Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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8 THE ECHO would spend to go further in school? 4. Why couldn’t I be earning money now and having a good time instead of earning nothing for four years ? All these thoughts and many more enter a scholar’s mind before his grammar school graduation. Although the teachers always try to encourage the pupil and urge him to attend a higher institution than the Junior High School they are not always successful. If anyone should ask me the above questions, here is how I should ans- wer them. The answer to the first question is, yes, you should attend high school, for without a higher education, what use will you be in this world, and what will your future years bring to you? Perhaps you may get a position as street cleaner in some city or perhaps you might be a janitor in one of the “sky-scrap- ers” of New York. But what is that compared with being a business man or woman and having others under your command instead of vice versa. The second answer would be: take the College of Technical course by all means. These courses will not only prepare you to enter college, but will give you a knowledge of French and Latin and a few other languag- es that you can use in solving cross word-puzzles if nowhere else. In answering the third question, I would say that it certainly is worth the time you will spend in school. The fourth answer is that the four years are not drudgery and hard work, but, for the short time spent in school each day, in the end you are duly rewarded with a knowledge that no one can take from you. In finishing this essay I hope that, if it is read by pupils in the gram- mar school, they will consider and heed the questions and answers, at- tend at least a high school, and go further in school if possible. Mildred Tibbetts, ’27. Acknowledgements Punctuate This The Echo wishes to acknowledge the receipt of papers from the schools listed below. They have been read by many and it can be truthful- ly said, thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you for the pleasure received. Chimes Southern Bell Tauntonian Red and Black Scituate High Somerville Taunton High Whitman High Abington High Abhis Menotomy Beacon Arlington Jr. High Canton High Echo Partridge Students’ Pen Hermiad Unquity Echo The Courier Item Stetson Oracle Duxbury High E. Bridgewater Hingham Milton High Hyde Park High Dorchester High Randolph High He said that that that that that man used should have been which. Teacher: “Who signed the Magna Charta?” Youngster: “Please, ma’am, ’twasn’t me.” Skeptical Member of School Board : “Here, call that boy back ; I don’t like his manner. I believe he did do it.” of % iErl|0 tfi respertfullg lebtratefc GHa00 of GIunmtif-iFtite

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THE ECHO n i The future fame and success of Sumner High falls in the hands of the Freshmen. They have three years to work for their end. In these three years much can be accom- plished. Honor records are in store if they are wanted. So Freshmen ! You are to be envied by many. You have everything to look forward to. This should be looked to with eager- ness and not with fear. And Fresh- men, some day you will find yourself honored and esteemed Seniors. LILLIAN EKLOF, ’26. Advantages of a High School Education Numerous advantages and oppor- tunities are derived from a High School Education. Many young boys are now going to work at the ages of fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen years simply for the sake of earning a few dollars a week perhaps for pin money and the like. There are a few cases where poverty urges such a condition. The majority of these boys are drifting on with the idea that they can almost forever be in- creasing their earning power, only to discover at the age of twenty-one that they have already reached the maximum earning power. In such a manner the old proverb, “If youth but knew, and age but could,” is made known with great force, set- ting many boys repenting over their vital mistakes. The four years that any boy spends in obtaining a High School Education are well worth the time and labor when he enters the bus- iness world. In addition to a High School Education one must have am- bition or an inclination toward a cetrain branch of business in order that one might overcome the keen competition in present business life. It is estimated that a boy graduating from High School at the age of eight- een attains his maximum earnings at the age of thirty-two, and that his earnings are nearly double that of a boy with grammar school education. There is, and always will be, an ever increasing demand for skilled labor in either a commercial or a technical branch of business. Ignor- ance is not only bliss but is a dis- grace to the community and nation, while on the other hand the educated person brings up the standard of good citizenship. A High School Ed- ucation gives one an idea of condi- tions of living in this age of keenest competition. One also learns of the essentials of business success which is inevitable when opportunities float about in every direction, almost more numerous than automobiles on a main street. The success of a boy depends up- on his foresight and his grasping of the best and most profitable opportu- nity. ARNOLD NYLANDER, ’27. Your Future Career and What It Means to You Inspired by a talk from the prin- cipal of our High School, I resolved to write this short essay on “Your Future Career”. I consider that I am capable of saying what I am going to as I am already a Sophomore in High School. Before I graduated from the eighth grade I had fully decided that I should take studies of the Commer- cial Course but due to the influence of my teachers, which I thank them for, I am completing my second year of the College Course. Although this course is harder than the Commer- cial, I feel that when I have com- pleted this course, I have accom- plished something. When the girls and boys of today reach the age of fourteen and are in their last year of grammar school they begin to ponder over those vital questions and problems : 1. Shall I go to High School? 2. What course will I take? 3. Would it be worth the time I

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THE ECHO 9 Hiteratur? If Silence Wont; Love Will A Drama in Three Acts. By THELMA A. PETERSON, ’25. CHARACTERS NINA BATES, a girl of today, quite high spirited. MRS. MARY BATES, widow, Nina’s mother, an invalid. MARTHA, spinster, sister to Mary. RUSSELL COLBEY, in love with Nina. ACT I. TIME: Present. A morning in spring. SCENE : Living room in the Bates’ new country home. (As curtain rises, Mrs. Bates is sitting in easy chair with feet on a foot-stool, by an open window. En- ter Martha, carrying a book, starts to dust). Mary: Isn’t it a lovely morning, Martha? I just love the country in the spring. The air is so wholesome, I am sure nothing will benefit me more than coming out here. Martha: Mary, for Mercy Sakes! What do you mean by sitting there by that open window? (Takes book from under arm). Why, it distinct- ly says in my book that an unwell person should never, never, sit in a draft. Mary: Oh, but my dear sister, fresh air is what I need, and it is a shame to leave all this outside. Martha: I tell you, Mary, you’ll catch your death, there. I must close it and get a blanket for you. I dis- tinctly remember reading that inval- ids should always be kept warm. (Closes window and exit to get a blanket) . Mary: Well, I suppose Martha is right, at least I shall have to do as she says when I am under her care. I wonder where Nina is this morn- ing; she hasn’t been down for break- fast yet. I hope she’s not ill. (Nina enters, carrying her hat. Seems in high spirits.) Nina: Good morning, mother. Isn’t it a w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-1 morning? Mary: Yes, lovely. Are you going out so soon, Nina? Nina: Going? I’ve just come in. I got up early and went down to the post office to see if I had a letter. (Whispers). Where’s Aunt Martha? Mary: It must be important if you couldn’t wait until the post-man came. Did you get one? Nina: Important? Well, I should say it was. Oh, mother (goes over and puts her arms about her neck), guess who the letter is from, and he’s (stops as Martha enters with blanket). Good morning, Aunt Martha. Doesn’t this spring air just put “pep” into you? Martha: From all I’ve heard, it surely must be a wonderful morn- ing; but how do you know when you’re asleep? Does the spring come into your bed? Nina: I have a spring in my bed all the time. (Mary turns and smiles.) Martha (stamping her foot) : Outrageous, such foolish talk. Now, you know I meant the weather. Nina: Yes, yes, I know you did. Aunt Martha. I didn’t mean to make you cross, but I haven’t been in bed