Mamaroneck High School - Mahiscan Yearbook (Mamaroneck, NY)

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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

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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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10 THE SPY IN RETROSPECTION Now that we are near the end of the school year, it seems both fitting and proper that a record of our doings be placed before the public eye. Vife think that such a record will rouse the interest of our parents, who have formerly regarded us as mere machines for the earning of a few passable marks. Such an idea must surely be routed and with this in mind we here set forth the ambitions, aims, and achievements of Freshman, Sophomore, junior, Senior. The Freshmen really have had '-a hard year of it, and they have achieved some- thing which gratifies all those who have lived one year with them in the same build- ing, and that is that their verdant green- ness is turning into a faint pink which might well be the dawn of a successful year under the title of Sophomores. Yes indeed, Freshies, you have wabbled along quite suc- cessfully this year, and we see you as the tadpole of a very hne, dignified Senior frog of 1926. You had a very successful party where you made as much racket as possible and had a corking time. Queer rumors had been floating around the school concerning milk bottles on Saturday afternoon, but you fooled them all, perfectly respectable punch out of perfectly respectable paper cups was drunk by perfectly respectable Freshman, if you can imagine such an individual. Your class contains several stars who excel in various branches of school activities. this is quite unusual. but indeed you are an un- usual class, so plod on little Freshie, plod on! The Sophomores are respectable, con- tented, and rich citizens -of the High School. You have no longer that strange solemnity which marks the Freshman, nor have you yet grasped that giddiness which only a Senior may attain. You will make a splendid junior Class, and a wonderful Senior Class when you hold the reins of school government in your hands. You also had a very nice party with lots of green things called shamrocks hanging around, if we're not mistaken the great attraction was a unique feature or something like that. You by now have discovered in- dividual talent in your Class and indeed our assemblies would never be so interesting without you, so plod on little Sophie, plod on! The next class is a perplexing problem- one of knots and tangles-one which fills the late room yet runs the school govern- ment. We can certainly say that We pity Miss Nolan next year. But where would the school be without you, 192i? The teachers would have none to scold, the building would somewhat resemble Wfood- lawn in quietudeg in fact the school would be lost without you. You are said to be a sister class of the Freshman, and at times we are even able to see the resemblance, not physically, of course. If the rest of the school has as much pep as you, the building would cave in for we never saw such ex- citement as 1924 hot on the trail of the lunch room. You will be a marvelous Senior Class if you go on as you are going now, so plod on little -Tune bug, plod on! And now the Seniors-you have pattled your way through High School against fearful odds such as Regents, and are finally about to graduate even against the will of the teachers. Many of you are bat- tle scarred and weary, that is, in the build- ing, for the outside seems to produce an entirely different effect. You have done all that respectable, well bred Seniors should do-in fact, there is little left for you to accomplish, but to put on your best clothes and graduate. As Alumni, we only hope you will return now and then to the haunts of your childhood to refresh your memories with the happy, secluded hours you have spent here. ELEANOR lVl1r.LroaN. Have you ever noticed what a large part I plays in initiative? In other words: If you want things to come your way, get to work and start them.