Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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. PRIMA LUCE Zelma Hudson Gooch Labor omnia vincit. Labor conquers all things. Dramatis Personae: Her fairy godmother and three fairies. Scene : Her christening. First Fairy: She shall be a classical musi- cian.” (Behold her musical ability.) Second Fairy: “She shall be a scholar superb.” (Visit her classes.) 1 hird Fairy: “She shall have modesty sub- lime.” (Observe her motions and listen to her voice.) James Howard Daniel Sapiens nihil facit invitus. A wise man does nothing by constraint. Howard is a peace-maker. His philosophy is to take life cheerfully ; to have few regrets of the past and few fears of the future. He is quite uncommunicative about his attach- ments to the fair sex. Once, however, he mado a slip. The evening before an event- ful night he was heard singing the lines of an unknown author. This song got his name in Who’s Who in Berea. An extract from it is found on a later page. Hazel Estelle Newton Multis ictibus dejicitur quercus. By repeated bloivs even the oak is felled. Hazel’s whole life is the history of affection. The heart is her world; it is there her desire strives for empire; it is there her ambition to seek hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies in adventure; and she embodies her whole soul in the traffic of affection. [ Page 21 ]

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i B R. I M A LUCE Charles Benjamin Currin Adulescentem verecundum esse decet. Modesty shall accompany youth. Charlie might be considered an artist as well as a mathematician, for he is always studying figures— those seen at the beach. He spends hours elucidating upon his ideal of femi- nine beauty. He lik ewise maintains most boldly that a woman has the right to change her mind, hut admits that she should use discretion occasionally. A nocturnal visit that he was wont to make to a certain residence got his name in Who’s Who in Berea. Those inter- ested might look up his write-up in that publi- cation. Notwithstanding certain vicissitudes of fortune that may in reality be blessings, we tcel that, with, his poise, energy, and per 2- verance, there is a great future before him. Alma Taditiia Daniel Formosa, facies muta commendatio est. Handsome features are a silent recommendation. Nature has given horns to bulls, hoofs to horses, swiftness to hares, the power of swim- ming to fishes, of flying to birds, understand- mg to men. What then does she give to Alma: Beauty, and beauty which can resist shields and spears. She who is beautiful is stronger than iron or fire. There is more strength in her looks than in laws and more power m her tears than in argument. Rhodes Herndon Frazier Experientia docet. Experience teaches. Rhodes is not a shiek, but we think that he thinks he is. But surely he’s quite a ladiesman. In talking to Clide, he said: In the whole course of my life I have never met a female, from the flat-nosed inhabi- taut of West Oxford to the snow-white divine sublimity of Berea without a touch of romance ; repulsiveness cannot conceal it, age cannot extinguish it, vicissitude of fortune cannot change it. I have found it at all times and places like a spring of fresh water starting up even from the flint; cheering the cheerless, softening the insensible, and renovating the withered.” As Rhodes concluded, lie stuck one hand in the arm hole of his vest, and combed his hair with the other.

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PRIM A LUCE Spencer Amos O’Brian Faber est quisque fortunae suae. Every man is the architect of his oivn fortune. “Every man has three characters : that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.” In Spencer these three are one. As a student, lie is excelled by few ; as a gentleman, by none. He likewise has confidence in his own ability. But this is not the only triad connected with . Spencer’s discretion. From outward in- dications and expressions, he feels that there lire three cases in life where human wisdom is of little avail. Should one desire to take unto one’s self a wife, to buy a horse, or in- vest in a melon, the wise man will recom- mend himself to Providence, and draw his hat down over his eyes. Mattie Lee Newton Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate laborem : jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede. IVork while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by and by come upon you with silent foot. There is one in the world who feel s for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; there is one to whom reflected joy is much better than that which comes direct ; there is one who rejoices in another’s honor more than in any which is one’s own; there is one on whom another’s transcendent excel- lence sheds no beam but that of delight ; there Lvr 6 ,, w ° hides another’s infirmities more faithfully than one’s own; there is one who loses all sentiment of self in the sentiment of kindness, tenderness and devotion — that one is Mattie. Walter Edward Duncan Medio tutissimus ibis. A midde course is safest. Edward is energetic, athletic, determined, and doubtless there is a bright future before him. Edward is likewise a quiet boy, but like many of his associates in Berea, he seems not to understand the ladies. He came to school one morning muttering in Jewish style the following sentence : The girl nowadays sets up to be natural and is only rude ; mistakes innocence for inso- ence ; says everything that comes first to her lips and thinks she is gay when she is only