Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Mohawk Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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NORMALOGUE- is illtlarg A. lirarmm E should think of art and handicraft always as one and the same. lfvhatever task one has to do may be raised above the dead level of mechanical perfection by beauty of idea. Hand skill is comparatively easy of development but the skilled hand, unguided by a cultivated taste and discrim- inating appreciation arrives at little more than what a purely mechanical agency could achieve. It is this taste and dis- crimination that are the difficult and important things to acquire. It is the spirit of beauty that gives one's achievement life as a Work of art. l Kuna E. Srarlr SIP you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, t If all men count with you, but none too muchg If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything thatis in it. Rudyard Kipling. 'A QQ, , Kg '

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12 NORMALOGUE Marg Enuize Enright I IS impossible To get at men excepting through their And poets get directlier at the soul Than any of your cconomistsg for the which You must not overlook the poet's work lVhen scheming for the wvorldisnecessitiesf' Elizabeth B. Browning souls, I HEN welcome each rehuff That turns earthls smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit, nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain! Learn, nor account the pang, dare, never grudge the th Robert BFlIIl'Ill'lZg. william Nzlznn ilnhnsnn :gN life's small things be xesolute and great To keep thy muscle tl uned know st thou xx hen Fate Thy measure takes, or when shell sn to thee 'I find thee worthy: do thls deed fox mc roe !

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Annu, Glnrnrlm Skevlr Y heart goes out to you menibers of the Class of 1914, Ill IICIHOIW and hope BICIHOYY of the many happy hours of work 1nd play ue have enjoyed together, hope for the new life nov opening before you. are you better fitted to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good 11111 because of those hours? If so I claim some share 111 the new victories awaiting you. WVhatew er the future Inav hold be assured I will cou11t it '1 privilege if I in ix sh ire 111th you, even fro111 a distance, Qincerelx your friend, Annie Cornelia Skeele. NORMALOGUE Hannah 15. Matvrman lNIy message to the senior class has been already given by Edward Osgood Grober. TEACHERS CREED 31 BELIEVE in boys and girls, the men and women ofa great tomorrowg that whatsoever the boy soweth the man shall reap. I believe in the curse of ignorance, in the efficacy of schools, in the dignity of teaching, and in the joy of serving others. I believe in wisdom as revealed in human lives as well as i11 tl1e pages of a printed book, in lessons taught, not so much by precept as by example, in ability to work with the hands as well as to think with the head, in every thing that makes life large and lovely. I believe in beauty in the school room, in the home, in daily life and in out-of-doors. I believe in laughter, in love, in faith, in all ideals and distant hopes that lure us on. I be- lieve that every hour of every day we receive a just reward for all we are and all we do. I believe in the present and its opportunities, in the future and its promises and in the divine joy of living.