Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

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THE REFLECTOR ni A I-Y 3 WHY GO TO HIGH SCHOOL? HE desire to earn money immediately has caused many young people to give up a high school educa- tion. They have argued that Lincoln, Edison, and these men had exceptional minds and an active ambition that spurred them on to train themselves. The average mind needs a guiding influence and oftentimes a certain amount of compulsion to develop it adequately for future use. f Ford got along without much education. True, but ig. 5 All professions need a trained mind. One can not be a doctor, a law- yer, a teacher, an architect, or follow any other desirable profession, with- out training. It takes systematic training to develop the mind, and schools are the only answer. Those who have left high school early have not gained as they had thought they would, for few important business positions go to young people with less than a high school training, and the overcrowding of every American university shows clearly that even a college education pays. This is an age of specialists, and unless one can compete with the best in his chosen profession, he must be content with the second best in life. It has been stated that every day of a completed high school course adds ten dollars to the student's capacity for earning. Work with the hands is entirely honorable, but it is work with the head that pays. But money is not the only recompense for an education. The more the mind is developed, the broader and more varied are the interests in life. The richness of knowledge to be gaind by a mind trained to appre- ciate good literature, music, and art is beyond our estimation of value. An education should prepare one to live a useful and happy life. In institutions of learning one makes friends and is taught to get along with those about him. The acquaintances one makes in high school will last throughout life-friends are invaluable to a happy life. In the same class are boys and girls of all nationalities-these contacts teach one to treat all people alike and to respect the opinions of others. We are never happy unless we are doing something-something that is useful and interesting. The high school curricula are so planned that they aid us in choosing a vocation suited to our abilities. We are taught to enjoy reading novels, biographies and other good literature, to appreciate art and music, and to participate in sports and social activities. So we are prepared for a profitable use of leisure time. Why go to high school? So that we may live fuller, more useful, happier lives. MARGUERITE SMITH, June 193 S . Thirteen

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THE REFLECTOR Wi IN Oh me, oh my, they're bringing that big bohunk that plays left guard for the regulars. Huh? Who me? O. K. Yeah, I'll tell them to watch the guy playing right back for Lawrence Tech. So long. He forgot, in his terror, even to affect his expensively obtained Pem- berton accent and merely repeated the vile language uttered as only a second-rate but enthusiastic coach can spiel it out in moments of stress. Wonder if Ill get out to the middle of the field without my knees collapsing? OW, grab a peek at that mug playing opposite me. They muSt have rescued him from a lynchingg looks like Capone's right hand man. A whistle brought him back to his predicament. As is usually done with new enemy linemen, the play was directed at Phil's position. Mmmmmmmph! Darned good imitation of an express train. Still going too. Well, at the rate he's going we'll receive the next kickoff. Over! I'1l get yanked out for this, thank God! Aw, nerts, they stopped him. What? The half-yard line? We'll never hold him for four downs on that. Yeah, I'm getting in placeg don't need your advice. You didn't seem to do much more yourself. Huh? Oh, I said nice going. Here he comes again .... Hey! get that ice water out of my face .... Lapsing into silence again, he was none too gently carted off the field and forgotten by all but a scrub manager, whose duty it was to revive stricken gladiators. After several weeks of Phil's tackling an unresisting dummy, the coach was optimistic enough to send in again the ex-Pemberton player. On the third play in which Phillips participated he suddenly found him- self behind the opposing line and the back with the ball directly between him and the goal post. Closing his eyes he lunged forward. His heart pounding, legs driving, he stretched out his arms and encountered a very solid object indeed. The next day a nurse faintly resembling one of Saint Peter's daugh- ters handed him a daily paper opened to an account of the previous day's game. KINGSTON DEFEATS BARNES UNUSUAL ACCIDENT EXCITES SPECTATORS' MIRTH Ames QAPJ, Today.-Kingston State College today defeated Barnes to the tune of seven to six in a mediocre game at the Barnes Stadium. During the third quarter J. Winthrop Phillips, 19, a substitute left guard, was the victim of an unusual accident. In an attempt to stop Jack Annozzi, Twelve Barnes half-back, Phillips mistook the southern goalpost for Annozzi, with dis- astrous results to various sections of his body. Upon entrance to the Ames General Hospital, Phillips was found to be suf- fering from a fractured collarbone and a dislocated shoulder. RODNEY L. ODELL, June 1935.

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THE REFLECTOR 'M nv 'W Zia-'71 A if 9 455' f Qi 122 llflffffxiii-QT? fivfflv' fl ille- x 3 fffj wx J W eg--. . 'f ,, 3 f 'Q J WIDE p W e 5- A -,vs-- . 0,945 e Q 1, 52 7 Pig 45' ff 5 l ifglix i st A4 ,i 'fl y. '- I - 'Tl' - -E22 e V irggkief f LAZYBONES ' PRING fever seems to be an ailment that every young ' y fellow contracts during the days of late March and throughout April, May and June. It is said that in spring a young man's fancy turns to what the girl has been thinking about all Winter. I cannot vouch for the truth of this statement, but I rather think that it is correct. After all, Why not? Everyone, except those Ll Whose minds are hopelessly immature, seem to need a time for reflection. And it would also seem that unblemished nature constitutes the best surroundings for this. Hence, boys are occasionally deterred on their Way to school. Of course, our parents do not seem very favorably impressed with the idea. They seem to entertain the strange notion that one should get his recreation outside of school hours. On the other hand, many students find that that is the only Way in which they can get long periods of time solely to themselves. One can call it laziness if he chooses. Even playing hookey was not unknown to our elders. It is good to be lazy occasionally. Let one shoulder his knapsack, per- haps even take his camera in his hand, and ramble into the countryside for a quiet, meditative day by a brookside. The unoriginal vulgarians would, of course, add the battered old line, which they have carried down from babyhood, about a good book. Not that one should not read good books, but that the statement is so strikingly, and disgustingly, unoriginal. Fourteen