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

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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

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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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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