Ithaca High School - Annual Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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THE ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL DOROTHY VAN HORN Nature fits all her children with something to do :MAY WAGER A rarer spirit never did steer humanity. NARKA WARD Women shall love her, that she is a woman More worth than any mang men, that she is The rarest of all women. LAURA BRYANT Her music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. MRS. E. LOUISE CARPENTER Literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain. BLANCHE HOWLAND And her departure gave us sorrow. MAUDE L. M. SHEFFER The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong. Y? Teachers Who Have Left During the Year Absence makes the heart grow fonderf' MR. ARNOLD Con leavej MR. KULP MR. LYKE MR. LUCE MRs. MAYER Miss MCELROY Miss RADFORD MR. SMITH Miss SNooK

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. 9- fi Al 'N i .Zi Q' H 'Clk ' uv ' 1'2 ..,' ,gf wx M w THE FACULTY 21 DIADALINE MITCIIELL With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing. SABINA MURRAY History makes men wise. RUTH L. NE1sH There's little of the melancholy element in her. SUSANNAH C. NELSON We meet thee, like a pleasant thought. CHARLES J. PARKS Stately and tall he moves in the halls, A perfect model of grace for all. BIARIAN PLOSS To add to golden numbers golden numbers. MARGARET REIDY And 't is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathesf, J EANETTE I. SMITH A few strong instincts, And a few plain rules. LUCY TOWNLEY The moving finger Writes: and having Writ, moves ' on: nor all your pity nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line. JOSEPHINE URICH While.With a strong, and yet a gentle hand, . You bridle faction, and our hearts command.

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s e , ., ,. . ,, , . - - X an-ig. 3 ODAY is no normal time. It is a time of warg a time of restlessness, of un- certainty, of ceaseless sacrifice and readjustment. It is a time more than ever before in the world's history when worth is proving worth. And so it is a time of reckoning. Men and women all over the allied world are face to face with a mighty question, a question they cannot dodge, a question which must be answered and answered right. And that question is What can I do to best serve in the great cause? What Can I Do? America is a mighty nation, mighty in strength, in principle, in thought. It is a nation founded on liberty, standing for the ideals of liberty, and the greatest of its wars have been for the vindication of those very ideals. And because they have never faltered, because they have always championed and championed gloriously, it is those same ideals today that are leading the world to victory. But is it the ideal alone which wins the victory? True, that ideal leads onward, it points out the way, it ever stimulates on to action, but in itself it cannot achieve the material success. With it must go a force more tangible, a force far-reaching and potent in its physical Strength. Then it is that the triumph is achieved. And in this war today that force, that great ,vital power is the American people. Not only the American people col- lectively, as a great mass, but the American people as individuals, each one striving for the great ideal, each one the single embodiment of the force. For us in the schools and colleges and institutes of the country the question has already been answered. What shall 'wc do? Uncle Sam did not hesitate, his answer came swift, direct, indisputable: Stay in school. There should be no argument, no question, no indecision. It is for us but to obey. It is our part in the great scheme of things-not to go forth upon the field to fight, but to remain at home, to keep the home fires burning. Perhaps indeed there seems little glory in the task, little inspiration or real service, but however hum-drum, however tiresome or on- erous it may seem, it is the task facing young Americans today. And he who faith- fully performs that task also serves with the full measure of devotion. Let us then not fail, nor seek to wander from our bidden path, as willingly as the soldier takes up the sword in battle, so let us take up our books at home. Our turn will come tomorrow. It is for us to be prepared.