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HIGH LIFE
Fridai/, January 15, 1926
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High Life
Published Bi-Weekly by the Students of
The Greemskoro High School
Greensboro, N. C.
Founded by the Class of ’21
Entered as Second-Class Matter at the
Post Office, Greensboro, N. C.
Management
Glenn Holder Editor-in-Chief
Lindsay Moore Business Manager
Ernest Williams, Asst. Bus. & Circ. Mgr^
Associate Editors
Margaret Ferguson, Betty Brown
Georgia Stewart, Carlton Wilder
Editors
Elizabeth Rockwell Exchanges
Marguerite Harrison Alumni
Claud Sikes Humor
Henry Biggs Graham Todd
Athletic Editors
Paul Wimbish Mary Tilley
Typist Editors
Elizabeth Campbell Hilda Smith
Weldon Beacham
Reporters
J. D. McNairy John Mebane
Fannie Rockwell James Clements
Nell Thurman Marguerite Mason
Louis Brooks Adelaide Hilton
Cartoonist - - Edmund Turner
EXAMS.—their problems
Faculty Board of Advisers
Miss Inabelle G. Coleman. .. -Chairman
Mr. W. R. Wunsch Mr. A. T. Rowe
Mrs. Mary S. Ashford
copied clippings.
Insensibility to beauty and insensibility
to goodness go hand in hand.—Midway
Student. Charlottesville, Va.
Some boys think that just because
snow falls on the ground they should
make it fall harder on some people’s
heads.—The Needle. Atlantic, Iowa.
To knozv what one zvants, to he thor
ough. and to concentrate intensely, are
■ ^ii^^/.eneral rules which if follozoed,
wilT he-lj) the ambitious student a long
way toward gaining the very highest,
most envied, and respected grades.
—Manual Arts Weekly. Los Angeles, Cal.
tidbits.
Mid-term, oh, oh! All right if you
know what you’ve been over this semes
ter, but otherwise—not so good!
We admire your taste in picking dads,
young Wade Wiley. We’ll also inform
the more or less wide-awake world that
he is no slouch wlien it comes to choosing
a mother.
Cheating may get a fellow by—but
does he get any good out of it? He
doesn't know any more than he did be
fore—and he has dealt his self-respect
a mighty wallop.
The cynic might dehne cheating as
“a weak-kneed act of dishonesty prac
ticed by a coward.”
One depraved student was heard to
make a remark that the Florida boom
resulted in one good thing, anyway,
since it was the cause of such conges
tion on the trains that several teachers
were delayed in returning after the holi
days until school had already started.
Testing time is coming. Rushing upon
us with all the fabled speed of Old Nine
ty Seven, mid-term exams loom large be
fore our unwelcoming eyes. None of
us are especially fond of exams, and to
those of us who haven't strained our
selves any in studying the very word has
an unplea.sant sound. Yet they are a
necessary evil; all that we can do about
it is to bear them and grin.
Exams bring with them what is cer
tainly one of the greatest problems to
face the student—the question of honor.
When we are standing a hard exam and
come to a question wliich may decide our
flunking or passing, and the fellow a-
cross the aisle carelessly or intention
ally displays his answers on his desk, we
must be pretty big men to keep from
letting our glances come to rest on them.
The boy or girl who withstands the
temptations that arise during a course of
exams is pretty apt to be successful,
while those who do not will more than
likely end up as failures in both a ma
terial and spiritual way. Cheating is a
step toward spiritual bankruptcy.
Nothing is more contributive toward
lack of self-respect than cheating. When
a fellow deliberately makes his plans to
cheat on an exam, he is taking the
wrong way—the coward’s way—and he
knows it. Therefore way down deep he
has the knowledge that he is not to be
trusted, and he can't trust liimself. His
opinion of himself is lowered, more or
less. None of us can rise to the
heights of which we are capable unless
we have a pretty generous amount of
se]f-rcs])ect.
If we would grow stronger and bigger,
we must add to our self-respect by being
man enough to take our exams fair and
square, even if by doing so we flunk out
on the course. The habitual cheater is
a ])athetic thing; for "‘when honor is lost
all is lost.'’
wade WILEY PHILLIPS
Mr. Archer revealed a deep and dark
secret of his past at the Carolina Alumni
banquet December 30. He was a stu
dent in Greek I during his first semester
at the University, and at the end of his
Senior year he had made such progress
in lingo of the learned Hellenes that he
was a student in Greek I ! Who w'ould-a
dreamt it?
He wdio talks the most often says the
least.
Man without honor is a futile thing.
Take note, fair journalists of sister pa
pers ! “Ted's” not half as bad looking
as his picture.
During the evening of Saturday, Dec
ember 19, a baby's lusty yells might
have been heard issuing forth from tlie
Phillips home in Sunset Hills. If these
vocal disturbances had been traced to
the source, their originator would have
been found to be a tiny mite of kicking,
squalling humanity which had just been
christenened Wade Wiley Phillips by a
proiully beaming father and an equally
enthusiastic mother.
The happy Charlie Phillips grin that
just naturally sets you a-smiling in re
turn has been in evidence on the count
enance of G. H. S. principal since then.
According to him, such a baby was never
seen before by mortal eyes.
While we would hardly go so far as
Mr. Phillips, who confidently declares
that the least Wade Wiley may attain
will be a composite of Tlieodore Roose
velt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washing
ton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mark Twain
and “Red” Grange, we predict great
things for the latest addition to the
Phillips household. Perhaps the con-
tenedly gurgling little infant of today
will some tw’o score or so years hence
occupy the president’s chair at Harvard
University; or perhaps he will be the
first principal of the then just completed
new' Greensboro High School. Who
knows? At any rate, no matter wfliat
line of endeavor his life w'ork falls in,
he can hardly be anything but a great
success with blood of Charles W. Phil
lips coursing in his veins.
OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
Four years ago Glenn Holder entered
G. H. S. unknown and unheralded. Quiet
and unassuming, but with a natural ini
tiative and a dynamic personality he
soon established himself in the eyes of
his fellow students as a leader of the
highest type. He was immediately re
cognized as a man wlio possessed high
ideals and that tactfulness of leadership
with which only one out of hundreds is
endowed. The “contagious Christian
character," tlie friendship, the depend
ability, the true sportsmanship, and the
democracy of his ideals, characterizes
Glenn as a boy w’ho upholds and personi
fies the living traditions of a school that
is rich in idealism.
The first tw’o years that our Editor-in
Chief spent in high school gave the
student body an idea of the powerful
executive and literary ability that em
braces him. In his Sophomore year he
was selected President of the Hi-Collect
Club and Vice-President and historian
of his class. In 1923-24 the Juniors de
signated Glenn to lead their class as
President. Plowever, the high school ca
reer of Glenn Holder did not reach its
climax until his Senior year.
When he was a Freshman he was heard
to say: “My highest ambition is to be
come a member of the Torch Light Soci
ety.” His cherislied dream became a
reality last fall when he w'as received
into this society that exemplifies the
highest type of student that the school
produces. Election to the student Coun
cil, the most democratic organization in
G. H. S. and to the Editor-in-Cliief of
tlie High Ihfk staff came early in 1925.
As an athlete Glenn is not the brilliant
grandstand type of player, but the
steady (kqiendable kind, plays not for
personal glory, but moves in perfect
unison witli the rest of the team. In his
Freshman year he w'as a member of
the pitching staff of the Freshman base
ball team and was also on the Fre.shman
football s(]uad. His Sophomore and
Junior years found him a reserve pitcher
on the varsity nine. In the fall of 1925
a broken collar bone, received in a prac
tice game, decreed that he could never
represent Purple and Gold in football.
The intoxicating effect of such a splen
did scholastic record did not go to the
head of Glenn Holder with the demoral
izing effects that afflict many peojile
who are suddenly inirled into the lime
light. That indefinable quality of Glenn's
that impels friend.ship and respect from
the roughest to the most fastidious stu
dent elevates him from the “goody-
goody” class and labels him a man’s man.
Me retains the confidence of the student
body and remains an invaluable asset
to the school that he serves so ably.
REFLECTIONS.
If there is one who in the estimation
of his fellow workers should be recog
nized it is “Ted” Holder, High Life’s
unassuming and beloved Editor-in-Chief.
the attitude of hopelessness, braided
in the features of potential failures, has
vanished in tlie reflection of a memorable
Christmas season. The reflection of
Christmas leaves, a divine influence on
the mind enabling the most insensate,
•some grounds of hopeful expectation in
the battle of examinations and in the
semester that lies in the future. Tlie
acquisition of physical and spiritual re
pose, secured in an atmosiihere of peace
and quiet, enables a person to enter the
New Year with a new personality and an
unconquerable courage.
The reflection of a Christmas that is
fast fading into the dimness of a bygone
year, will furnish the courage that ac-
knowdedges no defeat. The reflection of
Christmas does not momentarily pass
with a dazzling gaudy flash, but remains
steadfast with an unwavering glow that
perseveres with inspiration.
Rocky Road to Graduation—Ed. Turner
FAREWELL.
Yes, We are sorry to go. Still, it isn't
as if we were leaving forever, never to
return; on the contrary you will be
with us every day, already we show
symptoms of the life-long disease called
“High-Sehoolitis" (thanks, Merriinon)
wliicli proves to lie a most influential
trait of fine character. The high ideals
always upheld to us by our esteemed
principal and faculty togetlier with the
ideals of clean sportsmanship and fair
play, not only in our academic work but
in onr play as well, will always live with
Whatever of lustre or worth we may
acquire at our new Alma Mater will be
but a reflection of the real fundamentals
of character and truth inherited from
our Greensboro High.
But before we pass out of your sight
and hearing, let us say that we should
be less than human if there were not
within our hearts one wish; That our
Alma Mater attain a yet grander future
tlian even you have dreamed for her.
We leave our dear High School with
deep love for her history and traditions.
We shall retain the habit of study and
spirit of good fellowship that we have
formed here; and out in the new world
of things we shall still be fellow stutlents
together, and ponder the problems of
the times as they are revealed to us.
Now as we leave, we pledge to you.
Board of Education, members of the
teaching force, and fellow pupils—Hail
and Farewell.
FIlizabeth Umberger,
CONGRATULATIONS.
We wish to congratulate that class of
seniors who will graduate at mid-term.
We are jiroud of the boys and girls wlio
compose this ciass and who are the first
group of seniors to graduate from a
high school in North Carolina at mid
term. Botii students and teacliers alike
express a most earnest desire tliat the
members of tliis class will make a great
success in their future life. The class
not only as individuals, but as an organ
ization is to be congratulated on its fine
work of the past four years.
In looking over tlie records and
acliievements of the graduating class we
find that tliey have made records of
wliicli any class may be ])roud. Yes,
members of the graduating class for four
long years, you liave lived up to and
fouglit for tlie high standards of old
G. H. S. and again we wish to say we are
proud of you. You have proved a de-
THE PARROT-CLASS.
When January has joined the inumer-
able ranks of the past and mingled with
other memories of days, months, and
years, taking tlie form of History, G. H.
S. will have sent anolher Senior Class in
to the world. The have achieved things
during the four eventful years which
they have spent among us; they have
added to the progressive spirit of the
high seliool through examjile; they are
a happy grou]) of smiling Seniors and
have emulated this sort of spirit through
out the wiiole school.
Holding such a jmsilion of responsi
bility among their fellow students it is
not sur])rislng that They should be the
first to graduate at mid-term. They
have always lieen leaders, never conde
scending to be satisfied with just follow
ing. 'file Seniors led in talkativeness to
the extent that they chose a parrot for
a mascot, not being satisfied with the
quietitude incident to the selection of a
chid mascot. The class boasts of sever
al well-known love affairs among its
members, in fact its members rank first
in understanding cupid‘s mystic toils. In
cliewing gum (everyone knows about the
chewing-gum man who came over to G.
H. S. for their special benefit though
they modestly deny it) in ability with
the trained toe, in which field J. Mans
is champion, and in many other fields of
endeavor they are paramount.
They can be young as the youngest
Freshman, as gay as the gayest Romeo,
as serious as the most prudent minded
judge that ever sat upon the bench; but
they possess one quality that supercedes
them all: They are good, all-roud, earn
est sports. G. H. S. regrets their go
ing and will miss the merry mum of
their chatter in the lialls.
cided asset to the school and you have
in no way tarnished her fair name.
Seniors, we sincerely congratulate each
and every one of you and hope you will
make a great success in your future life
and reflect lionor and glory on your
selves and on your Alma Mater as well.
Winston-Salem Schools to Run Until
June 18—Headline. We feel for you,
Twin City students. Glad that we’re
not among your midst.
riie test of true greatness is the way
one uses it. Holder has come through
uiLspoiled, the same determined, trust-
worty Glenn that pitched on the Fresh
man nine.