Scarborough High School - Four Corners Yearbook (Scarborough, ME)

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77 A’ ' Y;r« CORNERS GOOD DISCIPLINE Tlu- well-being of any school depends in a large measure upon the individual conduct of its members not alone at the school (lining school hours but elsewhere during their connection with the school. hilt ' it is essentially the duty of the piineipal and teachers to direct and to gov rn the student body in the everyday i» mine of school work and discipline, and t h :d the student to cultivate truthful- in v , s ■ I i control, a proper sense of right end wiong, and an interest in the moral . tun sphere of the school, it is the duty of • n h me mb v of the student body to comply whole-lie artedlv with such a program and to b.lh.w the “rules of the game, ' ’ both i1 1 1i11 and outside the school. No school aii lunetion to its highest degree of effi- m nov unless the desire for its well-being •iih In in within the student hoily and ■ »i desire and the proper reaction to it i ntitutes the real keynote to good discipline. LET’S READ BETTER BOOKS When we visit a library and glance through the many shelves of hooks, good end bad, what sort of a book do we pick cut to read i Does the mere glamor of an attractive title or the lure of some well- advertised book of modern fiction interest us most, or do we look through the books and choose one which we know will he of st ine real benefit to us { More often we are inclined to choose the ones of the former sort, perhaps because they arc easier to understand and more quickly read. But what have we gained after the reading of such a book? Nothing that is worthwhile. The reading of good books and the play¬ ing of good music are somewhat the same. Many times people who play some musical instrument pick out a piece of jazz to play simply because it is more easily executed and its rhythm easy to master. If the same amount of time were spent on some classical or semi-classical selection, a better knowledge and appreciation of good music and its technique would be developed. Let us develop our abilities to appreciate good reading so that we may well and proudly sav, “I have gained, and am able to understand and appreciate good, worth¬ while books.” STUDENT CITIZENS Students of a school are in reality much the same as citizens of a country, and should be as loyal to it as a good citizen is to his country. The school is a good train¬ ing for the future citizens of the country and should hold the same respect that the country does in the citizen’s life. A good citizen is a person who does more than reside in a certain community. He is a person who shows an interest in the activities of the community and who works for its betterment, at every oppor¬ tunity. He is always ready to help the church, school or other civic organization and does these things for other than a purely selfish motive. He is a person who is able to see far enough ahead to know that improvements to the community are things which will benefit it in the end if not at the present time. He knows that such improvements are wise future invest¬ ments. He is the sort of a person who

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THE FOUR CORNERS Ym.. XVIII MAY. 1020 No. 1 Many successful enterprises have had their origin in simple fashion and amid humble surroundings. Your editor has found this to he true with Tiik Fori: Cornkbs. Recently he has collected a copy of each issue since the paper was first published and in reading them many inter¬ esting things have lieen brought to his attention. The first issue of Tiik Fori: Corners was published in the year 1912 and was a volume of thirty-five pages. The paper lias steadily grown during the seventeen ycais of its infancy and earlv youth and is just emerging into adulthood not only in respect to size hut in the quality of its make-up. The 1928 issue contained sev¬ enty-six pages, including well-balanced de¬ partmental sections, a large advertising section, and nineteen pictures and seven cuts. In reading these numbers in consecutive older, one gets the impression of a contin¬ ued story and gains a real perspective in understanding how the high school has de¬ veloped simultaneously with the year hook itself until it has reached the high stand¬ ard of ideals, scholarship, activities and physical equipment which it now possesses. It is veiv evident that our paper never could have attained its present degree of excellence had it not been for the splendid (oprration of our advertisers who last year numbered one hundred and thirty- live . No other paper which we receive has so large an advertising department. Not uly do the merchants of Scar boro and of surrounding towns sup| ort us in this re¬ spect hut also many friends of the school give us complimentary ads, showing their real interest in the success of our animal. The least that wo can do in return is to thank each one who has contributed in this way and to urge every reader to read the ads carefully and to patronize our adver¬ tisers whenever possible.

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s THE FOUR CORSERF does not kick at a slight raise in his taxes for some improvement which raises the valuation of the property in the town or community many times what it was previ¬ ous to this improvement. This applies in the same way to the stu¬ dents in a school. In order for them to show themselves real citizens they must always work for the development and bet¬ terment of their school along tin lines of scholastic achievement, athletic honors, and civic leadership: as a far-seeing citizen takes a genuine pride in his community, so should pupils be “student citizens, and give their best endeavors to their tasks in school, so that they may hold tin respect and admiration which everyone has for a good citizen.