Reading Memorial High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Reading, MA)

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I. PIONEER AD VER TISEMENTS . COPELAND db BOWSER. WE HAVE RECEIVED DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER 30 Doz. Men’s Boys’ Outing Shirts, Nice Clean Goods. Prices from 50 cents to $1.00. Also, FIFTEEN DOZEN LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS, in a Variety of Styles, from 50 Cents to $1.25 each. I ' l ICASlC CARE AXD EXAMINE. COPELAND BOWSER. - - READING. MASS. C. M. BARROWS CO., Printers, m 2 North Market St., . BOSTON. Telephone 1906. ROBERTSON GREEN, Carpenters and• Iuh.oe.rs. Estimates Given on all kinds of Carpenter Work. BEST WORK. LOWEST PRICES. Shop, Sanborn St., Reading. FRANCIS BROTHERS, Stoves, Hardware, Hen Netting, Wheelbarrows, Paint Stock, c. HAVEN STREET, READING, MASS. THE READING PLANING MILL CO. MANUFACTURERS OF FURNITURE SPECIALTIES. — ALSO — Planing, Moulding, Band sawing and Jobbing, Salem Street, - - Reading, Mass. D. H. KENDALL, Supt. WRIGHT, BROWN CROSSLEY, Solicitor of Patents, Rooms 835 838, Exchange Building, Boston. BOSTON BRANCH. Groceries, Hay, Grain and Straw, Foreign and Domestic Goods of all Kinds at Boston Cash Prices. WM. J. PARSONS, Bank Building, Main St. Manager. H. B. SWEETSER CO. Provisions, Fruits and Vegetables, MAIN STREET, READING. Fresh supplies received daily from Boston markets. New St vies HATS, CAPS, -AND- FINE FURNISHING GOODS, -AT- F. Bartley’s, Haven St. tikef ASK TO SEE THE “BOSTON DERBY”HAT S. W. BOWKER, CONTKACTOE, LlVEEY AND TEAMING. Hacks and Barges, Buildings Moved, Excavating, Grading and Stone Masonry. 34 Woburn Street, - - Reading, Mass. TRY WILLIS ' SODA AT WILLIAM WILLIS’ DKUQ STOKE, Corner of Main and Haven Sts.

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READING PUBLIC LIBRARY READING, MASSACHUSETTS

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The Pioneer. Vol. I. No. i. READING, MASS., FEBRUARY, 1892. Price, 5 Cents. THE PIONEER. Issued on the 15th of every month during the School Year. Editor-in-Chief, . Bernard Barrows. Associate Editors :— Chester Kingman, Lucy Poore, Marion Prentiss. Business Manager . N. H. Hawes. Assistants: — G. H. Clough, Alice Eames, Grace Parker, H. L. Hill, Mabel Robinson. Five Cents per Copy. Advertising rates furnished on application. For sale at the various News Stands. Students are cordially invited to contribute to the columns of the Pioneer. Articles intended for publication , and all commu¬ nications relating to the Literary Department of the paper , should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief Articles must be ' written on only one side of the paper. TENS AND ZEROS. Why all this toil, this constant strain Upon the mind, this tax upon the brain? O! “ ’Tis the strife for rank, for fame,” You say; “nor ease nor health outvalues name. For this, we study day and night; For this, we struggle with our mind and might: Farewell, all things that hold us down — We upward press to vict’ry and the crown.” But what avails this little gain, If after all your labor and your pain, When onward through life’s path you go, No longer tens, but zeros then you sow ' . We do not say, shun honest fame, Or reputation good, or spotless name: But are these wholly found in books, By him alone who delves with haggard looks? Then envy not the book-w’orm w ' ise, If all things else escape his narrow eyes; For life’s stern path must soon he trod, So make not schoolroom rank and fame your god. C. E. EDITORIAL. In assuming the editorial management of the Pioneer for the ensuing year, we make no pro¬ fessions as to what we are going to do, for indeed, we hardly yet know ourselves. A com¬ plete plan of action is not perfected in a week or a fortnight. All we have to say is that whatever lines of work we may decide to begin later, we consider ourselves pledged to certain principles. To make the paper the representative of the Reading High School, and always outspoken in her interests ; to stand for what we consider the highest and best in school life; to criticize impartially, to form our convictions honestly and to express them fearlessly ; these we maintain are conditions binding on us on account of our position. In conclusion we think we have a right to ask one thing, namely : that the students themselves will take an active interest in the paper. The editors will do their best, but it will be impossible for them to act successfully without the coopera¬ tion of their schoolmates. As the winter wears away and mid-year rapidly approaches, we all begin to look forward a little to the pleasanter days of spring, and the closing weeks of the year. Especially do the Seniors begin to realize that they have started on the “home stretch” as a class for the last time. They will soon begin to prepare themselves for the momentous occasion which they have been long anticipating. After finishing their studies here, a large portion of the class intend to take examinations for entering some college, and further prepare themselves for their work in life.