Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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'THE TQTEM

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f H 'Tia E TQTEM ' To 'l'lllC Cmss Ulf 1925: On your marks! Get set! tio! Y lt sounds like a race. lt is a race, You are the runners. The course is the span of life. What are the chances for success? That depends largely upon the interpretation of what success is. lf it means the winning of fame, of power. or of wealth, few there will he who will achieve it. lf it is def termined by the satisfactory accomplishment of purposes well conceived. according to individual abilities, and hy service to others as well as to ourselves. then all have the opportunity of attaining it. .Xs the winning of a race is dependent to a great degree upon two factors-the previous training of the runner and the start he makes-so it is with success in life. lf you would he successful, make the most of the knowledge you have gained. Add to it. .Xlways keep your mind and hody fit. ,Profit hy your past mistakes. Then, at the start, concentrate on the goal with eyes straight ahead. lie eager to do your hest and to give your all to the acctmmplishment of the task ahead of you. Once started. swerve neither to the right nor the left. Do not try to win hy fouling your competitor. lJon't quit. .Nt the end of the race it matters little whether you are one of the few who have won the liig reward, or one of the many who have the satisfac- tion of knowing that the task has been well done and honorably accom- plished. Success has come to each.

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Em ' THE TQTEM THE LIBRARY Our .rpaeiouf lihrary -windofw: O'erlooh a .fhady .rtreetg The .fetting Jun -with .fplendor Shines in on thi: retreat. We fit here in the guiet Of thzk mo.rt precious room To marfuel, dream, and 'wonder Amid the gathering gloom. 'Tix here that fwejfnd treafuref, Thinge that are rare and old, And here the leafvex gf hnofwledge We carefully ufjold. 'Tzk here we turn in trouble To its moft most helpful store, And as 'we know it better, We lofve it more and more. Pray, where in our great high .rehool IJ it greater joy to he Than in that home of learning Our dear old library.