Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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THE MAGNET Vol. IX. LEOMINSTER, MASS., OCTOBER, 1915. No. 1 Entered as second class matter at Post Office at Leominster, Mass. EDITORIAL STAFF EpIrorR-IN-CHIEF, MAry LouisE RICHARDSON, ’I16. Business MANAGER, RALPH G. BAKER, ’16. Exchange Editor, RurH WuITMmorg, ’I6. School Notes’ Editor, Irma HoLpeEn, ’16. Alumni Notes’ Editor, HAzeL Bryant, ’16. Jokes’ Editor, WALTER ROLLINS, ’17. Athletics’ Editor, WiLtL1am THompson, ’17. Assistant Business Manager, STUART Damon, ’17. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. O you, students of the Leominster High School, the MAGNET is an old friend, and we, the members of the Macner board urge you to strengthen the friendship. Contrary to olden times, when one’s worth was determined by one’s might, we now believe that “the pen is mightier than the sword.” Prove it! You know your ability in athletics has great influence on your standing with other schools. A good school paper has just as much weight. As yet, no material has been handed in voluntarily! 5

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IN MEMORIAM

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6 CED Si GIN Earn the right to say “Our school paper.’ Can you say this when the English department hands in all the material? Suppose, taking the School Notes for example, that the only notes printed were those contributed. It is easy to guess how many, or, rather, how few, there would be. Then the Joke, the Alumni, and the Athletic departments, all need support. Surely it cannot be em- barrassing to see your article printed, since your name appears with none of those subjects. Change the paper from a teacher’s paper to a school paper. Have higher aims and make it a paper of the school, for the school, and dy the school. 66 AR special!’ How familiar a cry this has grown to be! And yet, why should it not be so, for what is there which is not war? School, itself, is one continuous struggle. It begins with getting up in the morning on time, and continues throughout the day. Each lesson requires ready thought and quick action; the athletics demand courage; everything you enter into needs brave and persevering effort. The school spirit, which represents the school, becomes as a large ship, attacked by an unseen, unsus- pected submarine. The disloyal criticism of those who, unable to write or to join the athletics, are unwilling others should, almost destroys the school spirit of those who are striving for higher things. But in war there is a reserve force. Why should there not be reserves in school? Pupils who are unable to join in the struggle, join the reserves. Encourage those who are fighting by upholding and cheering them. Howcan you stand by with a “ don't-care”’ attitude in such a fight? Join the reserves, if you have not already joined the workers, and fight! And the end, the supreme cause of the struggle,—is it Wealth? Perhaps. Is it Power or Standing? Possibly. Is it Honor? Yes! M. L. RicHArpDsoN, 16.