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

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HOARD OF KDUCATION S. M. MERRITT L. A. WINTER Secretary T reasurer ROY LABERDY Trustee FRED SEEL President F. E. HUBBARD Trustee

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EDITORIAL 11E purpose of the publication of this, the fifth volume of the Maroon and White, is to give to the students some- thing by which to remember their school days, as well as their teachers and classmates. We have put forth every effort to make this undertaking a success. Notwithstanding the handi- caps and mishaps, we are sure you will enjoy this little hook which we know will grow dearer to you as the years pass by. We wish to thank the faculty, those who contributed the advertising, and all others who have participated in any way in the publication of this annual. This hook is presented to you by the Senior Class of 1922. —E Jit or

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JPERI NTKNI)ENT’S ADDRE F£?Tr5i3'(} who are made of the right kind of stuff, “Go To School” is good advice. The right stuff implies that you must have something within you that wants to motivate. “Education is action. Learning is an active and not a passive affair.” You cannot sit still and with- out any exertion on your part learn anything. You must work. The minute something goes to work within your own head, then there is hope; then you have the right stuff to go to college and make something of yourself. The college or university is one of the best helps to you providing you use it rightly. It cannot do everything tor you but it can help wonderfully. Some of the things a well spent college life can do tor you are: It will give you a broader outlook on life. You come in contact with the big men of history. You learn of things they have done, their trials, tribulations, experiences, the obstacles they have had to overcome and the courage of conviction they have hail to possess in order to become great. By so doing their thoughts become your thoughts and you are not limited by the narrow gossip of today or the little realm of one who does not try to grow or develop. The college life will inspire. You will come in contact with persons whose presence alone is an inspiration. The good ones will be “always pointing the way upward.” Then there are the associations formed with one’s fellow-students. The majority of students are there for a purpose. That purpose is to make something of themselves. That attitude is like a contagious disease, you cannot help but be influenced and have your character molded by it. Many a college man will tell you that he values the friendships formed in college more than anything else. The college develops confidence and individuality in a man. Each one has within him latent possibilities which need developing. Delving into the problems and unknown truths put before him and solving them gives him the necessary stimulus and individuality spoken of. It intensifies and teaches him the power which he possesses. A higher institution of learning will tend to mold a sympathy for all classes of people. It will tend to make you a more useful citizen. It will tend to make you of more service to a community. The college aims to make of a man a well-rounded one. The sound body is the first requisite, as a foundation is necessary for any house to exist. Organizations exist to teach higher moral planes and the every day work enlarges the mental side. A college trained mind stands one in good stead in times of adversity. New industries like the automobile, the farm tractor and the airplane are continually developing while others are going into obscurity. No one can tell very far in Srvs n