Batavia High School - Batavian Yearbook (Batavia, NY)

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THE BATAVIAN-N1NET1z12N HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR better not to decide too soon than to decide wrong. It is better to wait a fCW years than to make the wrong decision. Even after we have decided, Fate may decree that we have gone in the wrong direction. But if we are faithful to our- selves, we shall find the right way some day, for there is divinity that shapes our ends. Oliver Goldsmith graduated in medicine, failed as a physician, and became a great writer. He found himself in The Vicar of Wakefield. We are not to be discouraged if we are among the uncertain. Let us remember the words of a certain writer: Have your tools ready. Some day the light will fall upon our darkened path, the way will become clear, and we shall take up our calling. In the meantime, let us become equipped. A Qbualiig lllnrih Glultiuaiing Not long ago a man of mature years was talking about life and its infinite possibilities. He spoke of its privileges, its hardships and discouragements, also of its opportunities and joys. Then, after a moment's hesitation, he said: If I had my life to live over again, I'd be kinder. That's what I'd be-kinder. There is one thing we may all be sure of, and that is that we shall not be privileged to live life over again. As graduates of a high school we do not ask for that. All that we ask for is the privilege of living this life which we are just entering upon. All we ask for is the chance to live day by day down to the hour of the evening of life and the setting of the sun. Our life is in the making. We are at the east with the sun rising. just now our eyes are not upon the western horizon, but upon the zenith of the heavens. We can visualize the steps in the ladder up which we are hoping to climb. There is one thing certain, how- ever, we can not climb very high upon this ladder to success unless we take to heart and feel the importance of the Words of the old man. The life that fails to put a premium upon kindness will fail in itself, no matter how vast a knowl- edge the mind may have accumulated. Kind hearts are more than corouefs And simple faith than Nor-mah blood. , r . ' ibut, iiatrrnta This Annual of our class would be incomplete if we should fail to give credit to whom credit is due, honor to whom honor is due. We, the Class of '24, would come with our greatest tributes and lay them down at the feet of our fathers and mothers. If we have succeeded, if we have attained to a degree, if we are worthy of being graduated from B.I-I.S., it is because of the sweet, patient, and benign influence and help of our parents. We can readily recall the lessons which they have helped us master, the problems they have helped us solve, the book or the tablet which in the rush of the morning hour they helped us find. In a thousand Ways, some of which We remember and some we have forgotten, they have helped us up to this triumphant hour. On the day of our graduation, when we shall receive our diplomas, we shall be glad to dedicate them to our beloved parents and to say to them: Fathers and mothers, these are yours as well as ours. N12

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