Mamaroneck High School - Mahiscan Yearbook (Mamaroneck, NY)

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3 THE SPY Ihp Sm VOL. 2 MAMARONECK, NEVV YORK, JUNE, 1923 No. LL Issued quarterly by the students of lvlaniaroneck High School. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Mainaroneck, New Y-ork. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized April 19, 1922. Printed by the New Rochelle Pioneer. Single issues, 25c a copy. 31.00 a year. C'O11'11116I1CC111C1'1t Issue, 50c a copy. ,,ii .- BOARD OF EDITORS ARTHUR O. ERNST, '23 ...................... .... E ditor-in-Chief SPENCER CONE, '23 .......... HENRY GREENTHAL, '23 .... . . . Business Manager . . . . Exchange Editor GEORGE BELL, '23 ............................ ........ A rt Editor ANNA M. NOLAN ............................... .. . Faculty Adviser ASSOCIATE EDITORS ELIZABETH SLOANE, '23 ....... HELEN GARDINER, '21 .. ADELAIDE DUNN, '24 ........ KENNETH STEVVART, '23 .... MUNN BREWER, '23 ........ MABEL ALBERT, '23e -IANE FRENCH, '2-lf ' ' DOROTHY O'REILLY, '25 .. RICHARD SALMAN, '21 DONALD BROVVN, '23 GEORGE HINMAN, '21 GEORGE MARSHALL, '23 . Assistant Editor-in-Chief .Assistant Business Manager ............. Girls' Athletics ........... Boys' Athletics jokes School Notes Alumni EMIL MALMOUIST, '23 ELSA KEIL, IRVING COHFN. '25 BALDVVIN GRIFFIN, EDITORIALS ADVICE TO THOSE VVHO How to do well in your college studies. If you want to do well in your college, you must begin well. The First f-our weeks' work cannot be thoroughly done unless you are present at every recitation and listen attentively. You must be able to apply some of the simple rules of study if you are to succeed. The best brain in the World is one that learns quickly and keeps what it gets, for- ever. ARE TO ENTER COLLEGE. President Eliot, of Harvard, has said that the greatest thing to get in college is the trained capacity for niental labor rapid, intense and sustaining. 'Do not let anything break your schedule off work. Study the lesson as a Whole, then analyze it carefully. Visualize, work with con- centration. Assume the attitude you would have if you Were' playing tennis, basket' ball or football.

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S THE SPY '7 Vile who are graduating soon, But little realize The great amount of honest t-oil That still before us lies. lf we are going to reach our goal, VVhatever it may be, The road of hard work is the one That leads to victory. For four years we have studied here And with it came much fun. Though some -of us have thought it Our real work's just begung For now we go another step To college or to work, And great will be the consequence lf in this step we shirk. Success or failure On how we shape will depend our courseg From this time on, no guiding hand a loss g lfVill save us from For whenat college or at work You're one of a thousand meng lf you should fail. there is no one To lift you up again. A PARTING WORD hard, When First we came from grammar school. Success seemed far awgyg But four years here in high school Have set us on our way. . But still we must keep struggling on, We have not yet arrivedg Y We must not think we know it all S Because so far we've thrived. Success lies on a flowing stream Thousands of miles awayg VVith many a hidden reef or shoal Each mile along the way. XfVe cannot reach it in a day, Or in one year or twog But if we keep sailing steadily on lVe,ll succeed if our course is true. And each must at his own wheel stand Director of his shipg For there is no one who will take The helm if we should slip. Each minute will be precious then, There'll be no time to fo-olg For we will have no guiding hands Such as we've had in school. There's one thing that we're sorry for, And yet it's for the best- The building known as M. H, S. Will soon not so be blessedg Too crowded is the old place now, The building on the hillg But many years from now 'twill stand The same in our memory still. And therelll be built a new high school lts share of fame to gain, Witli students by the hundreds Its honor to maintain. Witli football and baseball field and track And with a spacious gym. And with a pool of generous size ln which to take a swim. No luxuries like that had we, But still we made a name For M. H. S., that little school Knows how to play the game: Oh M. H. S., oh little school! Forever you will be Though years may come and years may g Dear in our memory! i A. O. E. O

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THE SPY 9 'A Word from the Principal Another school year draws to its close, In a few more short hours many happy pass through the portals of the their way to a joyous vacation. will have heavy hearts for they know that they will never again return as students to the familiar halls. Father Time is an arbitrary old master and his dictates in the change in the affairs of mortals know no compromises. Once there was a famous Greek philoso- pher-Heraclitus, who propounded the doctrine that the explanations of all things mortal were found in Change. llllodern times have accepted that ancient thought in the terms of the theory of evolution. Noth- ing mortal remains stationary. It is either advance or retreat, progress or deteriorate. Progress is largely conditioned upon our education, as to the things have been, with a prophetic things that are to be. The anticipates the changes and faces will school on But some training-our that are and vision of the trained mind readily attunes itself to the newer condi- tions of progress. If this education is tempered with common sense and sharp- ened with courage, the owner is equippe'l with a tool that can carve his name among the immortals of the ages. The world to- day has little use for and less patience with the illiterate or the self-complacent- or the float-with-the-tide individual who clutters up the path of progress and knows not Time's decree of change. Happy is the man who, when life's school draws near its close, can look hack over the years that have gone and measure his accomplishments in terms, not of dollars accumulated or of selhsh honors won. but in terms of his constructive services render- ed to society-his fellow-men. The poet has admirably expressed this thought in those immortal lines: In life's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife. May I not wish God-speed to those who are leaving and a happy vacation and joyous return to those who would continue their preparation for the happy adjust- ments in the world of tomorrow. SCHOOL SPIRIT. Mamaroneck I-Iigh School is surely lack- ing both in a spiritual and materalistic sense: lVe should need no reminder of them for our quite evident deficiencies are numerous and vital. Mamaroneck High School is weak in one respect above all others-it is absolutely devoid of School Spirit in any form, shape or manner. Perhaps this seemingly drastic statement is accepted doubtfully. A review of the facts, however, we think will improve our conclusions, for we can present a listiof carefully th-ought-out reasons for that as- sumption :- First a list of twenty persons would ade- quately include all those who represent the school in athletics. Another twenty could more than adequately include all those un- selhshly active in other school projects. None of the athletic teams are supported as they deserveg our cheering squads are jokes-other schools continually disgrace us on our home grounds. The Spy re- presents the work of a few and has no semblance of support from the school, either in literary contributions or in pecuniary subscriptions and yet the school does not refrain from criticism of all our activities, either literary or sport. Perhaps our readers will say we are too harsh, too severe on our school or that we are stretching th-e facts, but at any rate, a little criticism will do us no harm. It is rather a policy with the Spy to say noth- ing unless it be praise-it is time to change that policy and to deal with matters as ther are not m-erely as we would like them. It is now time that the school should awaken to its needs and opportunities pre- paratory for a new and better year. This year is ov-erg the Seniors are out: forget the past and consider the future g--Iuniors make good l ! I