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

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Winthrop High School 9 Knowledge received from books is not the only thing for which a person goes to school, although when he enters school it is for that ex- press purpose. The average student is unconscious of the other phases of school life that he is assimilating and of the examples he is to emulate. He just is I10f aware of what he is really doing. He may think or he may declare that he is getting absolutely nothing out of school but the book- learning. He is wrong, for who can spend five hours and a half every day for five days a week for thirty-six weeks out of the year in company with seventy-five other students, every one of which has a different per- sonality fllld nature, without learning something from them, unless he is an extremist? It may be possible, but not probable. lt is in school that a normal person first learns to recognize and grasp opportunities. At first it is the minor opportunities that he learns to take advantage of, but as he advances he realizes the most ini- pc,-rtant chance of all, the fact that it is possible for him to attend school. Two other important accomplishments are closely related, namely the ability to think and talk clearly. When a person has learned how to formulate and, get his ideas across to the other fellow, forcefully and clearly then he has got more out of his school life than just hook- learning. -TI. H. School Spirit! What do we mean by this uncertain term? It means the many good things that one can do to better the conditions of school life. If a person goes to school and does not join in any of its activities, he does not have the quality of school spirit. Many people have commented 011 the school spirit of XVinthrop High. The pupils seem to take hold of affairs and help each other as much as possible. The teachers try to cheer the pupils on, v. hen they are in trouble, which has a tendency to arouse school spirit. School spirit is a quality which a pupil must have if he wants to make friends with the other pupils of the school. It is up to the pupil himself if he wants to have a. good school spirit or if he wants to get away with everything he can and not help anyone else. I think it is safe to say that before the activities of the school may be successful, the quality of school spirit must be present. And as one of our great men said, Hitch your Wagon to a star and strive to reach it. This also ap- plies to school spirit. One should set a high standard for himself and constantly work to measure up to it. -L. F.

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8 Wintlirop Winner Editor-in-Chief . . Assistant ....... Senior Editors .... Junior Editors . . . Sophomore Editors Freshman Editors. . . Exchanges ........ Athletics . .. Alumni ......... Business Manager . . . Assistants ........ EDITORIAL STAFF .................FRANCES A. EDNVARDS .... . . . .W. WINTHROP CLEMENT . . . . . . .MARY KUS, ROBERT FLEURY ...HELEN HARRIS, MILDRED BRAVVN ...........INEZ SHAW, ANNA AVERY . . .HELEN HINDS, MALCOM DIAMOND ......................MORRlS TONVLE ' . .FERNAND DeBLOlS ................CAROLINA SKOMRO .EARLEBEATTY . . .PAUL HOLMES, CHARLES GORDON In the month of June we, as seniors of VVinthrop High will gradu- ate, going out into the world as young men and women. For many ot' ns this will bel the graduation or parting from school life. Others will pursue their courses further, thus gaining for themselves a higher place in the world. In graduating, we leave behind us the memories of our school days, and, although at this time we may 11ot think it, we are parting from our friends and classmates. VVe may drift far and wide but al ways we will look hack to the good times had in Wilitlirop High. Graduating, however, does not necessarily mean the leaving of our learning. Although some of us may never again attend school, we will, unto the end ot our lives, always be learning. June, the month of graduation, is in my mind, a very appropriate month. The spring with all its beauty has just departed and the sum- mer with all that it holds is just ahead. So it is with graduation. We have just left high school with all its good times and its teachings. and are ready to step into a new phase of life. In this life we will have one true teacher. Wherever we go, Whatever we do, this teacher always fol- lows us, dealing out the bitter with the sweet, giving us hard knocks and even breaks. This great teacher of man, as many have found out, is called Experience. The school of experience is one of the greatest of all schools and the most widely attended. It is one that no person will ev- er graduate from, but one which many have found to he the school of man 's greatest learnings. --E. B.

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10 Winthrop XVinner To my mind a high school education cannot be valued in dollars and cents. It is tru-e that a student could go to work directly, after graduating from grammar school and earn a good sum of money, while another going to high school would earn very little money. But the person going to work as soon as he leaves the grammar grades is earning something that he cannot keep forever while the person pursuing an education through high school is obtaining that priceless thing that he cannot lose or have taken away from him-knowledge. A few hundred dollars amount to hardly anything in a whole life- time, while if one gets a few hundred dollars' worth of education he has obtained something that will get many dollars for him later on and help him to be a better citizen in this great land of opportunities. The business man of today is looking for the educated man. They are no longer satisiield with the good, they want the best. Competition in the line of getting good jobs is becoming fiercer and fiercer. There- fore, the educated person is going to have a great advantage over a per- son that is not educated. So I say to all boys and girls, at least, get a high school education and if possible, pursue your education still farther. The man that empties his purse into his head cannot have it taken away from him. -R. F. We owe it to ourselves, to our neighbors, and in fact to the whole world, to be honest. One thing that we must do is to live with one an- other. I think that it is safe to say, that the lives of others cross our ovvn more than a hundred times a day and there is no permanent happi- ness unless we treat 0119 another fairly. W'e should especially consider this quality, in reference to our school work. Suppose, for example, that during an examination in algebra, or al- most any study, that I find it easy to look on my neighbor's paper to see what he has w1'titen. Soon I have written the same answers 011 my pa- per that there are in his. VVhen 1 receive 1ny paper back I find that I have an A marked on the corner. I think, XVell, I got by that time, I can do it again. So I try it again and again all through the year and pass with high honors, but at the same time I have a queer feeling. What is it? It is because I have not earned those marks honestly. I say to myself that that honor does not belong to me, it belongs to somebody else. What good is it to me?