John Marshall High School - Marshallite Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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'SGP-5' J. M. H. S. :QQ- SD G2 History of the Class of '26 CEJ my E beginning in any art is an appreciation of it. Therefore, as we pi-V review in reflections the kaleidoscopic bit of the Panorama of Life MQ: which we have staged at old john Marshall High School in the past Ilfvfxiul four years, we feel that truly we have made a beginning in the Art of Living, for we know that we have now an appreciation of that art which surpasses by far that appreciation which was ours four years ago. And that is, we think the paramount and most valuable result of a high school educa- tion. It would be impossible for one to acquire an infinitely vast store of mathematical, scientific, and literary knowledge in the brief time alloted for one to complete his High School course. But it is not impossible for one to gain in this time the valuable lessons of team-work, co-operation, concentration, subordi- nation, and system-lessons which are an invaluable asset to one who possesses them for the whole of his life, and an incalculable loss for one who has them not. Our freshman year was the Age of Skepticism. We entered the stately portals of John Marshall filled with an anticipation which was not wholly pleasant. What was it all about? We felt as though we were in a strange land where strange things were done by strange people. We found ourselves thrust willy-nilly into a whirling eddy of incessant action, thrills, and fears. There Seemed to be an invisible power which turned the mighty wheel of which we were a most insignifi- cant cog. And then, as it is in a half-darkened room, one recognizes dimly, and then clearly and distinctly, the articles in the room as he becomes accustomed to the darkness, so we began to see and understand the significance of our part in the mighty workings of that mechanism which had at first appeared to us an an insolvable mystery. We knew at last that every tiny cog of the mighty wheel of school contributed to the power of the whole. We were a part of it. We were one of the things that make the wheels go 'roundf' We had learned, appreciated, and understood our first lesson in team-work. Our sophomore year was the Age of Deliberation. There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the Hood- Our Sophomore year was the tide of our affairs which demanded that we take deliberate and decisive steps in some direction. We became aware of the fact, fortunately, that there were many mediums of expressing one's school spirit. We say fortunately, because, we believe that everyone is gifted in degrees, in some line, though Cand this is fortu- nate alsoj we are most decidedly not gifted in the same manner. We learned that the boy or girl who was unsuited to express his or her school spirit in any phase of athletics, might.be just as loyal a Marshallite by entering the literary, dramatic, or class field as the heartiest fighter on the football field, or basketball or tennis court. We learned that the supporters of the teams were showing school FQGJ-Pl Twenty- Three