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THE QUILL 9 A--IV STAFF QUILL
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8 THE QUILL Icannot: Well T I + I know I haven't. Ican: I thought as much. You don't know that you haven't any talents. If you insist upon taking that attitude, you're sim- ply defeating yourself before you even start. Icannot: I've told you that I simply can't go out for any extra-curricular activities. Ican: You haven't given me one reason why you can't, so you must mean you won't. Well, I am going to tell you a story and I want you to listen. There was a little choo- choo train struggling to get up over a steep hill. There was also a big choo-choo train struggling up the same hill. He couldn't make it, so he asked the little choo-choo train to push him. The little train puffed and puffed and said, I think I can-I think I can. When he reached the top of the hill, he smiled and said, I thought I could, I thought I could. Icannot: Oh, Ican! I always thought that there was something wrong with you men- tally. Ican: All right, maybe there is something wrong with me mentally. just the same there's a lesson behind that story that peo- ple like you ought to know and understand. It may sound silly to you, but I'm going to be like the little choo-choo train and you 1- well, you can be what you want to be. I don't care any more. Only I'm telling you, that if you don't wake up and get wise to yourself, you'll be out of luck some day. -Jane Ward, '39 SCHOOL SPIRIT What is school spirit? If I were to ask you if you had school spirit, you would say yes. You think you have, because you cheer the football and baseball teams, and attend the various entertainments sponsored by the school. This is but a small part of school spirit. The more important part is partici- pation in various sports and activities, work- ing for the school, rather than just contrib- uting a little money for a ticket. We should actively participate, so that the school will be better represented. Do you realize that a very small group, not more than twenty-five in the whole school, is doing the largest share of the work in the extra-curricular activities, excluding sports? This fact is due, not to any greater ability on their part, but to their willingness to work for the school, to their school spirit. Boys are especially lacking in this true school spirit. Boys are vital to the Dra- matic Club, yet their number there is stead- ily decreasing. The same condition exists in other organizations. The boys do not seem to realize that they, as well as the girls, should represent our school. We should all participate in activities for our own benefit. We have all used paint at some time or other. If only a little is used, and the rest left in the can, the remain- der soon becomes useless. If all the paint is put on a small space, it is also useless. In the same way, if we use but a small part of our ability, the rest soon disappears. If we put all our talent on one subject, it may lose its interest to us, or we may become unin- teresting to others. We should spread our ability to include many varied things. All activities give some actual benefit, as any- one who has participated in them will say. When we have more things to hold our interest, we do not find school dull, monot- onous, uninteresting. However, there is a danger of over doing this. Paint, if spread over too great a sur- face, is too thin to do any good. We should not try to do a little in every activity, for in
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I0 THE QUILL T lgffl T fi? T ff f X. ll 7 EL ! T Q ff tliat way we can concentrate on no one of tliem. Then we become tired of too much work, and none of the work is done well. Next year, find the happy medium be- tween too much and too little. Do all you can handleino more. Then the work, and the credit, will be more evenly distrib- uted, and everyone participating will benefit IWIOTC. -Perley Leighton, '39 AN EXPANDING MENACE Do you realize that a dangerous condition is constantly expanding, threatening our very lives? This menace is not fascism or communism, it is old doughnut holes. There are two types: the light ones, from plain doughnuts, and the dark, heavy ones, from molasses and chocolate doughnuts. Since more and more doughnuts are being eaten every day, this dangerous condition is increasingly widespread, especially near diners, restaurants, and residential districts. We all eat doughnuts, not realizing the harm we are releasing upon the world. But when it is pointed out that we eat only the rims, we can easily see that the holes are left floating about in space. lt is then that they become dangerous. Many reports have come in from aviators complaining that the holes, being denser than the air, slow the plane and decrease visibility. The S.P.C.D.l-I. QSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Doughnut Holesb defends the doughnut hole by stating that it never attains such heights. This is not true, however, of the lighter type. These often rise to very great heights. Professor Piccard, after his last Stratosphere ascent, reported seeing a small cluster at a height of ten miles. He stated that they often rise miles, the height depending on the number of eggs used in making the doughnuts from which they came. The heavy type settle near the ground,
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