Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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-- - THE LINCOLNIAN Principal's Message As I write this, my last message as principal to a graduating class of Lincoln High School, my first emotion is one of sadness. We entered Lincoln as Fresh- men together and now, after four years of association, we're leaving together, you as graduates, and I to enter a larger field of service. As you have been such jolly friends to me, I shall let friendship be my theme. It seems to me that unselfish friendship is about the most beautiful thing in life. Like salvation it is free yet cannot be obtained without effort. Would you know how to win and hold friends? Be friendly. Emerson says, Friendship buys friendship. To win a friend, be a friend. Like people, and they will like you. Give to the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you. Most of us need to think less of self and more of others. Sympathetic human interest is the essential thing in being friendly. It is that which makes the truly friendly draw to them a host of friends, so that rich or poor, educated or uneducated, they are never depressed with that most appalling of all feelings, that of being quite alone in the world. If you wish people to like you, cultivate the habit of optimism. Develop a happy, cheerful disposition. Keep expecting and striving for something better, no matter how discouraging present circumstances may be. Wear a happy, cheerful look, regardless of how you feel. Crepehangers are never popular. The quotation: Laugh, and the world laughs with you, weep, and you Weep alone is generally true. Happiness is a precious by-product of friendship and service. The surest recipe for happiness yet discovered is to make some one else happy. What if the other fellow isn't inclined to be friendly? Then use Tillitson's prescription, A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury begins on his part, kindness should begin on ours. Apply the Golden Rule in the spirit in which it was issued, and you will have a host of friends. , Now may I leave with you, my friends of the Class of 1928, my motto, Carlyle's words: 'KI expect to pass through this world but once. Any good work, therefore, any kindness or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal, let me do it now! Let me not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Six

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Eeoiration mo the Sapirit of our school, tue, the Qenior Cllllass of 1928 retierentlp heoirate this annual. Qlhp high ioeals of courage, honor, ano truth hahe heen, anh eher mill he, an inspiration to our oailp libing! lit tnas thp courage, QB Spirit, tphirh maoe possible our surtesses. Hit tnill he thy rourage, CB Svpirit, hp tnhirh toe shall he enahleh to artept, tnithout bitterness, the oefeats on the jfielo of Elite. Zllihp stanoaros of honor anh truth me hatme stritien, ano shall tontinue to strihe, to make inherent in our otnn tharatters anh in those of our posteritp. Bn sin: rere appretiation, therefore, of the impetus thou hast gihen us to: toarh nohler Iihing, in retogni: tion of the high ioeals thou hast instilleo tnithin us, tue gratefully heoitate this annual to thee, 5pirit of our sthool!

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