Eau Claire High School - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Eau Claire, MI)

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advance when his vocation will go out of existence. Theodore Roosevelt used to tell the story about his grandfather who said that he was in a business that would last forever. He manufactured sickles. Grain would always be raised and would have to be cut. Soon the cradle was invented which cut ten times as much as the sickle. This made his profession disappear. Then the reaper and the binder followed. Some more occupations were not needed. Kducated minds easily adjust themselves to new surroundings and enable them to readily grasp new ideas. There is also the discipline gained through the work necessary to obtain the education. And, if you have to work your way through college, so much the better since Life itself is a struggle and you are that much better prepared for it. You will have received that much more training that is indispensable to life itself. Any- one may secure a college education if he has sufficient ambition, willingness and the will power to work for it. Mr. Grace, head of the Bethlehem Steel Works, says that he cannot picture a condition where a young man cannot obtain a college education if he is deadly in earnest. He will find some way to do it. If he cannot get it in four years he will take ten years. I hen, this is the day of specialists and one may secure the training for which he thinks he is best adapted. In former years all studied the classics no matter what vocation he intended to follow. It is different now, as courses of study are offered to meet the different needs and one may enter this special training course at once. Perhaps best of all is that feeling that comes to one who is always ready to extend a helping hand to those who have not had his advantages and the respect that will be accorded him and to feel the satisfaction in living that he never could have if his mind had not been well-trained. P. J. I)lTNN Eight

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THF. FACUI n SA K All HIDDEN History ZF.NA M. SKINNER Commercial GLADYS HORTON Third and Fourth Grades A. H BALFOUR Principal Science and Mathematics P. J. DUNN Superintendent Agriculture OMFDA VOIGT English MARGARET WHITE Fifth and Sixth Grades Ttn BEULAH LYBROOK First and Second Grades