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

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the four corners SCARBORO HIGH SCHOOL Volume XXIII May 1935 N umber 1 APPRECIATION The Editorial Board of the Fouk Corners and the student body of Scar- lx)ro High School wish to extend their sin¬ cere thanks to our advertisers, as it is only because they have purchased space in our advertising section that we are enabled to publish this book. To the readers of this publication we advise that although the ads may not be such interesting reading as the literary department or the joke department, they are equally important, so please read them and after reading them Give Them Your Palronage. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS BUT ONCE Have we not all mind and brains enough to go through high school in four years ob¬ taining an average rank i Can we not study hard as well as play hard to get ahead? If we are willing to sacrifice a few moments of baseball, football, or other means of passing time to devote to Eng¬ lish, history or any other subject which may need those moments, we shall gain more in the end. We should not, as some students do, study most the subject that seems to be the easiest for us, but spend more time on our hardest one to obtain rank comparable to that of the easier sub¬ ject. If we do this, our hardest subject wfill soon become, perhaps, not our easiest but certainly easier than before. Can we not better our high school education by cooperating with our teachers and fellow students? In order to conduct a class a teacher must have discipline and the at¬ tention of the students. If he does not have both of these, his explanations will not benefit anyone. Let us, then, do what we were sent here for, better our high school education!

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5 itr rtnx xj 5 FACULTY Joke Editor Elwood G. Bessey, a. M., Principal Mathematics VmAN Plowman, 35 Assistants Prances B. Libbey, A. B. Latin and History Paul Bayley, 35 Geraldine Emerson, 36 Steven Libby, 37 Ellen Jensen, 38 Frances M. Nason, A. B. English Periscope Editors Marshall S. Davis, Jr,, A. B. Sciences Alice Tiiurlow, 35 Marguerite Prout, 35 Exchange Editor Eleanor Paine, A. B. French Willard Smy th, 35 School Notes Editor Gerald C. Hallett Manual Training Euzabeth Moulton, 35 Doris E. Hutchins, B. S. Home Economics Alumni Editor Margery Milliken, 35 EDITORIAL BOARD Athletic Editors (Boys) Roger Scamman, 35 (Girls) Julia Ferguson, 35 Editor-in-Cliief Donald R. Nowell, 35 General B ' lcsiness Manager Assistant Editor Virginia Bennett, 36 Grant Jensen, 35 . Assistants Literary Editors Nellie Newcomb, 35 Bradford Welch, 35 George Leavitt, 35 Martha Libby, 35 Inez Morse, 35 Nellie Harmon, 35 Nellie Newcomb. 35 Almon Huff, 36 George Stanford, 36

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rilE FOUR CORNERS 7 THE ‘‘NEW” TOWN HALL! Oyc z! C)yc z ! Oycz ! PaiTiits, relatives, a ml friends who intend to be j)resent at the graduation exercises of tlie (7ass of w(‘ liave some very good news for yon. Ko longer will yon have to fold yourselves like a napkin into a school seat or to stretch yourself into the semblance of a giraffe in order to witness the Com¬ mencement ceremonies. This year our exercises will be held in the “new” Town Hall. Our selectmen have cooperated with the Federal Government in an FERA ])roject, with tlie result that two large wing-s have been added to the hall, and a spacious stage has been constructed, (‘quipped witli ample dressing rooms and an excellent lighting system. This stage is a great improvement over ours here at the high school. This project, besides giving several needy citizens a chance to work, has pro¬ vided the town with a long-needed andito- rinm with a seating capacity of between six and seven hundred persons. LOOKING BACKWARD “Tercentenary”—what does this mean It means the duration of three hundred years since the founding of some organiza¬ tion. This single word conveys to one the span of centuries. Let us take a long backward look to the year 163.5. At this time, only five years after the first boat load of Puritans had landed, the first secondary school in America was founded in Boston under the mastership of Philemon Pormort. Then, life was. primitive and hard. But in the face of famine, Indian fights and illness, with few if any doctors, they laid plans for their childreirs education. They had little ready money to pay for schools, and since ( ' hmientary subjects could be taught at hom(% a school was founded for the teaching of Latin and Greek known as the Boston Latin School. A few years later, writing and ciphering were added. Th( early Colonial schools were very rud( , cold, and uncomfortable log cabins with d(‘sks made of boards laid across pegs driven into the wall. The seats were the smooth side of logs sawed down the mid¬ dle. The masters desk stood on a raised platform, and in the corner nearest this platform was the dunce’s stool. White paper greased with lard served for win- dowpanes. At one end was a big fireplace. The wood was furnished by the parents of the school children. Sometimes, when a boy fail(‘d to bring his share of wood, the teacher would not allow him to stand be¬ fore the fire. In the few subjects taught, very poor methods were used. There were not enough textbooks to go around, and what there were, were unattractive. The “honi- book” was merely a piece of board with a handle, on which was tacked a sheet of paper containing the alphabet, the vowels, and the Lord’s Prayer. This hornbook could be tied about the child’s neck by means of a string on the handle. Next came the primer, which was used more than any other textbook in this country. It was in use for more than two hundred years. Each letter of the alpha¬ bet was followed by a verse to help teach morality to the children and to aid them in