Ithaca High School - Annual Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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EDITORIAL 15 a machine to do. In sh-ort, whether we are at work on the farm, in thc factory, in business or in the professions, we must work with our heads and our hanids. Success can be hewn -out in 110 other way as well. The farmer who knows soil and trhereby makes 'his land produce a double crop has his less informed com- petitor beaten before lhe begins. So it is in all human ac-tivity. The race is to the strong intellectually, to the man with a trained mind. The great func-tion of the school is to teach you to think, not to fill you with information soon to be forgotten. The problems which you are to meet in the future must be thought ou-t. In the solving of them little 'help can be had from books or from friends. Cramming will not avail, tears will not help, favoritism will not be shown, and no mistakes will be made in the marking. The 'world will soon take your measure with unerring accuracy. Fortunate, indeed, will you be if by your honesty, ability, energy, and industry you can force a verdict in your favor. I recall a student of former years who seldom spoke unless 'addressed ibut whose work was marked by the accuracy and neat- ness with whidh it was done. Recently I omerved him as he went about his work as chief electric-ian in charge of -the terminal in New York City where a very small mistake would 'cost thousands of dollars and possibly many lives. Thoughts are powers, Words only symbols, mere prattle without Well arranged thoughts behind them. Someone has said that all of tlhc words in Daniel Web- ster's great speech made in rep-ly to Mr. Hayn-e, were in Noah Weibster's dic- tionary, the only rdrifferenice being -in their arrangement. Talk little, think muelh-then act. Of all your assets, remember that honesty is the greatest. Plain old- fasthion honesty. If you have missed this as an element of your character you are to be pitied and your failure is certain. If you possess this pearl of great- est price, your success is assured from this moment, your friends and business associates wil'l honor and respect you and above all you will have the satis- faction of your own aplproval. Your friends expect fmueh ,of you. Go out into the world with a strong heart, a clear head, and unafraid to grapple 'with its problems, determined to solve them for the general .good of all 'men and you cannot fail. He that would be greatest amongst you let him strive to serve his fellows to tihe best of his ability in whatever line of work he may undertake. I I

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'ffl Sottonfft OUNG ladies and gentlemen of the graduating class. On behalf of your teachers, your friends, your parents, and this community permit me to eX'tend to each and all of you most hearty congratulations upon your suc- cess in graduating from the Ithaca High School. It is a gr-eat ere-dit to this city that a school is maintained of such high excellence and upon you rests the re- sponsibility of proving anew that the public schoofl is t.he natiion's strong tower of defense by showing yourselves at all times intelligent, efficient, patriotic, industrious citizens of the community, the state and the nation. My experience with thousan-ds of young people leaves no doubt whatever in my ,mind as to tkhe results. Possibly you have heard sometime someone say that school is a preparation for life and so it is, but it is something more, it IS life. lf you have leariled to be honest, industrious, painstaking and thorough i11 your school work tlhese char- acteristics will follow you into your future, and the reverse in true. If you have shirked every responsibility possible, if you have been satisfied with 'half-work and contented with just getting through, disaplpoilrtment awaits you not far in the future, and you will have to unlearn these habits if you succeed, no miatter how bitter may be the task. Your diploma is a letter of -introduction, a sign board pointing the way to the great possibilities for young men and women of ability in further study, in business, and the professions. Never was the world so much in need of sound leadership, never was there greater possibilities for a-biility and industry. These are days of large undertakings, of combinations. The days of the stage coach and the itinerant shoemaker 'have gone and in their places have come steam, electricity, gasoline and factories. Great changes in the methods of business, i11 socziety are taking place. The training of fifty years ago does not meet the demands of to-day. Our high schools give a training equal to the colleges of that day, over a much broader field and our colle-ges have made corresponding progress, whille b-oth are close to the needs of the average man. Formerly it. was considered necessary to educate only the few who went into the ministry and later those who went into law or medicine. A little reading, writing, and arith- metic was taught for brief periods to the few others interested. To-day education is as broad as tihe activities of man, -and this extension has b-een made without loss of seriousness in study. It can be truly said that to-day education is the master passion of t.he American people. Success in any line of work demands training. In all walks of life we are asking for t.he man who knows. No longer can man meet successfully -his fellow man by doing poorly the work that a horse can do better, and neither can 'he afford to have his horse do what he can invent

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