House in the Pines High School - Log Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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LIFE It only has four letters, yet next to God it's the most powerful thlng in the world It has come, however, to be so prevalent that people like Mary Jones and John Smith hardly know that Webster includes it in his dictionary on page 579, but men like Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson were acutely aware of it Lincoln waved a war to show us the value of human life, and Wllson gave us a theory called the New Freedom wnlch embodled this very same idea But to what ava1l9 Have we have rich coined and now nd all our tlme using the big work psychosomatic and completely forget about the simple little four letter one life Lincoln, Wilson, and other great men llke them tried to show us the SlgDif1CaUC8 of llfe ln ways whlch they thou ht would cause the least destructlon and pain to man, but we failed them, and now God has taken it upon himself to show us what we failed to learn from these men He has let man so beyond nlmself almost beyond what is humanly possible He has let hlm split the atom, and create an. lnven tlon whlch lf he shozld contlnue tozfall to see that llfe means love, fidelity, and equality, will ultimately exterminate hlm lessened poverty, have we given equality to every man, we at least given peace to the world? No, instead the have become rlcher, and the poor poorer We have even such phrases as rationalization and over civilizatlon, in the final analysis even war is gustifiable We spe but he has recently given him tue power to bring about eternity tomorrow, the day after, or tne day after that rrances Camann, '47 JUNE 7, 1946 As I walked down the road, I heard loud voices from the Hill's house, another quarrel, I thought to myself The night was too beautlful to worry about other peoples'quarrels though, so I passed on down the road After walking a mile or so, I turned and headed for the barn across from Mr Hl11'S house, Being a farmer, I had to see that the cattle were well settled for the nlght wlth plenty of water in the troughs for each of them The moon was full and the stars were shining bri htly A soft breeze was gently blowinn and the rustle of the grain sound ed like music I entered the barn and began to tend mv chores Suddenly, at a level slightly above me, the wind began to howl, and there before me, I saw a form slivhtly blowing to and fro On closer inspection, I recognized the form to be a body, the body of Mrs H111 I then decided that no nlght was too beautlfu to worry about other peoples' quarrels Joan Bachmann, '47 l . O Y ' ro Q fl 1 o . . , . . . .J . ' O . O w - as ' 0 I 0 0 K 1 0 V O -J O 1 V I , , - l I 0 0 I from the face of the earth. He gave man life to have eternity, u 1 . . T1 -3 . . Q ' J K 0 O fi: ' 1 g i , Ki J d M 0 G 0 Q . o - . E D O