Germantown Academy - Ye Primer Yearbook (Fort Washington, PA)

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and this can be done only by a firm determina- tion to keep the aim high. The accomplish- ment then will be more candidly appreciated. Humanity is all around us-it is to be bet- tered. The best time the world has ever seen is now, and a better yet is sure to be. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fateg Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Fain would we linger yet a little while, but we must go. To our principal, Dr. Ker- shaw, that dear, kind friend, in whose counsel and large fellowship we have ever held im- portant place, we bid good-bye. There can be no Lest we forget in his case. His kindly courtesy and unfailing anxiety for our wel- fare finds most responsive echoes in our hearts to-night, and memory will not fail to keep alive the bright flame of his refining inliuence. To our faithful teachers also, with their pains- taking zeal in our behalf, we pay our soul- felt tribute as tremblingly, yet fearlessly, we step aside, each to wend his separate way. Classmates: During this last school year we could scarcely wait until its close. Now that it is here, the last time we shall be to- gether in happy comradeship, how tinged with positive regret is the occasion, and how mem- ory lingers over the sunny past. The tumult of the halls in the ivy-covered walls, the dis- tant shout of the football field, the room where we held debate. And as we loiter here for this last hour of fondest farewell, with much of happiness in the background, we must not be unmindful that much of joy still awaits us, hopeful joys in the days that are to come. And may we, the illustrious Class of '06, pass from this bright period of you-thful accom- plishment, into the strength and pride of the glorious achievements of ambitious manhood, to strive with earnest endeavor to fill places in the world, which shall bear a lasting tribute to our dear old school. Farewell one, farewell all. JOSEPH KUEHNLE.

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VALEDICTOR Y Look up and not down, Loolc forward and not back, Look out and not in,- And lend a hand. Ladies and GC1zfIc'mcn.' VVe have finished -the first stage of our journey of life, and before we set out on the new road, we halt for a moment to bid you, who have accompanied us thus far, farewell. VVith the mention of the word farewell comes a feeling of sadness. Having been to- gether all these years, must we not think of them ever with tender longing? Now we are to leave behind the warm friends and the careful guiding, and each, a moral Columbus, steer our bark alone in vastly different channels, and it behooves us to aim high, and consider ourselves capable of ffreat things. As new occasions teach new b Cs duties,'J it is for us to go forth, each with the firm resolve that I at least will do my duty. As ambitious young men, we will do all in our power to enlarge our experience, and the more we learn, and the deeper we penetrate, the more cause shall we find for being con- tinually thoughtful. VVe do not pretend to be able to assume the responsibilities of wise and learned seniorsg neither is there triumph in the thought of fearlessly entering a larger life and assuming its duties. But it lends ballast to the undertaking and gives steadi- ness to every venture to have 'the complete assurance that well begun is half won, and that in the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail, and that golden oppor- tunity may be ours for the striving. Our private lives offer vast opportunity for high and lofty speculations. The world naturally looks with suspicion on the opinions of young men. This is merely a prejudice. VVe must be such men as will soften prejudice,

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-'Lui FRONT VIEWV OF THE ACADEMY, GYMNASIUM AND CAMPUS