Baton Rouge High School - Fricassee Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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A Man’s Prayer l each me that 60 minutes make an hour, 16 ounces a pound, and 100 cents a dollar. Help me to live so that I can lie down at night with a clear conscience and unhaunted by the faces of those to whom 1 may have brought pain. Grant that I may earn my meal ticket on the squaie, and earning it I may do unto others as I would have them do unto me. Deafen me to the jingle of tainted money, blind me to the faults of other fellows, and reveal to me mine own. Guide me so that each night when I look across the table at my mother or father, who has been a blessing to me, I will have nothing to conceal. Keep me young enough to laugh with little children and sympathetic so as to be considerate of old age. And when comes the day of darkening shades, make the ceremony short and the epitaph simple: Here lies a man. y y y y He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. •Y- y Y Y Fear not that thy life shall come to an end. but rather that it shall never have a beginning. y y y y The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. y y Y The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. y y y y Love comes unseen: we only see it go. Corrupted freemen arc the w'orsc of slaves. y y y y It may make a difference in all eternity whether we do right or wrong today. y y y y Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. ■Y -Y Y Y Search thine own heart; what paincth thee in others in thyself may be. Y Y Y Y The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. Y Y Y Y The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. y y Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ¥ y ¥ Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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What Kind of Graduate are You? Commencement is rightly named, for graduation is but the beginning of life’s achievements. By some of you this beginning has been made well, your foundations are strongly laid, you are prepared to go on, you have the backing necessary for progress. Whether you further your education by college or whether you begin work, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you can carry your share of life’s burdens, that you can hold up your end of the load. On the contrary, some of the graduates must feel that they have skimmed through high school by sheer luck, or chance; there may be some who are at the last rung of the high school ladder because of unfairness. Those students are not prepared for the new day which is to dawn on May 23rd. I heir foundations are so weak that it is doubtful that they can really live three months before the Hog Law strikes them for its own. Surely as business men and women they would find many doors closed to them after the first few failures. These students must regret at leisure the failures that they have laid up for themselves. The outlook for these two classes of graduates is first bright and gloomy. Still there must be some way to begin again, to see when one has failed and to rectify the old mistakes. If those of you feel that you have counted many moments that your best work has passed up, begin at once to forget the old carelessness, renew and enlarge your best efforts, make of yourself that which you should be. By redoubling efforts you can reach the level of your best classmates. To you, dear graduates of 1925, the wearers of the Green and Gold pledge faith. May you go forth to apply your wisdom in Service, in Service for others, for your school and for yourselves! Today is yesterday’s pupil. The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we are sliding down. He jests at wounds who never felt a scar. Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position. Speech is the index of the mind. Manners—the final and perfect flower of a noble character.

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