Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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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