Morrison High School - Warwick Yearbook (Morrison, VA)

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Principal’s Message F YOU, who, after four years spent in high school, are now completing your work, I should like to ask, “What has the experi- ence of those four years meant to you?” By building upon your past experiences you have learned to extend your interests into larger fields, you have developed, in a measure, both scholarship and physical strength. You have mastered, to a certain extent, the funda- mentals of a prescribed course of study. Have you learned, as Henry Van Dyke so beautifully yet simply expressed it, “To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by well-placed affection rather than by misplaced disgust; to covet nothing that is your neighbor’s except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manner; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ?” If so, you may be trusted to maintain the highest standards of life and work, for you have learned the art of living wisely and well. 7