Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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tHe quiver June, 1923 Pricf, 35 Cents i LlDlTPRl ALS EDITORIALS ARE YCU DOING YOUR BEST TO MAKE WOONSOCKET HIGH AN IDEAL SCHOOL? Are you, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior, trying every year to make your school a little better than it was the year before ? Are you taking pride in the improvements made in the last ten years, and are you adding to the improvements that will he brought about in another ten years? Every student is proud of the school from which he graduates. Perhaps there are things he does not like, but he regards his Alma Mater with concern and affection. After his graduation, he thinks of the good times he had, of the teachers, who were kind to him. of the studies he enjoyed, of the discipline, which he hated, but which he now realizes was beneficial. He thinks of the results he might have accomplished. of the kindnesses he might have done to make someone a little happier.

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Quiver Board 1923

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8 THE QUIVER Are you going to be able to say, “I might have secured better results, but I can honestly believe that I did my best”? How satisfying it would be to look back on your high school career and say that! How pleasing it would be to hear your classmates say, “He was a jolly good fellow”; your teachers, “He was a good scholar ; and your principal, “He was an all-round good student”! Are you doing your best for yourself, your family, and your school? Are you mastering English and French, or are you giving up because “it is too hard” or “I don’t like it?” Are you making it easy for the teachers, who spend their lives in trying to make you men and women? Are you making school affairs successful—dances, plays, and entertainments? Do you support the athletic teams by cheering them instead of criticizing them when they lose a game? Are you considerate of your classmates, or are you too lazy to say, ‘ Excuse me.” when you collide with a girl in the corridor? Are you kind to strangers, trying to make them feel at home, or do you say, “Oh, he’ll get along; someone will help him”? Do you “boost” vour school, or do you criticize it to outsiders? Every student cannot be in a play or be a member of the orchestra any more than every United States citizen can be a member of the Senate; but every student who is a true citizen can say, “I can, and will, make a supreme effort to do my bit to make W. H. S. a clean, worth while institution.” MANNERS Manners play a very important part in high school life. Politeness is not an instinct lying deep in man; it is a quality which must be acquired. It is true that the fundamental idea, which is a consideration for the welfare of others, has to be born in man. If one has this quality of true courtesy, a knowledge of its rules will then show the way to use it. If, however, one is without that essential characteristic (as many are) it is all the more important that he learn the rules again and again, until a sense of duty will prompt him to follow them. Some boys and girls are taught the rudiments of good manners at home; if so, they should use their knowledge at school in order to be an example to less fortunate ones. Those who are not taught at home should learn at school in order to make school life more pleasant.