October 21, 1949
High Life
Page Three
THE OTHER SIDE
of the DESK
By Miss Rebekah E. Boone
Editor’s Note: If High Life is to mirror life at Senior High, it must
reflect ALL life—both student and faeulty. We present, therefore,
another in a series of articles hy members of the faculty.
It was a hotly contested football
game, the last of the season. The
Conference championship dejjended
on it. Team A was leading Team
B, but a goal from the held would
give Team B—'the victory! Team B
was within striking distance of
the other’s goal. Time was almost
up. The signal was given; the ball
snapped to the fullback for the
drop-kick. His foot met the ball
squarely, and it sailed over the
cross bar as the whistle blew.
The fullback was surrounded by
cheering classmates. He had won
the victory for them. But the full
back shook his head. He knew the
ball had not touched the ground be
fore he kicked it, even though the
referee had not seen it. In his
hurry and excitement he had kick
ed too soon. It was a punt; there
fore, no goal.
Had he said nothing his name
would have gone down as the one
who snatched victory from defeat
in the last seconds of a great game.
Why did he do it? This is a true
story. It is told every year to the
incoming class of that school.
That fullback won a greater vic
tory for his team. He demon
strated that the WAY the game is
pla.ved is more important than the
FINAH SCORE—that the score on
the scoreboard of conscience is more
important than a conference cham
pionship.
This is still a new school year
for you, folks. What are you going
to do with it? TOTT, alone, can an
swer that question.
Your classes are teaching ^you
many things. The most important
lessons are those for which you do
not receive CREDIT or a GRADE.
You are learning how ito get along
with other jiersons. You are choos
ing your ideals and convictions
with regard to life. You are facing
responsibilities and making impor
tant decisions.
It is more important to show
WHAT you are rather than WHO
you are. Your parents determine
who you are. WHAT you are de
pends on YOU and YOU AUONE.
It is more important to show
WHAT you are by the way you
meet everyday challenges and temp
tations. You are being challenged
to develop yourself to yoiir fullest
and best. • You are tempted to cut
corners—'to get by—to take the
“crisp” courses—to choose the easy
way.
As a high schcml girl passed by
her teacher’s desk when he was
out of the room, she saw a pai)er
headed “Final Examination in
Geometry.” She could easily stop
and examine it. No one would ever
know the difference. She dreaded
that examination. Why not do it?
Her family would be so glad for
her to pass. Somehow she just
couldn't understand geometry, even
though she worked hard at it.
Should she look at the problems?
“Everyone else would do it,” she
said to herself. “Why shouldn’t I
look at this paper, just a minute?”
What do you think she should
do? Should she PASS the geome
try test and FAIL the moral ex
amination?
It is more important to show
WHAT you are by the way you
conquer those temptations to the
unfair, to cheat, to be a poor sport,
to criticize, to be resentful, to be
jealous, to be self-centered, to be
unkind.
It is more important to show
WHA'r you are by your clean
sportsmanship, by fulfilling the
trust placed in you, by your kind
remark about a fellow student or
teacher, by your generous deed, by
your gracious thank you for the
daily little courtesies, by your lov
ing, cheerful hello.
What are you going to do with
this .year? Are you going to take
advantage of your boundless oppor
tunities? AVill you end this school
year a better, finer per.son for hav
ing lived it?
True woi th is in being, not seeming;
In doing, each da.y that goes by.
Some little good—not in dreaming
Of great things to do by and by.
For whatever men sa.v in blindness,
And spite of the fancie.s of youth.
There’s nothing so kingly as kind
ness
And nothing so royal as truth.
—From “Nobility” by Alice Gray.
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EXCHANGEnE
By Barbara Moffitt
‘"’Give me a .sentence containing
a direct object, .Junior.”
“Teacher, you’re beantifnl.”
“Wljats the object?”
“A good report card.”
The level to which
A mind is sinking
Devamd.s a lot
On what it’s thinking.
—^Aiqtaiachian Hi Life.
■ Housewife: “I ordered a dozen
oranges but yon sent me only ten!”
Grocer: “Part of our service,
madam. Two were l)ad, so we saved
yon the trouble of tbrowung them
away.” '|
It mu.st be hard to drink soup
with such a mustache.
Yes, it’s quite a strain.
—Swiped.
The judge looked stern: “Have-
you ever been in eourt before?” he
asked.
“Yes Sir,” .said the prisoner.
“In what suit?” inquired the man
on the l)encli.
“The same one I’ve got on,” re
plied the prisoner.
Angrily the tramp walked away
from the farmers wife.
He shouted, “Work for a meal?
Listen lady, I'm just hungry—not
desperate!”
■—The Lexhipep.
AVords nrider a mounted fish:
“I wouldn’t be here if I had kept
luy mouth shut.”
—Mountaineer.
Chief“Do you believe in life
after death?”
Ofiice boy: “Yes, sir.”
Chief: “Tlien everything is in
order. After you had gone off for
the afternoon ito bury your grand
father, lie came in here to see you.”
“How are the fish in these parts?”
asked the passerby.
The red-faced angler looked up
with a sigh.
“Well,” he said, “I really can’t
say. For a week I’ve dropped them
a line each day, but so far I’ve had
no reply.”
—Jackson .Tournal.
“I spotted a leapard yesterday.”
“Oh, you didn’t either silly. ’J'he.v
grow that, way.”
An old man tundiled over a five-
barred gate just ill time to save
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Grading one of the rooms in the Clean-Up campaign is Jerry Bryan.
Miss Edna Garlick is pointing out the good features of her bulletin board.
himself from an angry hull in the
pasture. “You Brute 1” He sputter
ed, shaking his fist ta the infuriated
animal, “and I’ve been a vegetar
ian all my Ijfe.”
A grocer passed away. He rapped
on the gates of Hades asking iier-
mission to enter.
“AA’hat do you want to come in
here for?” inquired Satan.
“I want to collect some bills from
some of m.v customers who died
before I did.”
“AViiat makes you think they are
here?” asked Satan.
“Because everytime I tried to
colleot from them, this is where
they told me to go.”
—Lenoir Hi.
There’s a lot of truth and happi
ness in this old saying which paral
lels the Golden Rule:
“If there’s anything I can do
for you, let me do it now, for I
shall not pass this way again.”
—Proverb.
V
Interviews at Circus
Reviewed by J. Utley
Your “Roving Reporter,” John Ut
ley, and colleague. Bob Spruce, just
couldn’t resist the smell of saw
dust, dr the thrill and glamour of
the Dailey Brothers Circus which
played Greensboro recently. So with
out further explanation, it is to be
understood that we trouped out to
the circus lot.
Grabbing, not tlie wire recorder,
but a pad and iiencil, we visited
everyone from the star of the show,
Doug Autry (Gene’s brother), to
the boss canvassman and rope
splicer. And this included about
twenty elephants, a few tigers, and
a couple of polar bears.
Upon our arrival, we were prompt
ly introduced to Doug Autry. Doug
is billed as the star of the show,
and wie miglit add. is as enjoyable
when not performing as he is when
performing.- A $25,000 horse, named
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