IN THE HIGH SCHOOL
The Mentor is a part of our High School. Each day 192 pupils and 11 teachers have opportunity to partake of its splendid contents. Think of a big family of 200 enjoying it daily. I say daily because I have all the back numbers, and each day a new Mentor with all its gravures is displayed on a specially constructed rack in my recitation room. The important features to be found in it are enumerated on the blackboard, and after having pursued this method for a year I am anxious to tell you something about it.
One sixth of the members of the graduating class at the end of the year chose Mentor subjects for their theses, and, from the supplementary reading list given, selected books, which were obtained by mail from the Carnegie Library at Pittsburgh, with a result that all the theses were most excellent.
The Mentor is not filled with current material, which changes constantly and is good only for a short time. All you print will bear being assimilated and preserved. It is your small statements that make The Mentor big.
It isn’t the “new” but the old things it tells, that are not generally known, that gives The Mentor permanent value. It creates a permanent interest in Music, Art, Literature, History, etc., in a High School away from the polish of a big city in such a way as nothing else but a Mentor could. I can’t see how a High School can afford to be without a complete set. Make it known to the schools. It will do a great work.
J. B. SHEETZ, Principal, McClellandtown, Penn.