Clarksburg High School - Rocket Yearbook (Clarksburg, TN)

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Clarksburg High School HE most valuable education that can be secured is the kind that can be used in one's everyday affairs. Other forms of training may bring personal satisfaction and pleas- ure to one's mental life, but the education that enables you to actually DO THINGS better and more efficiently, will give you a broader training and a firmer grasp of those things that make for your betterment, socially, physically, finan- cially and religiously. -'- -'- -'- -'- -'- -'- -'- The live, wide-awakeicitizens of Clarksburg and com- munity have determined to give the young people an oppor- tunity to advance and grow into useful men and women. To do this, they have planned for a real school -one that is thorough-one that will teach high aims and ideals, honesty of purpose. promptness, alertness. courage, agressiveness, morality and many other things, that make for success. -' N our industrial, social, civic and religious democracy everything waits on education No real progress and no lasting improvement in any line of life is possible except through the better education of the people. -'- Q -'- V If - -Philander P. Claxton D -if fi' ji' HE efficient country school is the most vital educational need to-day not only of the South, but of this whole country of ours. Qur duty to our country requires that much of our thought, time and labor be given to the rural schools. -'- V -'- -'- -'- -'- -'- -'- -'- -David B. Johnson X

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ADVANCED GRAMMAR CLASS

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Clarksburg Hlgh School UR SCHOOL- is non-sectarian and not under the ruleor ownership of any denomination. We conduct a Bible Class three nights of every week in the Auditorium. This is open for the public We study the Bible without' any arguments or quarrels, just study the text as We would grammar or arithmetic. Last year we enrolled 55 -students in this department and it proved to be very interestingi-'as Well as profitable for all who attended. -'- -'- jibjimjlb er: , l THLETICS-We encourage the games, such as basket ball, tennis and similar ones, Our grounds are well jarranged for such. -'- -'- -'- -'- -'- Qf. stiff? OCIETIES-HThe literary Work of the societies is a very interesting as well as a profitable feature of the institu- tion. Debates on live questions of the day, speeches, dialogues, moot courts, spelling and pronouncing contests ,afford each -student training ,along this line that is so neces- sary in life. 4 -'- -'- , ' -'- Q -'- ,,--'- '-'- e e-'- -'- Two divisions of the 'Excelsior society will be maintained ' throughout the year, the Star and Crescent: These will be Qoverned largely by the student body. -' ' -'- -r-