Pontiac Senior High School - Quiver Yearbook (Pontiac, MI)

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E QUlVER 30 TH we gather knowledge. the ammunition for life's battle, 15 by direct contact. VVe learn, either consciously or uDC'0IiSC10USlY, from those about us, and this dissemination of knowledge should not be retarded by modesty on the one hand or bigotry on the other. Age recognizes .IH youth an equal in intellect, comprehension and ability. The only dif- ference between the two is one of time of Hlllleamnce OH the stagelof action. lVe see one in the introduction and the other in the conclusion of the drama of life, Never before has the line of demarcation between youth and age, maturity and immaturity, wisdom and ignorance, the known and the unknown, been as indistinct as it is today. The b0.Y is 3 man and the man a boy. They stand hand in hand on the infinite plane of human understanding'. Doubt is tl1e keynote of prog'res's. Satisfaction produces stagnation. Doubt, dissatisfaction, investigation, readjustnient, reorganization, con- struction, progress. This is the inevitable development. The twentieth century boy-man is a doubter. Ile requires to be shown. Ile deems it better to ask wl1y and know than to appear wise and remain in ig'norance. Ile submits literature, teaching, and expe- rience to the impartial test of common sense. The profound, apparently indisputable, statements of teacher, sage and philosopher are each and all assigned to the fanning-mill of human reason. He scouts the mediaval idea of authority for truth and substitutes truth for author- ity, with the result that never before in the history of the race has progress been so rapid. VVe hear a great deal about duty. I believe it is absolutely im- possible to do one's duty unless properly informed. Most of the con- fusion in church, state, society, or even baseball, is due to ignorance. Don 't be content to sit on the bank of the stream and dream. Fish! Don 't be satisfied with watching' the troubled stream of events roll by, or with drifting' on the turbulent waters until lost in the vast ocean of results. Make the perilous ascent of the mountain and find the source, Some people are afraid to ask for fear they will find out. Don 't be one. of these. Ask everything' and everybody, including vourself, Effects are of vital importance because they constitute the TODAY of life but causes are intinitelv more im oitant l f , - f ' ' p Jccau th - formed all of the future TODA YS. It is very right tliliitothe iggdtlaieli sympathize with and soothe the weeping' child, but the wise mother The man who investigates that she may prevent further sorrow. erapples with existing' ditl iculties is popular and rin-htly because h ' - f - . e IS doing' a great and necessary work. But the man whin goes deeper who regardless of public opinion, labors in the primeval forests of eausatigyf fr - 1 2 Q.. .. ' . , , - Q 01 tie benefit of htneiations yet unboln, is in the catevory of great men. The man who is determined to know the trutli tllO1lcrh the heavens tall is the man upon whom this country or any othe? must base its hope of stability ' -' ' - ' ' - , ' - .- PIOSDGIIT5 happiness -und ultimate VNIIY is a great word. Use it. l i I Success' . . 2- ' 1 H -. 1 -1 f- --,a.. ,,.. , - -ifw l L r ' su, ,i ' Er?-' I H ' , i ff

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fr 65 I V' All 1 w 1 fs I -,-HE UQUIVER' 32 Class '11 The Vlass of 'll enlereml the ' ' lflllllrllf lllgh Svlwol in September 1907. As JllIllfIl'S we lmve lmfl El very I7I'IlNIl6l'UllS year, Elllllfllllll there were aw few failures. At um' first Class lIlGl'fl1lQ,', whivh was held in October, We Qlecfofl the fullnwing' fll:l'l4'0l'SI l,l'UHl1ll'llf, -luhn Hrnwg Viee-P1'6-si- dent, lflllu llfillfjl 'l'1'eusm'e1', Dzlllue llikerg NCL'l'l,'l'2ll'j', Ruth llogers, Hllil Amlilor, LeH1'a11rl llill. T011 of mu' Vlass 1'ec'eiVe1l -lllllllll' iIIlIlHlllllll1,'lllN, :ls is The custom each year, but we 2ll'G sorry in say that no lmy was 11111111391-ed among thut lucky ten. ln el, social wary we ll2lVl' not mlum- vc-ry llIlll'l1, except to have :1 sleigh rifle lo the lmme uf l+lIr11'e11v1- Xvllllillllwlll, ulmut two miles gun the Bwillllillll Howl. Hlf'l'll ROGERS, '11, -I A in A e - Wm- -l M Us s A e-, :