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, and southern Switzerland and even in Brazil, the Argentine republic and the United States. The Spanish language arose in diff- erent dialects in the small states of 'he Iberian peninsula. Spanish is very important language inasmuch as it is spoken by the people of Mexico, Cen- tral America, West Indies, Philip- rtines, the southwestern part of the United States, and all of the South American countries except Brazil. The Anglo-Saxon, or English lan- guage was introduced into the British Isles in the fifth century by Teutonic tribes. Angles, Saxons and Jutes, com- ing over from the Danish peninsula and northwestern Germany. One of the most striking features of the Eng- lish language is its composite natu.- The English have been the greatest

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THE TOOT BOARD OF EDUCATION Charles H. Hoffman, President Norman L. Stafford, Treasurer. David H. Hoyt. William H. Maynard. Albert E. Campbell. Glen F. Bogardus, Clerk. The Board of Education is compos- ed of five members and a clerk wno is superintendent of schools. Charles II. Hoffman is president of the Board and is serving his second term as president. He was elected in 1927 tr serve his third term. Norman L. Staf- ford was elected Aug. 1, 1925. Dr. David Hoyt who finished out Dr. War- ner’s term was elected in 1927. Al- E. Campbell and William H. Maynard were elected in 1926. The chief activity of this Board ' as the constructing of the new hign school which took much cooperation on the part of the board. The building was constructed under the supervision of Supt. of Schools Glen F. Bogardus. The Board met at eleven regular meetings during the past year and three special meetings were called. By these meetings many difficult pro- blems were solved and much valuable time given by members of the Board.