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

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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

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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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KEEP THIS OF ALL PATHS CLEAR!