Eau Claire High School - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Eau Claire, MI)

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BOARD OF EDUCATION HARRY HOGUE FRED SEEL President Treasurer F. E. HUBBARD S. M. MERRITT Trustee Trustee C. H. YOUNG Secretary Pasre Seven

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HERF S TO EAU CLAIRE HIGH “HERES TO YOU, OLD EAU CLAIRE, AND TO THOSE WHO DO AND DARE IN THE FIGHT WITH MAIN AND MIGHT, TO WIN TODAY FOR MAROON AND WHITE. IN WORK AND PLAY OUR AIM FOR THEE IS THAT THY NAME UNSTAINED SHALL BE: SO GAIN WE VICTORY FOR EAU CLAIRE HIGH. Page Six

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SUPERINTENDENTS ADDRESS HE chances or opportunities that exist for young people are many. In pioneer days few vocations were necessary, but as the country was cleared and railroads and other industries developed, more and more lines of endeavor appeared until now one needs only to prepare for his choice of work and if he is made of the right kind of material there is surely a place for him. Opportunity demands fitness and the time to fit yourself for life work is in youth. You are young only once. You perhaps do not realize it now but as time goes on. you will comprehend it more and more. Youth is the natural time to prepare to assume responsibilities, which if you amount to anything, you will have to shoulder in later life. Those that are farseeing enough and follow the advice of older people who have made good will not be disappointed later. Youth is the habit forming period of life. Your later life will be fashioned to a large extent by the habits you form now. Habits are but ways of thinking and acting, which by repetition become more or less automatic. We are creatures of habit. A single experiment will illustrate this fact. Notice which arm is thrust firstly into the sleeve of a coal when you put it on. Now try putting the other arm in first. It will seem very awkward. You have formed a habit. Youth is the time when your whole physical being is plastic and easily shaped. As you grow older the bones become harder and more brittle, and therefore harder to change. Consequently, youth is the lime to mould your life into proper channels. I he house you live in which is not built w ith hammer and saw may be undesirable. As some one puts it, “Principles are the foundation stones. Habits are pillars. Every thought drives a nail. Every act girds or weakens a beam. Every high resolve lends beauty and every ignoble deed defaces or mars it. The whole structure stands forth at last built of passions as worthless as wood, hay or stubble, or a building of thoughts and purposes more precious than gold or flashing gems.” Good health habits should be learned early. Cleanliness, good diet, regular exercise and sleep are essential to the welfare of you if you are to obtain the greatest good out of life. A house will not stand on a quicksand foundation and ill health is analygous to the poor foundation. Coaches of football, basket ball and baseball of our colleges and universities insist upon strict training rules so that the men on the teams may have clear minds and be in the best physical condition possible to meet their adversaries. If a man is found dissipating or violating the training rules laid down, thereby impairing the possibilities of doing his best for the team he is im- mediately barred from playing. In other words it has been found out that the person whose physical endurance has been impaired is terribly handicapped and his body cannot respond to the activities of the mind. If it is good for an athletic team to have regular and clean habits, it is surely good for those who are not as strong or athletic by nature as those able to represent their schools. It is a time of choice of classmates and associates. Both are important. A pal may make or break you. A good pal is an asset, a poor one cannot but influence you and may become a very dear liability to you. Many are the heartaches of mothers because their boys and girls are associating with bad chums. You cannot keep Patfe Eitfht