Gorham State College - Hillcrest / Green and White Yearbook (Gorham, ME)

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RUBIE HALL --- EAST HALL ACHIEVEMENT Altheugh we may not realize it. we are in the 111'L1eess elf 1110111t1ing tinting 0111' many years ef seheel life. It depends 1111:1111 11s as individuals just how hrm this 1'11t1111t1i11g will he at the eei'npletien ei e11r iier111al seheel eareer. If we have wetketl hard in seheei. aeeepting the respensihiiities placed upen 11s. building ehataeter until we have acquired ail the requisites ef geed eitisenship. we may he reassu- ably sure tit sueeess. Opening the dew into the past. we End 1111111he1'less i11sta11ees where aehieve- 111e11t has been sen great as to be resettled in the pages ef history. A yeung 111at1 ease living in the State of Iliineis. his werth unknown, later heea111e Uttt' beloved president, Ahraham Lincoln. A peer latl walked the streets at Philadelphia carry- ing a leaf of lireatl 'Lttltitil' eaeh arm. He was eensitletetl insigniheant. but it was he whe in later years heesme the Fanmus Benjamin Frankiin. How did these men gain aehievement'5I They knew the seetet that manly,r mi 115 have net yet ieund, namely, that achievement is attained threugh werk, inspired L13; a high ideal. This ideal may he merely.F a mental idea er it may be same persem perhaps a great here. Have yen some high itleai te- whieh yeu will dedicate wear life? Yeuth is the time te liuild the ideals that lay the foundation of stteeess. We are all adventurers about to step forth and explore an 1111k11ew11 eeuntty. If we s11eeeed, we shall bring hener te eur seheeI; if we fail. we must try again, fer 110 great aehieve111e11t was ever attained witheut struggle. The true adventurer is he who can ehange defeat i11te vietery. ALICE E. KEENE. '31. 12

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CURTHELL HALL THE FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION If education magir be defined as uthe unfolding and perfecting 0f human spiritf' then religihn end eeenemies are the legieel foundations. By reiigien is not meant only a helief, hut an impulse te serve ethere end to purify heels self. Our attitude towards life is erur religion. In 0111' eehe-ele it should deveIe-p personality. We as future teaehers when wish to preiitehly educate ehildren muet studyr the sources hf religien, or as has heen previeueiy stated. the i'human spirit. Eeenemiee has to tie with the body and its welfare; with feed, elethes, shelter, and physieal opportunity. One at the hret speeihe aims in edueetitiii should he the complete health of the bndy. I1: is the meet important prehiem now before the parents and teeehers. Our present less of vigor is eretiited te ehange ef habits, in- dustrial life in the epen th the factory, and inereesing leisure time. It is eleimed that there is a general tlwerfing ef our natien. A ten large prepertien hf eur people have ailments whieh eeuld easily he remedied with knowledge. We ever-eet, ever- indulge. er ever-heet; we preteet ourselves tee mueh. The first eere ef the teeeher should he the ehildrenie health. He should therefere make the seheelreem, like the heme, a true saneterium. BURT-tiw ANDEREDN, 2'32. 11

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PRINCIPAIJS RES IDENCE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY HOME TRAINING There are se111e truths 111 architecture and life which have J1111111 early.r times been reeegniaed hy 111a111111111. One is that it is 11eeessa1'1,r te haild 1111 a 111111 fetmdatien . The early Egyptian. 111 h11i111i1113,r the pyramids, these eternal 111111111111e11ts 11:1 Egyptis greatness. realized this 11ee11. The ihiaster, in his parahle sheet the heuse 1111ilt 1111 5111111 111111 the 111111se 1111111 11111111 a 11:11:11. teaehes that any strueture is 111111,1 as E1111 as its 111111111ati1111. Thus 111111111 threegh the ages peep1e have hee11 painting 11111 hy 11111111 and example the i111pt11'ta11ee e1 seliti greuatlwerk. If the 111111111ati1111 is s11 important 111 a huildihg, 1111w 11111eh 111111e impertant is it 111 a human life? Fortunately 111' 1111te1'tu11ate131, aeeertliag te 1111e's viewpeint, a persen eaunet take a sheve1 and 1111111 and reach the he11 reek upen whieh the 111111111111e11t 1111 his life is te- he huilt. The Jf1:111111111tit111 1:11 the human temple is 1ait1 hefere that human has reached seheel aget Early 11e111e training is the under strueture 111 a life. 1111:1111 HECEESHI'y it is that this training be 111 the prehet 11111111 1131 1.1111111 and example, the child ef pTEFSCth age shet1I1I he given as materiais fer the beginning at his 1111111u111e11t the reeks 111' truth, 111311111 . 111111 1911311111 joined by the cement 111 friendship and lave. 1111-111e11 the sterms and winds 111 life e11111e, the man whese eatlj,r h11111e training has heen week will he like the heuse 1111111 11131111 the sand. He who has had the 111111111 e1111sta11ts impressed 1111011 111111 early in life will be able 1:11 stand, 1117111111 square 11- .111 the wi1111s that hiewfr 131111111111 3111111111111 :31. 13