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

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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

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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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win fairlyh but, if you can't win, lose with a good spirit. Good sportsmanship is what really counts in a game, not victory alone. A good sport is one who can play a goods game, who can play fairly, and who is always p good loser. The team is always encouraged by a good representation ' of the student body. It also shows good school spirit. Therefore as pupils of this school, let us keep our gpgrtsman- ship standard hifh, even if our games are not always of the hi hest score. A good rule is to be courteous to our opponents There is a far greater victory to oe von than just a victory of the game,-Jthe victory of losing! .H p pf Louise Sanborn 'Bb ' End Ass't Editor-in-Chief A GOVERNMENTAL FAVORS One of the proudest boasts of our country is freedom from class distinctions resulting from birth. In.America there is more opportunity to rise in the financial, social, and educational scale than in any other country. But we are fast building up another kind of group civiliza tion, one even more destrustive to our nation than the caste systems or other fixed aristocracy of foreign countries. These classes are special favor groups: those who are always seeking to procure some aid, gift, or favor from the government. Opportunity has, in some cases, degener ted - into a race for government l help. A short time ago there was a group of people who thought the stock market owed them a living. They were looking for favors to which they were not entitled, and, for a time, they received all they asked for. This process was so artificial :nd vicious that it left behind it results from which we shall be a long time recovering. Disabled soldiers and the unemployed should, of course, be looked after by the government. But there is no reason why a special body of people should J entitl,d to extra patronage just because they belong to . p.rticular political party or live in a certain section of the country, Favors have the fatal weakness of opening the door to an endless series of other causes and groupings. A favor to one person will be used by others as a complete justifi- cation for their requests. Barbara Higgins '54 lst Ass't Editor-in-Chief