Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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THE W. H. S. DEBATER PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE SENIOR CLASS WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL WAKEFIELD, MASS. MAY, NINETEEN TWENTY-FOUR DEBATER STAFF Editor-in-Chief Ellen Connor Assistant Editors Evelina Ivnny, Ruth Morrison, Rita Doucette Business and Advertising Manager Ross Roach Assistant Manager Robert Hall Exchange Editor Alice Hall Subscription Editors Lawrence Martin, Edward Ward Alumni Editor Priscilla Abbott Social Editors Gladys Dagnino, Louise Connell Athletic Editor Laurence Martin Joke Editors Milton Porter, William Oxley Battalion Editor Joseph Yarushites Staff Artist Helen Corbet

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LDITORIACS Oiiee move tlic Debater makes its bow, witli the liope that tlie readers will find something of interest, perliaps of entertain- ment on its pages. The Debater is an old instit ition in our school. It is not known in what year it was first published; l)ut the earliest one on file bears the date 1904, a copy of which has been bound in half leather. Another number came out in 1908, which combined the Debater with a year book. Then the magazine was discontinued until 1012. In the years 1913- 15 and 16 two numbers were published each year. In 1917, because of the increase in the cost of paper and printing, there ap- peared only one issue. Since 1917, the maga- zine has appeared annually. There is, in the library, a complete file of the Deiljater since the year 1912. The purpose of the Debater differs from that of the Booster. The latter gives special attention to athletics, and aims to promote school spirit. The Debater, on the con- trary, under the direction of the English de- partment, aims to set a standard of excel- lence in English expression for the school. The work of all classes is represented and a careful rcadiing of the Debater will show the kind and the quality of work tlint is done each year. THE LIBRARY The Wakefield High School is most fortii- nnte in its possession of a school library with a trnincd librarian. The Howe Memorial Library is ranked as one of the finest school libraries in New England. The number of books is not, as yet, very large — about sixteen hundred; but the number is gradually in- creasing. In addition to the previous gifts Mr. and Mrs. Rijjley have lately given ten books, and the Parent-Teacher Association has raised a. fund of eight hundred and fifty Helen E.Cofijet ' x dollars, two hundred of which has already been spent for books for the different de- partments of the school. The remainder of the money has been jjlaeed in the bank as a nucleus of a fund, the interest of which is to bo used for the purchase of other volumes. Miss Kelly of Cambridge, formerly a teacher in our school, has recently contrJl uted ten dollars for new books. Last October Miss Kohl divided the Fresh- man class into small groups. Each group was taken to the lil)rary where the pupils were shown things of great interest, chief among wlii.ch are: A valuable book of Daniel Web- stei ' ' s with his bookplate, and one hundred foreign photographs given by Mrs. Hamilton — this is a very beautiful collection, consisting mostly of Greek and Eoman pictures. There are also two hundred and fifty photographs of devastated France, presented by the late Mrs. Belle Armstrong Whitney of Paris, which she herself took. While browsing around in an old bookshop i,n Oxford. Miss Ingram found, one daj ' , an etching of Samuel Johnson made in 1782, two years before his death. Not many of us realize the valuable things that are in our library; but they are there, wait- ing to be shown to us. Visiting librarians and teachers have espe- cially noticed the conference room, opening off the library. There Miss Kohl holds her interviews and conferences; there piipi,ls g9 to prepare their debates. It has become in- dispensable. MERE WORDS Words — what power is in them! Ilow hope- lessly drab and colorless is the person who lacks suitable words! It is not a matter of being gifted, rather a question of thought and study tliat enables one to use the right word. Frankly examine your own vocabulary. Ilow large is it? Are you able, with two or