Hollidaysburg High School - Chimrock Yearbook (Hollidaysburg, PA)

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l if i E B if A Q ,122 W 1,I i:iIRIol cl i' f i u if C. V. ERDLY, B. S. ,fp 5 Susquehanna University J I Penn State College Superintendent of Schools Education Through Books HERE is an inclination to feel that no better theme than BOOKS could have been chosen for this annual publication, because of the close and natural relationship between education and the printed page. The school today is organized purposefully on the principle of creating an individual mastery, such as will evidence the power for self-improvement through reading. The experiences, imaginations, and dreams of the past are revealed carefully to us through the inter- pretations made by historians and researchers. These same authorities in innumer- able volumes make available the rich heritage of the arts, sciences and philosophies that have had their influences upon the various civilizations and changing social orders. To know them gives society a new place of departure that should poinl toward human progress. Biography maintains a very distinct and important place in study and read- ing, as also do poetry, verse and fiction. Books have afforded the means of spending leisure time profitably, and are becoming more popular in this recreational endeavor. They become as friends, which would preclude the necessity of making wise and careful choices. Unless a discrimination can be made soon of authors, titles and materials, then there is danger of bad company that may bear unpleasant reflections. Choose good books-the kind that will challenge the reader to search for more knowledge, higher social ideals, nobler inspirations, and more profound happiness. library of ood books though perhaps small in his home become a ard the continuation of an education N- n final thought to the present class, may the idea .of each one build at D - ? - Z ' r rf ,, H 4 1 X l an