Mattanawcook Academy - Pine Needles Yearbook (Lincoln, ME)

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10 PINE NEEDLES pressing the desire for a new gymna- sium. In 1917 a commencement number was printed in which we find an ac- count of the several boys who had left school to enlist in the army to fight in the World War. These students re- ceived full credit for the year's work. Since we have not been able to find a Pine Needles between 1917and 1925, we assume that no Pine Needles were printed between those dates. In the 1925 issue the students express their gratitude for the new Lincoln Memo- rial Library. Pine Needles have been printed in 1927, 1931, 1932, and 1934 to 1937 inclusive. We hope that the idea of a school magazine has now been firmly enough established so that it will be a regular publication from now on. There has been no file kept of the Pine Needles, and we should appreci- ate very much the donation of a set of these magazines. We feel that our school magazines are a vital part of the history of our school. Now that we have every facility for keeping them, we feel that that we should make a special effort toward getting together a complete file-which can be added to each year-of Pine Needles from 1906 to the present. -H. Moody, '38 -M. A.-- WHY DO WE DO IT? Here is a mystery-one to which I shall probably never find a solution. Why do we do it? Why do we work and slave, face fatigue and hardships, just to get a few miles away from ra- dios, electric lights, and automobiles? Why is it that many of us look for- ward to hiking over nine or ten miles of rough, jarring trail with fifty pound packs on our aching backs? Is it be- cause we have became addicted to the drug of Nature's out-of-doors? Why don't we prefer sitting cozily in the family circle, watching the lat- est movies, or playing about with a group of friends, to making a cold, dry camp, twenty miles back from no- where? Doesn't it seem more likely that we should prefer a soft, warm, comforta- ble bed at home to a couple of blan- kets, spread on a heap of spruce boughs? Why doesn't one notice a piece of charcoal or a few grains of sand in the soup when seated by a wilder- ness campfireg we know very well that he would approach apoplexy if such a thing occurred at home. Doesn't it seem strange that one will work at the camp wood-pile un- til his back screams in protest? But when mother asks him to fill the wood- box, he is suddenly afflicted with sun- dry aches and pains before he takes a step? Why is it that when one stumbles back from an excessively tiring trip in the wilds, he swears never to do it again, and goes wearily to bed, and two days later he is enthusiastically planning a similar trip? Therein lies my mystery, will someone please ex- plain? -C. Wakefield, '38 --M. A.- VVANTED: A NEW SCHOOL SONG Students, we need a new school song! Not only is ours old and worn out, but many other schools have the same one. The words and music were- n't original in the first place, do we

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mr MATTANAWCOOK ACADEMY 9 letic field and tennis courts, other sports will be started. Let's hope for more school spirit and interest. There were other things we desired as well, a new library, a commercial course, and, this year, a motion pic- ture machinepfor the purpose of giv- ing the students a greater diversity in courses and more recreational oppor- tunities. We now have all three of these, and, indeed, it may be said that these have helped raise the standard of the school. Today, the cry is for new courses in Home Economics, Manual Training, and Physical Culture. However, to obtain these desired things shouldn't we show more ap- preciation for those things which have already been given us? If those who have helped us get these things feel that we really do want the things we ask for and will appreciate them to the fullest extent, they will know they are really doing good by granting our wishes. So let's take advantage of our li- brary, our tennis courts, our gymna- sium, and all our other improvements, and show more appreciation for these things, as well as more school spirit. -M. A.- OUR NEW MOVING PICTURE MACHINE This year we have been able to pur- chase, with our magazine fund money, a generous check from our good friend Dr. Averill and a good-sized donation from the Cobb Fund, a new Victor Moving Picture Machine. By the use of the machine, which is like those that are being used in many schools, the teacher can bring to the student, problems and explanations which he might never otherwise be able to demonstrate. Not only have we taken steps to- ward visual education, the new trend in learning, but we have also provided ourselves with an excellent victrola with all sorts of attachments for dance music at school parties. Moving pictures will be shown fre- quently as entertainments as well as supplementary class work. -M. A.- HISTORY OF THE PINE NEEDLES In the fall of 1906, a group of stu- dents organized a school magazine. A vote was taken, and it was decided that the magazine should be called The Pine Needles. This magazine, which was to be published twice a year, had as its first Editorial Board the following: Editor in Chief Emily MacGregor Associate Editors Rolland Mills J. Walter Wells Minnie MacDougal Bessie M. Wyman Business Manager Isaac Gordan Asst. Business Mgrs. Harry B. Stevens Robert P. Clark The price of this magazine was ten cents. There were two magazines printed in that year, but another one was not printed until 1911. In this copy, there is a plea for a new high school: you see that the students of Mattanaw- cook Academy waited several years for their new building. The next number, which was not printed until 1916, was a memorial number. Three of the students of Mat- tanawcook Academy had met acci- dental death during that year. There is also an article in this magazine ex-

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MATTANAWCOOK ACADEMY ll want M. A. to be a mere copy cat? Other schools have either tune or words similar. We want to be original. How shall we obtain a new school song? By writing a new one. A prize of three dollars is offered to the stu- dent who brings in the best song. The music doesn't have to be original, but it must not be too familiar. The tune should be stirring, martial, peppy. The Words should be original, some- thing new but suitable, with allusions to familiar things. Come on, students! Not only will you be covered with glory, but you will receive a monetary reward. Get busy! Q Q WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT M. A.? Answers 1. First and twenty-fifth. ' 2. Mattanawcook Academy in 1857. 3. Dr. Adams' mother, who used to teach here. 4. Mr. Charles Cobb. 5. In the Lobby of Cobb Hall. 6. The school children of Lincoln. 7. Sixteen. 8. 1857. 9. October 15, 1933. 10. Crimson and Grey. 1 lf ttgr A . V213 ,X ,ph ,, 1