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Page Two High Life January IS, I94S ’"As Good as Army’‘ It’s that old school tradition and custom that we hope can be improved. It’s not ask ing much to give out a cheer at the basket ball games. We know that all of Greensboro High’s school spirit isn’t dead yet. The situation at the basketball games, espe cially the Asheville tilt, was not the fault of students or cheerleaders, but those “higher up.” When we play High Point their cheering is much better and seems to be in unison. We know High Point isn’t better than we are. We don’t think it would hurt if we could get a group of leaders—people who support our team and attend the ball games—to get together once a week during school or even part of chapel programs. We think school spirit is worth the time to take a portion of a class or chapel program getting good cheers “down pat.” The Cadets from Army do this and we don’t think that anybody will dispute • over Army being able to cheer. It ‘ doesn’t mean that we could be as good as they are, but we could do much better than we do. We should all sit together on one side, and this could be done to have it work out right. This is just one student’s opinion i on that subject of school spirit. J. M. A Word of Praise HIGH LIFE Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Greensboro Senior High School Greensboro, N. C. Founded by the Cl&ss of 1921 ' Revived by the Spring Journalism Class of 1937 Entered as second-class matter March 30, 1940, at the post* office at Greensboro, N.' C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Editor-in-Chief David Buckner Associate Editor Frances Newton Feature Editor Betty Jean Poiie Sports Editors George Seay, Herbert Jones Qvrls Sports Editor Gail Schaffert Exchange Editor Jenny Lee Moser MaTce-Ep Editor Herbert Jones Photographer Lowell Dryzer Art Editor Bill Hooke Reporters—Don Hardison, David Breedon Mary Durland Sapp, Barbara Wilson. Business Manager Don Prago Adviser Mrs. R. John Holland Financial Adviser i A. P. Routh JANUARY 16, 1948 ‘Tive Will Get You Ten *. Greensboro high school has many outstand ing accomplishments to its credit, but for some reason or another its faults are better known to the outside world than its virtues. A word of praise is, therefore, always appre ciated. We wish to acknowledge a letter of praise which appeared in the Greenshoro Record during the Christmas season, and which was signed simply “A Mother.” In speaking of the Christmas pageant, presented by the school to the PTA on December 16, she says: “I have never seen or heard anything more inspiring. The choral work, as well as the solos and accompaniments, showed a lot of training and talent. The costumes: might have been the work of professionals, yet it was all done by the students under the able super vision of the'faculty. “May I say ‘thank you’ to all the teach ers and boys and girls who contributed in any way to making this such a finished per formance, and I feel sure I am expressing the gratitude of all the parents and friends who saw it.” Thank you, “Mother”! A man is known by the company his mind keeps. To live continually with noble books, with “high-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy,’-’ teaches the soul good manners'.—Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Young as we are, ,we know a few things. Although it may have been the day before, we weren’t born yesterday. For instance, we know that as sure as Lizabeth Scott was Warner Brother’s answer to Lauren Bacall, then “Some Things Money Can’t Buy” is someone’s answer to “The Besit Things In Life Are Free.” (We’ll also let you put the nickels in for thoise two ditties if you must, but we won’t listen.) Another thing we’ve picked up along the way is that little word “Studying,” taken from the verb “to study” which, unlike some verbs, can be either active or xiassive, ,as we intend to prove. After being embarrassed a time or two or, in case of being from Missouri, seeing those fat, red zeros, most of us agree on ’Tis a far, far better thing to exert a the futility of going to class unprepared, little energy before class than to sweet it out with every question, “What’ll I say if she calls on me?” The answer in three easy words is Listen in Class. That’s no deep, ,,dark secret ,either; we have a teacher who has told us that for the past three years. The infallibility of this rule has been proven a thousand times; don’t we all know somebody who “never studies” and yet who makes the honor roll con- sistantly. Five will get you ten that this rue is their byword. Another thing to note in passing is that mo.st good teachers won’t test on what hasn’t been taught. And most teachers are good teachers. This class listening will leave you sit ting pretty when test time comes along as you will have all the answers and, if you have any gray matter upstairs a lead o-n the type of question. In fact, oyu can put two and two together and, checking on the most important items, ,come up with many of the questions themselves. What more do you want? The answer to this question seems to be “Plenty!”, judging from the feeling about the grading system-or grading at all-that even we have run Into in our wanderings. It would seem that Mrs. and Mr. High School Student are after more knowledge than some might think not only might think, but do say in loud tones. M'ell, it may noit show on us, but the desire to learn is there—^and that’s all we need. That is where those three asy words do a repeat perforinance. After all, the teacher wouldn’t be there if she didn’t know her subject, and every, little bit of information helps. Listening in class helps particularly atfer hours, giving you something tangi ble wth which to work. There is nothing more annoying than to read a dozen pages of history and not to know a bit more after than before. Well, there it is: “to study,” active and passive. It can be passive, and you’ll can be active, and you’ll make a higher still make the grade in school; but it and more important grade in a larger and more important school.—Q.E.D. Hard Facts by Hardison Theona Pierce,, Polly White, Betty IjOU Vanllook, Carry Chamberlain, Betty Jean Pope, Marcia Furnas', Nancy Beale, Beverly Baylor, Gail Schaffert, Dolores Hadaway, Nancy Smith, Anna Hudgins, Betty Sellars, Hester Hale, Peggy Fields, Yvonne Schweistriss, Dot Buncannon, Jean Sharpe, Hazel ^teele, Molly Dillard, Elizabeth Dockery, Camellia Greeson, Bobbie Jean Shaw, Micky Pickett, Jean White, Treva Adams, Fran Pearman, Babs Wilson,' Betty Danes, Pat Thorpe, Jean Sink, Jean Thacker, Elimor Wrenn, and Lowell Dryzer, (to mention a few) certainly^ look seraphic (The Merriam- Webster Pocket Size Dictionary; page 310) in the new feminine fad at Senior: Angora sweaters. A popular song title suggests that -“'the best things in life are free.” Well now, that statement seems just a trifle erroneous (The Merriam- Webster Pocket Size Dictionary; page 121) because considering the outrageous expense of these sweaters, both in price and upkeep, they are all but “free.” The price of the isheddy things runs anywhere between seven and fifteen dollars, we understand and the “users” of the swea ters probably have noted a definite rise .in dry-cleaming bills on their graphs of useless expenditures. So you addicts and victinis to the Angora sweater habit are more than likely loosing out in the long Henry Wallace Rides Again! Flash : (Hot off the wires of (he Shimp- sky-Covinsky Communal Press in Sibe ria). Having been recently ousted from the ixisition of Secretary of Commerce, Henry A. Wallace launched a political counter attack against the Democratic party two weeks ago by revealing the fact that he will enter the 1948 presidential election on a third party ticket. In regard to Wal lace’s thnust against the Democratic Party (probably an act of revenge more than anything else) we quote the famous words of one of our noble colleagues in the Greensboro Daily News: “A thorn in the camel’s hide is sometime painful but seldom fatal!” But on the other hand one should not forget that a rail-splitter from Illinois ran on a third party ticket nearly a hundred years ago . . . and won. Who Is He? He’sa tall Senior with blue eyes and brown hair. In the column beow you will find words that describe this boy. Try to spell out his name with the first letters. He is— a — aehlor — ntelligent a — ad a “— innet” run. Run? — onorable m — ctogenarian minus 63 — ccupied with Nancy “— isisable” — ntity OUR TARHEEL HERITAGE By Don Hardison THOMAS WOLFE Of the many famous North Carolinians to'gain world-wide renown in the variong phases of literary endeavor, Thomas Wolfe has his place on the list. Bom h Asheville, North Carolina, in 1900, Wolfe was seiiied by a terrific mania to absorb all the knowledge one possibly could the all-too-short expanse of a lifetime, His education began at the University of North Carolina when he was at the ten der age of 16. While studying there, Wolfe was first struck with the that the only way to relieve himself of the huge amount of thinking and knowl edge he had stored up inside his unkempt head of fiery blackness was to become a writer. Look Homeward Angel His first literary talents were directed toward playwriting, but after several fruitless attempts, he gave it up in a fit of despair and turned to other forms of literary effort. While attending Harvard university, he discovered that the theater was not his medium of expression. In 1929 his first book, Look Honietvard Angel, with its bold, undeniable truth, rocked the foundations of the literary world, and another writing genius was discov- ered. Wolfe was probdbly one of the odd«t fellows any publisher or editor ever had the good fortune to encounter. When one of his had moods, the giant, bulky frame of W’'olfe would stagger about com pletely oblivions to the mortal t around him. For months on end he Tvould sulk and pout. Sometimes when one of these periods of morosity would settle down upon him, Wolfe would gather to gether his few belongings, plus the tre mendous amount of unpublished manu script he inevitably had on hand, and away he would go to Paris, London, Bor deaux, or Munich. After several months of Bohemian hibernation in a foreign, but not strange, city, he would suddenly snap to and sail once again for home. Of Time and the River Wolfe’s unbounded knowledge was utterly profound and immense that he had a hard time limiting himself in his writings to the conventional 300 pages or so. When his second book, Of Tim and the River, was sent to the publishers in 19-35, it was over twice as long Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Of course, this was entirely too much information to he crammed effectively into one ordinary volume, so it was considerably abridged. The finished product was a mere 900-page tome. The subject matter of almost every novel W'Olfe wrote was drawn from his own life—life which was molded by the time-worn hands of a drowsy little South ern town stuck far back in the hills. Shortly after The Weh and the Rod, Wolfe’s last novel, was turned over to the publishers, Wolfe departed on a tour of the Northwest in an attempt to build up experiences for another book. It there, far away from the land he knew, that Thomas Wolfe was stricken desper ately ill with pneumonia. Immediately he wa.s fusbed to the Johns Hopkins Hos pital in Baltimore, Maryland. But a lift of rabid searching for truth had told it tale. Wolfe died early on the day ol September 15, 1938. His death was mourned by his friends in American literary circles as a terrihh loss; one which could never be redeemed For Thomas Wolfe, a North Carolinian, bad been proclaimed one of America’s immortals by literary critics the world over. “Books are the food of youth, the df light of old age; the ornament of pros' perity, the refuge and comfort of versity; a dqlight at home, and no bin drance abroad; companions by night, ^ travelling, in the country.”
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