Des Moines Technical High School - Engineer Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Sixteen Ambition Ambition is a goal so far Toward which we've set our pace, That when we think we've gained it, There's one greater in its place. To be a senior was ambition To be now wears a shroud, While aspiration towers upward Above the highest cloud. And I am sure we're not so learned As we once thought we'd be, VVhen we had reached that honored stage Folks term seniority. We do not feel as wise or great As we did four years ago, For the hardest lesson we have learned Is how little we do know. Ambition is a tempered steel Which we have power to use, To bless or blight our human kind Whichever path we choose. He whose purpose is so low- To wound the friend so right,. Soon Finds his weapon rusty, His blade broken in the fight. He whose purpose soars on high Undimmed by selfish ease, Will wield a bright and spotless sword Whose light has power to please. West High, we truly love you For the kindness you have shown, You've raised our aspirations To the highest point e'er known. Not ease or selfish pleasure Must be our effort still- But, for the good of others- For you, West High, we will. Q -DOROTHY JEAN MYERS

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Class Oration of January, 1925 Self Mastery I HE urge towards self mastery has at one time or other been felt by all of us. Even in the elementary school we were trying in a small way to control ourselves. We attempted to curb an unruly temper, or to overcome a desire to do something which we knew was wrong. Stop to think a moment. VVhat effect did the outcome of these struggles have? just this: they made us what we were four years ago when we entered high school. High school, in turn, presented to us totally new problems. Very few of us were adequately prepared to meet those new conditions. During these four eventful years just past we learned to make ourselves perform certain tasks regardless of whether or not they were distasteful. And because we have dis- ciplined our minds and bodies, to some degree at least we are entering an era of more profund and complex problems with which we are now more competent to cope because of our intellectual training thus far. Our task is not fully completed. There are still two vast worlds, business and college, which remain open to us as unexplored fields. Both will demand of us a higher degree of self mastery. We will find, however, that, provided we have an indomitable determination to make good, life will not lay upon us burdens larger than We are able to 'carry or problems impossible of solution. Even yet, as we become older, we will be striving to bring ourselves under control. Everywhere about us, today, the older generation are still trying to master themselves. Their steady plodding toward the goal, self mastery, should prove to us that it is not an attribute which we can acquire in a day, week, month, or year, but something which can be attained only by perpetual observa- tion of, and guarding against our shortcomings. I doubt if there are any of whom it can be said at the close of their life that they were complete masters of themselves, physically, mentally, and spiritually. , But you ask, if self mastery is a lifelong task and a person really never accomplishes it, why make the effort at all? My answer to this question is, consider the returns paid you every time you succeed., What are the dividends of 'self mastery? ' First: The ability to treat all people with equal courtesy, rendering our impulses subservient to our likes and dislikes. ' Second: The strength to overcome further difficulties with greaterease. Third: The accomplishment of the divine precept, Be temperate in all things. ' , Our Saviour is an exempliiication of perfect self mastery. But before we receive those returns we must stand on a firm foundation. A house built on sand will fall when the storms rage, the house built on solid rock withstands the elements. Close contact with God, our Maker, provides a mighty fortress. We must not acquire self mastery for our exclusive beneht, but for Ye general good. How may we attain self mastery? I believe by adhering to four vital essentials, namely, self analysis, self restraint, patience, and endurance. If we but emulate the life of Christ we will have acquired a high degree of self mastery. . i -VVILMA TRAPP. Eighteen