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Page 33 text:
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RICHARD JOHNSTON Richard, the historian of the class of Hm 7, was born November 21, 1888, three miles east and one and one-half miles north of Nappanee. He received his earlier education in the primary grades of Nappanee when lie moved into the country from where lie returned, resuming his work in the seventh grade. He is one of the most prominent members of our class being one of the foremost in every undertaking; also a member of the crowd who kept the all night vigil of May 8, 1906, preventing the seniors from putting up their numerals. He is a practical genius and will continue his education along the mechanical line.
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Page 32 text:
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verely wounded before Quebec, said, “I am in the path of duty and I know no fear”? Was this the patriot of whom Washington said, ‘‘lie is worthy of great honors”? There the secret of his fall was disclosed. The failure of congress was not the cause; the gentle rebuke from the father of his country did not make him a traitor: the officers who turned from him in rage of jealousy did not banish him from mankind; pity for his debtors and regard for his friends did not induce him to exchange everything in life. It was not for lack of training for his education was equal to that of Grant or Shakespeare; it was not for persecution, for Alfred Dreyfus amid all the slander of a corrupt French military system emerged the same gentleman of honor, an actual Daniel! Arnold amid applauseand favor emerged an actual Absalom. Excessive ambition caused his ruin. His character was not as great as his ability; he never thought of the principles of religion: the foundation of his manhood rested on no permanent basis; in private life he was insincere: lie had no convictions and cared for none. Like Judas after the just rebuke of the Master, he cared only for self and for a worthless bribe betrayed his greatest trust. Character is the only permanent possession. Without it the most illustrious of men have bowed in self-inflicted disgrace. Lack of abiding principle made the last years of the great Webster years of broken-hearted despair. Through unholy ambition Napoleon pined away on the shores of St. Helena. A most illustrious graduate of the Princeton College, a man who rose as an eagle in his victorious (light and fell to the deepest abyss, was tbe murderer and traitor, Aaron Purr. Arnold, with all his opportunities, was a glittering failure. With character he might have reaped the highest honors a great people lias to give. Stripped of Heaven’s noblest heritage, robbed by his own hand of the most priceless treasure, his life goes out insulted, reproached, without friend, and without a hope, with “the soul of honor fled.” 30
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