Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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E. A. SPAULDING Principal The supreme joy of life comes with the satis¬ faction of having done a good piece of work. It matters little what the work is as long as it is a good service to humanity. One who misses the joy and happiness to be found in hard work has a dreary life indeed. May we all find that place in the world’s work where our efforts will bring happiness to others. This is the only way to bring happiness to ourselves. Everett A. Spaulding The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or songs. R. W. Emerson Page Eight

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HERBERT S. JONES Superintendent of Schools CHARACTER IS HIGHER THAN INTELLECT. R. W. Emerson Emerson prefaced this statement with these words, — When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness, — he has always a resource TO LIVE.” I think these words explain the real meaning of his statement better than anything I could write. I wish you and the staff every success in your 1940 Annual. Hebrert S. Jones Page Seven

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ELIZABETH H. LEEDS Assistant Principal ELIZABETH H. LEEDS, Assistant Principal A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” R. W. Emerson Favorite quotations are chosen, perhaps, because as we read we find expressions of thought akin to something we believe to be true. It pleases us to find that our own thinking is in harmony with that of an author who is expressing what he be¬ lieves is a universal truth. These quotations say to me, in another way, something I believe to be true — that all honest work well done brings joy and satisfaction and that living in harmony with that inner self which knows right from wrong develops the strength and self-respect that mean a balanced happy life. Elizabeth H. Leeds