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

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ELLCTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE Have you ever stopped Ztoththlnk of the innumerable benefitsw we derive from the generation and use of electricdty in various ways? Many of the conveniences -of our modern life would be lacking. Our homes would be lighted with gas or kerosene. Th6re. buld1be no radios to Bringfus awentertainment and the news of the world almost 1 OUR NATIONAL GAME . 'nBatter upu calls out the um- -nire,.,andythe.bal1- game Lis gen. From start to finish the two teams battle. The players bat, run, catch and err, while their team- imatesiyell out encouragementg the coaches coach and signal the play- ersg and the crowd keyed to its highest pitch cheers ' the two teams. Many times a year is this scene repeated in thousands of as soon as it happens.The housewifecities and villages. Because of would be forced to wash her clothes by handg ironing would be its great popularity baseball is called the national game of the a tedious job with the old-fashion-United States. ed irons. , Without electricity our modern factories could not produce goods in such huge quantities. Manufac- turers would Tbef forced' to' fuse painted signs instead of present day neon signs, made possible by the use of electricity. Our cities and towns would be lighted with gas, as they p.were back in the nineteenth century. Our street cars would be horse- drawn. There would be no electric trains and subways to carry us to our destinations, swiftly, smooth- ly, and economically. . Automobiles, if there were any, would be lighted with kerosene or carbide lamps, incomparable to the headlights on our modern cars that illuminate the road for three or four hundred feet. Electricity, that makes life so much easier and more enjoyable to which we hardly ever give thought is a major factor in our every day life. Joseph H. Mottershead 1956 Women make 902 of the attempts to' smuggle articles through the U. S. Customs. Snpw never falls on 70 Z of the earth's surface. Baseball originated 3-in the iyear 1839. Its originator was Abner Doubleday of Cooperstown, New York. From the so-called Hold daysu until today baseball has changed a little: then a baseball game used to last twenty-six Uroundsu or innings or until one team had scored sixty-five runsg today a regulation game lasts nine inningsg then the players wore ineither uniforms nor baseball glovesg no admission was chargedg there were no baseball associa- tions or baseball stadiums as is lthe case today. Then there were thirteen players on each side, now there are only nine. There are many baseball asso- ciations todayg the high-school leaguesg the minor leaguesg and the major leagues, consisting of the American League and the Na- tional League. y Each year there are two base- ball classics: the All-Star Game nd the World Series. The All- Etar Game is played between the stars of the American and National leagues. In the four games that iave been played the American league All-Stars have been the more successful, winning three of them. The World Series is a greater classic than the All-Star Game. champions of the play the champions League. The pteam first four games Each year the American League ipf the National that wins the

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l wins the World Series. Forty or fifty thousand people usually at- tend each game of a World Series. This year the New York Yankees of the American League defeated the New York Giants of the National League. Soon the Major head for the South. ferent localities teams will train There in the spring are many pre-season Leaguers will There in dif- the baseball and practice. training camps games. Incidentally all you Phineas P. Phans hold your breath until ULarripin Loun parks one over the right field wall or HKing Carla breezes three fast ones over the platter. Raymond H. Edgecomb 1957 SHAKESPEAHE'S ENVIRONLENT It has often been asked how Shakespeare could have written his dramas which each generation finds more wonderful than did the last. In general there are two theories to account for Shakespeare. Some claim that by his genius alone he came into his power, that in his ease Nall came from within.n Others believe that Hall came from? I without,U that it is his environ- ment which we must study in order to understand his works. There is no doubt that Shakespeare, was a genius. Surely no writer would produce such plays his writings a great deal. 5 He studied the people about him, their feelings. In writing thus of his own age hex unconsciously reflected all people of all ages, for inner man neven changes. w There are two outward influ- ences which were powerful in de4 veloping the genius of Shakespearl ---Stratford-on-Avon, the eharmin lx w as his and not be a genius, but, his surroundings also influenced 6 6 1 I L I 1. Q 9 5 I E I I little village where Shakespeare was born 'and where he spent his last days, and London, the great 'metropolis, where he earned his living, first as a general helper in the theatre, then as an actor, and finally as playwright. In Stratford natural influences sur- reunded him. In London he studied the artificial man who lived in unnatural surroundings. Let us see how Shakespeare's environment influenced his works. In any biography of Shakespeare it is hinted that his marriage was an unhappy one. In numerous dramas there are sarcastic references to marriage. The nurse in uRomeo and Juliet,H whose endless gossip and vulgarity cannot quite hide a kind heart, is probably the reflection of a nurse whom Shakespeare once knew. L Tales of the old Roman camps and military roads appealed great- ly to his imagination. In uJulius Caesarn and UCoriolanusn he wrote more convincingly of Rome than did many Roman writers. In UTitus Andronicusn and nRichard IIIH he fell under the influence of Marlowe, another playwright of the day. His last dramatic effort was written after the return of some shipwrecked sailors from the un- known Bermudas. These survivors brought withhthom to England tales of mysterious noises which they thought came from spirits and dev- ils. Shakespeare took their story and around it wrote uThe Tempest.N Although Shakespeare was a genius, his works have lived be- cause his ability to absorb the elements of his environment made them more human, more applicable to the peoples of any generation. Charlotte R, Dolloff 1957