Winthrop High School - Winthrop Winner Yearbook (Winthrop, ME)

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14 Winthrop Winner reading all that he could get. Benjamin Franklin had the advantage of knowing books all through, that is, he knew how to read them, write them and print them. Most of us think that we know how to read books, but very few of us do. To obtain the most from a book one must know how to pick out the best parts and use them in one's own life. Here is what Franklin said, I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book, a thought that you might find curious or useful, for this will be the best method to imprint such thoughts on your memory, where they will be ready for some future occasion. Y We all like books with pictures in them, whether we will say so or not, as they make us understand what we read about and are therefore very worthwhile to us. There is one thing that is finer than owning books and that is shar- ing them. I think there are four ways of doing this. The first is acting in our daily lives the way a good book tells us to actg secondly, lending our books freely to others who are not so fortunate as to have them, as a third, recommending good books to others wishing to buy them, and lastly, giving books to other people who would like to learn to read good books. -M. T.

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Winthrop High School 13 For the majority of high school students, what they are going to do after graduating is a problem. Some know what they want to do, others do not, but it is my opinion that every graduate from high school should pursue some further course of education. Although a person may not go into a business where a college education would be needed, he will profit by his education. Dean Lord of Boston University, College of Business Administration, places the cash value of a college education at SB7 2,000 and the cash value of a high school education at 2B33,000. The average maximum income of an untrained man has been placed at 351,200 a year, that of a high school graduate at 32,200 a year and that of a college graduate at 316,000 It has been estimated that the college graduate will earn nearly twice as much as that of the high school graduate, up to sixty years of age. By this we plainly see the value of a further education, after leav- ing high school. In the time of our forefathers little education was absolutely neces- sary to the average man. But, today, in our age of science, invention and big business, one of the most essential things in life is a thorough education. One does not necessarily have to attend college. There are any num- ber of trade schools of all different types. One can specialize in any- thing from farming to the most skillful surgery. For a boy or girl to say that he or she does not have the chance to go farther than high school, in their education, now, is almost out of style. Anyone who really wishes to better his education may in several ways earn his way through school. We must hunt for the best things in life, for they will not come to us. -E. B. Did you ever realize that the book habit is the most fascinating one in the world? This can be either a good or a bad habit and of course rests with the individual. The old saying, A man is known by the com- pany he keeps, may be applied to books as well, for A person is known by the books he reads. To make it a good habit does not mean that you must always buy books with morals firmly attached to every chapter, but it does mean that you should read the books after the reading of whichgyou honestly feel happier or braver or better able to do your work and meet life 's problems. With this condition the book habit is a good habit for us all. Has it ever occurred to you that all of our greatest men were so- called book worms? Even Abraham Lincoln was so affected,

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VS mt irop High School 15 WILLIAM ABl'lLl.I Uliillii- Buskvt Bull tl, 2, Il, Hg l':1pt:lin Bus- l'ot, Bull Q-135 Foothzill Cl, 235 Senior Play C453 Vin-0 I,I'OSi1ln'llE 1225 Cirvuln- tion NIIlll2llI0l' Qlijg Ilil io woulil lil'L' to plziy lJIISl'l11lll Anfl wo think it 'S suvh :1 slum ' L- 'Vmlsv ho has to svll lmnnnzls Anil vun 't got into thi- gzinn-. Wu liiulc-1'st:iml thnt you hnw hurl Illillly trials zinel i'I'llllllZltl'lllS :luring your high school K'1ll'0t'l', cspvcizilly in tyln-writing and arriving: :it school on tilnv. hut now that your Utllli'1lfl0ll with W'inthrop High School is :ihout to 4-nil, wv think thi-sc will too and W0 :Ill hope- that you will contin- ue on your roml to silum-Ss. GWENDOLYN BROVVN Gwm'n Buskvt hull C175 Svvrs-tziry C-U9 Svnior Play C4Jg Class 0110. Gwen likvs to go zu hunting And sho nc-wr has ill luvk. Sho nvvvr vonn-s homo with nothing 'Cuusv sho allways brings lnlvk hvr huvk. Woll, Gwen, we lllltll'l'SfQlIHl that you are to bv our solo 1'vp1'm-si-litzltivo :it l :zrni- ington Normal nvxt your and wc fool sure that you will l'L'lDl'0Si'llf tho true volors of NVinthrop High Svliool, and lllllki' us ull proud of you. XVO wish you Sll1'K'L'SS not only in your hunting hut in :ill your unflvrtukings in the vnsuing yvnrs. LOVISIC Ill'1Wl'I'I'T ' ' Louisa' ' ' Svnior play C-ll. Hvr0's il girl who for the past your has boon going zihwut in IL Brown stufly. Sho 1lo0sn't toll us what sho plans to do :lftvr fI,'l'!lIlll2lfl0ll. We might wonilvr, Louis-0, but we-'il hzxto to ask questions. W+1'v0 :Ill on,iovv4l having thc brown eyed bonuty of East Winthrop in our class.