Towle High School - Spirit Yearbook (Newport, NH)

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4 PAGE 10 THE SPIRIT OF TOWLE Commercial Course Activities: Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Girl Reserve 3, 4, A. A. 1, 2, 3, Div. Forel. FRANK BEAUCHAINE Boots General Course MURIEL BELL College Preparatory Course Activities: French Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice President 4, Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Stu-dent Council 3, 4, Theta Lambda Sigma, Prize Speaking, Senior Play, Glee Club 1, 3, 4, A. A. 1, 2, 3, -4, Junior Prom Com- mittee. LOUI BONACCORSI , General Course i Activities: , l Football 3, 4, Basketball 3, Band 2, 3 ', Orchestra 2, 3, 4, Latin Club 1, 2, Theta Lambda Sigma 4, Prize Speaking, Senior Play, Business Manager School Paper. l l l BERTHA ANTILLA Bert

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THE SPIRI 'r OF TOWLE PAGE9 dote. He has given us the faculty of reason, whose especial office and function it is, to dis- cover the connection between causes and effectsg and thereby .to enable us so to regulate the causes of today, as to predestinate the effects of to- morrow. In the eye of reason, causes and effects exist in proximity. They lie side by side, what- ever length of time, or distance of space, comes in between .them. If I am guilty of an act or a neglect, today, which will certainly cause the in- iiict-ion of a wrong, it matters not whether that wrong happened, on the other side of the globe, or in the next century. Whenever or wherever it happens, it is mineg it belongs to meg my con- science owns i'tg and no sophistry can give me absolution. Who would think of acquitting an incendiary, because the train which he had laid and lighted, first circuited the globe before it reached and consumed his neighbor's dwelling? From the nature of the case, in education, the effects are widely separated from the causes. T-hey happen so long afterwards, that the reason of the community loses sight of the connection between them. It does not bring the cause and the effect together, and lay them, and look at them, side by side. If, instead of twenty-one years, the course of Nature allowed but 'twenty-one days, to rear an infant to the full stature of man-hood, and to sow in his bosom, the seeds of unbounded happi- ness or of unspeakable misery,-I suppose, in that case, the merchant would abandon his bargains, and the drunkard would hie homeward from the midst of his revel, and that twenty-one days would be spent, without much sleep, and with many prayers. And yet, it cannot be denied, that the consequences of a vicious educa- tion, inflicted upon a child, are now precisely the same as they would be, if, a't the end of twenty-one days after an infanlt's birth, his tongue were already roughened with oaths and blasphemy, or he were seen skulking through society, obtaining credit upon false pretences, or with rolls of counterfeit bills in his pockets, or were already expiating his offences in the bond- age and infamy of a prison. And the conse- quences of a virtuous education, at the endf of twenty-one years, are now precisely the same as they would be, if, at the end of twenty-one days after his birth, .the infant had risen from his cradle into the majestic form of manhood, and were possessed of all those qualities and attrib- utes, which a being created in the image of God ought to have 9-with a power of fifty years of beneficen-t labor compacted into his frame 3-with nerves of sympathy, reaching out from his ovsm heart and twining around the heart of society, so that the great social wants of men should be a part of his .consciousnessg-and with a mind able to perceive what is right, prompt to defend it, or, if need be, to die for it. It ought to be univer- sally understoo-d and intimately felt, that, in regard to children, all precept and exarnpleg all kindness and harshnessg all rebuke and commen- dationg all forms, indeed, of direct or indirect education, affect mental growth, just as dew, and sun, and shower, or untimely frost, affects vegetable growth. Indeed, so pervading and enduring is the eHect of education upon the youthful soul, that it may well be compared to a certain species of writing-ink, whose color, a't first, is scarcely perceptible, but which penetrates deeper and grows blacker by age, until if you consume the scroll over a coal-fire, the character will still be legible in the cinders. It ought to be understood and felt, that, however it may be, in a social or jurisprudential sense, it is nevertheless true, in the most solemn and dread- inspiring sense, that, by an irrepealable law of Nature, the iniquities of the fathers are still visited upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation. Nor do the children suffer for the iniquities only, of their parents, they suffer for their neglect and even for their ignorance. Hence, I have always admired that law of the Icelanders, by which, when a minor child commits an offence, the courts first make judicial inquiry, whether -his parents have given him a good education 5 and, if it be proved they have not, the child is acquitted and the parents are punished. In both the Old Colonies of Plymouth, and of Massachusetts Bay, if a child, over sixteen, and under twenty-one years of age, committed a certain capital offence against father or mother, he was allowed to arrest judgment of death upon himself, by showing that his parents, in the language of the law, had been very un- christianly negligent in his education. LOUI BONACCOISI. 3133133

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THE SPIRIT OF TOWLE PAGE 11 ARTHUR BRAULT Art College Preparatory Course Activities: Football 21, 31, 4 ', Baseball 195, 2, 3'k, 41, Captain Baseball 2, 32, 41, Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 3, Band 22, St, Orchestra 1, 23, 32 President 311, Operetta li, Vice President Class 1, 2, 3, All State Orchestra 1, 2, All New England Orchestra 4. H. JUNE BRILL Nickname Bug , Jamey College Preparatory Course Activities: Glee Club 1, 2, 3, French Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Latin Club 1, 2, Girl Reserves 3, 4, T. L. S. 4, Pinufore, A. A. 1, 2, 3, 4, Senior Play. JAMES BROCK Jim General Course Activities: Scouts, Baseball, Hunting, Target Shooting. DAVID CHASE Dave General Course Activities: Track 2, 3, 4 f, Football 41, Treasurer T. L. S. 4, Towle A. A. 1, 2, 3, 4, French Club 1, 2, 3.