Newburyport High School - Enaitchess Yearbook (Newburyport, MA)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORD STANDARD Have you ever stopped to reallze how valuable the tralnlng that you re celve ln Hugh School IS to you or how much you can make xt worth3 Gener ally lt takes two years of Hugh School before a student begln to realize the posslbllltres and the opportumtles off ered him After two years he surely should have determlned how much he IS gomg to get from nts benefnts It IS a natural and entlrely human boast of an underclassman to relate hrs cleverness ln evadlng certam asslgn ments We all understand for once we ourselves were IH the same boat so to speak have wasted IH drawmg half thots and carlcatures on pieces of arithmetic pap er or rn starlng blankly out of the wm dow But lf we reckoned the amount of time of such moments we should be appalled at the fact that we could have studxed a complete language or science It w1ll be a broad mxnded progress we underclassman who can benefit by hrs predecessor s experlence ln usmg those llstless ldle moments ln studylng or ln reading somethlng that wlll be of value ln addlng to hls General know ledge knowledge whlch at the most can be only an atom out of the world s treasure house WHY CAN'T N H S HAVE THE TRACK FACILITIEs OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE7 When we read the daxly papers and see what successful meets other schools are holding and how enthuslastxc they are over track we feel rather envious because we cannot turn out a crack team too Why are we unable to turn out a crack team3 Not because f lack of Interest or support on the part of the student body not because there IS no maternal ln thls school but the reason can be summed up ln the phrase of three words lack of faCllltl6Sl New buryport doesn t glve track the chance nt should have because rt furmshes no place for practice There s no smooth cmder track for the runner s spikes to dng up m the Fall and Sprung no mdoor track or available hall to speed around ln dur1nU the winter Newburyport Hugh has always tralned a fine team IH Splte of these handlcaps ln the track history of recent years of the Crimson and Old Gold only one defeat ln a home meet recorded and that was be cause N H S has no tralned contest ants for two events thus glvrng thelr opponents seventeen undlsputed points and even then Newburyport lost by only one point' Such a record should be kept up Many fellows are wnllmg and eager to tram lf only the opportunlty 13 glven them Why not glve them that chance5 Why cannot Newburyport give lts Hngh School the chances other schools have'-' Recently a clty ln the central part of the state appropriated SI 25000 00 to gxve 1ts boys the athlet IC faCllltlCS they should have Another town m the eastern sectlon of the state rs makmg plans to erect a stadlum and bulld a track for lts school Why you ask do they do th1s3 Because they belleve ln promotmg athletlcs and glv mg the youth of thexr CltlCS the benefits that track athletlcs develop physlcal and otherwlse Why cannot the cxty of Newburyport grve xts boys a chance and also benefit the Clty as well by provld mg N H S with the facxlxtles for track such as other schools have? I I , . . , o . . . . Q . 3 ' 1 1 - . . 3 ' 1 1 1 1 1 . I 2 ' Q . 'Z . y 1 1 Seldom do we think of the time we . . , ' v ' . . . , - , . . . 5 - . ' 7 . Y Y 1 1 1 1. .ll . , Y I ' , Fx 1 Q 1 1 . . Y . v , Y . 1 1 1 . . . .

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THE I-IIGI-I SCHOOL RECORD 2, . ,, 'fin' ' TIME Lost Sixty golden minutes each set round wlth slxty dxamond seconds somewhere between sunrlse and sunset No reward IS offered for they are lost forever How many of you waste your t1me5 One mmute one hour or one day3 It lS a crlme that IS commltted dally AI though pumshment IS often slow m commg lt surely comes How often has a man lost a large busmess deal be cause he wasted an hour how often has a loss of tlme cost a llfe Thmk of It Take your own case Whlle each of us IS young the wasting of txme does not seem serxous to us How often we s1t m school ndly dreamlng of what we are golng to do That should not be our alm We should have as our goal ac compllshment lfear however that we do not have any goal at all Llfe should be too dear to us to lose a mln ute of tnme We should use our tlme advantageously ln school ln study and at home Dost thou love llfe then do not squander time the stuff life s made of ' Florence Adams, '20 SCHOLARSHIP Should anyone ask you, What lS a hrgh school for5 you would doubtless thlnk hlm msane Everyone knows, of course, the purpose of a hrgh school But does the hlgh school, our hugh school, fulflll lts purpose3 When each of us leaves thls school will we take wnth us the knowledge that we planned to obtaln when we entered the school5 Wrll the general students have the fund of general mformatxon that wlll and them substantlally rn whatever career they follow3 Wlll the commerclal stu dents have a workable knowledge of business prmclples and of phonogra phy3 Wlll the college and sclentlfic students be prepared to enter college or a un1vers1ty3 Those questlons marks are enormous l fear Every now and then we have mass meetlngs to arouse enthuslasm for athletlcs plays and other school actlvltles but we nev er call a mass meeting to arouse lnterest ln the scholarshlp of the school A school wouldn t be much without these aCtlVltlCS but lt would be absolutely nothmg wlthout scholarshlp er haps we don t need any such meetmg perhaps every pupil ln thls school IS do mg hrs best to make hrs hrgh school car eer worth whlle perhaps we re all sall mg along on A s and B s but I doubt t Don t blame the teachers, college students lf you can t pass those college boards, don t fmd fault with the school, commercnal students, lf you fmd you're nowhere when rt comes to actual bus mess, general students, don't say, MV whole four years were wasted, and condemn your mstructors, untll untll, l say you are sure that you've ulmblb ed all the knowledge that this school and nts faculty can glve you I0 A flifig flfcf J ttto of Of , X V1 '01 , ' ! I ! Q 1 ' 1 9 9 p i I n 9 D -1 O 0 . R Wm I ' I I , , 4- . , . . ' P -

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORD DEMOCRACY IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS Democracy un our hugh schools may seem at furst a rather lumuted and nar row subject But when we see that the hugh school tsudent of today us the cutuzen of tomorrow and that the chuef duty of our cutuzenshup us that of takung un actuve unterest ln state and natuonal aflaurs the securung of sound democrat uc basus for our cutuzenshup us seen to be umperatuve Our modern hugh school represents theh furm foundatuon upon whuch our udeas of democracy should be founded A democrat does not essentually re fer to a member of a deflnute polutucal party but stands for the men or women who belueve 1n government of the people by the people and for the peo p e It us on thus platform that our natuonal polucues are carrued out States men may duffer as to pollcues not so much as to how they wull affect theur personal unterests but as to how they wull affect the unterests of our country at large We the pupuls of thus hugh school may duffer as to polucues and as to man agement of school affaurs but we must not let the personal element enter our controversues and Judgments There have been too many cluques of late Too much personal unterest and very llttle school unterest seems to be the vogue It us tlme that we awoke to the fact that personal unterest us very poor traunung for our future duties as cutuzens The polucues unvoked by personal unter est are bad and only temporary at best On the other hand those pollcues unvok ed by school unterest are usually good and lastlng un effect Perhaps ut us because of the defects un our school government that these cluques are allowed to exust If so we should be wullung to lusten to plans for the alterung of our exustung school government Some plan should b offered that would band the dufferent classes together wuthout losmg theur status as classes makung them as one wuth the sole object the advancement of the school as a whole We see that offerung pruzes for stor ues creates a spurut of fruendly rivalry among the students lVlany contrubu tuons were sent un from Whuch the foll owung pruze works were chosen The Junuor pruze was awarded to Emuly W Page for her story On wrut mg an Essay and the Sophomore pruze to ohn Parker for hus poen A New Hugh School No pruze was a uors but George Hubbard s The Duary of A Freshman deserves honorable honorable mentuon as does George Noyes s ln Utopua We hope that the Freshmen wull wun a pruze un con nectuon wuth the une ussue These storres are publushed un thus ussue of the Record and are well worthy of the readers attentuon The Freshmen seem to have more artusts un their class than authors The Grve and Take headung was done by James Clarkson The Edutorual headung was admurably done by Ruth Connolly and Beatrlce Fogg contrubuted the Recorclograph and Alumnu headungs At the tume thus ussue went to press the wunners of the Art awards had not been chosen but ut looks as uf the Freshmen wull get theur share of pruzes The cover desugn was drawn by George Parker 20 and Helen Hucks 20 drew the Athletucs headung IZ . .. . U Y v ' e . , . f . . . . . y , - 1 s n A , ' ,-- , H . ' i . . y . - J., I H ' 1 1 ' ' warded to the Freshmen, or to the Sen- , - - . . . , 51 ' 'V ns - 1 uv - u , ' 1 1 I p . ' ' ' St , 1 ll ,