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21 Your School and You Lois Ncivcomb, ' S:i What is school spirit? Sometimes people have the impression that school spirit is simply yell- iiifl and cheering at a football { am( ' . It is much more than that. School spirit hasn ' t got a one word definition. It isn ' t a book, a person, a place, or yelling and screaming. It ' s a feeling. It ' s what keeps smiles on faces, harmoin in classroom; , enthusiasm and good sportsmanship on the basketball court or gridiron. It ' s the laughs from the halls, the hellos from place to place, the dances and parties, the meetings and debates. It ' s woven into every brick and every stair. It ' s the feeling of belong- ing to a school and knowing it to b: your school. It ' s a feeling of loyalty and jiride that is part of being a student, yet you can keep it long after you graduate. School spirit creates respect for books, desks, chairs, walls and all school propert) . It creates respect and courtesy for teachers, supervisors, and fellow students. Showing consideration to- wards school property is an important part of being a student. Loving your school is more than just going to the basketball games. It ' s more than showing up at a dance or play. It ' s more than attending classes five days a week. It ' s more than being an all-star athlete. It ' s giving everything you have, striving to join committees and clubs, lend- ing a helping hand at every possible chance, and being cooperative and courteous at all times. All this, and more, is loving your school and having school spirit. Have you ever stopped to think of why you yell at a game? Cheering for a team should come from a deep pride and loyalty, and from a whole- hearted desire for those players, your friends and your school, to win, to come out on top, be- cause you think they are the best. However, cheering for the winning team is one thing, but cheering for your team, win or lose, is another! Booing the opposite side under any condition is an example of poor sportsmanship, and an insult to the school from which you come. The boy or girl who steadily destroys school property, acts rudely or boldly to teachers, is loud and annoying in classes, yells furiously at referees, and pays no attention to school organi- zations or regulations, is often the one to defend the school indignantly when it is criticized. Yet these students are just the ones who give a school the wrong appearance, and cause it to have a bad reputation. You can show your loyalty in a much more worth-while way. Show it in the way you act and talk every day. Show it when you ' re called upon for help. Live it in every possible way you can. It isn ' t a part of your work; it ' s a part of you. Have it yourself and appreciate it in others. School spirit is the most valuable quality any student could possess. Your school is for you, and by you. It ' s for you; your future and your life is based on it. It ' s by ou because it is only what you, the stu- dent, make it. With school spirit and loyalty as a foundation, you can ' t fail. Oh, If I Only Knew — Scolt Roberts, ' 51 Oh, if 1 only knew — is what many seniors today are thinking. Especially in these times, many are undecided about their future. Girls sometimes make their own deciding difficult, but the boy ' s future is very hard to plan in the pres- ent world crisis. Girls have only to decide whether to go to a junior college, a co-ed college, a girls ' college, a secretarial school, or else to work. If you are a boy, the problem is quite different. The first problem confronting you is the worry of when you are going to be drafted. There are several colleges you would like to enter. But your choice is narrowed down by the field you intend to specialize in. Or it may be narrowed by the expense of the school or by your grades. If you are a good athlete, maybe you can get your schooling for nothing. There is only one trouble with attending college on an athletic scholarship, and this is often overlooked by col- lege athletes. In return for his free schooling, an athlete probably has to spend three-fourths of his time participating in the sport for which the college is giving him a scholarship. This leaves no time for studying, and the first thing you know, you graduate from college only knowing how to play football, basketball, or baseball. You decide that kind of education isn ' t any good; so you go in search of a college that de- mands good scholastic standing. When you find the one you ' d like to attend, you think you ' re all set. With your application in and all the refer- ences submitted, you just wait to hear from the Dean of Admissions. When the answer finally comes, the news may be that vour grades just weren ' t up there. So, disillusioned and dis- appointed, you go to the one place that doesn ' t require all A ' s and B ' s, the Army.
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20 Ad Finem Muriel Nichols, ' 51 The weeks are growing shorter, the days are lengthening, and Seniors are becoming more impatient for the week of graduation and the activity and bustle which will excite each one of us. But beneath our anticipation is a real feeling of sadness at the thought of leaving dear old Scituate High. As we Seniors think of graduat- ing, we feel a lump in our throats at the thought of parting from the nostalgic sight of books and blackboards. Here we ha e spent the best years of our lives working, playing, and learning. Here will end one of the most important chapters of our lives: and as we think of this and realize that the end of our high school years is so near, all of us cannot help but have a feeling of con- sternation. Have we left our mark on our school, or are we just another group which has passed through? Each one has contributed to the school in his own way, some more than others, but all with the idea that it was for the good of the school. Separately we have done our duties, and whollv. as a class, we have tried to give to the school the best that we had. Perhaps our contribution wasn ' t material things, things to be shown and looked at. but more lasting allies, such as school spirit, better teacher-pupil relationship, and finer standard of scholarship. These are but a few of the things that we hope we have succeeded in accomplishing. More important than any of these things, how- ever, is what we have gained from our school. Before long we shall be citizens in an outside world, spreading our beliefs and ideas to all kinds of people. These beliefs and ideas will be those which have been taught us through our years of school. They will be the fundamentals on which our futures are to be based. We hope to make Scituate High School proud of her class of 1951. Really Too Busy? Lois Merritt, ' 51 Benjamin Franklin is quoted as claiming that Americans of his day were the most enlightened people on earth. He remarked that thev had the ability, interest, and leisure to read. The quan- tity of printed matter available in his day was small compared to the flow of publications from the presses toda). but the writing that was avail- able was read, discussed, and digested. In our times the quantity of news and opinion has increased many times. On the opposite side, the amount of time the average person has to read is limited, as other things compete for his attention. The need for well-informed opinion and analysis has not decreased, however. In- deed, in the light of the events of today, it has in- creased. Now. as we are nearing the end of the year, we are especialh hard-pressed for time to do all the reading that we should. We lose many of the benefits of our study if we do not fit that back- ground into an interest in the changing thoughts and ideals of our day. It behooves us to honestly ask ourselves if we are taking full advantage of the opportunities that we have for preparing for citizenship. Let ' s face it. Are we really too busy?
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