Waukegan High School - Annual W Yearbook (Waukegan, IL)

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Tbe Claw.: Qf1902. THE REVIEW OF A PLAY IN FIVE ACTS. VERLE MORROWK All the wor1d's a stage and all the men and women are merely players: They have their exists and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts. if N . . . , wHIS may well be applied to school life, it naturally di- IQ' vides itself into tive acts, each one having its own A' peculiar interests and results. Act I. The preparation for High School life. The first scene is laid in the old central school building where many small boys and girls have assembled to start on the way to learning. Here we see only tive of the characters who appear in the last act. But we hear vague rumors of thirty-five other child- ren in twenty diiferent schools, struggling away at the same les- sons. The most interesting scene is the spelling clas s, interesting be- cause it is now entirely out of date. Pride, humiliation, envy, ambition and discouragement, stand in a straight row along a crack in the floor, now this one, new that one going ahead of the unfortunate girl who always spells table, t-a-b-e-l. During the tir t eight years efverytlulng is done by rule and through this act we see most of the evolution of modern teaching. At first the little players go to school because they are sent. And do they all get over it? Most of them do and before they leave the stage everyone knows what he is working for and self in- terest takes its place in the work. Now the eight years have passed, down the tire escape one part makes its exit and the rest march in double tile out the door. Act II. The understanding and rudimentary work of High School studies. Act two opens with marches across the assembly room from west to cast followed by the usual complicated drills between class- -3-