Moorestown Senior High School - Nutshell Yearbook (Moorestown, NJ)

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i KOi' THE HONOR GROUP IF TO do were as easy as to know what to do, beggars had been kings.” It is a human failing for folk to weary in well-doing, to start a task with keen interest and enthusiasm, and, ere the task is accomplished, to transfer their interest and effort to something more zestful, more novel, or just newer. Robert W. Service's words describing such folk may well l e applied to most of human kind: “If they just went straight, they might go Jar; They are fine and brave and true: Hut they re always tired oj the things that are. And they want the strange, the new. To their everlasting credit, it can be said of some students that they do pursue their course with conviction and courage, with industry and zeal; that they apportion their time anti energy systematically; that they turn Purpose into Endeavor, and Endeavor into Accomplishment. Such are our Honor Students, that ten per cent of our Graduating Class ranking highest. To these, who have chosen “ the l»etter part, ” our congratulations are sincerely and heartily offered: Jane White Betty Ellis Rose Palme Colores LeConey Mary Stevenson Harry Fellner Marjorie Lyons Ruth Feisst Everett Braddock Rita Cerullo William Stewart Margaret Roberts P 9 12 — THE NUTSHELL

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 A NEW DEAL IN SCHOOLS Jane White, '34 AN INTERESTING paradox is presented by a comparison of the progress of industry and of education. Industry has been moving very rapidly in the direction of extreme mechanization of all its processes. The schools have been moving more in the direction of cultivation of human intelligence and human appreciation. 1 he supply of man-power exceeds the demand; consequently, quality is demanded of the worker. Mechanical skill alone docs not render service acceptable; the essential skills must be accompanied by sincerity of work, strength of will, integrity of character. This new note in education, emphasizing, as it does, the personal element, is not confined to the United States. All the countries of the civilized world are recognizing the importance of developing in the children of today, who will be the citizens of the tuture, those fine personality traits that, nurtured and refined by culture and practice, blossom into sterling character. The following “Ten Commandments for School Children,” which comes from Czechoslovakia, is indicative of this emphasis: 1. Love your schoolmates; they will be your companions for life and work. 2. Love instruction, the food of the spirit. Be thankful to your teachers as to your own parents. 3. Consecrate every day by one good, useful deed of kindness. 4. Honor all honest people; esteem men but humble yourself before no man. 5. Suppress all hatred and beware of insulting vour neighbor; be not revengeful but protect your own rights and those of others. Love justice and bear pain and misfortune courageously. 6. Observe carefully and reflect well in order to get at truth. Deceive not yourself or others anti beware of lying, for lies destroy the heart, the soul, and the character. Suppress passions and radiate love and peace. 7. Consider that animals also have a right to your sympathy anti do not harm them or lease. 8. 'flunk that all good is the result of work; he who enjoys without working is stealing bread from the mouth of the worker. 9. Call no man a patriot who hates or has contempt for other nations, or who wishes and approves wars. War is the remains of barbarism. 10. Love your country and vour nation but be co-workers in the high task that shall make all men live together like brothers in peace and happiness. Let us keep in mind the philosophy underlying these “Ten Commandments for school children in far-away Czechoslovakia, as we review the dominant notes struck at the meeting of the National Education Association, Department of Superintendents. . (Continual on page 14) CLASS OF 1934 Pag 11 —

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 SOME FACTS ABOUT ALUMNI ATTENDING COLLEGE We have at the present time eighty-three alumni attending degree-granting col leges anti normal schools, as follows: Rutgers.................................. 1 Drew..................................... 1 United States Naval Academy.............. 1 Coast Guard.............................. 1 N. J. C.................................. I Ursinus.................................. 2 Montclair................................ 2 Cornell.................................. 1 Villa Nova............................... 1 U. of P.................................. 3 F. and M................................. 1 South Jersey Law School.................. 3 Wheaton.................................. 2 Hood..................................... 1 Duke..................................... 5 Beaver................................... Earlham.................................. 1 Glassboro................................ 7 Virginia Normal.......................... 2 Drexel.................................. 16 Sweet Briar.............................. J Temple................................... 9 Wilson................................... 3 Goucher.................................. 2 Swarthmore............................... 4 University of North Carolina............. I Purdue................................... 1 Trenton.................................. ® Amherst.................................. 1 Hampton.................................. 1 Mcrccrsburg.............................. 1 Rider.................................... 1 A compute record of their marks for the first semester of the school year 1933-'54 has been solicited and received from the various colleges included. Of the 427 Marks recorded, 57 (13.35%) were A's 54 (12.64%) were I) s 135 (31.61%) were B’s 11 (2.58%) were either conditioned or incomplete 164 (38.41%) were C's 6 (1.41%) were failures. CLASS OF 1934 Pag 13