Stamford Union Free School - Camera Yearbook (Stamford, NY)

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Since we have not yet reached the goal or attained the highest pin- nacle of knowledge, we must keep our faces turned toward the heights of perfection. To attain that height, some of us will pursue our studies in a college or university. College is not an unattainable height for those who are willing to make some sacrifices. With these points in mind each and every one of the Class of Nineteen Twenty-Four should resolve to get the best possible training he or she can get for meeting his life work. His compensation will not be merely meas- ured in dollars and cents, but in actual worth to his community. A. G. H.-,241

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impulse, use slang promiscuously. Slang may be one of the features of the modern age, but that is no reason why it should be allowed to destroy the beauty of the language. English is a simple languageg let it be kept so and not interspersed with meaningless expressions that are neither idiomatic nor technical. Two problems, then, confront us, if we are to preserve the English language in its simple beautyg that of educating the ignorant to a higher appreciation of beauty and simplicity, and that of persuading the educated to make a practical application of their knowledge. After all, a common school education is an immensely practical thing if it is properly applied. If it were not so, youth would not spend the better part of life acquiring it, nor would old age spend its time bemoaning the lack of it. In these problems, as in all others, the best solution lies in an earnest individual effort directed toward the common end. J. E. S.-'2-L. QWHAT WILL WE D0 AFTER GRADUATION? '6Stand1Ing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet. This quotation, with which we are all familiar, expresses our situa- tion very well. Now is the time for us to decide what we are going to select for a life work. Some of us may consider that we will not need any more education. ls that supposition correct? Let us answer that question truth- fully. Our education, while we are in school, only fits us to reason and think for ourselves when we are out of school. Our education never stops. We can always learn something more. Education, in' its broadest sense, is far- reaching and slow in its acquisition. One discovery or fact always leads to the search for another fact. Men of science and inventors are always seeking to discover some new fact. 6

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TRAINING FLASS BACK ROW, Left to Right-Freda Humphrey, Josephine Smith, Byron Beggs, Anna Howard, Leah Saxton. A FRONT ROW, Left to Right-Lucy Bailey, Miss Lillian Chase, Esther Van Hoeseu.