Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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(Ho ®ty OJlaaa nf 1921— 0um sa The door to Success is guarded, and no one is permitted to enter who has not worked, waited and overcome. As a result of your efforts, you, the Class of 1921, have reached the milestone toward which you have been striving. Your Carontawan is a fitting climax to remind you of your journey thru the Little Town on the Hill — the joys and sorrows, the sense and nonsense. These last days at school pass so rapidly ! The work, the waiting, and the discouragements seem now to be the soil in which your happiness grew. You realize that failures help to develop you. and you are loathe to leave conditions that have given you confidence and strength. Many of you have changed since you came! Too timid then to act as host, ready now to marshal the whole host out of the dining hall; too bashful then to volunteeer an answer to a teacher ' s question, now equal to the best in debate. Surely work is a rare gift to many of you. Success in your life work depends on how you can meet new situations and surmount difficulties. Remember that obstacles are sometimes called mus- cles of achievement. Do not get discouraged ; the most beautiful mosaic is but pieces of broken glass. With divine aid, scattered fragments of our lives are joined to make success. You are starting cut into a service for which however much may be your salary, your real compensation for teaching will come later when you feel an appreciation of your efforts that makes life worth living. Never has there been the encouragement to make teaching a profession as now. The great World War and the aftermath have brought a flood of educational plans. Professor Jack- son of the U. S. Bureau of Education, says: Our remedy to arouse and in- form the people so that each individual may be able to play his part intelli- gently, is nothing short of organizing local communities into little democracies. Many of you will become community leaders, social-engineers. Endeavor to instil into your followers the spirit of democracy. The future beckons and you will soon be absorbed in plans for the coming year. May I add a testing prescription by Dr. Neverfail ? Definite purpose. Strong resolution. Honest enthusiasm mixed with action. Directions — Take large doses of the resulting success. Be assured that this recognition in dedicating your Carontawan to me is appreciated more than words can express, and that because of our interest and faith in you we will ever be ready to lend a helping hand. Jennie Farrar Avery. Page Twelve

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The War upset things a bit. It killed a lot of people, and starved many more. But it woke folks up, woke them up for good and for bad, woke them up to put their energy in a great cause, woke them up to tear down the very foundations of government. Monarchies fell, but prices rose. People got ex- cited about winning the war and about money. Then there came the armistice, and the coming of the soldiers. The return of the soldiers marks the beginning of the return to a pre-war condition of life. People are beginning to like pleasant, quiet homes, good, substantial jobs. People are leaving the cities and returning to the farms they left during the war. They are bringing their civic pride back to the country and are makng abandoned farmhouses beautiful. We arc happy in the new value of things. Jt is natural that our class should be in keeping with this new standard of values; that this class should be willing to leave the M. S. X. S. with a feeling that it is just a commonplace lot of good citizens, ready always to salute the red and black and the red, white and blue. This book — We hope you will like it — for we have worked rather hard in its making — is a book of memories: memories of the M. S. X. S. and our school- mates. Perhaps it is just an ordinary book. But for you and for me. the faces and thoughts of our schoolmates endow it with an individuality which sets it apart from other books. We entrust this book to you. We know you will look at it once in a while. Xow we bid you good-bye. a good-bye like his was when — He was a lowly young man. she was a laughing princess. And when he had to go away— strange to tell— they were both sad. They bade each other good-bye on every one of the front steps of the veranda, and on the last step thev had said yood-bye for the fifty-fourth time when — the camera busted. Page Eleven

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