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

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ACADEMY HALL EVORLD BROTHERHOOD Fer generatiene ene aim of edueatieu has been eeeiel eHieietiey 311d :1 titere worthy aim wttultl be hard te fttltL Cmteider the meaning ef the phrase, eeeial effieieney. Our eneeetere did net knew er dream ef sueh inventions es the air plane, the radio, the wireless. the telephone, which have made the weritl a smaller pleee, a there congenial pIeee in whieh ten litre. To them eeei e1 efheieuey meant living E111 heneet, upright life, being useful eitieene in their ewe small eemmunities and living up ten the approved seeiai standards e-f their immediate eurmundings. Ttititlj,F the trim- tit edueetien must of IlECESSity have a hreetier meaning. The vision hi the present generation tttttet inelude mere than ones ewn eitjr, tewn, state, er even eettntry. What is the visien ef e-ur preeeut-day students? 15 their eutleek on life her- rew? 13 it tlimirteti hy the intittettee ef ethers. hy the traditions and preeedente of further egee, er ie it eIear tutti wide, wide enough to ineiutle this whole world upon 14

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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

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t 1' fl . J13... -a-n . , ' 'Er't' r -... -' PURSE AND MPLCHINE SHDP whieh we live? It is. the duty; ef the present-day teaeher te see that this vision is broadened. Teeley the Herhphlis hf Greeee, the shrines at the Orient, the jung1ee erf fiftieth the plains hi Siherie. end the pyramids of Egypt are as near th us end :15 mueh El. part at Our life and life prehlem 3.5 were the civic preahleme eat Due grantlfetltefe narrow sphere. KR-Fe must he ehle ten understand and tolerate the re- ligion, the ettethms, the itleele elf all these people who are a part of our world. We should he ahle tn leak into every ehrner of the glhhe with a vision untlimmetl hf; centuries hf tratlitihne and prejudice. Gaining etteh an attitude may he emnparetl th the httiltling hf an aneient Egyp- tian werlt of art. the pyramid, There ehe-uld be a hem. hreretl EetmtIetien, eeneist- iug ht a thereugh knhwledge eat our awn eemmunity and the tlutiee hf eitizenehip in hue euwn ehuntryt Upen thie fhundatiett sheultl he huilt, etene ttpeu etene, a structure metle up of idea's, knowledge, and gems of wisdom from all ever the world. Ere may hope tn at last reeeh the tap and leek eut into the tlietanee, the future, freetl entirer frem Iimitatiens ef the peat, ready to he world eitizene with a visie-u wide enettgh to apply that preeent-dey aim. wertd hretherheetL CATHERIEE BRAKE 332. ' rr