Philadelphia High School for Girls - Milestone Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Jw? HELEN CHEYNEY BAILEY Honor Teaclzer Page Eight

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ID ID.. ll-I AXllQlf S MKIESSAVIE IE Miz DEAR GIRLS 1 You have given me a stimulating theme in y-our title. I like to think of horizons,-those alluringly distant points at which heaven seems to bend over and touch the earth. No wonder the ancients dreamed of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Your skies have not been wholly rainbow-tinted, however. These last two years of your high school life have been full of difficulty and distress in the world outside. Some of those prob- lems and sorrows have undoubtedly touched you intimately. It is fortunate that you have had the security and joyousness of your school days to keep you from thinking too much about the disasters your parents and friends have had to meet. a These days should have done more, however, than protect you from life. If you have been sensitive to the meaning of the present crisis you will have gathered strength to meet it as a challenge, and not as an altogether crushing blow. You will have learned to see new fields of human endeavor, new channels for economic growth. You will have gained faith to believe that the path your must tread willhave always over it the arc of promise. You will have resolved to be one of those courageous souls who dare to go forward toward horizons which are reached only to open on still distant. but ever lovelier vistas of human possibilities. A I dare to believe that you have learned to go forward with serenity and with courage in spite of difficulties. 1 Faithfully yours, ' OLIVE ELY HART. Page Seven D L .J

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MKIISS ll3,4rXIIlLIEy S MKIESSAMIEIE DEAR GIRLS : This message is not for immediate reading. We have given you already so much advice, and you probably have not yet felt the need. of any at all. You have what you need: youth and utter confidence. Pass over this page, remembering only this about it: that on the first dreary day on which you turn reproachful eyes on the promises of youth and feel that life has kept little faith with you, you are to open this book and reac. here the assurance of a friend tha.t all is well. A wonderful old lady once said in my hearing, I feel so sorry for young people. They have the hardest -thing in life just before them: they discover that they are, after all, like other people. VV hen they have become reconciled to that greatest blow, nothinglelse seems to hurt very much. I did not believe her then, for I was young. I know now that she was right. But when those things begin to happen to you, which you had supposed just happened to other people, it is yours to decide what the effect shall be. You may let them reduce you to a sense of commonplaceness, or you may make them elevate yo-u to a p-lane of new wisdom and understanding of all life, the ritual of initiation which makes you an intelli- gent -and contributing part of life. Duchess or scrubwoman, life is much of a muchnessf' 'says one of the hurnblest of VValpole's characters. VVhat it lacks in breadth, it has a way of making up in intensity. You may dream of writing a book which will interest thousands, and actually write a letter which will be the determining factor of SO111COl1C,S career. You may aspire to sing so that you shall win the commendation of critics, and pass your days makings very uncritical little children happy with your tunes. In the infinite scheme of things, the degree of our achievement is lost. The important thing is to believe always and to prove always that life is good, that something worth while is just about to happen, to lose gamely, to win calmly, to live and let live, and to raise our eyes often to the horizon of Promise. Dear Class, the class of fine sportsmanship, may you play the great game with joy. - I Fczithfully yours, , W HELEN CHEYNEY BAILEY Page Nine l J