Marshall High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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CARDINAL OF 1929 RETROSPECTS WILLIAM FRANCIS WEBSTER R ETROSPECTS for youthl Age might doze over The Long Ago Magazine, sitting in an easy chair before a dying fire on the grate. The flickering light shows a smile on a dear old face, as pictures follow one after another,-memories of happy days gone by. Age dwells much in the past. Yet every day since a child left, the sunrise has added some tale to his past. A little boy racing with flying shadows on the hillside, a little girl reaching for her first timid violet in its hiding place, farther on the journey from the morning and father is missed one day from home and he never can come back, early on his way the world is bathed in a golden mist, and his playmate is changed to a lovely maiden, the vision of his own dear dreams,-great memories of real life these are, and will abide until Age sits in his easy chair. No need for youth to Wait for retrospectsg they are already behind him. Happi- ness and sorrow, anxiety and love, out of a short past come the great realitiestof every life. Will he look backward? For wisdom is distilled out of all his yesterdays. Age looks backward and sees in the haze of memory happy days of long ago and honor- able rewards of service, youth gazes into the future and lifts castles of beauty through the dreamy air of hope. Advancing manhood looks both forward and back- ward, and on sure foundations of yesterdays builds more stately mansions for his soul. GROWTH Ross NEWMAN YOUNG A-LL education is growth. It consists in changing us from what we are into what We ought to be. These changes come only from within. One is changed only by what he does. No parent, teacher, or principal can change a student, only the student himself can make the necessary choices. Character comes only from a constant making of right choices, and the many specific habits and ideals that constitute character come only from the constant prac- tise of the desired qualities. Responsibility, sometimes called reliability, dependability, or trustworthiness, is a vital element in character development. We grow only as we accept responsibility. One cannot dodge this law of growth. Infancy and youth often lack judgment, horizon, perspective. Obedience, au- thority, and punishment are sometimes necessary. .lust as a child plants a young tree and strengthens and protects it with a stake, so we all must have temporary stakes of rules, authority, and obedience. But life is more than this. There must be a growth from deserved subjection to rational independence. Hence, the great im- portance of training in accepting responsibilities! Marshall students are accepting rapidly their responsibilities. They realize that the school is directed for the benefit of the maximum development of each individual. The teacher is not a policeman, but a friendly counsellor. The student is not a sub- ject of autocratic control. He is a citizen of the Marshall self-governing common- wealth. Twen ty-Sin:

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D MINISTRATION Miss FLORENCE SMITH IN MEMORIAM TO FLORENC E SMITH The heavens smiled last night, I think- T he stars were smiling, too, When softly in the evening air Her spirit hurried through. Each of the hours she spent for us Is an eternity Of happiness in that far place Of sweet tranquillity. Why should we try with feeble pen Her epitaph to gather When in our hearts her lights shall li Forever and forever? Rather should we smile and say With bowed heads, God is good To give her tired hands rest and bring His sheep into His foldf, Twenty-Five 'UC -BETTY BLASING

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S E N I O ' R S fm-' GATE or THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA This is not the end, but the beginningg Un up this path that we have laid We shall go forth, new lanrels ever winning Out from this life into the other. --JOH SENIORS Twenty-Seven N ARTHUR