East High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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My ( ear friends: Today is your time of dreams. To earn a little; to save a little: to labor honestly; to establish a home that shall be filled with peace and sweetened by love; to rant comfort and security to those who look to you for support,—ruddy childhood and whitened age: to provide for the far-off days, when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened:—to fulfill these sacred obligations with honor demands in man or woman courage that never falters and labor that never halts. And yet vour sacred obligations do not cease when you have cared for home and parents and children. The path from every door leads out to a life of turmoil, of struggle. of cruelty. And when stifled cries plead for protection, the strong arm of power seems palsied that it cannot trike. In a government where the people may be the rulers, theirs always is the responsibility, in imperial Germany, in parliamentary England, in republican United States, the people issues the final word of command. Accepting this tremendous responsibility, coming slowly to a knowledge of its power, the great unnamed people of all the world is moving out to a vaster region, where each recognizes the dependence of all. and there is no master and no slave. In the fullness of time, a new idea has been born. It cuts sheer across the fictitious boundaries that separate nations; it sweeps away sceptres and thrones. Chains of mountains cannot wall it in; nor can broad oceans hold back God’s truth. Now nowhere within tiie bounds of civilization can man live unto himself. Man is brutalized by the brutes he makes: and man is ennobled whenever he grants to humanity a new title of nobility. To give a little, but to labor more; to think earnestly, and to act fearlessly; to be kind: in all your doings to fulfill the Golden Rule of action,—who among you can do these things, he will bring true for himself the world's new dream of a beautiful life. Sincerely yours. F. Webster. Si l il

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W. F. WEBSTER

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A . THE CARDINAL BOARD Editor-in-Chicf............................................Samuel Sewall Business Manager.............................................Wyman C. C. Cole Assistant Editor.......................................Abraham L. Sugarman ASSOCIATE EDITORS f Margaret L. Anderson Literary...........................................-j Ruth L. Erwin (Edward C. Nicholson Art........................................................Dorothy Decker Society......................................................Katharine Baker ()rganizations.............................................Xorman Barden Athletics...................... ...........................Charles H. Davis Eiljhi