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who have in some way dis¬ tinguished themselves and merited honorable mention or awards throughout the IE end of each year finds the spotlight focused upon a number of students course of the school year. Perhaps their high standard of scholastic work raised them to be honored “upper tenth” of the graduating class, or perhaps a class office had been intrusted to the student. Many other possibilities in various branches had been made the most of and the student who had striven in a particular line finds a ready position awaiting him in the coveted honor section of the annual. Awards and honors are bestowed in numerous branches of the high school course; and among these are publication awards, debate, extemporaneous speaking contest, constitution oration contest, W. C. T. U. essay contest, senior play cast, ath¬ letic honors, military honors, and numer¬ ous others. The awarding of honors is undoubted¬ ly an inspiration and a spur to the student working to achieve recognition for a year of diligent and constant applications of tal-
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ents to a chosen line of work. With a re¬ ward in view, he is encouraged to accom¬ plish, and to merit obsequent laurels crown¬ ing his triumphs. There are unlimited op¬ portunities wherein each student in high school might win recognition if he so de¬ sired and was willing to apply time and dor¬ mant ability to the tasks set before him. The will to score highly would soon place the student in the now traditional honor section, or the high school “Hall of Fame,” as it might well be called. The deserving “upper tenth” of the graduating class consists of those students who have labored to appear as the “cream of the class” by creating enviable scholas¬ tic records for themselves. It is this por¬ tion on which the spotlight glares the brightest, for greater things are expected, and most of them realized, of this outstand¬ ing group. They have aimed high and reached their mark. They will enter their chosen worlds and rise, for they have learn¬ ed that endeavor is inevitably rewarded; in the high school the reward is honor, but in the business v orld a more material award awaits them. Leadership, the characteristic which causes one to be the leader instead of the follower, is developed early. To be select-
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