Hemingford High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Hemingford, NE)

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Sculpture and Education statute lies hid in a block of marble, and the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves

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 miSS TT1AM1E ACKER ) books ONSIDER what you have in the smallest library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in ■ a thousand years have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written cut in transparent words to us, the strang- ers of another age. —Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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miSS HAZEL DORSEl] Reading EADING without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is gotten from one book cn which the thought settles, for a definite end in know- ledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye: A cottage flower gives honey to the bee—a king’s garden none to the butterfly. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton.