Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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2 attention to at this farewell service; that, in the league of these mighty units you may win life’s greates bat- tles. The Individual Compact. I speak of man as a compact, that is an aggregation, of intelligence, sensibility and will powers; all of which fitly framed together constitutes a man or forms a char- acter. The fitly framing of this aggregate is the su- preme art of life. Make a man or woman of yourself and you have done the greatest feat of life. When Shakespeare said, ‘‘Know thyself, to thyself be true;’’ he asked you to conquer the world. One has called us to battle by the following statement of the cause. He says, “To defend the soul, its interests, its rights, its dignities, is our most pressing duty. What the writer, teacher, pastor or philosopher lias to do is to defend humanity in man. Man! the true man, the ideal man! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry. War to all that debases, diminishes, hinders and degrades him; protection for all that fortifies, ennobles, and raises him. The test of every religious, political or educational system is the man which it forms. If the system injures tlie intellligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal. It is in the individual that the victory over the world begins. Man was made for mastery and tlie mastery of self is his greatest acquisition. I think this is the reason why the world has laid its richest trophies at the student’s feet. Have you considered, my young friend, the price- less things that have been laid at your feet that by the use of them you might gain the full possession of yourselves? TIME has been given you and will yet be given the most of you. Precious Time! Upon which your loved ones and instructors have ventured so much. Time, untrammeled by tlie anxieties of life, and sweetened by the watch-cares of love and hope. INSTITUTIONS have been given you. Your fathers and grandfathers bought them at a great price. They fought the battles of their country, they faced the dangers and privations of the wilderness, they hewed down the forests, they tilled their farms and builded their cities, wise and painstaking men formulated our systems of jurisprudence, education and religion, wrote our history, science and philosophy, all that we might equip ourselves for the possession of our own individual- ity. What wonderful legacy is this! But this is not all. EXAMPLES have been given us; examples of broad- minded, large hearted and strong willed men. Men, who at great cost of brain effort have endured that which will never need to be endured again. Men, who have expended heart energy in behalf of an unpop-

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TRUE BEUE Published monthly during the school year by the TRUE BLUE PUBLISHING Co. of the Hudson High School. Entered at the post office at Hudson. Wisconsin, as second class mail matter. Subscription price 50 cents per year, or 10 cents per single copy. STAFF OF OFFICERS: Editor-in-chief, Arnold Petersen. Assistant Editor. Ruth Warner. Business Managers, Archie Johnson. Arthur Lee. Athletics. Harol i Disn y. Alumni. Alvin ChristofTerson. Exchanges. Marie Hodgins. Locals. Byron Bradley. CLASS REPORTERS: 08. Katherine Durning: '09. Alvin ChristofTerson: ’10. Philip Balsom: ’ll. Fritz Pearson. Literary Society Reporters, Jessie Fischer, Phillip Bradley FACULTY: M. L. Kephart. Minnie Bilter. J. W. Burkholder. Lillian McNeal. Genevieve Cline. Elsie Boyd. Frances Tschann. Miss Reese Miss Gould. Haccalnureute Sermon byr Hev. G. W. Campbell at the At. 75. Church, Sunday, Atny 24: LIFE’S TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Text: .John 17:18—21 In our beloved United States there is a well establish- ed practice of preaching a farewell sermon to the gradu- ating classes of our various Educational Institutions. This practice is a recognition of the important place religion has held in the making of these institutions. It is more than this. It is a recognition of the fact that it has a great function to perform in the making of life. Therefore in the discharge of my duty and opportunity this morning; 1 consider it a great privilege to stand at the juncture of the ways, and speak words of “Good Cheer” and direction to this class. Mv only anxiety is, that this service may rightly represent the spirit of Christianity in the charge it gives to life. My subject suggests to the mind the many triple al- liances of history that have been made for the world’s peace. And my text is a part of that great prayer of the Master’s, in which He prays for the unity of man, men and God, in the ultimate triumph of righteousness. 1 will read the text again asking you to notice the emphasized pronouns. I’or THEIR sakes I sanctify MYSELF, that THEY also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for them alone, but for THEM also which shall believe on me through their word; that they may be one; as THOU, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us.” Ve cannot but notice in this text the interdepen- dence of the I, THEM and THOU. This is the greatest of all Triple Alliances. It is these Individual, Social and Divine units in Holy Trinitv that I would call your-

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