West Bridgewater High School - Climber Yearbook (West Bridgewater, MA)

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4 WORTH BILL BOOSTER SAYS: You are going to buy a radio? No, two of them. What ' s the idea? Well, we are buying two because on the night.s when the static is bad on one we can use the other. From the hall where the salesmen ' s convention was being held came roar after roar of applause. What ' s all the noise about? asked a policeman of a man who had just stepped out. They ' ve been making speeches, replied the lat- ter, and somebody just introduced the man who sold Mussolini a book on how to acquire self-confidence. Bring me another sandwich, please. Will there be anything else? Yes, a paper-weight. That last sandwich blew away. Student: Does your math teacher grade close? Another Student: Does she! Why, she takes off five points if you get a decimal point upside down. The world gets out of the way for a man who knows where he is going, so they say. At a lecture the speaker stated fervently: He drove straight to his goal. He looked neither to the right nor to the left, but pressed forward, moved by a definite purpose. Neither friend nor foe could delay him nor turn him from his course. All who crossed his path did so at their own peril. What would you call such a man? A truck driver! shouted a voice from the audience. The prosecuting attorney had encountered a some- what difficult witness. Finally he asked the man if he was acquainted with any of the men on the jury. Yes, sir, announced the witness, more than half of them. Are you willing to swear that you know more than half of them? demanded the lawyer. Why, if it comes to that, I ' m willing to swear that I know more than all of them put together. Robert, said the teacher, to drive home the lesson on charity and kindness, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him from doi.ig so. what virtue would I be showing? Brotherly love, said Bobby promptly. Half the City Council Are Crooks. as the glaring headline. A retraction in full was demanded of the editor under penalty of arrest. Next afternoon the headline read. Half the City Council Aren ' t Crooks. OHIS WORLD IS FULL OP GRIEF, TROUBLE AWD BAD PEOPLE IT IS LIKEWISE PULL OF JOY, 9UMSHMJE AMD REGULAR. FELLOWS. THE ROVAL TRI9E OF BOOSTERS LOOKS OVJ THE SUWUY SIDE OF LIFE LIFE MAY HAVE tTS GLOOM, BUT VOU NEVER SEE. A BOOSTER. GOIKIG AROUUO BELLERIMG ABOUT rr A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING Things Ynu Read About The Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abra- ham Lincoln in 1863 freed over 3, slaves. The light of the sun travels 186.000 miles a sec- The outfit with which Columbus discovered Amer- ica is said to have cost $10,000. • The Liberty Bell was made in England in 1752. and inscribed with a verse from the Bible: Pro- claim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. Mt. Everest, in the Himalayas, is the highest mountain in the world, reaching up about five and one-half miles into the sky. So far. no one ha- - ceeded in climbing to the summit. Sound waves below 20 vibrations per second are noise. From 20 to 40.000 vibrations they produce music. When they exceed 392.000 they become color red, and up to 785,000,000,000 they are violet. .- that they become the X-rays. Our national anthem. The Star Spangled Ban- ner. was written by Frances Scott Key dur: War of 1S12 when, after a night of anxiety, dawn ' s early light revealed his beloved fiag stil waving over the ramparts of Baltimore.

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IB- WHY WE CAME TO H. H. S. E. P. and M. S To follow C. R. E. P. and E. H To study W. N. and T. H To take home the Freshman girls A. C. and W. B To play basketball P. S. and E. H To gossip H. W. and N. G To argue M. H. and B. F Heaven only knows E. S. and E. F To surprise us E. G. and T. R To natter the girls L. H To wear his red stockings FAVORITE SAYINGS Ruth Tuck— tee-hee. Merle Hurley — What the heck! Helen Pillsbury — George, wait for me. Ruth Chadwick — See ya second period, Walter. Henry Woodward — Ya dirty whelp! Natalie Gillespie — Lester did this — Lester did that. Bruno Ferrini — Do I need a shave? Charles Rubin — Don ' t you know? Miss W. — By the time you get to be Seniors, you etc. Erland Porter — I get up at four in the morning. WEATHER REPORTS Breezy L. H. Dry ..Mr. F. Threatening Miss C. Agreeable R. T. Foggy A. N. Changeable G. A. Settled A. F. Fair and warmer ... H. T. Windy A. B. Miracle Worker Girls, attention! bawled the gym teacher to her awkward squad. Girls, lift up your left leg and hold it straight in front of you. By mistake one of the girls held up her right leg which brought it out side by side with her neighbor ' s left leg. And who is the girl over there holding up both legs? shouted their much disturbed teacher. Policeman: Who owns this cow and calf? Schoolboy: I don ' t know who owns the cow, but I have an idea who owns the calf. Policeman: Well, who owns the calf? Schoolboy: The cow. Principal: I ' ve never seen the campus so littered with papers as it is this morning. Janitor: Those are the leaflets that were dis- tributed asking the students not to throw papers around. The teacher dictated: His choler rose to such a height that passion well nigh choked him. Shorthand student ' s transcript: His collar rose to such a height that fashion well nigh choked him. Le Maitre: Dites — moi le nom d ' un quadrupede? L ' EIeve: Une table, monsieur! Mater (ad magistrum) : Cur est Sextus sapientior meo Titurio? Magister: Propterea quod Sextus capite suo multo melius utitur quam Titurius suo. Mater (ad Titurium) : Quid, care fili mi, dicis, ut te defendas? Titurius: Nonne, mater mea, mihi dixisti me ludentem debere semper uti meis rebus? Sed caput Sexti non est meum. E. P. : Which is right — ' a hen is sitting ' or ' a hen is setting ' ? A. C. : I don ' t know, and I don ' t care. All I bother about is when she cackles — is she laying or is she lying? Miss Weeden: Who were the three commission- ers sent to negotiate with France at the time that Adams was elected? E. J.: X, Y, and Z. Mr. R. (talking to English IB class) : Can any- one explain why the calf says, ' Ma-a-a, ' and the lamb says, ' Ba-a-a ' ? R. C. (bright student) : The calf is calling his mama — and the lamb is calling his papa! The Frog What a wonderful bird the frog are! When he stands he sit almost. When he hop he fly almost. He ain ' t got no sense hardly. He ain ' t got no tail hardly either. When he sit, he sit on what he ain ' t got almost. — Selected. Faculty Adviser: Can ' t you shave the price a bit on this candy? B. P.: I ' m sorry — this is a lunch room not a barber shop. Are you going to sneeze, my pretty maid? I ' m going to sneeze, kind sir, said she. At who? At who? At who? asked he — Atchoo! Atchoo! Atchoo! said she. First student: My teacher is very irritable; the least thing sets her off. Second student: You ' re lucky at that! Mine ' s a self starter. Daffy: But, teacher, daddy says we are descended from monkeys. Teacher: We can ' t discuss your private family affairs in class.

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WHY . . . Go to College? ONE of the most hopeful signs of our national life is to be seen in the ever-increasing percentage of Amer- ican youth who ' aspire to a collegiate edu- cation. During the last decade the growth in numbers seeking a higher education has been phenomenal. This vast host of youth has chosen to pursue a college course in preference to accepting positions which have their immediate remuneration. Let us briefly consider some of the many reasons which have led them to make such a choice: 1. Education increases the earning power of the individual. The average earnings of an uneducated man are not more than $1.50 per day. At this rate his earn- ings for thirty years of 365 days would amount to $13,500. Suppose the educated man were to receive a salary of only $900.00 a year, his earnings would amount to $27,000, or $13,500 more than the earn- ings of his uneducated brother. The college year being made up of thirty-six weeks of five days each, this sum was evidently earned in 720 days. It is clearly to be seen that his college course was worth to him $18.75 per day. 2. American youth are ambitious to achieve suc- cess in life. The ambition is a worthy one. By them any ac- complishment is frequently measured by its money value or its gain in personal preferment and dis- tinction. While this may not be the best motive and incentive for pursuing a college course, nevertheless the facts show that in the increasingly keen compe- tition of the various occupations and professions, the man with college training has a decided advantage in gaining such distinction. 3. Youth recognizes that college associations will be of infinite value to them in after life. Contact with a faculty of scholarly, cultured and able instructors and association with students of determination, industry and noble ideals, who are persistently striving to realize these ideals, give the student an opportunity for the unconscious develop- ment which books alone could never furnish. The man of strong character who is always active and energetic finds that the college course gives him opportunity to utilize every energy of mind and body in the development of a noble manhood. He finds himself in an atmosphere where he is lifted above the petty temptations which drag so many men down to death, and it becomes his natural bent to climb toward a strong and vigorous manhood. 4. Man gains self-respect and recognition from others more by what he is than by what he pos- sesses. That money has power cannot be gainsaid; but it can not procure for its possessor the respect and honor accorded the individual who has the higher qualities of mind and soul. Though recognizing man ' s need of making a living, the chief aim of the college will ever be to develop the man by a disci- pline of all the powers of his body, mind and spirit. The college aims to train a man to control his body, to think clearly and act rightly. It is these highest endowments of our nature that the college seeks to develop. 5. College training opens up the vistas of the higher life. It awakens in the man a love for truth. It makes him a thinker. It opens the eyes of his soul to the great purpose and end of life. It gives him a love for duty and righteousness. As life is more than meat, and the body more than knowledge and the power to apply it. The best things in a college edu- cation are not always derived from the text-books, although they are usually possessed by those who are most faithful in the preparation of lessons. Fre- quently the student obtains his God-given purpose in life and the willingness to continue strenuous exertion to achieve that purpose to the perfecting of a strong and beautiful character from his con- tact with those whom he has met and associated with during his college days. Is it wise for you to give up the thought of a col- lege course if by any reasonable present sacrifice you can attain such an advantage in beginning your life ' s work?