East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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Pri nncipai s L EACH June for a number of years I have written in the REDJACKET a simple message of salutation and counsel for the graduating class. 1 have tried not to preach, but I probably have. At any rate, I have made a sincere effort to present what seemed to me to be a few worthwhile ideas in the hope that they might, here and there, strike a sympathetic chord, and possibly clear up a bit of fog in the mind of some puzzled youth looking to the years that lie ahead. I hold no illusions as to the effectiveness of these discourses or the seriousness with which they have been taken. I am inclined to ascribe to kindness and charity the insistent request of this year’s Editorial Board that I write another ’'Principal's Message.” This is an unusual class. I am going to give you a few thoughts in the form of quotations that I like, and I know that class with one-hundred and sixteen members in the Honor Society and seven straight ”5” stu-ents—many classes have none—will be able to fill in the details and reach its own conclusions. Alessage Keep Fit “Public Health is the Foundation upon which rests the Happiness of the People.”— Disraeli. “To Lose one’s Health Renders Science Null, Art Inglorious, Strength Effortless, Wealth Useless and Eloquence Powerless. — Herophilus. “To keep the body fit is the first essential in keeping the mind alert and operative, the conscience clear, and the soul courageous and aspiring. —W. H. P. Faunce. Keep Saving “If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible. Are you able to save money? If not, drop out------. The seed of success is not in you.”—James J. Hill. Keep Reading If I were a young man I should plan to keep myself mentally alert. I should read regularly the best books available even if I had to force myself to do it.” “A man ought to do some reading for the sheer delight of it. The best test of a man's character is his use of leisure.”—W. H. P. Faunce. “And when the trail is blazed by a master hand something happens to our plodding feet. In books that are good enough to survive the crowding in of tomorrow’s books, literature really becomes both the companion and the guide of life.”—Mrs. A. C. E. Allin-son. “I seek the gate of my beloved retreat And enter softly through an open book.” —Mabel K. Richardson. Keep Thinking “Some time, somewhere, everyone who has a head on his shoulders and not merely a place to wear a hat ought to learn to think.” —JCharles R. Brown. I 8 1

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i I , BETTY CRAI6HEAD COA mmm A 4 W .fUJTLE DGE cv- L I L L An COKIN 0 ' D. r 5° JOHN COAKLEY 1936 ASSOCIATE - EDITORS

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“Do you realize that some day the automobile will be as antiquated as the one-horse shay and the aeroplane as out-of-date as the old high-wheeled bicycle? Thinking is the basis ot all progress. All thinking is education either for good or bad What would you say if a person proposed to do all his sleeping or all his eating in the first fifteen years, and none afterwards? It is just as absurd for a person to think he can get all his education in the first fifteen years. Sawing wood is an honorable enough occupation, but the trouble is it doesn’t force a man to think, and if a man doesn't think, he cannot grow. —Alexander Meiklejohn. Keep Friendship “The only way to have a friend is to be one. It is my joy in life to find At every turning of the road The strong arm of a comrade kind To help me onward with my load. And since I have no gold to give And love alone must make amends. My only prayer is. while I live— God make me worthy of my friends . Keep Idealism No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.”—Ruskin. Unless in the depths of your soul you keep alive the loftiest motives for your life work: unless you continually inject into the sordid routine that engulfs you day by day some measure of idealism, your work will be a failure—It will slip down and down from the higher levels to the lower until it becomes a mere scramble for a livelihood. “Across the fields of yesterday There often comes to me A little lad with face aglow. The boy I used to be. He watches, listens, takes my hand. And walks awhile with me. Then asks me if I've made myself The man I planned to be. Thomas S. Jones, Jr. It is of little matter whether any one man fails or succeeds: but the cause shall not fail, for it is the cause of mankind. We here in America hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years: and the shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men. — Theodore Roosevelt. Keep Faith It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at. —Holmes. Nothing is more pathetic than a man who has lost faith in his country, or his friends, or God. He is like a rudderless ship, at the mercy of every wind and wave.” Keep therefore thy heart with all diligence! Keep it filled and charged with tender devotion and joyous enthusiasm, with gracious longings and high resolves, for out of it are the issues of life. —Charles R. Brown. Moreover, a great triumphant belief in some eternal principle, in some unchanging value, in something worth living for and worth dying for. releases us from scores of petty fears and inhibitions. . . ”—W. H. P. Faunce. This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man. To every man there openeth A High Way and a Low And every man decideth Which way his soul shall go.” John Oxenham May every success and happiness be yours. Alfred J. Maryott. Principal. I 9 1