Nichols School - Verdian Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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HEADMASTER Each September we have the very interesting experience of watching the new senior class take shape. As the new sixth formers return to school in the fall they are still fifth formers in mental attitude and posture. In the fall of their final year the step of taking the initiative, of moving into leadership is a difficult one. They wait for a nudge: they look for someone else to do the starting. Wears ago as a brand new Headmaster I remember suffering from the same ailmentg in the very small school I ran, I learned that every activity, every innovation started from the Headmaster's desk.J Gradually the activities gain momentum and it is not long before the seniors acquire the same outlook and sense of responsibility as their predecessors. It is then that those in the most responsible posts begin to appreciate new values in their lives and in the lives of their classmates. Friends of long standing take on a different complexion when they fa.il to complete an assignment needed badly on a fixed date. Responsibility falls back on the head man who forsakes all GISBAIGGD, study or recreation-to complete the job on which his friend failed. Then there is the new appreciation of TIME. All those golden moments which had been gloriously wasted in hacking around in the past- how wonderful to have only a few of them. Now is the time our responsible senior learns to squeeze the hours and squeeze the minutes so that he produces ever so much more than he had before. Now a minute is sixty seconds worth of distance run . Now our boy has become a man. Philip M. B. Boocock PHILIP M. B. BOOCOCK B.A., Litt.D., Rutgers 59 20

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. ASSOCIATE HEADMASTER When l was in school, the latest word in educational circles was to teach for the present and not the past. Now we sohoolmasters are told on all sides that we must educate for the future, not the present. Educationally, the present is out of date. Continuous and ever-accelerating change is the pattern of life we must count on and plan for: thus, it would be a serious mistake to vegetate contentedly in the false security of past success and to teach for what was the present or even the future a few years ago. Our teaching must not only keep pace in all areas of knowledge, but try to set the pace whenever possible. However, in this world of change, some values do remain constant and we must not lose sight of these. We must continue to instill the love of learning, to develop vigorous intellects with insatiable curiosity, and to promote the ability to think clearly and to question. Finally, we must foster the development of those resources of mind and heart that will enable us to use best our leisure time, for we are promised more leisure than ever before. It will give us a greater chance to discover ourselves, and also to discover other people who may be quite different. We shall have a greater chance to enjoy our world, and to make it a better place. We should teach that one does not come without the other. Pliny H. Hayes, III PLINY H. HAYES, lll B.A., Yale 21