Norwell High School - Shipbuilder Yearbook (Norwell, MA)

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- l . I . l U 7 The Shiplouilcler PUBLISHED BY THE PUPILS OF THE NORWELL HIGH SC HOOL voL. 5-No. 1 'S 'T ' Editor-in-Chief BANNING REPPLIER Assistant Editor Literary Editor WILLIAM HANSON ESTHER WHITING Circulating Manager Advertising Manager FRED BURNSIDE STEVEN THOMAS Girls Sports Editor Boys Sports Editor Alumnae News MYRTLE GAULEY PHILLIP EKSTROM DOROTHY PHELPS Joke Editor News Editor DONALD PORTER ANTONIO PIRO Typists Shipbuilder Advisor THE CLASS LEONARD J. ALLEN Faculty Advisor MARION J. HURLEY lil7I'l'ORlpXL This year the 300th anniversary of secondary-school education in .Xnierica is being' universally celehrated throughout the United States. Festivals and sym- holical plays are heing' given in honor of the occasion, and schools are using' the commemoration as a key topic for essays and discussions. Yet the true significance of these tercentenary celebrations delves much deeper than the surface -iuhileemerriment shows: it is commemorative of an achieved ideal of the realization of an actuality from a dream. The secondary school has endured fll1'Ollg'll periods of storm and stress: it has lieen the ohject of criticism and ahuse. Yet to-day it represents a vital and indispensable factor in our com- munity life. .X town without a school is a town without progress or foresight. The progress that the school has made, from the crude wooden huilding' where- in taught the school-ma'am and the traveling' school-master, with their out-mod- ed and sadly mistaken ideas ahout education, to the modern school of today with every facility to stimulate and make learning' easier, has proved astounding. Men and women are today devoting' their entire lives to the cause of evolving practical theories ahout education in order to remove the last trace of guess work in teaching' and to learn to understand the pupils more thoroughly. More free- dom of thought and speech is allowed: the modern student is no long'er the stifled individual that he formerly was. Thus wc see with what tremendous hounds the secondary school has progress- ed. l'ioneer men and women have created an essential and lasting' structure: it is our duty to strive for its growth and to support its existence in order that it may continue throughout the ages. UXNNINCJ Rlil'l'l.lliR, Editor-in-Chief

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8 SHIPBUILDER :: Literary :: A S'I'L'lJliNT SPIQXKS Times are hard now. Everyhody knows it and is doing his hest to better matters. XYe, the youth of today. upon whom the future of our nation rests, deserve the fullest opportunity of education so that when our turn comes to go forth into the world on our own. our fundamental ideas will he firmly rooted and our ideals unhreakahle. Our high school life is the time when things make the deepest impression upon us. ln those four years our minds 'grow according to our sur- roundings, and hy graduation the pat- tern of life is already well under way. The influence ul' good or poor teach- ers sometimes makes or hreaks the man. lixisting conditions everywhere now are deplorahle. We are living in a time of great unrest and the future is more uncertain than usual. 'l'here- fore let us prepare ourselves for what- ever may he hefore us. .X general knowledge of vesterdav's and todav's prohlems is necessarv so that we mav he ahle to solve tomorrow's with less difficulty and more accuracy. l'er- haps some papers are thought to he l'n-.Xmerican hecause they discuss adverse conditions too freely. lf such are the prohlems to he faced let us face them squarely and hy so doing, hetter the unfortunate circumstances that may have arisen. That is the purpose of grammar schools, high schools, and colleges, not merely a place to attend when other forms of entertainment fail lo serve. lzut an institute of learning where one may form firm hases upon which to stand and face the future with confi- dence. Let us realize this aim of our schools and do all in our power to sup- port it and help it grow hy gaining sufficient knowledge from the courses offered to help us in our future work. F. NELSON M.-XRIF .XXTOINETTE Stefan Zweig Marie .Xntoinette is the life story of a young Austrian princess who was forced to marry the Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XY. in or- der to keep peace hetween the two countries. Nlarie was a very light- headed and frivolous sort of person who never thought of the good of the people hut only of herself. Her moth- er, Maria 'I'heresa. Queen of .-Xustria, as well as her advisors. tried to guide her, hut they failed. Louis was an easy-going sort of person who never could make up his mind. lt was he- cause of this characteristic that he and Klarie finally lost their lives. Marie never cared anything for Louis, hut spent most of her time huying new' clothes, jewels, gamhling and attend- ing masqued halls. She had a special palace huilt at Trianon which cost a small fortune. There she could he hy herself or have a small gathering of her chosen friends with her. ln this way she continually drained the treas- ury and quickly led the nation into deht. When they hecame rulers of the nation they kept hromising the people there would he more work and they would have something to say in ruling the country. None of these things ever e:une true however. They kept get- ting themselvcs into tronhle all the time and after trying to escape from