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Page 13 text:
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PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Gold! The word suggests worth, usefulness, service, purity, beauty. For fifty years this school has endeavored to build into the mind and spirit of youth these virtues. In the crucible of life may the influence of Phillips High burn away the dross, and strong youth stand forth a bright as pure gold. C. .1 Going
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A MESSAGE FROM THE FIRST CLASS Fifty years' Half a century of time! How much of meaning and of history is crowded into the words. When Birmingham's first high school was formed in the plain red building that was then the only hrick school in the budding city, the brightest dream pictured no such magnificent structure as is the Phillips High of today. It is a far cry from the poor and pitifully scant equipment of that early time to the splendid facilities that feature the modern classroom. It is a far cry from the little class of half a dozen to the hundreds of graduates that now stream yearly through the lofty portals. It is a far cry from the primitive teaching of the pioneer, iu crude and comfortless surroundings, to the enlightened methods of the twentieth century with its wealth of scientific apparatus. And yet, with all this difference of time ami circumstance, it i.s probable that the hopes and ambitious that stirred students iu the days of old are the same that animate those of 1933. To he useful, to he happy, and perhaps, to l c famous. It is right to desire happiness, as well for itself as for being the road along which lies one's licst work and one’s highest opportunity for usefulness. For it i necessary to he useful, since only in that way can existence Ik? justified. It i splendid if one can he famous, for that, usually, is the result of usefulness and brings happiness in it train. But these are not the whole of life, nor the greatest things in life: for beyond and above them all there is yet the higher aim—that come what will, wherever we arc. whatever we do, we still may play the game with fairness. Play the game fairly! A rule for right, happy and useful living, vibrant and true alike in the little red school house and in the stately marbled hall: true, vibrant, vital, alike for the small old first class and the great new one of this year. Saml kl L, Karlk
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