Newport High School - Blunita Yearbook (Newport, PA)

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4 THE BLUE AND WHITE as though he were our equal? No! The majority of us make fun of him, call him names to his face, try to get him angry or have sport with him. We make his life a Hades on earth. We are no gentlemen, we are boys w’ho show less sense than the one of whom we make fun If there is one low-down, sneakish person it is he who makes fun of one that cannot help himself. He is not fit to be called a man- a gentle man is a real man. Another thing some of us fail to do in order to acquire the title of a gentleman is to respect a woman. A woman was made by the (Teatoi to be loved, looked up to, honored, and respected by man. Now a woman is laughed at, talked about, made fun of. is made the subject of filthy stories by him who calls himself a gentleman. A real gentleman is never insulting, sarcastic, or Insinuating. A re al gentleman is always quiet, a good listener and a friend to all. A gentleman is one who respects old people. He sees that the old folks with whom he comes in contact are always comfortably fixed. A gentleman never allows an old person to stand in a car or crowded auditorium. A gentleman never laughs at the mista‘kes of an old person. In fact, a gentleman never laughs at the mistakes of anyone. He himself may make the same mistake some day. In order to call ourselves gentlemen we must be courteous, kind, generocs, friendly, patient, quiet, merciful, fair, clear-headed, honorable and honest. A gentleman is never loud, haughty, egotist'c, vulgar, selfish, cruel, stubborn, unjust, impatient, or disr spectful. For a better definition of a gentleman, it would be well for each one of us to read Cardinal Newman’s famous theme on “A Gentleman.” It is found in the back of our “Lake Song Book.” Now then, let us all strive to become gentlemen so that in the future we can meet with all kinds of ditliculties and face the world fairly and squarely and be known as a perfect gentleman. WILLIAM MORROW. ’23. Are We Thinking Enough? “Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his firs’ desires; to spread 'it is his dearest privilege.” One’s mind, while he is conscious, is at all times occupied by some thought. Sometimes those things which come to one’s mind uncalled for or unsummoned are the most valuable thoughts. They should be cherished. One thought can not .arise without awakening another. It is a pastime to let one’s mind wander from thought to thought. Rut these are not the thoughts which we need in the present day and age. Cowl hard thinking is what gets men ahead. Of course you think now but you can think more. The man who has a salary of ten thousand dollars a year does not necessarily think ten times as much as the man whose income is one thousand dollars a year. So few people knowhow' to use their thinking faculty to advantage. Mark Twain has humoi ously said that “some men’s heads are just attachments to their bodies

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O-Irr Http atttt MlittP Vol. 4, No. 3. NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL. February, 1923 At the beginning of the new year every merchant takes an inventory of his stock to find out in what position he stands—w'hether he has lost or gained. It would be well for us, High school pupils, tc take ar inventory of ourselves. See whether, during the past year, we have grown better or worse. If we have improved, just a mite in some way. we are coming closer and closer to that goal which should be the aim of every young man, that of being known to our fellow'-citizens as a perfect gentleman. Whan we enter High school, we should realize that we are no longer children. We should do away with silly, childish things. We should reailze that now' we have entered into a new period of life and are now young gentlemen. Several morings a week, during opening exercises, w'e hear a short talk on “Manners.” This is a splendid thing since some of us are a little unmannerly at times. You will have to acknowledge that, yourself. Rut no matter if our manners are the best possible, no matter if we rigidly follow' the directions laid down in a book of etiquette, we ma not be gentlemen. A boy, who is rude, as some call it, when it comes to manners, may at heart be the finest kind of gentleman. What constitutes a gentleman? Who is a gentleman? How can I become a gentleman? There are some of us to whom, at times, the word gentleman is unknown. A gentleman never makes fun of or ridicules another. There may be some one in school who is rather dull or ignorant of the ways of school Do we make life easy for that person? Do we act w’hen, around him.

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THE BLUE AND WHITE 5 to keep their collars from slipping off.’’ I hope this is not true of any student of the N. H. S. I do not propose advancing the theory of auto-suggestion, when I say. If we think, we will be great men and women.” We must not sit down and merely muse to ourselves: Some day I am going to be a great man.” We must think now. Practice makes perfect. We students have the greatest chance and opportunity in the world for doing this very thing. Here in school we study mathematics, languages and the like. If we think each day as we study or prepare our lessons, that is, if we apply our minds to what we are doing, and get the relation to what has gone before, we are developing our minds. When we read a classic, we want to know what we have read. It’s one thing to reau a book, but it’s another to know the book. Learning without though is labor lost” There is not a student in this High school who positively thinks as much and to as great an extent as he is able. If every one of us N. H. S. students applied his will power and thinking faculty, we would win every scholarship, cup, or award offered. We should have the best class of students to be found. Hurry, students! It’s not too late for New Year’s resolutions. We all want to come to our senses and be thankful; we are endowed with minds and the means of developing them. May every one of us resolve to think and use his mental pow’ers in the future to a far greater extent MILDRED SHULTZ. '23. Blessings on thee, our little chap; With thy cunning little cap, Freshman green, with aching heart, Had to from thy mother part, Sadly trudging on to class: Phased by sophomores off the grass -Tales you tell with vocal strain, How hold sophomores would you detain. Rut all thy howling is in vain, We’ll get thee yet. boy, shine or rain! A rich elderly bachelor named Page found the dropped glove of a charming young lady and returned it with this note: If from your glove you take the letter ‘g,’ that glove is love, and that I have for thee.” In reply, the young woman wrote: If from your name you take the letter ‘P,’ then Page is age, and that won’t do for me.”—Ex. If a fellow from Poland is a “Pole,” would a fellow' from Holland be a Hole”? If a fellow from New York is’ a “New Yorker,” wouldn’t a fellow from Cork be a “Corker”?