Join Together for School
By Nady Cates Jr.
Boys, you can’t tell me (no argument ‘tall now) that you are
not wishing for school to begin. I can read your mind now as you picture
yourself bending over a puzzling latin book, a cross-looking teacher peering
over a huge pair of spectacles upon you as if she is reading your mind from top
to bottom and all around.
You may howl and squeal at those unpleasant hours you spent
long after your associates were dismissed, in concentrated study, while your
teacher stood by ready at any time to give you a helping hand, but you can’t
deny that you were light-hearted as you exited from the large building, feeling
that you had made a step more towards the goal of success.
Many, many of you boys are like one I met a few days ago. I
asked him if he wouldn’t be glad when school opened again, and received the
cool reply that he would not. I had not talked with him 10 minutes before he
had made the confession that school had more pleasure for him than any other
place. So many boys have a “cute” way of concealing their real idea of school.
They do this in order to have something to gossip about, for it is not the
nature of boys to praise the qualities of any object.
You boys may have gotten many a ‘lickin’” at that old
school, but yet you are glad to rally together with others and hear the loud
ringing of the old and unforgotten bell.
Boys! you know you appreciated school (also, the lassies
that dwell therein), although you are continually hammered from beginning to
end; so why not resolve to show your appreciation this term by working and
making this the greatest of all school years?
“Jine together and do your best,
An’ Mr. Marr will do the rest.”
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