Lyman Hall High school - Singer Chronicle Yearbook (Wallingford, CT)

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18 THE CHRONICLE “lie that lias a light within his own clear breast May sit i' the center and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.” Decade by decade the circle of education will widen until it encloses every youth in the country and the educational opportunity for the talents of each one. Our secondary schools show the great faith in education that is held by the American people. Classmates: We are going into a future of greater possibilities than any past has ever dreamed of. The country desperately needs new adjustments in our government, a more vital religion, and new ways of living. It is our duty to focus attention on a worthy task and build our lives around our work. We must have vision to carry us through. Let us not turn back, but strive to go ever onward. A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox adds a lilting conclusion. “One ship sails east , And another sails west With the selfsame winds that blow. ’Tis the set of the sail And not the gale Which tells the way to go. Like the winds of the sea And the ways of fate , As we voyage along through life Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.” Sylvia Hall Helerences: Your School and You—Walton B. Bliss Secondary Education—Aubrey A. Douglass Delineator, August, 1934—Character—W. L. Phelps American Magazine, March, 1934—Character—Emil Ludwig American Magazine, May, 1934—Youth—Christian Gauss American Magazine, February, 1934—Vision—Will Durant School and Society, March. 1935—The Public and the Program of Secondary Education—Zook N. E. A. Journal. May, 1934—Secondary Education for the New Day— Lyle W. Ashby Research Bulletin of N. E. A.—March, 1934