Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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EDITORIALS tt-s-a- ■» •«• •»«■ •» •»■» «• The Best Times Qf Our Lives Certainly, we can say that many of the best experiences of our lives come in high school days, when classmates, friends, and teachers are together for what seems such a short time. No one ever realizes the grand times students have together in school and the wonderful opportunities they have of meeting all kinds of people, unless he has really been through school.In school we learn to develop personality, acquire tact and get along well with people, besides learning all the interesting subjects which are taught. Of course we do have to work once in a while, and not Just play all the time. But what if we must work; all the enjoyment we get out of school by having different recreational activities, such as baseball, basket-ball, volley ball, and many other things , more than make up for the work we have to do.Then , too, there sire plays and music trairJg which are lots of fun - especially the training for the Kusic Festival, which everyone is proud to have the opportunity to attend. Besides these, there sire many enjojable parties and a picnic each year. If young people would only stop to think what it means to receive a high school education, they would gladly go for what seems like four very short years. When we first start high school, it isn't so interest- ing as it is after we get more accustomed to the environment around us and the different situations which we have to face. However, after we have attended high school for a while and realize what it will mean to be able to figure accurately and use correct forms of English after we are out of school, then we will very gladly manage to stay throughout the entire course, regardless of the fact that sometimes we are greatly provoked and feel like quitting. When work begins to pile up and it seems as if we never shall be able to accomplish or finish any of it, let us just make up our minds that we will get it done. Then is the time to start right in as if we really mean business, and I am sure we shall be greatly surprised at what one hour of real hard study can actually do. By real hard study I mean when our minds are free to think and are on what we are doing. If we merely sit down, take our books and read as rapidly as possible the assignments without thinking about what we have read, our time is en- tirely wasted. Young students who have left school don't realize until it is too late what grand times they have missed and will miss because they have dropped out of school. They begin to feel really sorry that they have left school when graduation time rolls around and they see their fellow classmates going out into the world together, always to be of help to each other just as they were in the hundred and one good times which they had in their good old school days. ’When our school days come to a close our greatest enjoyment has

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2. gone unless we plan to do something Just as much worth while and as in- teresting after we leave school. Too many young people have the idea that school is too hard work and takes too much time out of one's life . Even though it may mean work for a while , in the end it will pay. I am sure we will agree that our school days are some of the greatest and happiest days of our lives. Some students have to work hard to get through school, while others who have the opportunity to go to school fail to take it. They don't stop to think until it is too late,and then they say they wished they had known before what it really meant to'go to school and have a great deal of interest in the work while there. I hope in the future years there will be more young students enter- ing high school with determination to complete the course instead of dropping out before they give themselves a fair chance. The beginning is hard, but if we keep our courage and make up our minds to overcome the handicaps which face us at first, we will accomplish what we set out to do. Ruth Harrison '39 Music Vhat is music to you? Is it just a group of notes and lines tossed onto a piece of paper, or is it a way of expressing your emotions? When you hear a good piece of classical music on the radio, do you turn the dial to some other station, or do you stop to get the beauty of it? To enjoy music, you must live it, put yourself into it. To sing a gay song, you must be happy and gay; or vice versa, When you want to dance and laugh, you do not care to listen to a sad song, for then you do not get the meaning of it. Music must do something to you. It must stir your emotions, carry you away with its story, and hold you spellbound withits melody. But have you considered the fact that you must do something to it? It is up to you to make it live or make it die. A lot of peoj 16 can carry a simple tune, but can they really sing? Do they put you in the mood intended by the composer of the song? Do they put expression into the song, or is it lus a lifeless tune? Music, therefore, demands something of you if you would enjoy it to the fullest. For in music as well as in any other line of work or pleasure, the following quotation proves true: 1 Give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you. Marjorie Gates '40