Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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David Bethune ..Editor Assistant Editors. Jennie Lul e, Adelaide Stanley, Al ' ce Harn ' son, Frances Kirwin, Clotilde iVfflerbach. Maljel Kei ter, Geor ' i ' ina lletherington, Helen Smith. Angus Mc[ er Business Manager Assistant Ma. ' agers. Donald Hoffman, W alter Law. ilotmiiu;i — HoluutP ili)tii nmbn iFnur The Editorial Some of us are glad, some of us are sorry; and some of us are both glad and sorry at the same time, all because we are about to graduate. It is good to think of being freed from that care and worry, which many people do not think we really have ; it is good to know that we have stood the test of four years and have not yet been found wanting in stick-to-it-iveness, that makes us a little proud of ourselves ; it is good to know that we have completed some work that so many of the pupils do not complete ; it is good for those of us who are going to college to know that we have run the biggest part of the race and are now just about to enter the home stretch in our race for an education. We can almost see the wire and hear the applause, which comes in the form of a good position in society and in the .business world. But how few of us are going to college ! It seems a shame and a pity that out of forty-seven graduates there, in all probabilities, will

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DAVID iJKTilUNE. Editor-in Chief.

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16 THE ROUJS DUP l)e less than ten to enter college next fall. The advantages of higher eclncation are something we have all heard pnt before us in a way that we can not help but believe to be true. We are glad we have spent the last four years here ; why should we not, if we went on to college, be glad that we had spent the time there when it came graduation time there? Would we not be better men and women for having done it? Would we not have more respect for ourselves, and would not others have more respect for us? Our readers would become wearied, and argue the question from the money side, which side appeals most to us but which is really the side of least impor- tance, until our readers would shout, Enough ! we were convinced l)efore you ever thought of beginning. For that reason let us drop that subject and see for what reasons we are sorr} that we are about to graduate. We can no longer have the same associates and friends with us that we have had and learned to love in the last four years ; the time is near when we must part, perhaps never to meet again ; then again some of us are sorry because we have not taken advantage of each and every opportunity offered us during the last four years, then to those of us who are not going to college, it is a very sad thought to realize our school days are about a thing of the past ; no more shall we enjoy the pleasures found nowhere else save in school ; no more shall w c have the same uplifting associates and opportunities; no more shall our faults be passed over lightly as .belonging only to school boys and girls, the world will now criticise our every move and action and in a serious mood, too; another thing we are sorry for IS that nowhere else in the world will we ever be able to so thorough- ly know our associates, and so correctly and justly judge them ; then we are sorry because now we have to take on ourselves the respon- dMlity of prescribing our work, and this responsibility will be much greater than we imagine now. No more can we use crutches, we must walk alone; then our days of pure, simple play are over. We may have pleasures. Init they can never be the same as those we have enjoyed. Our future frame of mind will not permit it. Another thmg we are sorry for — even if we do not realize it just now--is that we are just about to leave an institution in wdiich the people are more democratic tlian in any other place in the world. Here we have all met nearer on a par than we can ever expect to meet people agani. Tn school there are classes, but they are not social classes. As well as there being things for us to regret, there are things for which we are very thankful. There are teachers who have done their very best to make something out of us; bv some of us their work may not have been always appreciated just ' it should have been, but vvc know that in future years we will come very near seeing what they tried to do for us, and then we will be even more thankful than we are now. Some of us even now realize the great thanks we owe them and we gladly make our acknowledgments. Tt will be a long .ime before we ever again have such close relations with men and women of such high moral and intellectual character. Then we must