Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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rms sEN1oR. ANNUAL gg gg BE YOLTRSELF ' I HON. G. P. DRUMMOND Class 1887 I I J Hlumnae Be yourself young man! Be yourself in spite of derision, criti- cism or even curses. Just be yourself. If some prude would have you cringe, and bend the pregnant knee to wealth and power. remember that true power comes from Within. The power of mere wealth is the power of the brute-the power of the lion 's paw that fells it's prey -the power of the python that hugs it 's victim before it swallows it. In every man of true greatness, the force that has impelled him forward and upward, has come from within. The glistening wheels of the locomotive, it 's drive wheels, pistons, smoke and noise-it is not these that send this mighty giant of steel over the rails drawing after it tons of matter: But low in it 's great breast burn the furnaee fires, and pulsates the puissant steam that make this monster thunder away through field and dale. VVithin the breast and heart and brain of every man burns the fires, that will not out. Some may dampen them with drink and debauehery, but it is the half quenched embers that burn and we call it remorse. The soul that flames within, and chides- us for our wicked deeds, we call this conscience. It is the power within struggling to free it's force in aeeomplishment-in the doing of something to earn the right to live. It is the power within that carries to honest toil it 's sweet meed of contentment and joy-A hard day's effort. duty doneg duty done in the shop,at the forge, in the ditch, in the office, I care not where, it is the power within that whispers it 's sweetness and greeting to you as you sit in the twilight hour, and are happy. That same power within grows as the plant that is fed and wateredg grows as the days and hours and years go by, and of such are manhood and womanhood made. You may not become famous, or notorious. but greatness is not entirely in being known. Greatness is consciousness of having done your duty by yourself and those you love, and who love you. Many a hero 's bones rest under the unknown slab. Many a heroine whose life was as the rose, a life whieh lived to give beauty and fragrance, sleeps unknown save to those whose lives were made sweet and fragrant by her living. Be yourself young man. and young woman! Let the power within you grow: let the fires gleam and glow, and let their light give joy to the darkened souls about you. This is greatness which gives you peaceful sleep at the journey's end.

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL of historical characters, relate their experience as to historical events and put enthusiasm and expression into their work in read- ing. The room has a seating capacity of about fifty so that parents and pupils may see the work and offer inspiration. Another room is used for Manual Training in the seventh and eighth grades. There is also a room in the Webster building for this purpose. Each room is equipped with benches and tools to accommodate 12 pupils, also other equipment adequate to the needs of this department. A third room has been fitted up as a sewing room. Here the girls of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and High School are taught the art of sewing. ln this course many beautiful and useful articles are made and a democratic spirit aroused. The science department has been overhauled and new equipment added. Very few schools of the size and even larger can boast of better advantages along this line than are offered in the Plymouth High School. The school board ever Watching for the needs of the children under their care have also installed sanitary drinking fountains. Six in the XVashingto11 building and three in the Webster building supply the needs of all the children and offer protection from the spread of disease. To those desiring a good education the Plymouth schools With their excellent corps of teachers and up to date equipment afford the S21l11C opportunity as the larger schools of the state. Manual Training Room, Washington Building

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THE SENIGR ANNUAIIM SERIOUSNESS By Unlmown Contributor. My Dear Mr. Editor of the Annual: Being informed that you are Writing a book for the enlightenment of the scholars of the present and of the future as well as for those there that have went before and being a teacher of celibacy and osterity Cl have taught 14 years in 24 counties of Indiana, counting the parts of terms which because the people did not appreciate my merits I did not finishland having wrote much both in poesy and prosaic for the publick press and having saw many things in the Plymouth High School which should ought to be different and thinking that the arduousness of writing the whole book yourself would cause you to welcome the effcrvescence of my seasoned in- tellectuality I take my pen in hand to compose you a composition on seriousness. Seriousness is one of the most cardinalous virtues which human flesh is heir to and exemplifycations of frivolousness and unser- iousness should be punctured in the embryoh and especially in school and hence I am often caused to mortify at observing the prevailing levicy which to an unpremeditated extent prevails in the scholars and forasmuch as likewise in the teachers some of them of Ply- mouth High School the verity of which observation can be verified by everybody who wants to. In our country schools the complaint is not so amazingly exceeding as in some of the contagious ram- ifications of the high school and especially in Prof. Chesney's dead speach department which all the scholars feel so big about though I don't know why since I bet not half of them ever taught school or knows anything about taking off their feet before entering the school ediface. Wliy, Mr. Editor, some of them girls who are big enough to shock sorghum stalks never seen a hectograph copy like we used to have when I went to High School and wouldn't know what was happening if some one should put a crock lid on their heads and fasten the top end of a mother hup-board about their neck on the night that Mr. McDowell passes out the rolls with ribbons tied on them. I notice that Supt. Randall has a fellicitious facility and fluency in teaching Geometry so that I can't understand a word of it and has bought a mill in Michigan that will change his Worries from the intellectual associations to the cullinary supply department and promises a digestive contrivance that will choke a pickle as easily as a beef steak has heretofore made pains and a sour dis- position. D Some of the teachers in the High School can have no acceptations taken to them on the ground of levity of which Mr. McDowell is a man of grave gravity and Miss C-hezsney who has laughed once in three years when the sophomore in his essay about Weather spoke of the frigid gale tearing across the meadows shaking hands with the morning glories and chilling the species of fungus that