Macon High School - Oipi Yearbook (Macon, MO)

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my :. 1.fs-:.,g,..1-ef5.,..:-..,4,.....-y. 5mLKi..a.1.4-.Eg-a2eg5?a5g3.g:gsg'g.V :gig tSchoolmates seeing Promising run, some begin to mock, some threaten, others to cry out to lnm to return. From among these, two start to follow.D Obstinate: What! Wilt thou leave friends and place where thou canst earn thy own' returns and seek thy own pleasures for a hard and devious course of four long years? . Promising: seek an inheritance that f-adeth not away, and it is laid up in tlns kingdom, and safe there to oe bestowed, at the time ap- pointed, on them that diligently seek it. Read it so, if you will, in mv book. 'A 'I Obstinate: Tush! Away with your book: will you go back with us or no? Pliable: If all he says be true, I think, friend Obstinate, I will jour, ney with him. Obstinate: Fools! flilxeunt, Uurtainj. Scene II, S. H., M. H. S. Five Months Later. Pliable: tStruggling in slough of exams? Friend Promising, is this the happiness you have told me all this while of? May I get out with my life, you shall possess this brave country alone for me. QVVith aid of Prof's foot, exits on side of eighth grade.j Luck: Give me thy hand, Promising, and I will help thee. But re- member, not alwavs will I be at hand. Promise me no more to pick but easy places. That made this slough the harder. I Thankful, Prom- ising complies.5 Clilxeunt, Curtaino ACT II. Scene I. Front steps. One year later. Junior VVorldly Wise: Ah, Promising, thou foolish Soph., whither away after this burdened manner? Promising: I am keeping my promise to good Luck. Sir. I am going to that shining Graduation Inght before me. Yes, even unto the City of Opportunities and Fortune. Junior iVVorldly VVise: How camest thou by thy burden at first? Promising: By reading these statistics. Junior NVorldly Wise: I thought so. Many have trod that rough wav. I would lighten thy burden. See yonder girl I? Sit by her, bend thy conscience, and greater ease is thine. CExit.j CAS Promising struggles with temptation, Wisdom entersb XVlSLl0H12 Ah, Promising, li have read thy mind. Turn thy back upon evil. Thou wert almost to being destroyed. CHumbly, Promising bows his heady fCUIqt21l1l.f 'iezz Q ' ' V ' - -- ., 41-1-,4-4

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Q, Senior C ass Historq PROLOQUE I11 olden times when genius In a man refused to flame, He cried aloud, invoked the muse, And called upon a name, And then he laid him down to sleep, A Vision to receiveg So is it now, times are 11ot changed, A dream 's a friend, indeed. ll 1 THE STUDENTS PROGRESS Dramatis Personal WISDOM - ---- ......, E ighth Grade Instructor P . ROMISING ------- -N ----- --- Persevering, but Timid Student OBSTINATE AND PLIABLE --- ---------- Two Other Students JUNIOR WORLDLY WISE --- ---- A Highschoolite LUCK ------- -------- , ---- --- - --.... , Hopeful HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL --- ------- ---- -- .... -- Ignorance Others. ACT I. Scene I. Central Building, Eighth Grade, Sept. 'IS Wisdom: VVherefore dost thou cry, Promising? Promising: Sir, I perceive by this book of statistics that if I now enter the world I will sink under the competition of brighter minds, unless I present at certificate of certain qualifications. This I am not able to do. VVisdom: lf this be thy condition, why standest thou still '? Promising: Because I know not wihither to go. XVISCIOIII' Read this parchnnnt 4'P'l f . I I , I X I. ee rom Insufficient Prepara- tion. Take it, and keep it always. Thou art young. Up Yonder stair thou shalt see a door, at which, when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do. tEXit.J 1922

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ACT III. Scene I. Principal's Office, M. H. S. Sept. '21. , Principal: But how doth it happen that you come so late: The 11ew school year hath already begun. Promising: I had been here sooner, but that-Oh wretched- lad that I am-last year I loitered on the way. Yea, I entered the city of Van- . ity, where I explored the streets of Games, Plays, Dances, Movies and Fair Maidens, and entered into the Valley of Humiliation. Now, how- ever, have I seen my folly, and turned and entered here by the route , of Hard Labor. I urged others in my way to come, but only Hopeful j started, friend Ignorance was wroth. - Q CExeunt, Ourtainj 1 Principal: It is well. Enter upon the last lap of thy journey. I ACT IV. Scene I. Upper Hall, H. S. Day after Graduation. .9 Promising: See, friend Hopeful, this is the reward of our labors , CHolds out Diploma! Behold the Oity of Opportunities and Fortune li now open before us. 5 . Hopeful: Ah, yes! But Ignorance has attained this place in equal il 1. i i 1 i i i haste, for did not the ferryman Vain Hope assist him? Promising: Pmehold! See for thyself his finish! CEven as they W l0Oli,.I,9,'110F?11lC9,1S bound and carried to a door through which he is i - cast into the World of Hard Knocks, where he sinks beneath the over- i powering' current. and they see there is a way to Failure, even from the il Oity of Opportunity and Fortunej COurtain.J llit - , : i Epilogue. I-ii: iii e . . ,ii O true, would I were Promising, , y VVhen landing on the floor, For with the bump I realized My That there were three weeks more! Iii I j Esther Oxley, '22. 1 f il ll fi l li qi 1, 1 Q 1922