Plainfield High School - Hermiad Yearbook (Central Village, CT)

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HE HERM A Vol. XVIII P1ainGe1d High School May, 1930 No. 1 Issuccl annually by the students of Plainfield High School Sing'e copy, thirty cents. Editor-in-Chief ....,........... EDITORIAL BOARD Assistant Literary Editor ....,.. School Activities Editor .......... Athletic Notes Editor ...,, joke Box Editor... Art Editor ........,. Alumni Editor ........ Business Manager ...... ....,.. Assistant Business Manager ..... ,... AUXILIARY BOARD Assistants to the School Notes Editor Assistants to the Joke Elsie Daley . ..,.... 1930 Yiljo Hill ....... ......,....... 1 931 1Valter Reese ...... ,..,..,,...,... 1 930 Arliene Potvin ,......, 1931 ........,Donald Gallup Hilliard Sniith ....,........janet Loring .,.,....Edward Bellavanee Raymond VVood ..,. Roy Lamothe Ethel Gallup Edward Coughlin .....,,Peter Koss Albert Gallup ,..... ......., Anita Kelley ........ ..... . Box Editor Percy X'Vilcox .. ...... .. Thomas Lyons 1930 1931 1930 1930 1932 1932 1914 1930 1932 .1932 1933 1932 .1933

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A THE H11RM1An 5 LABOR OMN IA VINCIT CDorothy Mortimer-19325 F GREAT success were possible only to ers . E , D ons o great talents, there would be very little .success in the world. It has been said that talent is quite as much the ability to stick to a thing, as the aptitude to do it better than any . other. It matters not what talent or genius a person may possess, no natural gift can compensate for hard, persistent toil. Th , G I . A . . e ormer has a tireless capacity for patient, hard work, while the latter regards effort as a painful exaction 1 ' l l , anf is a ways looking forward to the time when he may rest. Thomas. A. Edison, speaking of his success said: I had, when I started out, all the patience and perseverance that I have now, but I lacked the experience. Seeing that I had only ten weeks of schooling in all my life, I can say with truth that experience has been my only school. My failures have exceeded my suc- cesses a hundred to one. but even the experience of these failures has been in e difference between the genius and the ordinary person is tlnt th f itself an educator. The Labor omnia vincit, Perserverance overcomes everything. Romans had a maxim, as true today as it was when first uttered: We must not underestimate the value of education and learning. Although not the same kind, there is as much difference between education and learning as there is between character and reputation. Education is the harmonious de- velopment of all our faculties. It begins in the nurserv and goes on at school: but it does not end there. It continues through life. Gibbon says, Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and another, more im- portant, which he gives himself. Learning is the knowledge obtained by study. It is mental capital, in the way of accumulated facts. It should not be inferred that learning is not of the greatest value, or that facts obtained from the proper books are to be ignored. The best investment that a person can make is in books, which are valuable not only for the informa- tion they giveg when they do not instruct they elevate and refine. To the person uhungering and thirstingn for learning and education there are no books more helpful than the biographies of those whom it is well to imitate. Longfellow says: Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints which perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again. Great men of science, literature and art have belonged to no exclusive class or rank in life. They have come alike from colleges, workshops and farm-houses -from the huts of the poor and the mansions of the rich. Their very difficulties in many instances would seem to have br-en their best lielDCX'S,.f0l' UIICY CV0kCfl their powers of labor and endurance, and developed talents which nnght other- wise have lain dormant.