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THE ANNUAL Last year ' s Annual staff bemoaned the lack of a suitable room for the dinner pupils to eat in. This year the Board of Education fitted up the room in the north¬ east corner of the basement, in truly regal style. Mission oak tables, hot plates, coffee-pots, etc., etc. The corridor leading to the room was fitted with lockers to hold the dinners safe during school hours. After a suitable “opening” by the faculty the room was turned over to the pupils. The room between Miss Moore ' s and Mr. Baldwin’s was supplied with the best magazines and equipped as a read¬ ing room. The dinner pupils certainly have it on the rest of us now. They are not compelled to walk to some distant home, swallow their dinner whole, and rush back again. All they need to do is to step into the dining hall, eat a nice, warm dinner and then retire to the rest room or library. Dinner pupils, we congratu¬ late you. OBSERVATORY. Astronomy is one of the most interesting studies. It is one of the oldest of the sciences. The earliest records left by man tell of his interest in, and study of, astronomy. As you look out into infinite space, you seem to see the stars gliding across the inside surface of a great, hollow sphere. Among them we see Sirius, the dog star; Arcturus and fiercely-burning Procyon sending its waves of light so distinctly to the eye. These blazing suns are awe-inspiring sights in themselves as looked at with the naked eye. But get a telescope, even a small one, and your vision will be increased wonderfully. By it you will be enabled to see some of the wonders of the solar system ; the beautiful rings of Saturn, the canals of Mars, and the stripes of Jupiter. You can see the great nebulae in Andromeda and Orion, where new worlds are in process of creation. You can see double and triple stars. And as you look and realize that their distances are ex¬ pressed in hundreds of thousands of astronomical units, then and then only are you given a proper conception of the universe in which you live. - 11 -
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THE ANNUAL At the beginning of the school year, Mr. Hall ransacked the building in an at¬ tempt to find enough pupils interested in astronomy to form a class, and six only responded. This lack of interest is due to the fact that we have no equipment in our High School for teaching such a science. All we have is a gilded dome, re- diculuusly called an observatory, in which were spent thousands of dollars of tax¬ payer ' s money. The teachers are able and willing to teach students who are anxious to stuJy astronomy if given the least encouragement. It ' s somebody ' s move. We have money for this, that and the other tiling, but no money with which to buy a tele¬ scope and suitable equipment for a good observatory. It is the sincere hope of the staff that coming students will have the opportunity of studying this noblest of all sciences with the help of a satisfactory telescope. What is the real cause of cigarette smoking in the High School? Is it the fear of being lost in this motley crowd without a headlight; of passing unnoticed un¬ less puffing away like a locomotive and sending up smoke like a camp-fire? Per¬ haps it is the desire to acquire a bad odor. There are bad smells to be found in every back alley. To be sure, this matter is slightly without the jurisdiction of “ The Annual , but we feel this to be one of the leading questions of the day ; one to be considered and thought about along with High Cost of Living. Perhaps it is the work of a contagious germ. As we ponder upon this and see so many in¬ nocent young men under the spell, this seems very probable. If this is the case, we urgently and earnestly beseech our bacteriologists to set to work to discover a toxine that will rid the land of such a curse. Of course the blame of all the smoking rested originally upon the shoulders of Sir Walter Raleigh. If he were living, we feel that just punishment would be meted out to him. But he has been safely dead these many years ; no doubt went up in smoke. It seems ridiculous that so many up-to-the-minute young men of this day should be content to follow such an old-fashioned custom. We feel that none of these reasons can be applied, and that the real cause for cigarette smoking amoung our boys is a desire to break rules, to be “men , and an awful fear lest the adjective “slow may be ap¬ plied to them. What is truth? That is the question which has confronted the ages. We could give no better advice than that some High School students should find out what truth is and then practice it. If they did, they would have to quit all their lying, deception and trickery. They would have to keep their books closed in class, whether the teacher was in a position to see or not. They would have to cease getting translations from their neighbor. If they promised to write a story for the Annual, they would do it. They would not resort to trickery to secure their grades. Wouldn ' t it be ideal? They wouldn’t lie to Mr. Hall to get an ex¬ cuse, because they would realize that “ murder will out , and the effect would never be forgotten. Always remember, as Bacon puts it, “that clear and sound dealing is the honor of man ' s nature . This year the students of the High School and the people of Mansfield had an opportunity to hear one of the greatest lecturers on the platform today—Byron W. King. The occasion was the entertainment given by the school at the Congrega¬ tional Church with this same King as speaker. He certainly filled the bill, the house, and High School pocket-book. Over $100 was raised to buy pictures with. — 12 —
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