Stevens High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Claremont, NH)

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THE RED AND BLACK L7 Editorial HIS YEAR, higher education, instead of being a privilege acccrded to those with the necessary funds, ambition, and brains, has become an unavoidable neces- sity which confronts every graduating high school student. However, advanced training has now taken on several entirely new aspects, many of which are wholly for the good. In the first place, education now is tending to become more practical in its teachings, rather than idealistic or theoretical. In the armed forces, in industry, and even in some colleges, the only phase of a subject taught is that which can be applied directly upon leaving the training period. This, I think, is one of the trends for the better, at least in our present day world, because it eliminates that hard period of changing the theory learned in college into the cold facts and hard meth- ods typical of life. The leading educators of the country will argue differently, and many have already protested the omission of many liberal arts subjects from the college curriculum. Their ideas are based on the fact that we need well round- ed scholars in order to push forward, as far as civilization in general is concerned. The point here is that we are not training men and women now to go out into the world and lift our society up another notch in the ladder of civilization, we are training everyone now to win this war soon in order to retain our civilization at its present high level of perfection. Then we can concentrate on saving humanity. The very fact that we are training young men and Women under this assump- tion is the best thing that has happened to the young people, as far as a complete and usable education is concerned. The large industries, clamoring for more ex- perienced help and anxious to get rid of heavily taxed surplus profits, are offering exceptionally fine courses to train draftsmen, machinists, and general mechanics. The armed services are expending millions of dollars making highly trained special- ists out of young men who never knew a trade before entering the Army or the Navy. A very great proportion of our men in the armed forces will return to civil- ian life with a store of knowledge that will support them adequately, if our society will reorganize itself so as to accommodate these millions. One is now able to re- ceive the essence of a college education at the expense of the Government. To top that oi, there are more opportunities than ever for securing the plain old fash- ioned university education, barring any interference by the War Department on the plans of the young men. On the whole, the future is bright for the class of forty-three-in fact, it is so bright at times that one is blinded by the question of which course of action tc choose. There can be only one answer to this problem. Take the one to which you are best fitted. There is no time now to grind down the square peg to fit the round hole. This is one case where opportunity doesn't bother to knock-it walks right in and all but grasps its material. The ultimate goal now is not that of finding an op- portunity, but that of making the most of the many offered, and this year it isn't a case of sliding through to get the gravyg either you worki or you don't. To quote the student body of one of the leading tech schoolsz- 'tYou don't get DOUBLE F for flat feet-a Double F is a complete failure in the subject and you get it for be- ing a Tech playboy. Enough of these and you'l1 be just a playboy? And it is only a short step from playboy to K. P.

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W K A6 f THE RED AND BLACK Red and Black Staff l ft to ri ht Robert Lavoie Guy Wilson Richard McCusker, Robert Stein First row, e g : , , field, Freeman Chellis, Martin Fleit. Second row: Fred Bailey, Phyllis Bailey, Marion Westover, Sylvia White, Jeannette Tremblay, Jane Pastore, Carolyn Osgood, Dorothy ' ' ' ' G'ld Ellis, Loudon Barbara Bartlett, Hadwen Stone. Third row. Shirley Johann1s,. .1 a Margaret Hill, Florence McKane, Muriel Zelmker, Stella Chocka, Virginia Dobish, Shirley Heath. Fourth row: Katharine Edwards, Shirley Bonneau, Marion Golub, Anna Laskevich, Dean Smith, Mae Whippen, Helen Pilver, Anne Thompson.

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