Three Rivers High School - Reflector Yearbook (Three Rivers, MI)

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room, laughing when there is reason, but quiet and attentive at other times. When work must be done outside of school, he does it, but also finds time for the ball game or some other form of rec- reation. So summed up in a few words, we may say An ideal stu- dent is the student who works when he should work and plays when it is play time. Why then can't we all be ideal students? -Miss Dozvling. AN IDEAL Out of the clear blue TEACHER sky came this thunder- bolt, write an article for the Annual on the Ideal Teacher. An Ideal Teacher! Why not write on A Round Square, or on An Educated Rhyme, or a Sweet Lemonn? Immediately, one takes in re- view all the memories and ghosts of bygone instructors. The pro- fessors of ample girth who proved that a man's heart is in his stomach. The small, slender ones that were thin because of dys- pepsia for learningl. The lady teachers that trip through our lives, on their way from the University Station to the Matrimonial Depot , The few patient ones that teach because they began that way and don't know how to stop. From among these we must pick out our ideal of a perfect teacher. Shall our ideal be masculine or feminine? In this day of privi- leged woman, the latter of course. Shall she be pretty or stylish, learned or magnetic? If pretty, she must be in the low grade work, where little children learn as they admire and imitate. l 94 lf stylish, what an influence she has over the habits as well as the intellect of the coming manf' and she will find praise in the imitation of all the young girls, or flappers. If she be intellectual, she must be a genius at imparting her culture, as the human race, in all its ages, resents being taught by note. In the magnetism of the teacher, probably lies her greatest power. One's mind turns instinctively to the most successful and the best loved. They are not always the youngest or prettiest but their in- fluence is greater than they know, and its impressions last forever. Thus, an ideal teacher must vary according to the grade of work. For High School students one would probably suggest a University Graduate, whose en- thusiasm has not been allowed to cool, whose life is an example of Christianity that all must admire, with a generous forbearance for all pranks and small sins com- mitted before her eyes. In each student, she will find some qualities to admire, because she is looking for them. She will enter into the sports of the students with enthusiasm, but will deal out justice even to the ath- letes. She studies her pupils, and treats them as individuals, not as a mass. She invents new ways of teaching each pupil to know himself. Of an Ideal Mother, we all boast, for an Ideal Life we all hope: and proudly claim that the Three Rivers High School can boast of that almost unknown quantity-AN IDEAL TEACHER. 4Amy Dunckle, '19. l

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trouble in 1916. Why not have Universal Liability to Service? With every man subject to ser- vice is it not best that they all know something about what they are expected to do, and what is expected of them? ls it not time to do something? With Universal Training in ef- fect-or at least some means whereby every man is prepared fwe would stand ready, and could look the whole world in the eye and we would have taken one of the first great steps toward preparedness. -John Cross. A GYMNASIUM For some time the more progres- sive and broader minded citizens of Three Rivers have been trying to make necessary additions to the High School, one of which would be a gymnasium. How- ever, a more conservative ele- ment among the people has put down any attempt to better the conditions along the educational lines. They argue that this would be an unnecessary expenditure of money, and that no immediate benefit would be obtained. This is, however, a wrong im- pression, for a gymnasium could be used not only for all indoor contests, but regular gymnasium classes could be held there. lt is said that without health, education is worthless. Therefore, the people who do not take an active part in athletics could in this way receive regular exercise, and build up strong bodies and healthy minds. Then too, the present ex- pense of renting other places for athletic events and social l 93 functions could be done away with, for a gymnasium could also be used for class plays and other social gatherings. Certain nights in the week would probably be reserved for those who are not directly in touch with the school. This would also enable people who work every day during the week to have some recreation. Therefore, as a whole, a gym- nasium would be a benefit rather than a detriment to Three Rivers. flloizald Wlzftcscll, '1H. AN ln this day and age IDEAL when education means STUDENT so much to everyone, we often hear the expression ideal stud ent. But what is meant by that expression? ls it the boy who takes all of his books home every night and memorizes the text book, so that he can re- cite it like a parrot in the class the next day: who never misses a question, who never even smiles while in school and who must al- ways go home and study, when the other boys are off at the ball game? No, that boy is not an ideal student, but a book-worm. He can give the principle, word for word as it is in the book, but if he were asked to apply that same principle, he would find it very difficult, if not impossible. The ideal student is the boy who, while in school, studies, remember - does not look at his book for an hour while his mind is wandering, but who is thinking of what he is reading and how he may make use of it. Then the ideal student listens to what is said while in the class l

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