Collinwood High School - Railroader Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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★ To the Class of January, 1938: Ever since man stood upright he has watched the stars. To look up is to be a man. To follow the solemn march of the constellations is one way of acquiring poise, serenity, and patience. One cannot hurry the stars. You have chosen a noble theme for your senior booklet. About the zodiac cluster immemorial traditions and legends. To contemplate this circle of the heavens where tread the constellations is to escape the pettiness of life. We return to our humdrum tasks not oppressed and overwhelmed but enlarged and ennobled in spirit. Y'ou cannot live your own best life without some sense of the immensities of time and space. Eternity seems more real in the presence of the stars. For you the far reach. For you Orion and the Pleiades and the far Hung galaxies of the skies. For you always the upward look. ★ • 2

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There is | erhaps no word which suggests more uncertainty or more fascinating ideas than the word ‘•future”. Since the very dawn of history, when the ancient Egyptians sought to read the stars and to foresee coming events, man has used the science of Astrology to predict his destiny. As man gazed at the heavens he grouped the stars into twelve constellations and he called them the signs of the ZODIAC. He then conceived the idea that the star in the ascendant at the moment of his birth endowed him with certain temperamental characteristics, and influenced his fortune. Thus has astrology come down through the ages to us, and we, in this booklet, have tried, like the seers of old, to read the stars and foretell the future. First, we looked back into the past and saw a record of great things accomplished by a class striving together toward graduation. Next, we saw this goal achieved. It then remained for us to look ahead. We saw a record of greater things to come, and we saw each member of that class striving individually on and up to many greater goals. So, as you turn the pages of this book, will you find these things recorded.