Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-06-21
Hty-Firsl Commencement
AT Putnam High School
Continued from Page Fivcl

am sure that everyone Of you IN
30 wishes Putnam High School to be
school Of which you can be proud
II is for you who viii be Seniors
next year TO make il that sort OF
school You. the Senior class OF
next year, viii have a high moral and
intellectual standard 70 uphold. for
the under ciassmen look TO you 20 see
what Is admirable or reprehensible
right or wrong II they see YOU
wasting your time. and not caring
whether or not you do your work
they think that il must be the proper
thing to do that. and they try H.
What is the result? a school that
has a very low intellectual standard.
Now you may take our word for IL
as Of those who know By experience
that during the Senior year the work
is harder. and you have 90 put forth
more energy to accomplish what is
required Of you. Il is impossible foi
you 20 waste away time, for, il you
do, there is something you are sure
to miss. A great deal more con.
ceutration is required 20 do the work.
For instance. one cannot merely read
Burke's Cancellation, and say that
he is able to summarize what Burke
has been talking about Il takes con.
centration, but concentration must be
acquired to some extent before you
reach the Senior year. The time Il
learn to concentrate is in the first
years. When teacher gives out a
lesson, is it right to spend only ten
or fifteen minutes in preparing il? No
lesson can be rightly learned in less
than forty TO sixty minutes. II is not
right to expect a teacher 10 be salts
fled when you spend just few min
utes on your lessons. Besides, the
time that one spends on lessons in
school is not all the time necessary
There are some things that must be
done outside of school hours. There.
fore, spend a goodly amount Of time
on your lessons, both in and out OF
school.
The academic studies, however, i'm.
portant as they are, are not all that
is needed to make a high school 4
place of which you can he proud anc
Of which the community can boast
II the students have no considera.
ton for the appearance of their
school. it is not going TO stand very
high in the judgment Of the public
If the grounds are covered with
paper, sticks, chalk. and like articles
visitors are not going TO have a very
high opinion as TO the standard 81
that school. If parents. friends, OF
visitors should look into the desks OF
the pupils, and see that they ar,
nothing more than a store room fol
useless things. do you think that they
are going 20 be proud of the school
The rooms also afford visitors =
chance to determine the standard Of
the school. Keep the grounds anC
property Of Putnam High Sehoo
clean so that when visitors come they
will recognize that this is a place
of refinement and beauty.
Then there is still a third topi,
which enters into the discussion
courtesy, -courtesy not only TO par
ents and teachers, but courtesy to on'
another. Remember. It is the frs
/ impression that one receives Of an
person or place that usually remain
with him. Would you want anyone {,
come to your school and carry ava,
the wrong impression? Courtesy i
one of the qualities that show a per
sons real character more quickl!
than anything else. When you arr