Proctor High School - Proctorian Yearbook (Proctor, VT)

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THE SUTHERL .41 ND XXXX LI TE RARY LOVERS l fondle. caress her And stroke her soft hair. She's all I have, The only one to care. Before the glowing hearth In shadows. ghostly dim, She sits so close. So dainty. swwet and prim. Her eyes. dark and dreamy, Meet mine, then drop. serene; In their shining depths A light of love is seen. Yos. it's perfectly proper, For don't you realize that My own fond love is, A charming pussy-cat. -N1uriel C. Elam, '30.

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THE SUTHERLAND 3 I wonder what Proctor High's Sutherland thinks about this? It is hard to say but if the paper itself could express its opinion, I am sure we should discover that it regrets losing its old sponsor, the Senior class. The graduating stu- dents have edited our school paper in a very creditable manner. We hope that they will continue '00 show an interest in the progress of The Sutherland in the future. However, we feel that it is only with the hearty coopera- tion of the entire school and the townspeople that we can main- tain the high standard of our paper. Did you ever stop to think that publishing a magazine is like hatching chickens? The mother hen sits on the eggs, keeping them warm that they may hatch and each produce a chicken. She does her work faithfully but has to depend upon each egg for the most vital part-the chicken itself. We might liken the Sutherland Staff to the mother hen; each Pmctor High School Student is an egg, 3: good egg, I mean, capable of bringing- forth commendable chicks in the shape of Sutherland contributionsz-poems, stories, editori- als and essays. Now eggstt are you going- to hatch or not? It all de- pends on you! Your t'mother-hen will do her utmost to aid you but cannot produce a successful brood without your hearty cooperation. Break that shell of reserve and let those inspirations hatch as they should! --Literary Editor.

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THE SUTHERLAND 5 LINCOLN. THE MAN 0F IDEALS tAwarded First Prize in the Lincoln Essay Canteen There are very few of us who do not have ideals. Pos- sibly we do not always talk of them or even write of them, but. we each realize instinctively that our personal ideals ex- ist, either abstractly or in reality. There are people however, who having set ideals for themselves. direct concentrated ef- fort thmughout life. to living up to their principles. I-Iow few of us have not. at some time or other, wished that we might follow the exemplary lives of such worthy men? The greatest of these men of ideals is Abraham Lincaln; splitter of rails, lawyer. statesman. President and emancipa- tor. At the time when; Lincoln was splitting rails,'his ad- mirable code of ideals was being formed. By never wavering from these self-established principles. and by making full use of his amazing taients, he strode to the front and won a place in the innermost heart of every true American. There is little about Lincoln that has not been written and lectured upon. The known facts of his life furnish never- ending material for the biographer; and hardly a year passes but some history is written of the Iife of this man. Nothing was too insignificant in his eyes. Everything contained some valuable information. He once said that he never got angry at anything in his life except when, as a mere child. he was. addressed in a manner that he could not understand. Here then we have the secret of his self-educa- tion. 0f regular schooling he had but one year; his passion for clear understanding and reasoning led him to a style of speech and writing that few self-educated people ever achieve. As an aid in his seIf-education there were three invalu- able abstract teachers that cannot be overlooked. The first of these confronted him as a barrier that could not easily be ignored. namely-poverty. Poverty taught Lincoln the value of industry. skill and reputation. If a man is industnous he cannot help but gain skill which in its turn invariably leads to reputation. His second teacher-labor, friend of many, taught him, far better than all the books that were ever written, his indisputable right to the fruits of his individual boil. Although I have chosen solitude as taking third place amongst the abstract teachers. I believe it is of equal imw portance. It was in solitude that Lincoln learned to think, to measure his powers and take counsel of his own mind and heart. In solitude when only a child he would puzzle far in- to the night over words or expressions heard during the day,