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Page 13 text:
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GRACE NEFF Grace, the poet of the class of 1907, was l)orn July 22, 1888, two and one-half miles south-east of Nappanee. She finished the grades and will soon finish high school in a very creditable manner. She never causes the teachers any trouble as to grades and deportment. She is an energetic member of the 1907 class and stands for advancement and success. She is a rising poet and no doubt will continue her future education in some university. We wish her splendid success.
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Page 12 text:
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spring about sundown the air is filled with its croaking which can only be made pleasant by its association with the welcome advent of spring. There are about 440 species of this reptile and they are numerously abundant in all quarters of the globe. Frogs as shown by their distribution are capable of enduring a great amount of heat and cold, but they have their struggle for life. Of the millions of eggs offering in the pools and marshes each spring, only a small number in proportion are matured, and as they are developed into tadpoles in four days are often eaten by fish and fowl and have been found to kill and feed upon each other. Thus as the frog evolves from the egg through the tadpole to the fully matured frog, it has continually to struggle with its competitors for existence. Even after it has maintained its highest form of living it is often found the prey of snakes, fowls and fish. Now we find as we enter into the kingdom of the lower animals that the struggle for existence is constantly exchanging death for life with millions of animals every year and weeding out the weaker ones leaving the best, fitted for the attack of nature to survive and thus constantly generation after generation strengthens the species. Take if you will the life of a rat, one of our most common animals. It has a hard struggle for life, yet we see hundreds of them around barns and houses, and any old building is literally alive with them, yet how often are they seen in traps. The victims of poisoned food or the prey of a hungry cat: if they had no enemies to destroy them and if allowed to live, in five years one pair would produce 4,81 7.427,- 74,1)35,416 rats, thus we see if allowed at this rate in a few years the earth would be totally populated with rats. In the life of a polar bear we see this struggle for life. As it ascends the icy crags of the north in search of food it is often overtaken by the Eskimo or other animals and often following in a battle with its own kind. Nevertheless it too is fitted for its struggle by being the same color as its fleecy white surroundings, the ice and snow, making it ditlicult to be seen and enabling it to more easily glide up on its prey. Again we find this struggle constantly developing itself in the life of man. IIis struggles are various kinds, physical, social, moral, religious, and political. In all these realms there is a struggle in the life of man. and naturally in each realm the vigorous, well educated, refined and moral man will be found at the head as a leader to the weaker, thus helping them to become strong. For instance, in the earliest times we have recorded by history the events in the life of the cannibal, how they struggle with other tribes and even in their own tribe killing and feeding upon each other. Thus so on through the ages each tribe looking back and gaining by the experiences of those that have lived before. So we see civilization grows by comparing the present with bygone ages and recording the results for the coming generations. In the moral, social, religious and political struggle. our attention is called to the Dreyfus affair: how he was accused falsely and cast into prison on a lonely dismal island, for more than five years living in a dark cell where he fought with filth and disease until he was proven innocent, and afterward restored to his office at the head of the army, while his guilty accusers in the meantime met death. Thus we see in the life of man only the fittest survive. Also in the human body there is a constant struggle between tissue cells and the poisonous disease germs which are ever marauding our being. Which is to overcome? If the cells are in a healthy condition, the germs are attacked and destroyed and our health prevails: but if the germs of disease overcome cell life and action, our bodies must succumb to the ravages of disease. Thus in conclusion we see all nature is working toward a definite end, its purpose is the perfecting of each species. So we must agree with Tennyson when he said: “I doubt not that through the ages One increasing purpose runs: And that the mind of man is broading With the process of the suns.” t 10
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