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HIGH LIFE
January .13, 1928
HIGH LIFE
Published Bi-Weekly by the Students of
The Greensboro High School
Greensboro, N. O.
Founded by the Class of ’21
Charter
Member
March
1925
Entered as Second-Class Matter at the
Post Office, Greensboro, N. C.
STAFF
Managing Editor . . . Dick Burroughs
EMtor J. D. McNairy
Business Manager Ed Davant
Ass’# Business Mgr Jack Kleemeir
Associate Editors
Henry Biggs Louis Brooks
Emma Griffin Clyde Norcom
Carlton Wilder John M. Brown
Assistant Editors
Elvie Hope Irene McFadyen
Margaret Britton Margaret Betts
Art Editor William Troxell
Typists
Virginia Simmons Ruth Stinnett
Jules Squires
Reporters
Virginia McKinney Mary H. Robinson
Mary L. Benbow M. Geogheghan
Frances Cartland Eugenia Isler
Margaret Kernodle Elvie Hope
Helen Miles Ernest White
Facility A dvisers
Mrs. Alma Garrett Coltrane
Miss Nell Chilton
Miss Mary Harrell
jo.
Bon jour and Best Wishes
We welcome into onr school at
this time 130 students from Po
mona high school. Due to a tire
at their school, which necessitated
the high school building being
taken for grammar grades, these
have been forced to come here for
their high school education.
We know we are crowded; we
know there are many things lack
ing which we could hope for; but
we realize the necessity of a change
and we hope that we may do the
best with that which we have. A
fine building does not always make
a good school. The spirit of edu
cation lives in the pupils and the
teachers. It is the people that make
a school and not material things.
We extend to you our heartiest
welcome, students of Pomona. We
hope that you will join with us in
all our activities and make a bet
ter and finer G. H. S.
Beautiful girls in the show Mon
day, it is advertised. And the
pessimist mumbles, ‘‘H’m, where
da yu get ’em.
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Farm relief bill is chosen for the
triangular debate. The brilliant
Mr. A. C. H. of our contemporary,
the Record, remarks, ‘‘To make the
situation perfect why not get some
real farmers for judges?” We
agree with him, provided they vote
our way.
Here is one Pomona student’s
impression of our school: “I must
start paying attention on class and
quit looking out of the window at
all those pretty girls who pass.”
It’s more’n we can see. Perhaps
\we ’re blind.
A citizen of our city made this
remark to us: “Friendship’s epi
taph, ‘If there is anything I can
do, just call on me.
Counting Values
In our school work we find it
necessary to stop at times and have
examinations, to find out what we
have learned in each subject in
which we are instructed. We take
inventory twice a year and add a
certain number of units to our
credit.
However, the task of adding up
the total credit in school work due
each person, honestly, is not so sim
ple as that of taking inventory in
a store. Some students find it to
their immediate advantage to gain
credits by dishonest means. That
is they indulge in the self-destruc
tive act commonly called cheating.
It is simply a matter of technique;
they do not find out exactly what
stock they have on hand.
Now we know temptations are
often placed before a student on an
examination; yet these are slight
compared with the temptations he
will have to face in life. If he
stoops to these slight ones, what
will become of him in the years
after school? After all, we know
that we are educating ourselves;
no school can give us learning ; we
are here for our own benefit. If we
are honest, sincere, and whole
hearted in our purpose, then noth
ing can tempt us to be dishonest
on an exam; if we are not sincere
in our efforts and distort our op
portunities and do dishonest things,
then our chances in the world are
mighty slim and are dwindling
swiftly. The hard, cold world will
pass us by and throw our lives to
the winds if we do not meet the
primary qualification of honesty.
In the examination period
through which we will pass this
month there will be many oppor
tunities for dishonest work; there
will be chances of cheating and
never get caught for it; the person
with character will go through
with an honest record. We are
hoping that G. H. S. will go
through this period without a sin
gle person cheating; if such is the
case then it will be an unprece
dented record; it is up to each
individual student to make this a
unique occasion and to win credit
honestly.
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Class of ’28
We cannot think of this class
without being reminded of Junior
high. There was something about
that year of school that has made
it unique and memorable in the
lives of those who experienced it.
There was a certain indefinable and
intangible attitude and feeling
about the atmosphere that seemed
to plant ideals in the lives of the
students.
Among the outstanding achieve
ments of this class we would list
the winning of the Aycock memo
rial cup in debating as the great
est. It was from the group of boys
of this class who started the Junior
high debating club, who debated
three years without success, who
spread the spirit of debating about
the school, that the two final win
ners of the trophy in 1927 came.
Farewell, class of ’28, we hope
that every measure of success will
be yours; yet the memory of your
achievements remains forever with
the school you serve; your record
stands forever as an inspiration for
us who remain to strive on for
better things.
A Challenge to Educators
“When the fundamental princi
ples of^ biology, physiology, psy
chology, and sociology are taught
in the schools of this country at the
expense of algebra, history and
rhetoric, race improvement and in
dividual happiness will gain mo
mentum. ”
Thus does Dr. Joseph Collins,
nationally known physician, point
out unequivocally the necessity of
instruction in the basic principles
of life, if we are to attain that
degree of success toward which we
are frantically ushering the rising
generation. This statement is pro-
petic of the attitude which the
world will undoubtedly assume
sometime in the future. The im
portant thing is to forego our love
for superficialities and come to
these vital questions as speedily as
possible.
There is no donbt that the gen
eral public realizes more than ever
before that instruction in these
things is potent of much good both
to the individual and the race, yet
this same general public is so
steeped in tradition, so bound by
custom that it hesitates to concur
with any radical plan for the bet
terment of future generations.
Algebra, history, and rhetoric are
excellent subjects for training the
mind of youth, and are valuable
assets, but so long as these are
taught at the expense of a “knowl
edge of how to live,” humanity
must suffer. The prime purpose of
education is to fit youth to better
meet the exigencies of life. Suc
cess can not come unless those basic
factors which govern life are un
derstood. Dr. Collins’ statement is
a challenge to educators.
Remit With Resolutions
The blooming earth is sprouting
resolutions. Every far-sighted busi
ness man is resolving to pay his
bills in order to obtain credit (not
in heaven, but on earth). The fiap-
per has resolved to wipe the stick
from her lips when kissing to end
the horrible painter’s colic that is
raging among the collegiate boys.
(Too many were suffering to buy
her quota of Christmas gifts. Now
she hesitates to kick them—yet).
The Senate is resolving about the
fuss in Nick-a-arague-a, and the
House is vehemently swearing that
it is not so. Meanwhile Will
Rogers and Lindy have undertaken
(without resolutions?) to sooth the
savages of the southern climes. And
in the midst of all this Col. Henry
and General Motors have made a
four-wheel brake resolution to put
out the fastest, man-killing four in
America.
There can be no question about
it; ’tis a season for resolutions. If
you owe another, encourage him by
sending a resolution. If you are on
the receiving end of this combina
tion, remember that resolutions are
never broken—^save to give place to
newer and better lines of con
dolence. Meanwhile, the man who
is really doing things has thrown
over conventions and “does not
choose to resolute.” He does the
thing and has nothing to resolve
about.
Exams and cold weather! But
you know the old rhyme about
when troubles come they come in
a crowd, or else they might die of
lonesomeness.
A BIENNIAL STUNT
EDUCATING THE EDITOR
Now that Cliristmas lias passed, the
presents have been counted, the losses
and gains hgured, and things are back
to normalcy, we wonder what we have
gained from the frenzied excitement of
the holiday season. Of course, we
heard all the sermons and read all the
editorials beforehand on the meaning
of Christmas, hut any one can imagine
just what effect these had on us. The
most noticeable good which came out
of the mad “swapping” of presents was
tlie distribution of food and clothing
to the poor. However, many who were
foremost in this will go back to robbing
these same people when they get back
to their work. We help the poor at
Christmas time and administer to their
need, but how often do we think during
the year the cause of so much poverty
and suffering?
What Christmas was meant to be,
that is, what people say it should sym
bolize, and what Christmas really is
are two sadly different things. At the
most in its practical application it is a
festival occasion comparing with the
great Saturnalia conducted by the
Romans at this same season of the
year. Gigantic business concerns are
run to furnish the people with the sea
sonal things at Christmas time. It is
a commercial enterprise practiced by
all of America, supported by every one
who sends a card, distorted from its
original meaning, and having no pur
pose except hilarious enjoyment and
riotous outcomes.
We have often wondered where a
man would get to today if he tried to
practice the principles and teachings of
Christ. If he did not meet the same
end as Christ met, his outcome at the
most would be doubtful.
Perhaps those who enjoyed the first
Chiistmas had some real appreciation
of its meaning. For the poet said that
then ‘“no one had yet commercialized
the spirit of the day.”
We heard one person say she was
tired of optimism and was going to be
pessimistic from now, on. We, too, are
rather tired of this optimism which be
lieves that things will all come out
right. Therefore, there is no need to
worry or try to do anything to help.
Ultimately everything will probably be
all light, but the immediate present
is not always likely to be for the best.
Optimism is well land good; pessimism
often causes a little work to be done.
“To be a cynic,” it has been said, “is
to think.” Yet, maybe thinking is not
the real purpose of life.
The cold brought discomfort and dis
satisfaction to most of us. The pene
trating atmosphere that seemed to take
the life out of us was no joy. We
hated the frozen water, especially in
the radiator of our car. But ice has
its place, certainly upon a lake. Frozen
water furnishes pleasure and happiness
to many; so it proved during the cold
night when several students, including
our own Miss Walker, went skating on
the ice of a nearby lake.
Breezing through the night air fur
nished pleasure for the future as well
as that night. Each day after a skat
ing trip when Miss Walker came to
school she was feeling so spry and
happy that besides showing a few of
her students the newest steps in the
jig she sang some merry songs and
“pepped” up things in general. We
wish some of our other teachers would
go skating and get a little of the youth
ful spirit.
Speaking of great achievements, we
saw one the other day when the student
body went to Odell Memorial that will
equal Hannibal’s great feat of trans
porting an army across the Alps. There
was only one walkway, and that a
narrow plank across the little creek
behind the school. The entire student
body walked across this in single file,
that is, all who did not cross by the
more spectacular method of jumping,
in about 20 minutes. Now we think
that is a feat to be ranked with the
greatest military achievements of any
time.
At the Debating Club banquet
Mr. Brooks asserted that he could
sort of “sling the bull, so to
speak.” From his editorials we
believe he can. Yet he is not alone
in this field of conquest; others are
about as proficient as he.
From the exhibitions in chapel,
seems as though the “show” is
going to be a real “hit.” To make
it a ‘howling” success, let’s all go
and see it!
Just imagine transporting over a
thousand students across one eight-
inch plank in twenty minutes!
Mirabile dictu!
And the strange thing about
Lindbergh is that his popularity
continues. He was calculated to
be forgotten several months ago.
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