Fairport High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Fairport, NY)

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0I li l THE HOUR GLASS l ll l0 Sportsmanship Do you really know the meaning of sportsmanship? It is defined the ability to win or lose with the same feeling in your heart. As you know, somebody must lose, and if he takes it smil- ing he wins in another sense. A person who loses and is afraid to take the beating is not a sport. A person who takes the defeat bravely will succeed in later life if he keeps on trying. Sportsmanship has other phases. The person or team that wins should not go around and brag about themselves or think themselves better than others. Whenever you play a game, it matters not what kind, or what the odds against you, you must always play fair and hard. Play with the determination to win and never let the other person know when you are licked. Many a game has been won in the last minute of play. If you are un- able to make the regular team, wish the other fellows luck and cheer them on to victory. School spirit is linked with sportsmanship. A team without the student body's support, even though they have much ability, can not do as well as they could with its support. Therefore, every person who does not participate in athletics should cheer and boost his team t.o fame and glory. That is classed as sports- manship too. Sportsmanship should start early in life and be developed as you go along. In college, sportsmanship is different from that in high school. In college you must be more independent and do as you think best. College athletics are different because there are more persons as candidates for the teams. Therefore you need more courage. After the person is out of college and enters into the business world he should still use sportsmanship. The modern business world is full of competition and a person with personality, good judgment combined with sportsmanship will succeed. One of the greatest rewards of sportsmanship is the friends it brings you. lVe all need friends. lVe come into this world alone, we pass out of it alone, but there is no one of us who lives his life alone. It is wise to know many people, but it is also wise to be intimate with but a few. We build friendship in with our lives. 'We must select the people with high ideals and brilliant minds, who can inspire us until death forms a separation. We can make this superior type of friends if we have real sports- manship. There are many cases where sportsmanship can be used. When Bill Tilden played tennis in France he established friend- Page Twenty-one

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0l ll I THE HOUR GLASS i lI l0 training, possibly to become a teacher, the state offers an academic diploma at the end of an approved four year course in Which some subject has been given preference to others. Ac- cordingly, an academic diploma in history is offered to those who have had three years of history. Such diplomas are offered in science, history, foreign language, mathematics, homeinaking and classical subjects. Manual training is rather a new addition to modern day curricula. This offers a most practical course in electricity, Woodworking and such subjects to those who wish to follow that line of trade in later life. But what is the aim of all this? Have you honestly ever thought about it? You have heard it addressed to you in assemblies, in the classroom, and at home. Yet many of you have never given any serious attention to this important ques- tion. It can not be carefully thought out and evaluated any too soon if you wish to be successful. Choosing your life work wise- ly is second in importance only to the actual gaining of the educa- tion for the Work. This is the age of the specialist. lt is necessary to know how to do one thing Well, and to have a general knowledge about other subjects. Picking the pertinent courses in school is invaluable in fitting yourself to do some work. You cannot drift into a career. There must be seine decisive thought and conscious effort. Upon asking various people why they chose certain voca- tions, one hears these replys: my best friend did, it seemed exciting, and most often Hit offered the most. money. Yet are these the real reasons for spending one's life at a definite work? I do not think so. There is so much more than that. We spend a. great amount of time and thought on our Work. I be- lieve it must be something which holds the most vital interest for us. A service to mankind which eaptivates our minds and imaginations. So, when it comes your turn to decide what is to be your vocation, put aside all other considerations but these 'twhat wo1'k appeals to me most? and am l fitted for this Work? If you can decide from these questions that a certain career is what you desire, and that your mental, physical, and moral abilities can cope with it, by all means choose that one. -Robert Bahler and Margaret Uarlomusto Page Twenty

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'O THE HOUR GLASS l ll !O ship with the French people because of his sportsmanship. Try and realize the seriousness of good sportsmanship. It spreads a friendly feeling among schools, colleges and individuals. It should be encouraged by all because good sportsmanship is a display of one 's character. --Donald Holtz and Arthur Steffen Why Do Pupils Leave School? One of the great tests of a school is the degree to which it is able to hold its pupils until graduation releases them. Par- ticularly is this true of those pupils on Whom the compulsory attendance law no longer has a hold. Therefore, it may be assumed that the school functions less satisfactorily when large numbers of pupils abandon their courses and leave schooling behind, than when few pupils drop out. 1. Pupils leave school before graduation because of their lack of interest in subjects or in the school, courses offered by the school are not useful, there is no direct beneficial return, and no definite goal to Work for. For both present and former pupils, lack of the interest in school accounts for nearly all of this. 2. Failure to appreciate the value of an education accounts for pupils leaving school. Warren W. Coxe presents these reasons such as Self-satisfaction, Lack of ambition, Monotony of high school interests, Desire for a job,', De- sire to earn money,l' and Too many outside activities. The desire for a job seems to be the most important of these reasons. More boys offer this reason than girls, so it must be that the offering of the high school course is of less value to the boys than the girls. 3. The financial problem is the third reason for young people leaving school. It is significant that more girl pupils than boy pupils say that they leave because of financial difficulties. One reason may be that boys are better able to earn their own spend- ing money. The girls feel more keenly than the boys the in- ability to dress as Well as their schoolmates. 4. Health is sometimes the cause for stopping school. Under the heading of health should be included: C11 personal ill health, Q21 illness in family, and C35 discouragement due to absence. Therefore one major division of the school's educational ac- Page Twenty-two