Show THE SEARCHLIGHT THE SEARCHLIGHT Published the Students of the March 12 by Bear River High The Young Salutes The Old School 1935 BUREAU THE STAFF Editorial: Orpha Johnson Helen Heppler Fay Michaelis Rayola Dear Informer: Please give me all you can on the C C Roe Business: ane Bara Shumway Mabel Christensen Macfarlane Blaln Bishop Reporters: Ara Anderson Ada Christensen Beth Innes Mason Martha Olenn Sports: Blaine Hazel Manning Nelda Hansen Deaun Rita Busenbark Lawrence Davis Vern L Martin Farrell Munn3 Dana Stephenson Bishop Paul Jerklns Ralph Peterson Row Dear Beth: I am very sorry but 1 am unable Howgive you any Information ever I can refer you to Mable Christensen She is an authority on the subject to Henrle Barbara Lula Fin Wanda Raulston ZundeL Dear Informer: Please tell me why Blaine Bishop blushes every time Mrs Griffin tells him to turn around and quit talkof four ing to Hazel— an average times an hour Ralph Castleton Dear Ralph: You had better ask Mr Smith for the psychological I’d say reason it was love Caitleton Faculty Advisor: NeLhella Griffin FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK HIGH SCHOOLS CELEBRATE SOPHS-Y- ou if you make a know Sophie donkey of yourself don’t get sore If someone This first class ridea you advice comes from the Astor Post Astoria high school Astoria Oregon The instructor of biology at South Cache high school Is proudly exhibitto lus classes ing a baby alligator Some people think that In fifty years from now he will be a menase to students' lives — The Clarion Hyrum Utah MPT-CHEERFUL AND COURTEOUS Garland ACPO SERVICE C D BARFUSS Phone 27 Mgr The TERCENTENNIAL This year 1935 marks the birthday of high schools in America Celebrations in honor of this anniversary will be held throughout the land Three hundred years ago the Boston Public Latin School founded free education for the first time in the modern world Its purpose was to train its new students to “play a pleasurable and helpful part in the cultural and economic life of the community” How well it accomplished its purpose can be' seen by the brilliant men it produced Today when 3500000 young men and women America are receiving free secondary education how well are the schools performing their purpose which has remained the same? Perhaps a more fitting question would be How well is the youth of America making use of its opportunities in school by training itself to take part in the cultural and economic life of the community? In the last forty years secondary education has increased seventeen-folc- l while the population of the country has but doubled Have the results of this education increased at the same rate? Or have the schools become idling spots athletic institutions mere recreation parks for youth as some critics claim? For answer look around yourself Do you not see numerous recent inventions the from the minds of genius which were perhaps born in high school? Do you not see sanitation healthful living the work of higher minded higher-educate- d people? Do weof public you not see on every side evidences lfare which have been brought about by education? The youth of America is progressing because of its better education Consider then the debt we owe to the little frame high school which 300 years ago started rollsmall stone of secondary education which has a ing into a powerful force for betterment grown o K the Information C camps Beth Smith Boston School— Public ' Latin Site 1635 (Drawing by Mildred the picture above the art studa has attempted to reproduce in drawing of the first high school America founded exactly three hundred years ago In the right hand drawing she has tried to suggest the River now Bear scene of what is high school at that early date and Indeed for the two and a half centuries following April 23 of this year marks the terof the of the centenary founding Boston Public Latin school the oldest In America "On the 13th of the second month 1C35 at a Generali meeting upon notice it was gen- - In ent Says Mr Streeper — "Rex it’s still to ask for a hall permit customary unless of course you’re In too awfully big a huiry” oOo From the time you are born ‘til you ride in the hearse— Things are never so Jad That they couldn't be worse oOo 56789 — They No Dunstan’s body to the'Rainbow’ where they had a lot of other relics (Extract from an essay on Silas Marner Student boners took the skelton of In Whitcomb Riley published collections of his verse filled with simple sediment 1833 oOo Mr Taylor while showing the class FEW HEARTS FOUND pictures explained that the BY CUPID’S DARTS denser the object it the lighter Bear River High— 1735 and 1835 1635 erally agreed upon that our brother Philenon Pormort shall be lntrested to become for schoolmaster the Dear Informer: I have been checking the Information compiled in the questionable of children and teaching nourtering and have discovered the question “What is loveW Please with us” — Thus the Boston Town recgive me a of definatlou as I am a bit uncertain of ords give notice of the beginning exact meaning myself the oldest educational institution with the Raulston Zundel continuous existence i$ the country Dear Raulston: Public with the Boston Compared According to Mr Smith love Is Latin school an our school presents contrast Imagine a school a tickling sensation Inside of you interesting that can’t be scratched I however with three hundred years of traditions behind it Our school is exactly 14 prefer the defination that love is a Thus we one of the young- feeling that you feel when you feel years old like you’re going to feel a feeling that est schools of Amenca respcctfuli' you’ve never felt before salute the oldest school in the land First Bear Bits of Thueren President Tells Games And Proms Of Continued from page in a vacant room at the high school and then climb into an open truck or car and go up to what was the Sometimes Palace hall to piactice in cold weather they would be practically frozen by the time they got to the hall and by the time they were thawed out it was time to return to school They played Box Elder high In the old Palace the fiist year and Box Elder sent up a team that went home (As bad as they were badly defeated this year) But when the return game was played Bear River’s team was the score bewhipped very decisively The first ing 32 to 9 for Box Elder basketball squad consisted of: Kenneth Anderson captain and Clifton Grover Earl Watkins Floyd Adams JesLyde Watkins Delos Thompson se Lillywhite Elden Adams and Vernwere al Harris coached by W They W Christensen and M A Josephson The first Junior Prom was held at the were Balloons Palace blown up and fastened to the ceiling till all that could be seen was a sky of balloons There were nine students In Dear Informer: I am considering getting married Can you tell me how long girls should be courted? Othello Adams Dear Othello: Same as short ones Mr Walker talking on the subject of life saving in his health class said "What would you do If you saw a girl fall Into a river and the water was swiftly carrying her away?” Bright student: “I’d throw her a cake of soap to wash her back" George philosopher Santayana poet and author was the first editor of the Boston Latin School paper Visit The Pay ’n Takit In Tnemonton NEW— MODERN SANITARY LOW EVERY DAY PRICES! Comfortable Rest Room would show up on the film He then the graduation class In whose honor an We WELCOME picture of a skull is cupid? Has he utteily showed the first Prom was held us or why is it that out of and said "See how light the inner YOUR The first student bedy president ofshows up This 353 girls only 90 are now in love part of the skull PATRONAGE of a chemestry fers this advice: “Contrast this with and only 122 admit they have ever must be an 97 Phone our present school and enjoy the rest been In love? Only 65 boys are now student” of your school days” oOo in love and only 94 dare admit that Three girls according to last week’s they have ever been in love Not some one should start an voting desire to be “old maids" Perhaps to find out what is much preparation necessary probably investigation or wrong and try to remedy this condi- still we say "Be careful maids ‘quite unexpectedly tion It may be that the pop goes your with its springtime balmy breezes heart’ oOo can help If not probably we should THE WAY OF LIFE write to Mr Roosevelt for a New Deal BUT MERCHANDISE IS NOW In love I used to think I knew I knew ON DISPLAY But now I must confess to Some answers the question The more I know I know I know “Are you In love?’’ are as follows: Girls Sweaters 98c "Head over heels" “Sadly I know I know the less “Maybe" busIn love” "None of your oOo Twin Sweaters “Yes iness" "It's a question” When the marks are on the report Girls Silk Knee-h- i Hose — puppy love I" "What 49c Is love any- cards there will be one mark that way?" won't be recorded — Miss Woodside’s & Young Men’s Sport Slacks & Cords "f" in type News flash from oOo TJSAC— Milton Anderson and Fred Somers both of Many a girl who spends all day the class of ’31 have been elected to splashing around in the swimming Phi Kappa Phi National Scholastic pool can put up an awful argument about water spoiling her hands when Fraternity Both have made excepshe is asked to bathe the dishes tionally good 'records1 here Where forsaken SPRING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER t SPRING HERE Sport Sport Pure Thread Coombs & $295 Special at at $275 $300 Persson Company |