Memorial High School - Humanist Yearbook (West New York, NJ)

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Modern Languages MARY Ross Head Teacher Elvira Chiricosta Dr. Walter Eickmann Bertha Lacey Edna Moreau Mathematics BERTHA GODFREY Head Teacher Alice J. Halfpenny Ruth Meinzer Alice Palmer Mary Robinson Gilbert C.. Wagner Commercial Department ESTHER E. HANNA Head Teacher Ann Armellino Louis Brenner Florence Bruell Esther Chafetz Viola M. Donovan Marie Georgia Nicholas LeRose Grace L. K. Lupin Nancy A. Smith Bernice Y. Worth 0 Physical Education Florence D. Courtney Catherine DeLaney, R.N. David Klein Gertrude Reiley Director of Girls James Growney Director of Physical Education Page Thirteen

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Page Fourteen Principal's Message STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring, for ornament, is in discourse, and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one, but the general counsels, and the pilots and marshal- ing of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth, to use them too much for ornament, is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience, for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not seriously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory, if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. The three paragraphs above constitute the main part of Bacon's celebrated essay, On Studies . You have doubtless read this essay in your regular English classes. No doubt, also, you have forgotten all about it. Bacon's essay On Stucliesn is one that should never be forgotten, for it is the best guide for reading and study- ing that has ever been made. lt is worth reading again and again. It is one of those essays which should be chewed and digested. The more you read it, the more you will appreciate and understand the depth and breadth of a great mind. Bacon was an independent original thinker who has often been called The Father of the Scientific Methodn. He has had a great influence on the minds of those who think or try to think. Wise and learned as he was, he was a corrupt judge. His decisions were influenced by bribery. Pope has described him as the wisest, brightest, and meanest of mankind. imitate his virtues, eschew his sins. We