Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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THE MILESTONE. 27 with the difficulties, trials and temptations that beset us, so will our whole after life be colored. In this age and in this country, whosoever will may drink at the pure fountain of science. The apprentice can by proper improvement of time, lay in a stock of knowledge which will enable him to stand at the side of those who have grown up in the full blaze of a college education. Far better is his prospect at the start, for he has the common information without wb eh a man is a poor helpless animal. Education is not obtained without hard work. “Digging for pure water is wrearisome, but when we once come to the springs they rise up to meet us.” As every grain helps to fill the bushel, so does the improvement of every moment increase knowledge. By acquiring a good education we shall have our reward in the rich stores thus collected which will always be at our command. As the touchstone reaches out further and further, imparting its power to every one, so our knowledge as we add to it still attracts more and more as it widens the realm of thought, broadens the intellect, gives virtue to virtue and strength to strength, for “to him that hath shall be given.”

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THK M1LBSTON K. 2» How impossible to enumerate the advantages resulting from the employment of intelligent men. If this cannot be done, how vain must be the effort to describe the gain to the workman himself. The increase in wages is the least and lowest reward of mental culture. The whole being is enlarged and exalted: the scope of view is widened; the objects of interest are increased; the subjects of thought are multiplied; life is more filled with emotion, and man is raised in the scale of creation. Too many have the idea that to appear well on the stage of public life, a man must spend a certain number of years within the walls of some college. This is an accomplishment not a necessity. A man who has spent his best years in pursuing classic lore, lacks that common information that he can get only by association with his fellow men. He must stand shoulder to shoulder with the honest, wide awake, noble-minded man who is struggling with the trials and temptations of the world. Only by communicating with others do we know ourselves. For “there is no school which so trains and disciplines the mind as contact with mankind. A life of solitude is a life of selfishness. To every human being belongs his fair share of manful toil and human duty. Can this be neglected without severe loss to the individual himself? He must go out into the world, find his particular sphere of duty, and then work. In so doing he will educate himself in that patience, diligence and endurance which shapes and consolidates the character. Adversity is the touchstone of character, and as we deal

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Coliseums. Edgar Gbrbckb. Rome was not built in a day; neither were the lives that guided her to the position of “Mistress of the World” of short duration. What sums of money; what hours of toil; what years of time must her structures have cost. The walls, after two thousand years exposure to the elements, still tower toward the skies in all their mysterious beauty. There they stand! The Senate House, the Forum, Circus Maximus, and the Coliseum, tit representatives of the glory of Rome, whose will was law. at whose shrine the nations paid homage. Could the gates that pierce those walls hut speak, what tales they could unfold. They could tell of armies going forth to conquer the world; to defend the imperial city from destruction; of heroes returning to be crowned with laurels and hailed with joyous acclammations, and of triumphs and gorgeous pageants. The Senate House that once re-echoed with the eloquence of Cicero and the dying groans of Caesar, is a stately ruin now;