Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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(Class |Jtirm We’ve spent four years at A. II. S., The time for us to leave is near. And so we’re turning to the stress Of duty, in which let us hear Forevermore the voice of Right, As we have always heard it call. “Let not ideals be lost from sight: O. never, never, let them fall.” Although we hear of many rules Which we should sacredly respect, If we use two of these as tools. And do not harm them by neglect. We can not falter, for this pair Of Truth and Honesty includes Each precept that will stand the wear Of years of test: and ne’er intrudes Upon a rightful enterprise. Let us remember, too. that when They do. we must relinquish then The struggle and the longed-for prize And if we’re really honest, we Must never fad to heed commands Of our own minds, for these must he The guides of all acts of our hands, Though they may contradict all laws Which others hold in reverence. These two can never fail, and hence We must seek them and not applause. For honesty is not complete If we self-truthfulness delete. 1.1

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Under the direction of Mrs. Wyatt, the Senior play. “Engaged by Wednesday,” was sufficiently rehearsed, and a marvelously successful first and second night was enjoyed by large audiences on the second and third of May. According to rumors whispered here and there, the very “atmosphere” cf this romantic play has seriously affected two of the players—but enough in that direction. The greatest experience of our lives came to us during this past year when suddenly without warning came the greatest news the world has ever heard. Amidst the ringing of bells and the shrieking of whistles we were informed of the signing of the armistice. The world war was at an end. At last “Peace on earth and good will towards man” was again approaching reality. In the celebration of this glorious event, we. the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, joined, sparing neither voice nor lungs in our wild ecstacy of feeling as we paraded the streets amidst the happy throngs of rejoicing America. All those critics of our worthy class who have so frequently and so openly referred to our inability and so loudly commiserated our lack of talent must bow their heads in shame this evening before this record of the achievement of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. ARNO FARENWALD. 12

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If our own minds we must deceive, A tangled skein of falsehoods weave, We cannot hope to keep it from Appearing in our ev’ry deed. And thus, with mind and conscience numb. Comes ruin through fear or sordid greed. Then let us not lose those ideals Which we have ever cherished here. Let none of us through greed or fear, Develop our Achilles’ heels. By which our honesty receive Its mortal wound. Let us not heed The luring voices, never leave These ramparts, which, in time of need. Will keep us safe in each attack; Entrenched behind them, we may see Defeated wrong being driven back. And in surrender bend the knee. HAROLD C. ROBERTS. 14