Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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A 1I?f4D4DlID SGIAIRGI AND A SGTIEBAEGY PAGE IV e never fully realize the value of ilzz'ng.r until we no longer have them. OW many students are there in this school who can honestly and sincerely say that they have never crammed for an examination? Very few. How many pay their class dues on time? Also very few. When homework is assigned for a lesson a week in advance, when is that homework actually done? Usually the night before it is to be handed in. These facts are true, if not logical. For some reason or other, it seems to be more convenient to put things off and then work hard at the last minute, than to do a little at a time and spread the work out on the installment plan. Each day in the year is our own, to do with it what we will. It is our servant, to use to our best advantage. Why do we neglect the minutes and the hours, which pass us by, never to return again? Is it laziness that causes such a detrimental apathy on our part? Are we mentally blind not to see the advantages of a steady, organized process? Not only in this school, but in other schools as well, it is quite noticeable that the majority of the students just drift along in the lower classes, accepting home- work and lessons as a necessary evil g until suddenly they wake up with a start to realize that they are Seniors, and that they must work doubly hard to achieve a high average and a record of which they can be proud. Would it not be much easier to begin in the Freshman class and obtain a good foundation? ' In scholastic work as well as in other things momentum is a big factor. Those who obtain a good start and keep up a steady pace are sure to win out when com- peting against those who depend entirely on a sprint, or a series of sprints, to carry them through. Every year the college requirements become more strict, and every year it becomes more and more necessary to have a good foundation in all your studies. Those of you in the lower grades who will try hard now, and become well-grounded in all your subjects will find the going much easier when you become Seniors and must give more of your time to other activities. Start now and be prepared for later on. Remember-- The .rfarf i.r half ilze race. GEORGE D. GIDEON, III. lr 3 rn eams If f mn.. 'viz k I at ' SV ei-5 lr Q I

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Xk: 1 A-if .,. . .? ' ,,,,, IIDGDJINIHIEB JIUINIT IIRHEBJID BY BENJAMIN KASSER HE telephone rang. Hellol Yes, on the 'phone. What! Is that so? O. K., I'll be right down. 'Bye. Clark put down the receiver, and walked over to the window. It was a clear night, and the illuminated clock across the street told him that the hour was early, not yet two o'clock. He nervously lit a cigarette and sat by the window, impatiently watching the hands in their slow march around the dial. Many thoughts disturbed his mind. With cigarette after cigarette he tried to quiet his nerves. After fifteen minutes he got up, entirely calm, and went out into the corridor. He was now the head of the Detective Bureau, since he had just learned by telephone that the Chief was dead, having been murdered in his office at about half past twelve. Clark, Assistant Chief, would now step into the post, at double his present salary. His impatient ring brought the dozing elevator-boy to attention, and soon he stood on the sidewalk calling a taxi- cab, and still smoking. When he reached headquarters he was met by an excited group of news- paper reporters, cameramen, and a few policemen. After a few brief greetings and explanations he was ushered into the scene of tne murder. Uhg! It was bloodier than he had expected it would be. There lay the dead Chief, sprawled in his swivel chair, a look of surprised indignation on his face, no longer the florid, jovial one that everyone was used to seeing. He had been stabbed in the breast, not once, but three times, one of the wounds reaching the heart. It must have been done quickly, and neatly, for the Chief was surprisingly active for one his age. The reason for stabbing instead of shooting was plain. The murderer was leaving no bullets 'for wary criminologists to examine and follow up. The window had flagrantly been left open, and it could be seen that the assassin had come across the lawn, having dragged his feet along in order to leave no foot prints on the grass or soil. Clark took charge, heading the investigation, and men were quickly dispatched on errands of more or less importance, in connection with the crime, and Clark himself, after further futile examination, went back to his hotel and to bed. He slept until late in the morning, and after breakfast went to the oiiice, this time not as a subordinate but' in actual charge. Busily engaged in estab- lishing himself, he almost forgot the '3l7ll