Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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1«. Bodies. Till! impressions they have made both by precepts and examples will be as lasting as our lives themselves, and. it' obeyed, will carry us beyond into a blissful Kternity. First of all, we wens endowed by our (treat Benefactor with sensibilities, intellects, and wills; and by virtue of these faculties, man is master of all lod’s creatures. None are capable of so high {V state of culture. ()ur teachers and parents, through our sensibilities, have developed our intellects and wills, and can'd for us during the period when the little shoots of character were yet unable to battle with the storms of life. Thus far have we gone; and now as we are about to assume responsibilities of our own, we can hut promise to pay, at some future time, the value we have received. We have a joint obligation with (Sod, our parents, our country, and society. You ask why we are indebted to our country. Are not my sister-classmates and I debtors for the intellectual freedom we as women can enjoy? Let us rejoice that we live in these closing years of the nineteenth century. Traditions nor chains of custom no longer bind us. All avenues are open to us and we can pass hand in hand with our brother classmate through all the gates ol higher learning. Our hearts are full of gratitude, but thin shall not be our mthj ottering. How faithful we are to our promise let the future disclose. Though we may not reach the uppermost rounds of the ladder of fame, our efforts shall Ik unalmting. By doing what good we can. we shall forge a glittering chain on which to string the pearls, whose soft pure light shall belt our world like a spiritual equator. Could we but look into the future and read its pages we should probably see engraved in golden letters the achievments of the class of’Si). We might read the career of the musician. In hci we possess a voting lady of rare musical talents and already the touch of her “magical” fingers thrills us with pleasure. Mozart can hardly excel her in the imitation of a storm. And what is more charming than “Hock a bye Baby” rendered by her. She may travel through (iermany and Italy cultivating and enriching her talents; and in time we shall see 1»r nn»» heading the list of the great musicians of our country. Another member may attend the state university and graduate with honor and distinction. Having also acquired a knowledge of book-keeping and short-band, thus quieting her old passion

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FOR MWLUE RECEW1ED Promise Vo Pay. Words are inadequate and language powerless to express our indebtedness for wliat we are. Since we sprang into existence, we have been hut cumberers—always receiving assistance but rendering none. Then what can we say or how repay those who have guided us through this state of helplessness? We owe more than we ever can repay to our kind, patient, enduring parents, who have watched and cared for us through all stages of our dependence, provided for our every want through all tin- vicissitudes of their fortunes. It mattered not what lot befell them, whether blessings or woe, joy or sorrow; their first thought was of us. Many times the storm-tried vessel creaked, swayed, and tossed to and fro; destruction seeming almost inevitable; but the hands at tin wheel remained steady, the cheek unblanched, till their precious-laden craft reached a port. In our youth we have shared like privileges. The rich, the poor, the weak, the strong, male and female, have had the same linn restraint so necessary to youthful lives, the same wise counsel, the same unalienating interest. We have had ample opportunity to garner up rich stores of knowledge that would serve us in future usefulness; and well do we know that this is the golden key, that unlocks the treasure-houses of the world, and. as it were, opens wide the toll-gates along the road to honor and greatness. We have learned too, that without labor there is no knowledge gained and that diligence is the price of success. Our preceptors have been spending these years in moulding our natures into character and fitting our minds to be the rulers of our

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17. for Geometry, slu will accept a position as book-keeper with a prominent business house in the great city of of Norfolk and make herself a thoroughly good businesswoman. She, like most noted people, commences at the bottom approaching the summit gradually. On 1 icr way she does not forget the interest of her sex but travels here and there on Temperance and “Woman Suffrage.” In after years we see her name too inscribed among those of the ( rent women of A merica. Then what may we expect of the central figure of our group? This young gentleman wields the pen with alacrity and becomes a prominent literary man after graduating in Harvard. Society is astonished and overjoyed by the magazine he presents to her view. It even excels the Century, Scribners, Harpers or any noted magazine of the times. Imagine our pride and pleasure on receiving the first copy of the “Golden Age” edited by our talented classmate. A fourth member of this‘distinguished” class was very much admired by us for her love of literature. When we were studying literature, it was she who could always interest us with little bits of biography,—such as the story of George Washington and his little hatchet and all that. Such incidents as these impressed on our minds that she (our classmate) was remarkably talented as well as to render it almost impossible for us to forget the noted person of whom she spoke. Often were our emotions over-wrought by her efforts in elocution. Nor shall her passion for oratory cease with her school days. Her charming beauty and queenly manners will aid her grandly in her profession—elocution. In the early part of the 20th century we shall witness her accept the professorship of elocution in one of oar leading colleges. Oh! Tis true many lovers may kneel at her feet but she will turn proudly away from all. saying. matrimony is not her calling. Now may we not read too of another but by no means least of the pentagon? The profession of ped-a-gogy has already overtaken this stately biped. But becoming restless in so meek a station in life she wishes to take up the study of law. As will be remembered by her old schoolmates, she was a worshipes of oratory. Her love for public speaking she could not repress in her youth, but in after vears by stimulated efforts and a little practice, she overcame the love but not the difficulty. However she will become a lawyer.