Fairhaven High School - Huttlestonian Yearbook (Fairhaven, MA)

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THE HUTTLESTONIAN 11 Ten Minutes With The Principal “The other day,” says our assistant-editor, “it was my good fortune to find Mr. Dickey alone in his office for a few consecutive moments, and to get him to express his ideas about ‘School Spirit’.” “There is no boy or girl who goes to school, expecially to high school,” said Mr. Dickey, “who does not in some way show or de¬ velop school spirit. School spirit is a general term for something which is very elusive and which can not be defined in a group of re¬ lated words. This attitude, as that is what it comes closest to being, should show itself in every pupil in everything that he thinks, he says, or he does. No branch of school work demands any more ‘school spirit’ than any other branch because all pupils are not athletic nor are all pupils book worms. “In all the various organizations, and in the social life of the school curriculum, this vital characteristic is what puts the school at the top. The willingness to work and to fight together is advanced through this medium by the good fellowship between the pupils. - “Athletics, however, bring out this so-called spirit one hundred per cent. Fairness plays the leading role in all branches of athletics and one’s standard of fairness is adjusted by the amount of spirit he pos¬ sesses. “The people of the community are the critics of the appearance and actions of high school pupils. It is the guardian angel called ‘school spirit’ who dictates to the majority when they are in doubt. “And so I might say a school without this spirit could be compared to a government without a head. If is the directing power through the will of the majority.” F. V. S., ’25,