Oakdale High School - Oracle Yearbook (Oakdale, CA)

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lj THE ORACLE 1:1 The Editors' Ain Corner 'THE SCOTCH have long been known as a thrifty nation, hence it should be clear to everyone why the staff of the Oracle decided, in this year of the depression, to choose to publish a Scotch edition. We believe that it is up to the American people as a whole and American students in particular to show that we have a bit of the auld Scotch in our make-up. How can we as students show our thrift? Can we do it better than by making the most of our opportunities? For years the Nation has been exceedingly generous with its schools, until we students have come to accept them as our right without realizing that they are really a privilege of which it is our duty to make the most. Instead of trying to muddle through on the fewest legal number of credits, finding school a bore at best, should we not think of it as a wonderful chance to delve a little deeper into the fascinating world of knowledge? When our work is done, moreover, let us assume our part in student affairs and extra-curricular activities. There is a time and place for everything, it is said. If we students should take this thought as our motto, working and playing to the very best of our ability, no amount spent on schools would be unjustified. Appreciation We have read so many Scotch jokes that sometimes we find we have lost sight of the more intellectual side of our debt to Scotland. Just stop for a moment, however, and think how immeasurably poorer our school curriculum would be without the writers of that rugged land. It starts when we are Freshmen with our introduction to The Lady of the Lake and Ivanhoe, Most high school students never forget The Stag at Eve and the exploits of the doughty James Fitz-James, and as for Ivanhoe, what boy has not longed to substitute for him in a tournament? What girl has not wished to be a fair Rowena? Yes, we like Sir Walter Scott. As Sophomores, sometimes as Freshmen, we fall under the spell of Bobby Burns. We laugh at the antics of Tam O'Shanter, and agree that even today A Man's a Man For A' That. Sometimes we read Treasure Island, thus starting our adventures in Stevenson, to follow it up later with the essays or Kidnapped.,, By this time we are Seniors and ready to enjoy the whimsicality of ,james Matthew Barrie. Perhaps it is a drama we like, and we find that on the library shelves there are Quality Street, The Admirable Crich- ton and The Kiss for Cinderella. If we are in a truly Scotch mood we take home Sentimental Tommyf, The Little Minister, or that charming study of Scotch life, A Window in Thrumsf' By this time we should have developed a sense of appreciation of the land o, the leal. Yes, even our curriculm owes much to Scotland. Page Thirteen . . .