Manchester High School - Somanhis Yearbook (Manchester, CT)

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SOMANHIS EVENTS le ISAEL MADELINE WEIR “And if to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face znd you'll forget them all.” EDITH ARLINE WELDON “Or light or dark, or short or tall, She set a spring to snare them all.’ ETHEL LORAINE WELDON “She laughed and danced and talked and sung.” LFRIDA AMELIA WENNER- STROM “Thou art too mild, too mild, I pray thee swear.” S. M. H. S. FACULTY 1918-1919

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12 SOMANEHIS EVENS HARRY JOSEPH SANDEN “And when a lady’s in the case, You know, all other things give place.” WILLIAM RANDALL TOOP “Oh Paradise, oh Paradise, Who doth not crave for rest?” PHILIP SHAW “Oh Bed! Bed! Bed! Delicious Bed! That Heaven upon earth to the weary head.” MARION AUGUSTA TYLER “In work she finds her recreation.” HENRY EDWARD SMITH “On with the dance; let joy be unconfined.” EUGENIA CECELIA VAN SPEYBROECK “A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak and no one can spell.” SARAH FRANCES SPILLANE “The opportunity for mischief comes a hundred times a day.” MAURICE CARNEY WADDELL “Men of few words, are the best men.” JOHN THOMAS SPILLANE “Still waters run deep.” ALICE MATILDA WEHR “Oh she will sing the savage- ness out of a bear.”

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1 SOMA SEES: GEVOE NLS THE VALUE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION HAT will the members of the graduating class do next year? It is an ail- absorbing question which we must consider seriously, and which to- night seems unusually important. Perhaps some of us are not considering going to college; perhaps some are fully determined to go; perhaps some are wavering. At all events, it may be helpful in reaching a decision to know what are the real, undeniable values of a college education, To begin with, a college education is a sound business investment. We have been accustomed to think of scholars as dreamers—vague and unbusiness- like. But there is a practical value in “book learning” too. No matter what business you eventually take up, a knowledge of foreign languages will be very useful, and an acquaintance with literature and history ‘the best mirrors of humanity” will help you in dealing with the world. Perhaps a more tangible consideration is that of the mental discipline gained in college. The habit of sustained labor, the development of thought power, the ability to suc- cessfully grapple with new problems, are all invaluable attributes in business. There is an increasing demand for intelligent, well-educated men and women in special branches and in big business enterprises. It often happens that the companionship of worth-while people strengthens our sense of honor; certainly college training fosters the habit of promptness—and both these qualities are business assets. Often, too, we make firm friends who not only give us pleas- ure, but are willing to “lend a hand” to us in all emergencies. For a shrewd young American there is no better bargain than college. He may obtain returns infinitely greater than the price paid and his earning capacity is vastly increased hy a higher education. Moreover, educated men and women rise with astonish- ing rapidity to prominent positions, ultimately much higher than those who have been learning their trades while their comrades were in college. In the rise to power nowadays we frequently encounter well educated men and women, and unless we possess the weapons of which they are masters, we are apt to feel pretty helpless, and to be thrown out of the competition. But there are better, deeper reasons for going to college than those which appeal to our practical instincts. When Aristotle was asked in what way the educated differ from the uneducated he answered, “As the living differ from the dead.” Does any human want to be mentally dead? To be thus robs you of an infinite amount of pleasure. Perhaps today you can amuse yourself with “movies” and parties, but in old age, hard times, or illness will not your un- trained, inactive mind be more of a burden than an aid to you in solving your problems? Must the price of eggs, Jim’s new job, and Mrs, Jones’s spring hat be your only topics of conversation, your only food for thought? If you have other friends, whom you met in college, cultured people, with whom you feel at ease, because of the knowledge and savoir faire gained in college, you wil) have other interests: your life cannot be one monotonous round. College education will give you more than pleasure; it will help you to find a very real happiness. The environment, the experience, the studies, should all help you to perceive what the truly vital things of life are and to discard false valuations. You will get better ideas on many subjects and, very often, higher ideals. Then, too, you will understand things. Even if circumstances