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

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speaker's rehearsal is not so exciting as a team's practise game. Yet the speaker who is chosen as representative in the interscholastic oratorical contest for the championship of the county receives no recognition by the school, whereas all the members of the athletic teams who play a sutlicient amount of time receive honorary letters. lWhy should not the speaker, too, be honored thus? Nor must we so far forget the real purpose of a high school as not to consider the case of those Who bend their ener- gies to their studies. Good recitations and good marks are not spectacular. They are not greeted by bursts of applause But aren't they What the high school needs if it is to be one of high standing or in fact, if it is to be a high school at all? All the pupils of a school can not be athletes, nor can they all be brilliant students. A splendid forward might be com- pletely at a loss if forced to face an audience and deliver a speech. But all can if they will serve the school in one Way or another. Surely these various important ways of serving one's school deserve equal recognition. CORNELIUS BROWN. TO BE BACK AT Tl-IE AGE OF THREE To be back at the age of three -- Running, jumping, climbing, prying, With never a care beyond bruises and bumps, Nor a thought for the time that is flying, To see as it seems and not as it is, To have faith in the goodness of all, To enjoy small favors,-asking no more Of life than to play with a doll, To be blind to customs, unconscious of self, And seldom troubled to see The faults of others in word or deed- To be back at the age of three! M. NVILLIS '26,

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tl1an strong yells for their side from the throats of the school- spirited boosters. The cry Fight! Fight! yelled by voices that mean what they say, wins the game every time. It is a students love and pride for his school which gives him school-spirit, and it is the existence of true school-spirit which makes a school worthy of the esteem and praise of its students. School-spirit has done much for every school in which it exists. Many small schools have become prominent because of some feat accomplished by its school-spirited stu- dents. They may be known and famed because of their stu- dent societies, their entertainments given by hardworking stu- dents, because they have won athletic championships, and for many other reasons, chief of which may be because they enjoy school-spirit. To admit that not all schools have school-spirit is a hard task. It is the sad truth, however, that they have not the spirit which has proven so necessary for a prosperous institution. Still sadder is the fact that these schools are not so successful as those blessed with that really indescribable something felt by the students for their school. The something which is usually termed school-spirit. y ' H. BUCK '26. UNRECOGNIZED SERVICE VVhy should the members of athletic teams be the only pupils to receive honorary letters? This is a question which perhaps few people have ever considered, but it is a question worthy of consideration. Un- questionably the honor of the school is upheld by other means besides athletics, yet the people who take part in these various other activities do not receive the honor they rightly deserve. Take for instance, those who enter the oratorical contests. Now, speakers must have certain qualifications just as athletes do. They, too, must give of their time and strength to make a success, and with less pleasure and thrill along the way, for a

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THE BEAUTIFUL STREAM By Cleta Baird Therels a beautiful stream in tl1e valley That babbles the livelong day, And it does one 's heart good just to listen and look, It's so frolicsome, blithesome and gay. It is day on tl1e stream in the valley, The bright sun in the clear azure sky Turns the wavelets to gold, of a splendor untold, While a breeze in the trees ripples by. It is night on the stream in the Valley. The soft breeze in the trees now is still, And the mellow mo0n's beam on the murinuring stream Turns it silver against the dark hill. L'ENvo1 O, beautiful stream in the valley You'll be dear to my heart everrnore, For without you I couldn't have written This assignment for English Four. NIGHTS Night Drifting shadows Darkness. Drowsy lights Silence Sentinel like trees And in nests among their branches Tired birds at rest Protected by the cloud of darkness Drawn like at veil in ancient orient.