Brilliant High School - Blue Devil Yearbook (Brilliant, OH)

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1Ha1Phirinrg Wfe, the Class of 1915, are now about to sever our connections with the BRILLIANT HIKYH Sex-1ooL. lt is with pleasure that we recall the happenings of our association here, and loath are we to part with them. Broken and checkered has been our history, but our faith and loyalty throughout it all has not swerved from itspoint, and tonight as we stand upon life's threshold it is with a feeling that we owe a debt of gratitude to those about us. 'So hear me in behalf of the class, oh, Board of Education, and accept our thanks for the opportunities you have given us that we might better prepare our- selves to play our part in life's drama. life trust that in the future you may be able to offer even better privileges to the youth of the community. NVC wish to thank our teacher for his kind and patient efforts in his en- deavors to guide us along the path of knowledge. Ofttimes have our innocent pranks proven an eyesore to him. lint now it is over, and may his precepts and examples prove to be an inspiration to us all through life. i And now kind and loving parents we wish to acknowledge our apprecia- tion to you who have made it possible for us to attend high school. Vlle know that ofttimes we might have been of service to you at home. but you have toiled and labored that we might have opportunities which you yourselves were denied. Classmates, the time l1as now come for us to take our leave of each other. Thus far we have traveled together, henceforward we must travel diliferent ways. Each of us 'have our calling, and how we shall respond to that call depends entirely upon ourselves as individuals. May we choose that for which we are best fitted so we may be able to discharge our duties with the greatest elliciency. XV ith this thought in mind let us now say to one and all FAREVVELL.

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But whatever we may choose to make ourselves we shall at some time in our life come to the point where we shall choose to change our cast, and step forth into the foreground or recede into the background, whichever our previous actions may require. A leader must have ability. And it is not everyone of us who can possess this ability to such an extent as to become the leading actors, but must content ourselves with some more common role. ' There are those of us in life whose sole purpose is to amuse those about us: and again there are lives that pass that seem to be a comedy throughout their whole extent. They know no seriousness but, like the butterfly, tlit about beauti- fying all life with their constant humor. This man we shall call the comedian of life's Drama, and a spacious place must be accorded him. But he has his oppo- nent, whose sole mission is to inspire the people about him with the horrors and awfnlness of the world wherein they live. This man we shall call the tragediang and much is the sorrow he has brought to bear not only upon those who have played casts in the phases of this drama wherein he has played his part, but also upon the public at large, which has been an audience to the working of his awful crime. W'e little realize the influence which these two classes may have upon us, until it is too late and our lives have been marred of their beauty. Then we see their effects. So let us as we journey through life so blend these two factions that our influence may not be as a flaring meteor that passing through the air draws after it a trail of light, and then after a brief space of time passes into oblivion. lint let us be as a shining star which for centuries has diliiused its light upon the entire universe, undimmed, unstinted by the time through which it has shown. Wie cannot all be leading characters. ln the real stage setting only one out of about every one hundred is permitted to play this part: and in life this pro- portion is considerably smaller. Here only one out of thousands or even millions can play the leading part. In fact there can be but one leader in any nation. There is only one emperor, one king. one president. All the rest are only subor- dinates to him as he plays in the arena of life. They bring forth the setting, the rising action, the climax, and conclusicn. The general as he leads the nation into war is but making clear the entrance through which his hero must sooner or later pass. And whether he comes forth victor or vanquished, he has made the back- ground before which his chief must appear. Thus we see that we cannot all be leading actors, but let us improve the opportunities which, though they may seem insignificant, are foundations that lead to something higher. Our name may never go down in history. XV e cannot hope to be another Pericles. an Alexander. a Caesar, a Hannibal, a Napoleon, a Vtlashington, or a Lincoln. These men had their realms to rule and we have ours. Then whatever ours may be let us rule it well: For he who would be master of the world must first conquer himselff' After one has mastered himself by constant toiling and effort. other powers will come to him, for it is a well- lmown adage that 'flly diligence we prosper. Our lives are our parts to play, and may we so play them that when the time for our exit has come we may rest under honest conviction that we have played well our part.

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