Greenfield High School - Evergreen / Exponent Yearbook (Greenfield, MA)

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THE EXPONENT VOL. XL GREENFIELD, MASS., JUNE, 1924 No. D BOARD OF EDITORS Editor in Chief. ..William Ballard, ’24 Assistant Editor . Elizabeth Alberti, ’25 Literary Editor .Philip Stearns, ’24 Assistant Literary Editors. .Helen MacGowan, ’25 Everett Durkee, ’25 Business Manager ..Richard Minott, ’25 Assistant Business Managers Vere Hamilton, ’26 Edwin W. Lamb, ’26 Illustrators .. Thurston Munson, ’24 Elizabeth Alberti, ’25 Senior and School Notes, Catherine Putnam, ’24 Junior Notes .Gardner Davis, ’25 Sophomore Notes.Evelyn Chamberlain. ’26 Freshman Notes.Kenneth Bostley, ’27 Athletic Editor.Lincoln Durkee, ’24 Exchange Editor. .Donald Roberts, ’24 Commercial Editor.Marion Cummings, ’24 Music Notes.Isabel Livingston, ' 24 Art Notes.Elizabeth Alberti, ’25 Alumni Editor.Leonard Thompson, ’24 Grinds .William O’Hara, ’24 Mr. Smith FACULTY ADVISERS Mr. Pennegar Miss Atherton Entered as second-class mail matter April 3, 1920, at the pjstoftice at Greenfield, Massachusetts, under the act of March 3, 1879. Accepted at special rates of postage for second-class matter. Published five times during the school year— in October, December, February, April and June. 35 cents a copy; except June number which is 50 cents; $1.50 a year. June is here again and with it comes graduation. Those who have labored faithfully through their four years of high school will now reap the reward of their labor. Some of them will go to college to pursue some favorite study with a particular end in view, and others will go directly to work, but to one and all, no matter where they go or what they do we wish sucess. We hope that they all will remember and stick by the school motto, those three little words which mean so much, “Honor, loyalty and scholarship.” With the graduating of the Senior Class of 1924

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THE EXPONENT $AVING STARTS SUCCESS GREENFIELD SAVINGS BANK A Mutual Savings Bank Mansion House Block, Greenfield, Mass. Compliments of Wedge’s Pure Food Shop Federal Street Wallace, Whitman and Page and Shaw Chocolates WELLS WALKER The House of Good Drugs 285 MAIN STREET PAYNE S PHARMACY “The Rexall Store” The Home of Purest Drugs and Chemicals Prescriptions Carefully Compounded J. H. STEARNS SHOES THAT SATISFY Elite Shoes Merriam Shoes Walk-Over Shoes Banister Shoes Florsheim Shoes Hanan Shoes 232 Main St., Greenfield, Mass. Compliments of FRANKLIN COUNTY TRUST CO. Greenfield Mass. VICTOR and EDISON DEALERS ALLEN WOODWORTH CO. 275 Main Street GREENFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS

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2 THE EXPONENT the school will lose many hard and faithful work¬ ers, both in athletics and literary life; also we shall lose some excellent talent in the line of act¬ ing, as was well illustrated in the presentation of the play, ‘ ' Come out of the Kitchen.” Everybody on the Exponent board has worked hard during the past year to make it a success. New and attractive cover designs have been made. Cuts from the drawing cottage have been contrib¬ uted to make the book more attractive, and I am sure that everyone will agree that they were very clever and have certainly fulfilled their mission. The book has contained many interesting stories; among them the story of “Don Fylipe,” so mys¬ terious and showing so well the talent of the auth¬ or, was eagerly followed. The grinds have been especially good and the advertising section has shown the results of hard work on the part of the business manager, to whom I think we owe a note of thanks. The paper under the leadership of our capable editor-in-chief has been a great suc¬ cess. We hope that next year’s Exponent board will make as much improvement on our school paper as last year’s editors did. If as much hard work and time is put into it as our previous workers spent, it can be done. We all extend our best and sincerest wishes to the departing class of the school and wish them the best of the world’s good in whatever they may be doing. G. L. C. ’26. SALUTATORY Friends and parents of the class of ’24:— To you we extend our heartiest greetings. It is with pride that we welcome you to this fine building which will in the future house the pupils of Greenfield High School. Members of the Faculty, to you we have noth¬ ing but words of praise and words are inadequate to express our appreciation for our principal and teachers. We wish to take the time to thank our parents for having made these school days possi¬ ble and we also feel that we should thank the citizens of Greenfield for our splendid opportuni¬ ties. Obedience “Obedience to Law is Liberty.” This truth is the foundation of democracy. Long ago our fore¬ fathers dared to trust to themselves the govern¬ ment of our nation. But the success of this ex¬ periment rests wholly with the people, for they must willingly obey the laws that they make. In expressing this same idea one of our late presi¬ dents said, “Liberty to make our own laws im¬ plies an obligation to observe them ourselves and to force obedience upon all others. Liberty is responsibility, and that responsibility is duty and that duty is to preserve the exceptional liberty which we enjoy from the law, by the law and within the law.” Right now our country is passing through a period of lawlessness. In fact, the morale of our whole nation is lower than it has been for a long time. Accounts of hideous and vicious deeds fill the papers. We have more lawlessness in the United States than in any other civilized country. Apparently, there is no respect for law. Every right minded person feels horrified at the banditry which disgraces our great cities. Canada with three times the people, has fewer burglaries and robberies than Chicago. Four times as many mur¬ ders were committed in Chicago as in all Canada. The same conditions exist in every state in the Union. Murders have become more numer- us during the last ten years, and, in the same period, burglaries have increased twelve hundred per cent. The drug habit is appalling, for even our young