Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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The next time you ' re stumped in English Comp. The next time you draw a difficult assignment in English Comp. — and you can ' t, for the life of you, think of a subject that will net you a passing grade or better — here ' s a suggestion. There are enough stories tied up in the optical business to tide you over four full years and help keep you right at the head of your class. For instance, if you ' re partial to history — there ' s Ben Franklin and the first bifocal lenses — Galileo and his tele- scope — Roger Bacon and the first reading glass — Newton and his prism. If you like a dash of romance in your comps., how about the Phoenicians who discovered glass, when building a bonfire — or Salvino D-Armati, whose headstone offers this epitaph Here lies Salvino D-Armati, father of glasses — may God forgive him his sins. You ' ll find these and a thousand other possibilities in any good encyclop edia. As for sport — why not a story about baseball sun fielders and why they are so careful of their sun glasses — or how any one of a dozen major league stars prolonged his big league career by wearing glasses. You ' ll find spectacles and optical glass play an important role in everyday life. American Optical Company

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