Crescent Heights High School - Bugle Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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THE CRESCENT BUGLE, 1928 19 ONE OF LIFE’S GREATEST VALUES “Let No One Ever Lose It!” You may lose your money and survive. You may lose your year at school and still regain your position; but there is one thing you must never lose. WHAT IS IT? Have you discovered it? The greatest of poets has said : “We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.” It is a well-known fact, that men grow stronger by believing themselves strong, just as homely women grow almost beautiful by thinking themselves pretty. Our dreams and our hopes are good m that they keep us up to a standard, which we may not fully attain, but which we would miss altogether without them. I have no hope for the youth who has lost his aspirations foi the future. The boy or girl, who still maintains that the future contains something good for him or her, has still that within him that will bring results. No voyager on this journey of life should allow him¬ self to be robbed of his hopes by any one. There was once a man who was robbed of his last possession. The thief was caught and haled before the magistrate. The attorney for the defence admitted that his client was guilty, but appealed to the mercy of the court on the ground that the article stolen was of such small importance. “What was the nature of the article?” asked the Magistrate. “The article, your Honor,” replied the attorney, “was Hope.” “Hope!” exclaimed the Magistrate, to whom had been given wis¬ dom as well as learning in the law. “Hope! And do you consider Hope of no importance?” “If you will allow me, your Honor, it seems to me that Hope is an illusion, a dream—and I fail to understand why my client should have stolen so worthless an object.” “I am sorry to differ with you, my learned friend,” began the Magistrate, with a whimsical smile, “but it is not for the thief nor his counsel to assess the value of the thing he steals. This defendant stole something of value to the man from whom he stole it, a man so poor that he has been unable to engage counsel. Under the circum¬ stances it is for the court to decide the value of the thing stolen, and that value is conditioned by the necessity of the man from whom it was stolen. In the case under hearing that object happens to be the only thing of value left to the man from whom it was taken. To him it is of great value. “To the thief also it must have been valuable. Otherwise he would not have stolen it. My ruling is that the plaintiff has been deprived of the most valuable possession that a man can have—Hope. “You may contend that Hope was an illusion or a dream, but it was by means of its possession that this man had every light to believe that he could rebuild his life, re-create himself, and once more become a useful and honored member of society.

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18 THE CRESCENT ButlLE, 1928 W. ABERHART, B.A. “ Our Principal’’

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20 THE CRESCENT BUGLE, 1928 “The judgment of this court is that restitution of the stolen article be made to the plaintiff, and that the defendant himself be deprived of hope for the space of twelve calendar months.” Who will dispute the wisdom of that Magistrate? That Magistrate is your better judgment. The prosecuting- attorney represents your Discouragements. You had better confine your discouragements to the rubbish heap for the next twelve months at least. Remember there is still an opportunity of success for the person who has hope, living in his breast. WILLIAM ABERHART, B.A., Principal. CRESCENT HEIGHTS—“A GROWING SCHOOL” Within the past two years, Crescent Heights has adopted a motto, by which she indicates to the outside world something of her aims and achievements. Although it is but recently that we have decided upon “crescit eundo” as our watchword, wel realize that ever since its foundation, Crescent Heights has been a “growing school.” I wonder how many of us have ever stopped to consider what really is involved in the phrase “a growing school.” Our first indica¬ tion of progress is the increase in the number of students attending C.H.C.I. We know how rapidly our school has advanced in this re¬ spect, and we ex-students feel, with gratitude, that we still “belong.” This, in itself, is a splendid indication of the spirit of co-operation which exists among the students of Crescent Heights,—a spirit which points out growth in another important direction. In estimating the value of the time we spent in High School, we must realize that it is not so much the formal knowledge which we obtain that really counts, but the incidental teaching of the lessons of service, co-operation, and loyalty. If these lessons are thoroughly learned, we need have no fear for the future. We sincerely hope that Crescent Heights High School will con¬ tinue to live up to her motto, and give her students the right to say : “We belong to a growing school—‘Crescit eundo.’ ” MARGARET WATSON. Sometimes we style ourselves “we.” We ask you to believe, or misbelieve if you like, that this indiscretion was committed in a mo¬ ment of self-confidence. “WE” EDITORS.