Batavia High School - Batavian Yearbook (Batavia, NY)

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THE BATAVIAN kNINETEEN HUNDRE D AND TWENTY FIVI: ' rf: . , x 11 f'Z STAFF OF 1925 HBATAVIANU Annual Stuff u u Editor-1'n-C1z.i0f ...... .,,..,,..,., IX IARGARET M. TIMMLNS Axsociafc Ed'Ii1'0l'.Y ,....,,.,..,,........,.................. MARION OLSEN MYRTLE VVALKER, MORRIS JOHNSON Ar! Editor .,..............,..............,..,. CATHARINE CORNVVELL Aflzlriiu Editor ., ...,..........,,...,. RONALD MILLLR fake Ediior .....,....,. ....... N ORMAN S. C XSD BZl5i1'ZU.S'S Manager ,....,,........,.. ,.......,,...,. I . GORDON CARR Assistant Bushzcfss Managers .....,...,,... HARRIS D. GARDNFR VINCENT MURPHY, EDVVARD IRELAND Faculty Advisors MISS C. C. FOWLER, MR. I-I. T. COMFORT T121 ' .xirimm

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HE BATAVIAN-NLNETEEN HIUNDRED AND TWENTV T1 BOARD OF EDUCATION ilmvmhvm nf the Euarh nf Ehuraiiun n u JAMES L. BEAN .. .... .. GEORGE W. VVYN N ..........,.. .... HON. NEWELL K. CONE .....,.,. DANIEL W. TOMLINSON ......... ANDREW' I. M'VVAIN ...... MRS. C. C. BRADLEY ......... U11 403 East Main Sf., .....11 Ellisozff Aw., ........20 S1mz1f11i! St., ........26 Ross Sf., ...,....20 Ross St., Ross St., C ity Cnzfy C ity C ity City City

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THE BATAVIAN-NINE'IEEN HUNDRED AND TWIf1N'l'Y-FIVE aff 1 M' 4913 v ' ,, it lp',n if jfix, ' lip. , .1 714- A, . - Nil I'-'-I' lrif.-lg, N- . .1 curb,- ' I- Aj.-3--Tlfil :iff-Y-S--:,q ln .' v l ':uvi ,QL 4 N nw.-.+,-.-..,iy. 4 835' 5-fir xi .'.:illif-uf -9'-791211 .., S.Z W'1' 'nl '2'-'-.7 --f 1'-'l .3 -'1l'J'-'sf : .7i1'--4'-951' . , .-5. 441-1.-Q, 1. . V, ,:-,J -. I, ax-M5511 ' 3:5-5-:D-I-7 '-:g:5-:'.-pf' A 5:2155--1'-., Q 'C-'--'--If-in gig -:,'.1r,.,- .!:g,. ' A L r z, , ,I ' lil mmm ' 5g3-r :i1yX . ' Every year some poor unfortunates have to spend an entire evening in an at- tempt to express adequately and clearly their conception of what graduation actu- ally means to one. Never until this editorial was written had We understood the necessity of so much bombast and empty phrases in an editor's vocabulary. Now we know: it is much easier to talk than to think. After four years of high-school study one ought to be able to think without effort ?j but it is not easy for us. Nothwithstanding the ironic comments which are usually forthcoming from the skeptics whenever the phrase ti marks an important stage in life strikes their eyes, after all, we say, graduation for the majority of us does mark an im- portant stage in our respective lives. In every graduation year very important decisions are made: along about in September most of us either make plans to continue our schooling or else go to work: some of us may work for a year and then continue our studies, and some of us shall never return for any higher educa- tion. If one be postive that he already possesses sufficient education to success- fully rise in the profession he intends to select as a life's work, it would be un- wise for him to return to school. But if one knows he lacks information which is essential for a thorough understanding of a chosen profession then he should return for the acquisition of that information. Not much of a complex question thereg nevertheless many lives are handicapped from the start solely because the graduates never have looked far enough into the future: never have made a com-- prehensive examination of their abilities and personalities. . We think that if every one wouldhthink intently of the future: picture him- self, say. after a lapse of 30 or 40 years, there should result more happy lives and more congenial ways of obtaining a living. For if one thought seriously enough of the future, and its old-age period, he should surely desire to avoid being de- pendent upon anyone: he would shape his life and plans in such a manner so as to insure success: so as to be certain that in his later years he should be content- ed and happy. . But, after all, the importance of looking ahead should not be unduly stressed- Any appeal to youth to increase or lengthen its vision evokes but an indifferent answer. Future, to the young, means a myth-something invented by parents and guardians out of chagrin and disappointment over a grim realization that the time for their foolishly good times is past: over a disturbing realization that age never slackens in his pace, rather seems to increase it. And there is much excuse for this state of mind in us young ones. Too often have we seen Mr. Future, and his grand-dad, Old Importance, marched out in front of us, hastily dressed in l13l