Belleville Township High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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orewor , J For most ol our lives our parents and teachers have attempted to impress upon us the duties oF each oF us to ourselves, our homes, our country, and our world. Now we arc beginning to realize the importance of ourselves as indi¬ viduals in the group of which we are a part. We are beginning to realize that the future of the world rests heavily upon the quality of its youth and that we must accept the responsibility of making the best use of our lives from day to day that we possibly can.

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“What lies beyond? I’ll go and see, For my horizon is calling me. Experience, adventure, bid me away And I am determined to conquer my day.” In high school we discover there . . . is somewhat of a change . . . and we must study subjects that . . . are not a little strange . . . for instance, we have civics and . . . the chemical do¬ main . . . and in geometry we get . . . the solid and the plane . . . and many are the courses we . . . may follow or reject ... as long as we advance as much ... as parents may expect . . . but also high school is a place ... to gain athletic fame ... or in some other manner to . . . acquire quite a name . . . and while our graduation seems . . . just one more stepping- stone . . . we think of work ahead and feel . . . that we are really grown. James J. Metcalfe ’T is education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined Pope

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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Poor Richard s Almanac