Petersham High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Petersham, MA)

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famous'Quotations Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. e-Longfellow. I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.--Thackeray. In the highest civilization'the book is still the highest delight. --Emerson. Human improvement is from within outward.--Froude. Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.--Benjamin Franklin. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. --Shakespeare. Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.--Goethe. I A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.--Napoleon. Steady work turns genius to a loom.--George Eliot. Influence is not government.--George Washington. Labor ride us of three great evils: irksomeness, vice and poverty. --Voltaire. g A great library contains the diary of the human race,--George Dawson Life's but a walking shadow.'-Shakespeare. Eefore man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. --James Russel1Lowell Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food is to the body. --Cicero Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.--Washington Irving. Nature fits all her children with something to do.r-Lowell. He serves his party best, who serves the country best. --Rutherford B. Hayes To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. , --Johnson. They also serve who only stand and wait.--Milton,

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A sign of Spring A sunny day, green grassy and buds on the trees all go with spring. There are several other signs of the Season. Among them is a kid with a new glove, a baseball glove, which still has signs of that white powder which is put in new gloves Yes, it still has that peculiar smell which tells you it has never been tried out. Ever since Christmas he has been wishing the snow would clear off. Then, he could go outside and show the kids in the neighborhood his new glove. Maybe its a Bob Feller model or maybe it's a model of the glove his favorite player uses. 1 Then, maybe, the kid next door has a new baseball and bat. Yeh, the new ball which is still as white as when it came out of the box. The crack of the bat which means that Spring is here and the kids will soon be getting together for that first game. Sure he has a new bat and if he could only get outside he'd show the other kids he was a second Hank Greenberg or better than any number of famous ball players. - Yes, these are the kids in the neighborhood and they all hold the signs of Spring, the signs being the new glove, new ball and bats Yes, these are the kids of our country and their country. Richard Warrington '48 An Embarrassing Moment The day before Christmas I was waiting for the train in North Station. I had been shopping in Boston with my two sisters. When it came time for the train to pull in, there I was, standing alone, I had lost my sisters. I didnft know ' which gate to go to and I knew my train was already there. I was too far away from an information booth, so, I asked a sailor if he knew. He was very nice and said he was going on the same train. He asked if he could help carry some of my packages. Not thinking, I gave him the biggest box, which contained a doll that I had bought for a friend. While we were running to our gate, the sailor tipped the box just right and the doll began to call for uMaman. We couldn't stop it from crying and we were so embarrassed we didn't dare look at the -other people. Everyone was laughing, and you can imagine how I felt. ' Finally, we stopped the baby's wails and got on the train where I found my sisters waiting for me. I quickly resolved to do my shopping a little nearer home next Christmas. nConnien Barnes '50