McKinley High School - President Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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I 'll E AIifT1iS.5lN 1-I l Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. 'l'here Zllllit much credit in that. .lf .l was very ragged and very jolly, then l. should begin to feel that I had gained a point. -Dickens, Lfifc and AcZ4ve1itizw'cs'of Martin Cliazztewit. There is little Wisdom in knowing that every man must be up and doing, and that all mankind are made dependent upon one another. Forty per cent. of the people in the United States raise enough food to feed the other sixty per cent. and have a lot left over to ship to other lands. Over in China from eighty to eighty-five per cent. of the Chinese are farmers and yet they barely raise enough food to feed the other fifteen or twenty per cent. Chinese civilization as far as top-cream of scholars goes, is of fine quality. But what a dismal failure it is for all but a handful. The glory of America is the amazing achievement of having made living tolerable and even comfortable for the greater number. To be sure there is much more in true civilization than industrial and scientific advancement. But without science and industrialism, most of ns humans would be in poverty and just like the millions of the enslaved classes of the Far East. A woman will cut out most everything to reduce, but not a blamed thing to reduce expenses. Perhaps all things come to him who waits but there are some things not worth waiting for. One thorn of experience is worth whole wilderness of warning.-Lowelt. Beads of perspiration 2l1'C the jewels of toil. Weai' your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, do not pull it out merely to show you have one.-Ch-es'terfl,elcZ. lt takes a mighty smart man to conceal what he doesn't know. Some report elsewhere whatever is told them, the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has lieard.-Ofuicl. A wise traveler never dispises his own country, We thank thee for this place in which we dwell, for the lovc that unites usg for the peace accorded us this day, for the hope with which We expect the mor- row, for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful 5 for our friends in all parts of the earth it Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it, maybe, in all our innocent. endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulations, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. -Robert Louis St6'U6'I7fS07l-.

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110 .THE 21.11351 '1 SAN HOW' TO BE HAPPY Are you ahnost disgusted with lite, little man? Iill tell you a wonderful triek That will bring you contentment, if anything can, Do something for somebody quick! Are you awfully tired with play, little girl? VVea.ried, discouraged and sick? .l'll tell you the loveliest game in the rrorld, Do soniething for somebody quick! Though it rains, like the rain of the flood, little man, And the clouds are forbidden and thick You can make the sun shine in your soul, little man, Do something for somebody quick! J Though the stars are like brass overhead, little girl, And the walks like a well heated brick And our earthly affairs in a terrible whirl, Do soinething for soinebody quick! -All-olzynious. It is heard and terrible speech used by Buddha. 4'The wheel follows the foot of hini who draws the cart. You ean't get away from that. Habit is not something that has you. It is soniething that you have. You can not let go. You pull it after you over the rough road of life-as the wheel follows the foot of the man who drags the cart. Every failure teaches a man soinething, if he will learn. That out of death his single purpose springs? Awake the present, shall no seene display The tragie passion of the passing day? ls it with man, as with some ineaner things, That out of death his single purpose springs 'l Can his eventful life no moral teach Until he be, for aye, beyond its reach? -Dzcleefns. The affections are not so easily wounded as the passions, but their hurts are deeper and more lasting. If there is anything real in the world, it is those amazingly fine feelings and those natural obligations which inust subsist between father and son, A 'oke's a 'oke- and even Jraetieal 'ests are ver f ea Jital in their way, if you J J , 1 , can only get the other party to see the fun of them. How a erust well earned was sweeter far than a feast inherited.-Dialsans. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answer- ing look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenance of friends.

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112 THE AR TISAN - Indeed, have very grave doubts whether. il good COI111I1Cl'Cl2ll country, 11old- ing CO1.l11I1l1l1lC2i.110l1 with all parts of the world can better Cliristianize the benighted portions of it that by the bestowal of its wealtli and energy o11 the Hlillilllg' of good Christians at hoine, and o11 the utter removal of neglected and untaught childhood from its streets, before it wanders elsewhere. For, if it steadily persists i11 tl1is work, working Cl0WllWZil'l,l to the lowest, the ll'ElVClt'1'S of all grades whoin it sends al.11'o11d will be good, GXC11lD1il1'j', practical inissionuries, instead of undoers of what the best professed llllSSl0llE11'lL'S can 1111.-.lJf1'f,e!.'ens. Any E001 can attract attention, but it takes a large 2lSS01'l'll1C111 of l1l'il1llS to hold it. hVllC11 the h.enpeeked lllilll travels he steers clear of the places that advertise honielike surroundings. lt is about as hard for 21 11111111111 to l111K1C1'S1'2lllil lliliiilllilll as it is for il ll21Cllf'lOl' to l111ClC1'StE1l'1C1 baby talk. LllI'l.C1'S01l long ago told ns that lliklllj' 11 1112111 worries lllllliittlf into il llilllll'l0SH grave while, now and then, a 1112111 forgets hnnself into 1ll11UO1'l'.Plll1j'. Strange how you expand your life, stre11gtl1e11 .your eliaracter, and preserve your 11an1e, nol l1y Silvlllg but by giving. Many 11. 11111111 with a 1'CjJl1f2ltl0ll for slirewdness is only close. Many a self-niade 1111111 gives the impression of l1avi11g cheated himself. The average man ls idea of pleasure is merely the indulgence i11 things l1e 0211171 atlford. The aetfress who is wedded to her art has generally 130011 divorced Ql:l'01Il 111' 1e11st one' husl111nd. The friends wort11 while are those who like you, even if you don'1' 11l2l1iC enough to have to pay an income tax. VVe find in life exactly what we put in lt.-E1IL67'Slll1. Wo1'lc is t11e true source of huinan welfare.-Tolsioi. D011 't fret too rnueh because your e11ild is not niaking tl1e highest marks in 1111 his studies. Napoleon was 11 stupid boy i11 school. But he found son1ething that he was interested in, and he studied that until, he knew more about it than any other you11g man in all Europe. He knew the science of war and he knew how to conduct military campaigns. Darwin wasn't entllusiastie about his school room tasks. But Darwin knew VVl'li'l1f he was interested in and he speciahzed in that thi11g until he became the world's greatest authority. lsaac XValton was down near the bottom of his class, but he was a thinker. And he thouglit things through. Groldsniith hated SC11001 but he 1021111011 to write by writing--both good poetry and good prose. Do1'1't worry because the boy isn't il wonderful student. But you ought to Worry if he C10CS11,f take an interest i11 soniething-it there is11't something that l1e is willing to work at and to work at hard. Most men who invent ways of solving t11e farmersl prohleins have soft, White hands. .