Croswell Lexington High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Croswell, MI)

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Nellie M. Hobbs Tall and slim and most divinely fair. “23” KIDO Mabel J. Kenney She walks as though tin hand won playing. Hail to t he Thief.

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E. Irene Doyle Ray E. Flynn Iva M. McIntyre o s|M nk lint little lieeomes a woman. C!oo I boys low their sister. Hut so good have I grown That I love another Itoy’s sister As well as my own. 1 like work. It faeinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me. The idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

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Ex Cathedra WHEN I see a girl leaving high school who has taken many years of language and then has to deal with so many tilings in life not touched upon by her prepara- tion. I feel that she has not had a square deal in edu- cation.—Prof. M. V. O’Shea. University of Wisconsin. The American public school is the stomach in which our large foreign immigration is to be digested. There are those who lVar that th food will destroy the stomach, but as for myself I have r.o fear so long as our schools continue to fulfil their mission as they are now doing.—Rev. Newell Dwight Ilillis. That a public school building may be ns d economically it ought to be used all of the time—summer and winter, morning, af- ternoon and evening—and it ought to be used for the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. Otherwise a large part of the people’s investment in the building is wasted. To use a school building only from nine to three, five «lays in the week, nine months in the year.—in other words, to allow it to remain unused more than one-half the working year.—is not only to waste the people’s money, hut to deprive of the benefits of its use many thousands of persons of all ages who might otherwise take advan- tage of them.—Supt. V. 11. Maxwell, New York ( ity. On the playground the child lives, while in school he prepares to live. That is why it is true that if you can tell me how a child plays, I can tell you how he will work. That is why it is true more people go to the bad through wrong play than through wrong work: and why play ranks with work, food and sleep as a necessary part in the balanced life of the child. The playground is cheaper than the reformatory; that is why it is as necessary that children have adequate and suitable play as that they have ade- quate ami suitable schooling. The play life of a people indicates more than anything else its vitality, morals, intelligence, and fit- ness to live.—Hr. Luther H. Gulick, New York City. School life should enable a hoy to say. ' I can.” In the high- er institutions of learning where formerly students Pstened to lectures hv the hour, doing nothing, they now spend their time in labratory work. So the elements of many trades should be brought into the elementary schools—not to train for a particu- lar calling, hut to train and develop the mind in a broader sense. This will cost a great deal of money, for no education is so cheap as hook education. Get the children to work because of tlieir in- terest in work. The old idea that all that the children got out of work was discipline is. I am happy to say. passing away. Voca- tional guidance must be d vdopcd on a large scale. It is not new. Benjamin Franklin’s father took him around to the differ- ent industries of Boston and asked him what he liked best. lie cliose the printer’s trade at the age of eleven—a fortunate thing for him and for others. Something of this kind must he done in this plan of vocational guidance. — Ex-President ('lias. W. Eliot. Harvard University. The schools must offer incentives and stir enthusiasms. Am- bitions must be awakened and pointed to their goal. When hoys and girls are disposed to do whet is decent, let us try to have them do what they want to do. lest the spark be quenched ami they lose the purpose to do anything at all. If one is long on sport and a little short on work, let us give in somewhat to his love of sport in the hope that lie will begin .to like companion- ship with us and reciprocate by giving in to the work which we must require him to do. It is not always well to hold a slow and poky, studious and comfortable hoy up as a model to a live and trying one. It is better to hump them together so that their dif- fering virtues and drawbacks will he somewhat transfused. The unexpected often happens in this country, and the teacher may well be cautious lest the time come when the urchin who distract- ed him because he could manage a horse better than he could