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

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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?

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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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BURDETT BUSINESS TRAINING • Courses f«rr Young Men • Cou in i.i. i.i i ration and i T ifflce tnanagemi nl and account instruction. Open to High School Gradoatei rses for Young Women: Executive Secretarial, Stenographic Secretarial, alac ing Courses, as preparation for promising secretarial po ment. Open tO Mich School Gradual I - • Courses for Young Men and Young Women: General Bu nhand and Typewriting, as preparation for general business and offlci Open t High School Graduates Previous commercial training not requ in attendance. nil 1..1 entrance. Many leading i Send for Illustrated Catalog BURDETT COLLEGE F. H. BURDETT, President 156 Stuart Street, Boston, Massachusetts Telephone Hancock 6300 STEWARTS Portraits For Graduation Howard High graduates want only the best portraits obtainable for graduation. They may be had at exceptionally low school prices at the j Lowest prices in the city. Special price hotels and entertainments. STEWART STUDIOS 68 Main Street Brockton, Mass. Tel. 424 Campello. Mass. Spring is just around the corner and you will soon need Garden Tools - Seeds - Paint We shall be pleased to serve you. CAMPELLO FRUIT EXCHANGE WHOLESALE and RETAIL Best Fruit and Vegetables ALDEN ' S j 1151 Main St. Campello t Prompt Deliveries WEST BRIDGEWATER GRAIN CO. Coal - Coke - Range Oil Wirthmore Feeds Compliments of MILKY WAY DAIRY Distributors of Fine Milk and Cream LAUGH-A-LOT FARM Producers for Milky Way Dairy CHEYUNSKI BROTHERS RALPH RYDER West Bridgewater KEITH OIL CORPORATION Lubricating and Motor Oils Domestic Fuel Oils Range Oil and Kerosene li Plain Street Brockton. Mass. Tel. 5675 uTTuSfxLiSrary SO Mowantf Street