Limington Academy - Sokokis Warrior Yearbook (Limington, ME)

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Athletics-are Essential in School Life Whether you are participating in baseball, basketball or in track, it makes no diffcrenceg for in any case you are acquiring some invaluable experience beyond the good times you are having. For as you appear before the public, you are conquering the self-consciousness that a person naturally has and you are acting under pressure, for the winning or losing of a game may depend on one basket or on one run. You are also learning to make those sane split-second decisions that you have to make in later life. Perhaps in the city, sports are more important than in the country for it keeps the boys out of the beer oarlors and keeps then from standing on the street corners cooking up mischief. Athletics tend to held the average boy in school, for without them, learning would be sort of dull business. Veny boys become so engrosred in sports that you couldn't hire then to leave school. But in order to participate in sports the student must keep his rank above nassingg and any boy who likes to match his ability against the other fellow's hates to drop out just because his rank is low. Another important thing about competitive sports, is that it teaches a boy to be a good loser as well as a good winnvr. The boy either wins or loses according to the rules of the game. In either case he has to obey the rules as he will have to obey the rules of society ln later life. All through life we shall have opportunities to prove that we are good sports, and the experience we have gained in taking the sour with the sweet in our high school athletics will prove a great asset to us sometime when a friend gives us a loaded cigar or when the fates load the bases against us. The good wind and the body build up which you receive ln athletics will go a long way toward keeping you away from the doctor when you are fifty. Sports will also give you the Y . h good clean air and sunshine Jhlch are the basis of good hcalt Participating in sports has many other advantages but after all health is something that riches or anything else can't buy. ...ep Business Course ? For the last hundred years this world has continually been undergoing changes. Jlthln all probability it has been the greatest century of improvement and new ideas ln History. The sands of the people have changed from set rules and customs and have become more logical and open to new thoughts. Schools, in conformity with the changing times, have widened the selection of subjects for the student to choose fren. Instead of just a eollejc course conslstlnj of latin .3

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sqm tug. can the day as town seemed impossible ten years ago. Hevertheless, no nood a er and a better fyunasium. Some of the work of remodelling 'be done by the Academy boys as a shop project. And with aid of our alumni and friends, no are confident that,some in the not too distant future we may have such a building we new contemplate. The Baseball Diamond qhy don't we get so-e hole from some of our interested speeple, and fix un our baseball diamond? The infield needs to be surfaced, the outfield needs to be smoothed out, and in t pose Goth in a a new backstop should be put up. The job ought to be done he falls -The use of the Library- Semc students make use of tho library for the sole our- of enjoymentg others use it to increase their information. reasons are worthy ones. The library can be employed number of ways as n decided asset to all. The material in our school library is varied. It ranges from encyclopedlas and atlases to magazines and pamphlets. Often the current issues on the reading table contain informa- tion better suited to our needs for the moment than that from text books. All can benefit fron the daily use of the dictionary. There are also books of bioyraohy, travel, sole of i nee, and current flctlcn from which to obtain all sorts nformatlon about places and people. To be sure, some pupils, by nature, enjoy reading more than others. Nevertheless, everyone een, by cultivating the habit of reading, develoo an interest in it and finally an enjoyment. All of us, as students, oufht to refund the use of the library as a source of pleasure rather than me a task. Vest every cewnunity of to-day has a public library. It has been proved, statistically, that weoole, who live in communities which do not have public libraries are not as well educated or informed, ns those in communities that do h9.VO a library. Since ue have this worth while oneortnnity in our own school, let us nate the oroner use of lt.

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wr., H Ru and French and the other basic subjects, or the general course. They are new adding practical and vocational courses such as the Commercial, Agricultural, and Home Economies Courses, and ln the larger schools, many others. There have been introduced into our school the Agricultural and the Home Economics courses, which are proving themselves very valuable additions. But it is our opinion that we are lacking just one course which would make our curriculum as near perfect as can be expected in a small town. This is s good business course which would consist of tyelng, shorthand, bookkeeping, and other business practices. The purpose of A this curriculum would be to traln a person for office Work without any further schooling or to make it possible for him to perform the usual functions of his personal business experiences. If he wanted to go on to college the feneral training in business practice would stand him in good stead. As it is now, the young people graduating from the Academy have to go to business schools in nearby cities to gain the clerical training which would be furnished them here if ue had this course. It will, of course, take some time before we can get this ln the school, but when the next major improvement is made it certainly should be the addition of this business course to the Academ . ii-6324!-'IHS-I!-23-11-21' We wish to acknowledge the gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Atkinson of an electric clock for the main room. This most apprepria te glft is very welcome indeed. 9