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Friday, November 6, 1925
High Life
Published lii-Weekly by the Students of
'I'liK (jhkk.vshoko Hkhi vScnooi.
Oreeiisboro, X. C.
Pounded by the Class of ’21
Kntered as Second-Class Matter at the
Post Oth-e, (ireensboro, X. C.
Manack mknt
(ilenn I lolder Kditor-in-Chief
Lindsay Moore Jiusinexs Manager
I'>nest Williams, Axxt. Jius. & Circ. Mgr.
Associatk JM)IT0US
Margaret Perguson, Betty Brown
(leorgia Stewart, Carlton Wilder
l^DITOHS
Pilizabeth Itockwell
Marguerite Harrison
Exchanges
Alumni
- Humor
Graliam Todd
Claude Sikes
Henry Biggs
Atiilktic Kditors
Paul Wimbjsh Mary Tilley
Typist Koitors
Annie Younts Pauline Medearis
Weldon Beachara
Hkpohtrhs
J. I). McXairy John Mebanc
Pannie Rockwell
Nell Thurman
Louis Brooks
Cartoonist
James Clements
Marguerite Mason
Adelaide Hilton
Edmund 'rurner
Pacui.ty Board of Adviskrs
Miss Inabelle O. Coleman Chairman
Mr. W. U. Wunseh Mr. A. T. Rowe
Mrs. Mary S. Ashford
COPIED CLIPPINGS
The education of the iieople of our
country is like a magnificent and all im
portant structure with the schools as
a foundation.—Cahisro Outburst, Cov-
tiigton High School, (’ovington, Va.
Wliether justified or not, before we
condemn, let us look at the other fellows
side.- J/rtUKrt/ Arts High School Weekly
Los Angeles, (’alif.
In this world some have to go two,
three, and four miles because some will
not go their one. Mid-way Student,
Charlottesville High School, Va.
'I’o do a hard task carefully and
proinjitly greatly diminishes the burden
of it.—The Lenoir-Rhi/nean, Hickory,
X. C.
TIDBITS
Wish they had a teacher's convention
every Friilay.
A little tliought now and then will
make you a man among men.
We won’t work, jiroclaini the striking
miners. Xeither would we if we weren't
so fond of eating.
H. L. Menken opinionates that ().
Henry's style can be exactly imitated
and his writings eiiualled by any hack
writer who studies his stories closely.
While we hardly claim to rank with Mr.
Menken editorially, we take issue with
liim. Whoever says that O. Henry's
works are not of the first magnitude,
and that he hasn’t won a place for him
self among the literary immortals, eith
er doesn't know wliat he is talking about
or deliberatelv makes a mis-statement.
Mr. Menken, one of the world’s great
est editorial writers, seems to scorn the
south generally and it's literature ])ar-
ticularly. He terms tlie south the “Lit
erary Sahara.” P>et lie went to Florida
and got stung on real estate.
Mr. Pliillijis asserts that the littering
of the yards with jiaiier must immediate
ly cease. For the benefit of the littcrers
we might mention the fact that those big
black tin-boxes are for the dejiositing
of trash and not for ornament.
A LETTKU AND
GO.M.MEXT
Rosemary, N.
October J'H, lU^o.
Dear Mr. Rhillips:
Thi.-f morning / wrote Mr. Archer a
note, asking him to accept my resigna
tion. It is the only possible course.
While I am very distressed about having
to desert the. school in the middle of a
term. I know that my place is here with
mother, and that / could not be happy
elsewhere.
.Mother's '■onditiou now is. we think,
at a standstill for a while, and we can
expect no change in the immediate future.
/ never dreamed that bhnt's could come
xvith such lightning rapidity, or that the
future could look so dark. Mother’s
never-xcavering faith and her constant
efforts to be bright, alone keep us all
going.
Some day—if possible—/ hope to re
turn to the High School and teach there
again. I have, enjoyed the years there,
and shall continue to think of them with
pleasure.
Very sincerely.
Winifred lieckwith.
IN SYMPATHY
For the jiast five years the students
of Greensboro High School and es])ecial-
ly the inemhers of the Senior Class, have
come in contact with a delightful ])er-
sonality. There is a certain delicate
charm about the person of Miss Wini
fred Beckwith that belongs to the jie-
riod of crinolines and hooji-sklrts, and
is vaguely suggestive of the odor of
violets in the sjiring time.
It was during the eighth jicriod, Oct.
22. Miss Beckwith endeavoring to im
part gems of knowledge to the more or
less duinl) students, as all classes in
English grammar are to a certain ex
tent, was going througli the regular
cla.ss-room routine. A boy entered the
room with the message that she was
wanted on tlie telcjilione. Slie hurried
to the office with a jirernonition of dread.
Picking uj) the telephone, she listened to
a few sjioken words over the wire, and
sank into a chair, her face blanching.
'I’hese words sent her out of our lives—
temporarily, we ho])e. Her mother was
ill, and she hastened to catch a train for
Rosemary, X. (’., her homt.
Miss Beckwith was the jicwer behind
the “Reflector," G. H. S Annual, for
tlie i>a.st few years. In many other ac
tivities, she was a forenuAst leader. Al
ways earnest and sincere in her work,
•she exerted strong influence for good
o%'er us, her .students, and won a place
in our hearts that no one else can ever
fill. We all offer our heart-felt sym-
liatliy to her in her trouble, and hope
that she may come back to G. H. S.
We miss you. Miss Beckwith, and your
memory will always live in our hearts.
T‘lx])erience is the best teacher, Ben
Franklin once wise-cracked. Too good
in the case of the Washington man who
touched a -tOOO volt ])ower line to see!
what would happen and now sjiorts a I
brand new wooden kimona. I
This afternoon tlie Purple Whirlwind
clashes with Lcaksville in the first round
of the elimination series for the state |
title. Come out and help the Whirhvind ■
whirl across the enemy's goal line to!
victory, and then “on to the champion- |
ship.”
EDUCATION
Education makes the man: that
alone is the parent of every virtue;
it is the most sacred, the most use
ful. and at the same time the most
neglected thing in every cotintry.—
MoNTKSUfIKX.
President (’oolidge, in a proclamation
issued S«‘pt. 18, 1925, has set aside the
week of N'ov. 19-2J as American Educa
tion Week. He urges that every citizen
join in making this week “a special sea
son of mutual encouragement in promot
ing that enlightenment upon which the
welfare of the Nation depends.” The
puriiose of Plducation Week is to bring
the American people to appreciate the
ini])ortance of education and to increase
educational facilities and opportunities
to the greatest possible extent.
Since gaining an education is the dom
inant motive in our lives at present, we
should all fully understand it's true
meaning and it's relation to our own
lives. Greensboro High School can give
nobody an education. Xeither can the
best high sciiool in the country, nor the
greatest colleges in the world, sucli as
Oxford, ^'ale, and Harvard, for that
mutter. All edueation is self-eilucation,
and to secure it, we must increase our
powers of thinking, planning, and ob
servation through our own effort. A
man can go through high school and
college and still not be well educated.
Unless he takes advantage of the ojipor-
tunities for self-education which are of
fered to him by the institution.s, he will
not gain a great deal by attending
them.
Education is a life-long process. It
doesn’t end on completion of some j)re-
scribed course of studies. When the
student graduates from school his edu
cation is just beginning. He should add
more and more to his education with
each jiassing year; he should never cease
to study and to learn; he should for
ever continue to develop and grow edu
cationally. Education may make the
man, but upon the man dei)ends the
education.
WORK
Work. The word has an uniiieasant
sound to many of us. In fact, very few
high .school students can be found who
evidence any special desire for it. Yet
hard work is absolutely essential to se
curing the greate.st benefit possible from
a high school education, or anything else
for that matter.
Right now hard work on the various
studies is esjiecially important. The
student who jiuts out a sufficient amount
of studying now will not be compelled
to burn the midnight oil in cramming
for tlie mid-term examinations. He will
more than likely jiass on the semester’s
work, while the chances are that the fel
low who loafs now will flunk out.
The first few weeks were more or
less of a “take it easy” period, in wdneh
everyone adjusted themselves and settled
down to the year’s work. For the past
several weeks school work has been in
full swing, and the grind has now about
reached its jieak. The fellow who mas
ters his subjects now and gets up a full
head of scholastic steam will have easy
.sailing from now on and can coa.st down
the stretch to mid-term examinations
with comparatively little effort.
Mr. A. T. Rowe and Mr. Frank Bay
ard Aycock Junior attended the David
son-State game Saturday. Also a Dav
idson Fraternity had a house ])arty at
which they were guests.
ROBERT EARL
HOWELL
.‘\t 2:30 Friday morning, Oct
ober 30, the soul of Robert Earl
Howell, class of '29, departed in
to the realm of the immortals.
In accord with his life and char
acter was the time and manner
of his death; in the holy hush of
the early morning, with the soft
patter of the rain the only sound
in the quiet room, an expression
of peaceful repose came over the
white face as Earl’s spirit join
ed his Master. Quite, unobtru
sive, even shy, only his close
friends penetrated the barrier of
his reserve and discovered the
warmth of feeling and the spirit
ual depths that lay beneath.
The student body offers its
sincere sympathy to his parents
and now is the time for all good
bereavement, and joins with them
in mourning, regretting the loss
of a companion and true friend.
CREDITS
In Grccn.sboro High School, as in
every other high .school in America,
there are two groujis of students; the
credit seekers and the knowledge get
ters.
The first group is comi)osed of stu
dents wh.o come to school solely to ac-
(juire thirty-six credits; who are con
stantly upset as to the number of cred
its they possess; who elect the “snaji
courses” (if there be such at G. H. S.)
rather than the deeper ones, if the
“snajis” offer a full credit; and who,
when they leave G. II. S., will have
nothing to offer the world cxcejit thirty-
six credits.
'I’he second grouj), the knowledge get
ters, are wide awake students who seek
the courses that will best fit them for
later life; who never mention credits
but who go after the real knowdedge
contained in their studies; who fill every
second with something worth while; and
who will have much in the w'ay of in
tellectual attainment when they leave G.
H. S.
In defining education Webster says;
“Education is the impartation or ac
quisition of knowledge, skill, or devel
opment of character by study or disci
pline.” There is no mention of credits
in this definition and since Webster was
not usually forgetful of important de
tails it follows that education and not
credit is the object.
Every student at G. H. S. belongs to
one group or the other, for there is no
third. The que.stion is; Which? Plach
grouj) claims to have received an educa
tion when high .school is finished, but
have they?
One group has sought a pot of gold;
the other a rainbow; one an education;
the other merely the semblance of one.
How about it, students?
TORCHLIGHT SOCIETY
Probably the liighest honor that can
be bestowed uimii a student in Greens
boro High Scliool is election to mem
bership in the Torch Light Society. The
hope of some day becoming a Torch-
Lighter encourages the Fre.shman, the
Sophomore, and the Junior on to greater
accomplishments in .scholarshij), leader
ship, character and service, the four es
sentials upon which the society is
founded. Many dream of achieving
membership; others wistfully look on,
realizing that the society is beyond hope
of their attaining; very few are the for
tunate ones to whom the honor finally
comes.
There is a certain glamour, a sense of
the highest ideals and jirinciiiles of only
the most select iier.sonnel, that .sets the
'I’orch Light Society apart from all other
school organizations and activities. It
reiire.sents the acme of scholastic
achievement, and those who are elected
to its ranks may consider themselves in
deed fortunate.
NOVEMBER 11
Armistice Day, Xov. 11, will be only
superficially observed this year. It is
not a national holiday, and throughout
the country only small local celebrations
will be held. In our opinion the day is
worthy of a far greater observance, and
at some later late, when it’s true signi
ficance is fully appreciated, we believe
that it will be made a national holiday
of the first magnitude.
The greatest object of Armistice Day
is to do honor to the countless thousands
of khaki-clad warriors who made the
supreme .sacrifice that we might live in
happiness and freedom. J'hey gave up
their rno.st i)ricele.ss po.ssession at it’s
most desirable period, young manhood,
our sakes. We who remained in the
comfortable security of home, as all the
jiresent generation of Greensboro High
School students did, of course, since
all were under the age limit, we cannot
realize the terrible hardshijis and suffer
ings that those saviours of democracy
underwent. The agonies of riddling ma
chine gun bullets, the rending shrapnel
as it ])loughed through the yielding flesh,
the sight of close friends and compan
ions perishing like animals before the
hunter's gun, the horrible suffocation of
burning gases—all these and more were
the lot of those brave spirits wlio W'ent
west for their country and their peojile.
And those pathetic hulks of men who
are trying to forget that inhuman con
flict which left them with lungs almost
gone, maimed .stumps where there were
once perfectly good ar.rns and legs, per
haps sightlessly staring eyes, they
proudly, uncomplainingly, quietly bear
their burdens, incurred in our defense,
through life. Are they not worthy of
they highest honor?
Another function of Armistice Day is
to celebiate the triumph of right over
might, of freedom over ojipression, of
democracy over autocracy. All of us
remember the mad frenzy of joy that
overwhelmed Greensboro and the rest of
the nation on Xov. 11, 1918. The fear
of that awtul fate was sure to descend
upon the world should the Central Pow
ers conquer was at last removed. The
over-bearing forces of crushing oppre.s-
sion were brought to the dust. I.et us
all })ause on Armistice Day and do
honor in our hearts to those who died
or were maimed in defending our cause,
and utter a silent i)rayer of thank.sgiv-
ing to the Almighty that the w'orld was
delivered from the terrible cur.se that
threatened its ruin.
AC'ORX ARTILLERY
Of late tile cam])us has acquired the
proportions of a veritable battle field
into which only tlie brave may venture.
Batteric.s nestling in strategic place-
inent.s near the protecting walls of the
Annex have hurled volley after volley
of pain-producing projectiles across the
vast expanse of no-man’s land. ,
Wounded neutrals (for the belliger
ents seldom are hit) crouch in sheltered
corners nursing great lumps on throb
bing heads. Singing, whizzing shells
seek revenge through classroom win
dows, bursting into the middle of read
ing on the Gallic wars (tame affairs
when compared with the masterful cam
paigns of modern acorn warfare). Po
tential oak trees are hurled against the
foe. the battle surges on; generals sink
exhausted by their tired men; and the
acorn artillery thunders.
Then there is a sudden lull. The
fighters cease to fight. The turbulent
Balkans must end the conflict by orders
of the Great Powers. Diplomats cluster
around while tile terms of peace are de
fined ;
‘■I.assitcr, you and I.ambert wifi have
to quit this acorn slinging contest. One
fellow has been unconscious for ten min
utes because of shell shock. All he can
say is, ‘Great oaks from little acorns
grow',' over and over again. Boys, it’s
pitiful. If you don't stop Pll make you
eat five raw acorns for every one you
throw.”
And thus the battle ends.
teachers served
AT COOKING CLASS
Mi.ss Walker, Miss I'iUett and Miss
Pickard were the recipients of a delight
ful breakfast, made and served by Miss
Playfoot’s first year class in cooking,
J’uesday, October 20, at the eighth
period in the cooking labratory in Barn
A.
The menu consisted of stewed prunes
with white sauce and cocoa and toast.
Catherine Wharton was hostess.
From time to time the girls will serve
lunch, dinner, tea, etc., till they have
performed all the functions of a hostess,
which are connected with cullinarv art.