Woodbury High School - Warrior Yearbook (Woodbury, CT)

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13 reexport trade. They import raw materials from one country and export the manufactured goods made from these raw materials to other nations. Raw ootton is exported from India to Great Britain ' which in turn experts the cotton goods to Canada, Egypt, Australia, and India. Some nations support themselves by carrying exports and imports. The Netherlands is such a nation; here nearly everything but the soil has been imported. I am going to close with an illustration of the interdependence of industry. A few years ago, the women were introduced to the ide% of bobbing their hair. They took to the idea very strongly much to the dismay of the ccttcn textile manufacturers of New England. Before women bobbed their hair, they wore hair nets. These hairnets v ere, for the most part, made by the people of a certain section of China. When the Chinese no longer had a market for their own goods, they couldn’t buy as much. Since they bought most cf their cotton goods from the cotton manufacturers in New England, the textile mills lest their trade and this aroused their ire against the bobbed hair fad. This is only one of the many thousands of illustrations of the interdependence of business. No matter hew small a business is it is dependent on some other business O cusaeac oment 3c.e ay THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION Ccncetta Ida Rossi The year 1935 is important to us because it marks three hundred years of progress since the founding of Connecticut. Equally important and remarkable is the fact that, three hundred years ago, the ceremony which iB making us so nervous tonight, was instituted. Between votes concerned with the management cf the community cows, the Boston farmers unceremoniously founded cur first high school. The Boston Latin School, as this school was called, reveals by its very name that these hands which voted for it, blistered aS they were from wrenching rocks from stubborn Massachusetts fields, left the succeeding ten generations of young Americans a mental task as hard as their physical one had been, namely, the task of uprooting gerunds from the pages of CaBSar and Cicero as a college entrance requirement. Latin and a little Greek were the only subjects taught in these first schools, to boys between the ages of seven and fifteen, so we can readily see why the whipping post was needed as a stimulus to learning. At this timo there was little distinction between church and state and therefore the school was founded to train ministers and political loaders. Because of this, girls were automatically excluded and only beys of outstanding mental ability v e re eligiblo to attend them. The Boston Latin Grammar School was modeled in almost every respect after the schools in England which a few cf the settlers had attended, so it was not the outcome of an original idoa, nor of a democratic motive. Nevertheless, it was a beginning and the six

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