Hugh John Macdonald School - Searchlight Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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4 Words are the bodies in which ideas dwell. When we put these words together we are able to communicate to others what we are thinking. Indeed these words are necessary if we are to think at all. Only as we read and listen are we able to gather the ideas and thoughts of others. How many new ideas and beautiful thoughts have we learned this year that have made us individually finer boys and girls because of our study of literature and through our reading? When you grow up what are you going to be? Your parents have been pondering this too. When you were making an aeroplane or a dress for a doll, you were so interested in what you were doing that everything else seemed unimportant. But today possibly that interest is gone and you are bending your energies towards other things that now seem more important. Thus, through your experiences in life, as gained through doing, and reading and listening to others, do you gradually learn wherein your deepest interests lie and what you are best fitted for in life. What a pity it is when a boy or girl ceases to go to school to continue to learn and profit by the experiences of others so that he or she may more easily discover what is best for him or for her to do in life. Again, unless you learn to spell and write properly, and learn to calculate accurately and think clearly through your study of mathematics, and learn to express your mind pictures and feelings through a study of art and music, do you think you will be able to take your places successfully in the busy work-a-day world and be happy, useful citizens? Yes, you have had a busy year if you have done your best, and no doubt you have enjoyed both the work and the play. Most of you, at present in Grades 7 and 8, will be looking forward to happy days of work and play next year in good old Hugh John. But what of our present Grade 9 students? We shall miss you with regret from our halls next year for then jou will be sailing forth into unknown seas. To you we join in saying, Bon voyage , and may we meet again. Soon, a well-earned holiday awaits all who have done their best whether you pass or fail. So, anon. Happy Holidaysl