Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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THE ANNUAL TYPES OF HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS. In his walk through life the keen observer sees many types of people. No¬ where does one see more of these types than in the High School. The staff has a point of vantage in the e ditorial room from which we can look out upon our little Mansfield High School world. We see many professional loafers, the intellectual hoboes, who flourish in our INTELLECTUAL midst in great numbers. They are the gentle, retiring HOBO. spirits to whom work is especially distasteful and to whom much labor is a “ weariness to the flesh They believe in doing as they please, particularly when they please to do nothing at all. They toil not, neither do they spin ; and by their own report they are nut only not equal to labor but are superior to it. In short, the intellectual hobo employs the method of “ rough¬ ing it ” to get through High School. The bookworm, though found but rarely, we sometimes see within our halls. THE He lives and moves and has his being in books. He is BOOKWORM. generally pale and inorbiJ ; but exercise would remedy that. He is happiest when buried in his musty books. Oblivious to all going on about him, he ignores his frivilous classmates. Generally he is a girl. Our next type is the rattle-brained girl. It has been sidd that all girls are THE more or less rattle-brained ; but we refer only to the RATTLE-BRAINED variety very much afflicted. Such a girl receives but GIRL. very little benefit from High School. She is quite in¬ capable of an original idea in her silly little head, and just as incapable of retain¬ ing anything from her books. Her thoughts are entirely taken up with her hair and “ him , She is more numerous than she ought to be in the High School. Another type is the dreamer, that mystical spirit whose mind is always soaring THE above the sordid things of earth, while his lessons go DREAMER. unheeded. Perhaps he is growing too fast or he may have a touch of ' spring fever At any rate he finds it much easier to let his thoughts dwell upon the cheerful things of life than to 11 dig n at some proposition to which he “ never could see any sense, anyway However, he should not be condemned too much, for who knows what great things he is planning for the future? The musical organizations in the High School this year are as follows : The Orchestra, made up wholly of players with stringed instruments, and the piano ; the Senior Glee Club, consisting of about twenty members of the Senior Class; a quartette of mixed voices ; the Senior Male Quartette, and the School Chorus, containing all pupils in the Junior and Senior classes. Besides furnishing music for rhetoricals, receptions, etc., in the High School, the orchestra played at the mid-winter session of the Richland County Teachers 1 Institute, and the Glee Club sang at the annual banquet of the Lincoln Association. The musical organi¬ zations also furnished a large part of the music for the concerts given at the Bow¬ man street grade school, which resulted in the purchase of a beautiful piano for that building. — 13 -

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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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THE ANNUAL The annual spring concert was given in the First Congregational Church on Friday night, April 29, 1910, to a good and appreciative audience. The chorus of nearly 200 voices made the building ring with the music that had been studied during the year and, together with a miscellaneous programme of vocal and in¬ strumental solos, male and mixed quartettes, and a reading from Julius Caesar, the whole affair was a splendid success. Music will also be well represented in the commencement programme. We wish to thank Mr. Leppo and his assistants for the consideration they have shown us while we were preparing this paper. Many times we have been in their way and hindered them in their work. These people have work to do, and the fact that they looked upon us with so much charity gives us reason for gratitude. We wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to our Advisory Board, Miss Feld- ner and Mr. Marting, whose material assistance has been of such great value to us. Miss Feldner has served in this capacity for several years, and has been a great help to us. The staff is indeed to be congratulated on obtaining one so com¬ petent as Mr. Marting. Having had experience in this line of work before, he has been an excellent critic and at all times a willing assistant. To Mr. Beckett and the commercial pupils who have so kindly assisted in typewriting the manuscripts, and to all teachers and pupils who have taken an interest in our work, we extend our hearty thanks. We are grateful, also, to the business men of the city who have aided us financially by giving us their adver¬ tisements. - 14 —