Choate Rosemary Hall High School - Brief Yearbook (Wallingford, CT)

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THE REVEREND GEORGE ST. JOHN, A.M., LL.D AB. Harvard 1902 14

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he thought necessary. and periodically marked himself on these to show whether he thought he had improved. lt made a rather cumbersome check-up. Could we reduce our own or Franklin's list. of ten or a dozen necessary qualities. to two? l wonder if any electorate could fail to consider a man who had preeminently an effective work-habit plus a line loyalty. I think every man of the Sixth who has those two things is a Key Man. A touch of laziness. a bit of cynicism. some half-sophisticated smile at high sentiment or standards--these spoil a man for considera- tion for the post-weaken his work. dissolve his loyalty's motivating power: there in the inner regions of self they set up an alchemy that's all wrong. Hard work and loyalty make a character formula that's right. They make for simplicity and unity of self. XVhen those qualities become compelling in us. we'd almost vote for ourselves. And since nobody's good opinion of us is worth half as much as our own self-respect. I submit that each man of us check up occasionally his own adequacy for Key Man of the Class of 1038. and if he can't vote for himself as of th: stuff out of which Key Men are made. that he go to work to change himself--even by the method of the publican who stood afar off. I salute a Class of Key Men! if 'hc' Ht'uc!'r'l7cI.slc'r 13

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