Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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The world is undergoing preat changes which will have a profound effect-on the life purposes of the younger generation People with selfish ambitions are beina set aside. The nation is demandlnr leaders of hirh character and unselfish spirit. The time to develop these qualities is youth. Hikh purpose is seldom developed after High School are. Men and women of Christian ideals will be the great citizens of the coming generation. , ' Rev. L. C. Harnish Justice for Our uhilcrvn It is stranae that tle Penerous-hearted American eeople, xho have poured out their riches so prodivellv in response to every patriotic, every claritacle erpeel, end rho supported, everv measure to help win the 'er, should here nevlected to encouraec and refard properly the servicvs of those rho - labor at one of tie noblest professions in tie field of human activities--the school-teaclere of tlv United states of America. There is no cless of worker. of om 'e demand so hnch. No clues has ever as umed so heevy, so trvinr a burden end a . resoonsibilitv vith such rillinpnesn as these men und women. Wo class has performed its inc ea'in ly helvv tasks more devotedlv, more oonscientiouslv, and 'ith less thourht of self. No class has served its countrv more vhole-Lecrtedlv, more lovollv, dev bv dav Jelpinw tfe vonnf people, and, tlrounh tre children, the parents. Trulv they heve mide the notion their everlastin' debtor. e There are 1,000,000 Fore pu ils in Tir? 'chozl todav then in 1950 with 40,000 fewer nublio .chowl tegchern in The nation, There are 900,000 teachers, 1 in every 4 reoeivinf less v than 0750 annusllv. The e are 05,000 receivinr les, than 5450 annually, Q5,000 receivinf les than V300 nnnuellv, and 40,000 te.chers o'ed ,40,000,00O cock pay. 2,600 schools were closed on or de'ore JGHUUTY 1, 1204. The peace and security of the world of the future will be in the safe-keeping of the generntlon now in our schools.

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FTIGI' TUHVCLTJ Iowa State College has followed the course of 8,800 of its students throurh their school records from tie dev of their entrance to High School. Poor work among these students has been traced Wwith amazing monotonyu to Hlack of purpose.' When the wood student suddenly drops, it is likely to be proved that something has hapnened to his purpose. The article from which the above report is taken says, HOvercomina indif- ference with zest for life, musterinr force to drive through current obstacles, arousing the passion for perfection, is the great problem of education.U Alexander, son of Philip II of Macedonia, became conscious at an early age that he was the son and heir of a treat Kina whose power was constantly srovinn, and that he was destined to be the successor of tie mythical heroes of ancient Greece. At thirteen years of are Cwhen modern boys enter Fifi Schooll he became the pupil of Aristotle, the freatest teacher of the ancient world if not of all time, vith one exception. Aristotle opened up to the exnandins mino and ambitious soul of the young prince the reocraphic l and physical xorld in which he lived and imparted to him a keen insirht into tie meaninf of life. He chose as tie hirh purpose of his life in those early years to become the military master and cultural leader of this world. Te ray be said to have accom- plished his first purpose within thirteen years of the time he left his great teacher. If he had followed the disciplinary teachings of his great master he might have attained his second end. But his hivh purpose wave way before the seducing influ- ences of debauchery and insane delusions of his own divinity. He might have become the greatest monarch as well as the greatest military leader of the ancient torld. It is interestins to note, however, that, under the provi- dence of God he paved the way by the spread of Greek culture for the success of the Gospel of Jesus, the Founder of the Kingdom of God. High purpose tenaciously held is essential to success in High School and in life. Vithout it there can be no strong character, no high achievement, no ultimate happiness. It is as necessary to a worth while human life as the vertebral column. Without it people are but putty in the hands of others who use them for their own selfish ends. Like putty, too, people without purpose soon become hardened and use- less for any good thing. , Strong purpose may lead to tyranny,-despotism, cruelty, crime. High purpose leads to high moral ideals, altruistic service, devotion to human welfare, achievement of great social and political ends, to high attainments in education and culture, and leaves behind a fine heritage for future generations.

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Their minds must meet and solve the difficult and crucial problems that will be their inheritance. Let each community invest ih schools so that it may thereby invest in a trained manhood and womanhood that can play their part in the great period of rebuilding and reconstruction that lies beta s us. ,A -T ' - Our hope is not.in the welfare of a singlenprofe-ssion: we are not pleading for a special class, our plea ds for america, her larger, her brighter, her richer future and the fulfillment of her glorious promise. Our interest is inla widerfteaehing of the principles, the purposes, and the ideals of this nation, that all men shall know her meaning and shall have equal elites to her opportunities, THAT THE LIGHT OF AMERICAQIBM SHALL S0 QHINE THAT IT SHALL FLOON EVERY HOME AND EVERY HEART IN OUR GREAT LAND. Bertha Frost '54 Editor-in-Chief SPORTS AND SPORTSMANQLIP I believe that athletics are one of the fine things a school can teach. They must be taught because it doesn't come natural to anyone to know the rules of the games and the manner in which to play them. Imagine the results, if a coach should pick up a group of boys who had never heard of basketball and should send them up against a champion team! Une important thing which sports teach a boy is sportsmanship, which is required in any form of fame or work because if a man or a group of men are poor sports, they are greatly'dis1iked by all and can never be recommended by the people. Furthermore, to play on a school team, a player has to attain a certain rank in his studies. In this way a boy has to depend on himself to make the team, and not on others. This will be true in later life, for, when he is in search of a position the employer will choose a person on whom he can depend to do his own work and do it correctly. We have in our school a basketball team in the winter season and a baseball team in the spring season. Our school in the past has been ranked highly in sports and in sportsmanship. If our basketball and baseball teams tell us they they have been defeated in a game, we know they mean that they had the lowest score, not that they were defeated in spirit and endur- ance. When our teams know that the opposing teams are ahead, they do not falter or give up, they keep on playing with a good spirit until the last whistle is blown. Go in to win and to