Fryeburg Academy - Academy Bell Yearbook (Fryeburg, ME)

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THE ACADEMY BELL 3 shall indeed be in flower but in a way as yet hardly dreamed of. for chivalry shall be founded on equality. Already young manhood and woman- hood, standng practically on the sam: level, are shaking hands in preparation for entering their tasks together in this needy old world. Civilizations on another basis have long teen tried and have fallen as Rome in all her glory fell. The thing which can save the civilization of today is the united working of man and woman. The world is waking up to this vital need and the chivalry of today is the gradual accep- tance of womanhood into her rightful place as fellow-worker and helper of man in the business, political, social, and religious fields. Doius FiaRN.x1.o, Qi. LIFE. Life is the greatest gift God can be- stow. Our destiny, which He alone knows. is planned by Ilis wisdom and carried out under His perfect guidance. How do footsteps patter when by con- fidence they may be stayed by that ever willing and helpful hand? We say life is a burden. This is not so unless we make it so and this surely was not God's intention. VVhy should we make it this xx hen He has made it possible for life to be such a wonderful revelation from be- ginning to end? For even in our darkest hours and deepest grief we can always feel confident that by trusting that Divine power we shall be shown the silver lining which is always just beneath the blackest cloud. HOW OUR SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PREPARE US FOR THE FUTURE. There is no better way to prepare us for the future than by our school activi- ties. We are as a people famous for good sportsmanship, and as a school we should keep these ideals. Often in ath- letic meets there is a chance to Hget by with unfair playing. This is not the idea we have of sportsmanship, for we take the penalty and profit by our errors. Not only in athletics but by debating we are prepared for the future. This was successfully introduced in the acad- emy this year. It enables us to think quickly and be alert. LEONA MCINTLRE. WKQ WAP

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2 THE ACADEMY BELL liilitnriala A REMINDER. ln our last issue we made to you an offer which we hoped would be of mutual benefit to you and this institution, but now that we have completed the year and look back and consider the effects and benefits and final outcome of our propo- sition. we are both appreciative and disappointed. Wle notice that you have taken a great interest in us in many ways, and have lent us help on every hand. For this we thank you in every way which we possibly can,-but now in what way are we dis- appointed? It is in this way. VVhere you have given much you have taken little in return for yourselves. XVhere you have done nobly on your part you have failed to let us have an oppor- tunity of showing our appreciation. iVe will not say in every case for there may be exceptions, but on the whole we have had the opportunity to do very little for you. llowever, this is no time for vain re- grets. This year is gone but there is an- other year coming. In it lies oppor- tunityg look over our olfer again and in the coming year make the most of it and above all do not fail to visit us at any timeg faculty and students will be glad to have you. A SUGGESTION. The coming thing is radio: another coming thing is Fryeburg Academy. VVhy not put two things together? Here is an opportunity for some one to win the everlasting gratitude of the student body. It is also an excellent thing for the stu- dents to work for, a radio set for the school. VVhy not? THE CHIVALRY OF TODAY. A generation or two ago our country. especially in certain sections. had what some call its chivalrous age. Those were the days of sweet romances in quaint old- fashioned gardens: the time when girls were the frail, fair maidens of the cling- ing-vine type, and chivalrous manhood stood waiting to catch the first pale dam- sel who should faint at the sight of a little mouse, or to pick up the diminutive square of perfumed lace when it liuttered from slender white hands. llut was that chivalry, that feeling of pity such as a strong man feels for a help- less little child? The Pilgrim and Pioneer days had far more and truer chivalry when man and woman together laid the foundation of our nation amidst trials and hardships. llut today for the first time in the his- tory of the world is true chivalry being revealed. It is in the age of crime and evil, of iiapperism and jazz, but these things do not predominate. These things shall soon pass away and leave the World at the dawn of a new day, a day in which the ideals now but newborn shall be upheld throughout the landsg when knighthood

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4 THE ACADEMY BELL iflitnrarg SALUTATORY. ln the early days of our country, much of ceremony and form entered into even the everyday things of life. Today in oriental lands great pomp and show is considered a necessity to properly meet- ing or parting from friends. Tt has al- ways been the custom to cling to oriental or ancient customs in occasions like this, though in other things the spirit of the times is straight forward simplicity. Today the pleasant duty is mine of greeting you here assembled, and T wish to do it in a simple twentieth century American way. Honorable trustees, teach- ers, parents, undergraduates, friends: we appreciate the interest which you have long shown in us, we appreciate your presence here this afternoon, and in be- half of my class T most heartily welcome you to our graduation exercises. THE IMPORTANCE OF CHEMIS- TRY TO MAN. Q In the beginning of n1an's life upon earth he was little different in any dis- cernible way from the animals among which he lived. lie became vitally dif- ferentiated from these, his early com- panions, principally because he began dimly to grasp certain scientific facts. Through untold centuries his progress was infinitely slow, because that progress a knowledge and science was ever dependent upon and application of science, never has revealed her secrets satisfac- torily save to keen, deep minds-minds capable of great concentration and pa- tience. The worldls debt to scientihc research is best understood when we remember that the aboriginal man, clothed in the skin of an animal tstruck down by a clubj, living in a dark damp cave eating as do wild animals, the uncombined, un- prepared products of mother earth might have been enjoying all of the advantages of twentieth century civilization if he had been possessed of the scientific knowl- edge which belongs to this century. Cf the many branches of science wh'ch through the ages man has studied and applied, all others combined have not yielded such practical fruits for his com- fort and happiness as has chemistry. it is a thought as fascinating as it is fearful, as interesting as it is awe inspiring, that all material which the wizzard-like chemist of today is so marvelously using, has lain ready and waiting since the be- ginning of manis earth life, and he knew it not through the passing of countless ages. Thirty centuries have passed since the chemically prepared mummy of King Tut-ankh-amen was tucked away in its chamber of splendors, and for thousands of years before this men had been apply- ing chemical facts. A history of this and of later research holds for the think- ing person a fascination unequalled by the most thrilling tale of fiction, but we pass it by untouched because we wish to deal with modern chemistry. Between early and modern chemistry there is no positive line of demarcation. Routledge speaks of the discovery of gases as marking the beginning of modern chemistry, and Henry Smith Wfillianis. in his great five-volume history of science,