Newburyport High School - Enaitchess Yearbook (Newburyport, MA)

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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 ,

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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 HIGH SCHOOL RECORD In Memonam DENNIS C LOWELL The statement IS now a commonplace and generally acknowledged to be true that our Ilfe s success IS measured by our devotlon to the welfare of our fell owmen Those whose actrons are m splred and guxded by this rule of Irfe ac qulre a strength and nobleness of char acter whlch are reflected ln the Ixves of those about them Thelr footprints on the sands of time the tempests of time cannot destroy for they are made lmperlshable by the cherlshecl memor ICS transmlttecl as preclous legacies to future generations The wrxter was probably more close Iy assoclated wlth Dennls C Lowell than was any other person connected prlvllege so to be IVI1' Lowell was a man of sturdy and forceful character and of an unusually alert and dlSCI'lI'l1 lnatln mlnd He was lnstlnctlvely a gentleman and never dld he stoop to an act unworthy of one of God s noble men HIS devotlon to the best mter ests of the school was proverbxal To serve these Interests was his alm and wc knew that whlle he was rn charge of the bulldlng all would be well I-I1s care was amazmg Suggestlons of change here and there were seldom necessary No remedymg of a defect ln the bulldmg failed to recelve hls lm medlate attentlon I-Ixs resourceful ness and watchfulness frequently saved the clty from large losses and the pup 1Is from an mterrupted education And withal he felt a responslblllty for the proper conduct of the puplls and was of valuable asslstance to the principal ln tlns phase of school admlnlstratlon An lncxdental mdex of his character IS shown ln hls treatment of ammals Sometimes homeless woebegone cats would Wander lnto the bulldmg I'Ie would feed them and make them com fortable untll they could take up their wandermgs agam Plgeons have been a source of much annoyance to us of ten becommg lmprlsonecl m the ventl Iators lVIr Lowell would Ilberate them at a large expendrture of time and effort and yet clespxte these vexatlons IH or about the bulldmg he would take lt to the boxler room and endeavor to restore nt to a normal conclntlon I-Ixs Ilfe was spent ln more than meeting the demands of his callmg and ln ceaseless endeavor to promote the welfare of all about hlm This unselflsh expendlture of energy at last told upon hls health Hrs fmal Illness came on anuary 20 when he suffered a shock whrle on duty at the school He passed away at hrs home on Wednesday January 28 with out regammg consciousness In his death the school loses a devoted friend and fellow worker Dana C Wells I 3 Wifh. our High School' If was a rare if he found a pigeon chilled or injured . I . . - X 1 4 u J ,