West Chester High School - Garnet and White Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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4 THE GARNET AND WHITE EDITORIAL At the time this number is issued the school year will be concluded, and a long vacation will be before you. We can thus conceive of no more fitting message to be given you in parting than a suggestion that you make it a real vacation. The year has no doubt been a tiring one for you. trying both mental and physical resistance. Those who have really worked have found plenty to do, and they leave school confident that the year has been spent to the best possible advantage. But now is the time for relaxation. By this we do not mean giving ourselves over to complete idleness for two months. For continued idleness is, in itself, as sure a cause of mental troubles as is overwork. It tends to produce lazy brains and slow thinking. How then, one may ask. is vacation to be spent? To be spent to the best advant- age. one should engage in some occupation totally different from that of the winter. Even as says the old adage. “Variety is the spice of life.” It is interesting to note that, for this express reason, ideas as to how best to spend a vacation vary widely. A shop girl, accustomed to the rush of the city finds rest in the quiet of the country, while a farm hand may secure just as much ben- efit from a visit to the city. Everything, then, goes back to the same idea: One must have a change. And the pupil's best vacation consists of doing any- thing which is foreign to school work. Some, who find themselves financially able may prefer a trip to a summer resort or to the mountains. Others may secure the equivalent by resting at home and visiting the country or spending times in the cool shade of borough parks. Still others will spend the summer engaging in some useful occupation, which, because of its variety, is surely not detrimental. The less fortunate will be forced to spend a portion of each day in summer school, paying probably for shirking dur- ing the time when others were working. Even as they were inconsistent then, so are they inconsistent now. So pass your vacation in that way which which will ultimately prove of most good to you. and when the high school or. for some, it will be college, bell rings for you in the fall you will be prepared to resume work with vim and enthusiasm which will carry you to victory during the whole year. With the issuing of this Commencement number of the Garnet and White we of the staff find our year’s work completed. Our success or our failure can be determined only in the mind of each subscriber, but we can assure all that we have spared no efforts to make this year's publication a successful one. The group which has compiled each issue of our magazine is really of far greater size than one would imagine. In this Commencement number, for instance, there have been over a hundred who have combined their efforts, each in his place, to make it a success. Some secured advertise- ments, some contributed personal writeups, some gave pictures, and still others added their bits to our regular departments. This whole publication represents the com- bined effort of all these workers, and to them we wish to express our sincere appre- ciation. Another group that lent its aid during the year, aside from the student body, was our advertisers, and we are grateful to them for their support. You. our subscribers, likewise, have helped us in the very begin- ning of our work, and we thank you for this aid. And to those who have given us ma- terial for the several issues, and to the members of the faculty who have aided in the compilation of our magazine we are very grateful. The editor desires to express his grati- tude to his staff for their loyal work during the year. With earnest co-operation they have sought to make the year's work suc- cessful. To those who will take our places next year we can but wish the greatest success. May they strive to perfect our imperfec- tions and to carry on the high standard which we have attempted to set.