Newport High School - Blunita Yearbook (Newport, PA)

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4 THE BLUE AND WHITE How many of these diamond seconds have flitted by unobserved? What have we accomplished in those precious minutes? Life is just what we make it, why not make it the best that is in our power. Opportunites stretch out eager hands toward us. They may all be had by reaching for them. But we can not gain a goal by wishing. It takes patience, hard work and persistent efforts. Let us improve our minds by putting into use those escaping seconds. Raise our standards and reap the profits these golden opportunities will reward us. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were tolling upward in the night. Julia Whitmore, '28. WHY ARE WE SPENDING FIVE DAYS EACH WEEK IN N. H. S.? The above question is one that every student vn Newport High School should have solved by this time. If they have not, it is high time for them to find the answer. Are we going to school six hours out of every twenty four merely to have some place to go, or a building for a bit of amusement, or a 'place to meet our friends, or do we go there just because we hear a school bell ring? No. by all means no. Our High School is the place that is now preparing us for a higher education—fitting us properly for our futuie duties—so why not utilize every spare moment and secure all the knowledge possible. Have the prominent and well educated men of today gone Ihus far through life with their school days lacking? No. They have advanced through the grades, high school and then, knowing the value of education, sought a higher one. A person of intelligence is a blessing to his country, while the ignorant person is a detriment because of his ignorance. A person who is intelligent will se?k the higher opportunities of life, and in this manner raise the standard of living. If the entire population of the country becomes educated, our standard of living will be raised, and thus abolish the lower class of people we have today. So, fellow-students of N. H. S., let us fight and become one of those intelligent persons in our country and school! We can do this only by good honest study and work, now during our school days. We have just passed through the first semester examinations, and have they pushed us onward? Surely we should all feel rewarded with the first half year’s work, and make the second still a greater one. Mark Twain has said “Some men's heads are just attachm nts

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m)t Vo I. 8, No. JPluc anb IDljite 3. NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL Feb. 1927 INITIATIVE There is one word above all that you should apply to your work in school or in the world. The word is the basis of success, it is the keynote to greatness, the word is initiative. Perhaps you have heard of it, perhaps you have used it, but have you ever applied it? Initiative means, doing the right thing at the right time without being told to do it. Consider the great men of our nation. How many of them would have become what they are if they had waited until fortune turned their way? One of the most foolish things in life is to wait for fortune to favor you. What if she should pass you by? A whole lifetime wasted .waiting for something you never received. Why wait? W hy not do as the great have done, wade in and grasp what you want? You will probably find it hard work doing things many times that you don’t like to do, but in the end it’s worth it. At the time you may have almost given up when your path was blocked by some obstacle which you thought impossible .o surmount. De-tcrmir.alicn to surmount it takes you over. It may have taken many weary days to accomplish but as you look back at the problem you realize that it wras only a stone in the foundation of success, and a strong foundation is made up of many such stones. So the sooner you make up your mind to take the initiative and surmount all obstacles, the sooner you will achieve your goal, success. Janet Milligan, ’28. OPPORTUNITY CALLS Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Two golden hours each set with sixty diamond seconds. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

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THE BLUE AND WHITE 5 to their bodies to keep their collars from escaping. Surely this can‘t be true of any student of N. H. S., so our goal is to make use of a quotation such as: “Our heads are large store houses, where any information may be obtained. This can be true of all, and we will make our teachers, professors, classmates, schoolmates, parents, friends and everyone proud of us. Then we shall never be sorry in future life that we spent five-sevenths of each week in our dear old N. H. S. Lives of great men all remind us. We can make our lives sublime And, departing, leave behind us Foot-prints on the sands of time. Minerva Rinehart, 27.