John Marshall High School - Marshallite Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Force of enthusiasm, student involvement, point activities As much the life force of the school as was the curriculum; the students’ activities generated the true personality of the institution. Although hampered by athletic ineligibility and friction between contrasting persons, the guiding forces joined to point attitudes and ideals toward a healthy direction. Memorable happenings em- bodied students both as participants and spec- tators and were toned and shaped by the course of each student's thoughts. Activities focused as the fruit of youth’s labor, worry and planning. Emerging, the actual event meant time and feel- ings, special in a particular way to each single aspirant.

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Motivation — on personal level, forms key to instruction As students are individuals, the faculty also consists of individuals. These instructors had separate and distinct personal approaches in classroom di rection. Motivation was geared to stimulate the specific student instead of total con- centration, on the group as a whole. Certainly group identity was present, but the emphasis was on retaining the material covered as a group and discovering how to apply it on one’s single scale.