Cony High School - Coniad Yearbook (Augusta, ME)

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Y 2 AUGUSTA TRUST CO. INTEREST ON TIME DEPGSITS Positions for Cony Graduates Right Here in Augusta Our publishing business oEers a line field of employment at clean, interesting work for ambitious girls. Working conditions are good-clean, light buildings, well heated, eight-hour day, half holidays Saturdays during June, July and August, good pay and all sorts of interesting office Work to do. We are opening lines of advancement to the best positions at our disposal and we are trying to fill them so far as possible with our own employees. We Want faithful, industrious girls and We give them in return ample recesses, vacations at pay, a library, occasional enter- tainments, free use of the gymnasium, swimming pool and social and reading rooms of the Y. M. C. A. If this interests you, please Write or call at the ofiice. If you call, ask for Mrs. Shaw. If you write, address mail to Mrs. Josephine Shaw, Employment Dept. W. H. GANNETT, Pub., Inc., Augusta, Maine

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication . . ...... . . l-ligliesl Ilonor Students . . . llow to Enjoy School .... Getting Along Wlitli Cousin james The Lesson the Pastor Taught .. School Directory .. Editorial ...... lirlitorizll .liourcl liilitorinl Stall' QPicturej . . . Y True l illI'lOl.lSI1l . . . 'l'l1e Yzilnc of Quick Athletics .. Senior Supplement Looliing ,Nliezirl .. 'llllkl Spy Catchers . School News . The l'rince's Quest Exclianige Column Alumni Notes . .. jokes .. Thinking. . . . . 3 4 7 S S 9 9 IO I1 I2 13 15 18-19 19 21 23 26 27 28 30

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:Application as second-claus mall matter pending Vol. VI june 20, 1919 No. 4 HOW TO ENJOY SCHOOL At the beginning of the year, many students find school a little flat, and slow after the lively and varied employments of the vacation. If they settle down to faithful work, they soon become interested in their studies, and enjoy again the familiar experience of wondering where the morning has gone 3 so swiftly have the hours flown hy. The strife for excellence is the secret of enjoying labor. A plow- man who draws his furrows straight deep and clear, has a tranquil pleas- ure in doing every one of them, and when the field is finished he surveys the rippled surface with pride and satisfaction. To pass ten hours a day in plowing badly is a most un- happy lot. To pass ten hours a day in plowing as well as plowing can be done by man is a very cheery and pleasant thing. Students have a similar happiness in their occupation-so varied is it. and so full of natural interest. But it is dull and wearisome enough un- less it is pursued with intelligent zeal and worthy ambition to excel. A teacher in olden times could tell which of his pupils enjoyed doing their sums by just glancing at their slates. A very clean slate was a good sign. Then look at the great sum in long division. Observe how clear, even and regular in form it is, and what a pleasing contrast it pre- sents between the dark blue of the slate and the pretty white figures! Above all it is right! The young mathematician has executed the task so well that he must have been un- conscious of the flight of time. Excellent work is done under- standingly. Every student who has puzzled his brains over an author or a subject that was too hard for him, knows what is meant by this. How- ever, some may have made the mis- take of beginning a difficult subject a few years too soon, or they have tried, on entering a new school, to join a class that was a little in ad- vance of them. XVhat dull and dis- couraging work it is! The usual result of such an experi- ment is that the student gives up in despair, and never masters the study. The better way is to wait, and to take the subject in hand when one or two more years of work have brought the mental faculties to the requisite de- gree of power. Then the chances are that the same book will prove a delight. Therefore, if you would enjoy your school-work next year, strive hard for excellence, and learn noth- ing by rote. Put heart and mind into all you do. If any particular study is peculiarly distasteful, do not resolve to hate it but reflect that it may just now be a little beyond your faculties and should you take it up at exactly the right time. it may be here- after your favorite study. Louise Fifield, ,2O.