Collingswood High School - Knight Yearbook (Collingswood, NJ)

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P. S. EICHELBERGER Principal LASS of 1934, you are going out into a society in which success has heen praised too much: integrity too little. Cultivate a desire for integrity. lf you can do this you need nothing else. The rest shall he added in due time. Emphasis in this complicated life of ours has heen placed upon hrilliance, smartness, display of possessions and riches, and other outward indications of success to such an extent that the fundamental thing, the corner stone of lifes building, has heen left out. Cheating at exams at college under the honor system, selling stock that has no value, looting a laank and setting sail for foreign parts, giving a note for money that can never he paid, willful hankruptcies, displaying excessive worldly possessions for the sake of keeping up with others in the community - -these are some of thc cheatings in the face of life called success. The prolalem is very serious. If you would not have your children go forth into a society such as you are entering you must give attention to this thought. Success has heen overpraised without questioning the ways and means. You must go hack to the fundamentals of personal integrity. Integrity is important to us all. People have never ceased to admire and respect it, even though it has heen lost, due to the much advertised success. Truth, honor, and uprightness are the essential graces for integrity. They do not grow in a night. It is a slow, steady, growth of years which comes from daily associations with others, from daily practices and experiences. Integrity flourishes ,under praise, so praise the good people more and compliment the worldly successful less. Eleven

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jonn B. RITTER Supervising Principal To the Class of 1934: LLOW me to congratulate the memhers of the Class of 1934 upon the completion of your high school work. While this is a real achievement, you are, however, just crossing the Alps. Your education is just beginning. One of the strangest ideas that many people have is that one's education is limited to the years spent in school or college. Only a very small part of what you know was learned, or could he learned, in school. Really you acquired more knowledge in the first five years of your lives than in any ten suhsequent years of living. After receiving your diplomas comes the school of life itself. Everyone of you should plan for your continuous education or you will soon stagnate after graduation. Every one of you should keep up your reading if you would escape fossilization. We have to read the newspapers, of course, hut don't stop at the display given in the usual newsstand. Read the great hooks of the world for which you had no time in High School. Take an extension or a summer school course in a college or university. Again the hook of nature is ever wide open to the ohserving eye. The fields, the woods, the mountains, the starry sky on a winter's night, the hirds, and a thousand other avenues of knowledge are open to any ohserving person who has not gone to seed. Art, music, architecture, painting, sculpture, etc., likewise offer us their valuahle treasures. Finally from the many people with whom you come in contact, you will learn many valuahle lessons. Each one will contrihute his share of simple homely lessons in freedom, honesty, amhition, manliness, courage, moderateness, temperance, and other indispensahle virtues that make' character. Good luck to all of you. Ten

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