The Penn's Grove record., 1912-05-24
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Six High School pupils this year wets
graduated. 70 use base ball parlailce after
\ twelve innings six made home runs and
won the game. They started with proba-
bly, fifty or sixty twelve years age. Two
thirds were struck out i'll the eighth aud
half the other third were left on first,
second or third bases. With only six
graduates from fifty OF sixty what's the
use of maintaining a high school tor SO
few?
Do the base ball enthusiasts quit the
| game because only six home runs are
made in n year? Not much. When the
home runs are made they are hilarious
When the HON boys win every rooter
feels elated, because the home team won
Oh the skill OF muscle with the ball. They
feel proud no matter whose son he is.
The high school graduates have won in
| the game OF knowledge. brian-muscle with
books. As the mind of man is superior
to the animal muscle, that much more
should all be elated that Penn's Grove
had six High School graduates.
In New York, Philadelphia, Camden
of 100 who enter school only 3 complete
the High School; in Boston and Balti-
more SIX, in Wilmington, five. People
in those cities feel proud OF their High
Schools INK graduates.
In five years % have been graduated
in Penn's Grove, an average of A a year,
equal to 9 to the 100 pupils who enter
school. Since we surpass these big cities
why shonld we not be elated i'll the skill
of the minds i'll our citizens as well rs
the skill in muscle. No one feels ~envious
altho struck out or lett on base in base
ball. No body wants to stop the game
even tho no home runs are made. Then
why put the High School game of brain
muscle with books OH a lower plane than
the arm skill in a
How did they win?
Longfellow says;
"The heights of great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flights,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night"
No pupil can gain a high school educa-
ton without night study. Those who
nave toiled upward III the night and mer-
tied a High Ichool Diploma are worthy
of congratulations. fenn's Grove grad
yates are as much to be congratulated as
the graduates OF any other high school.
The courses are identical with those in
IL Al6 pAio GULL
inaries and academies and the same books
are used. The same books are used as i'll
business colleges. A hundred words a
minute at short hand has been attained
in Penn's Grove school. Others can do
it by application.
w hat the use?
Some measure knowledge IN dollars ON
ly. A month ago DIR. N. c. Shaeffer,
Pennsylvania State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction told The High School
students at Altoona this;
"The beet paying-proposition is to re-
main in school until you finish your
course. For every day you attend school
you are protited $40, which will be earned
later i'll life with the additional educa-
tional advantages attained. High School
graduates have the choice OF forty good
vOcations. Those who are not graduated
have fewer"
The completion of a four year course OF
800 days study means P8, 600 greater earn
Ing power during the remainder OF life.
We need not GO out OF our own town to
prove it.
But getting money is not the only
thing that gives enjoyment in life and
iOA4N " pS liz Oii olihS VIM q
High School education a person first be-
gins to see the vast ~unfathomed knowl-
edge beyond. Some OF the most re-
gretable things is to see persons with
wealth miss the higher and nobler things
III life because vi lack of education and
with delights only in amusements, appe
titles and passions.
With the knowledge acquired in a
High School the person may say in the
words OF a 10Th century poet:
My MIND to NE a Kingdom is;
Such perfect Joy therein i nud
AS lar exceeds all earthly bliss
That Coo OF Nature hath assigned.
mo much l Want that most would nave,
Yet still my MIND fOrDids To crave.
'Ilaugh not at anuther's loss,
| gIudge not at auother's gain
No worldly wave my mind can toss,
l brook that is another's baue,
! lear no fue, nor taWn on friend
| loath not lie, nor dread mine end.''
Isaac Watts, poet, preacher and author
said:
Were | so tall to reach the pole,
VI grasp the ocean with one span,
l must be measured by my soul:
The lninds'S the standard uf the man."
A high school diploma is a certificate of
educational standing and ability to use
the mind III future usefulness to society,
1t Is also a certificate OF department, Char
acter.
These are the uses in winning these
diplomas in the High School game OF
know ledge.
The Prudential First.