North View High School - Southside Echoes Yearbook (North View, VA)

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OUR MOTTO AND ASPIRATIONS NO STEPS BACKWARD

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SOUTH SIDE ECHOES 35 voyagers and discoverers when they came to the southern coast of the Atlantic and found beautiful orange groves, waving forests, and fields green with corn. So now it seems to new- comers to this country. The South still has a wealth of beauty. There are many beautiful cities, rivers and mountains, as well as other kinds of scenery that would fill anyone with wonder and joy. Oh! what a great joy and blessing it is to live in such a land of delight. May the South still continue to enjoy peace and prosperity and delight in its joys through the ages to come! We are proud of our native land and we will be loyal to its best tradi- tions. Long live the Southland ! Lizzie Webb Petty, ’oS.

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Jgulla Uestigia Bctrorsum Progress is the keynote of our age. Nature and man cry out to us on every side, “No steps backward.” This is our motto. Advancement is being made rapidly in every condition and circumstance of life. Science in its knowledge has in- creased more than a hundred-fold. The nineteenth century was ushered in by the candle light, and the twentieth century by the electric light. Art and literature have progressed rapidly. While the old masters — geniuses who, here and there, dot the world’s history in art and literature — may be lacking, still we can note its progress ever onward, and that to-day con- ditions are in advance of what they were in previous periods. Railroads are a good sign of our progress. The sailing vessel of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has given way to the palatial steamer of to-day. Small huts and hovels have given way to larger and more commodious houses. In- stances of continued progress might be multiplied. The world seemed at a standstill in the Dark Ages, but it became awak- ened. New impulses and ideas arose to go ever onward, in- creasing our knowledge and promoting progress. The world since then has taken no backward steps. It is ever on the alert for better and higher things. Nowhere is this progress better shown than in the realm of physics and chemistry. Galileo suffered almost bodily harm for performing some ex- periments in physics, which the ignorant people of his day be- lieved to be connected with evil arts. In chemistry wonderful steps have been made, until we look upon the alchemist and his works as a fairy story of the far distant past. The alchemist tried to turn the baser metals into gold; the modern chemist tries to discover the laws of nature and her elements.