Posse Nissen School - Possum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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1hi l ' 4 F HARRY NISSEN, B.S. A 2 qi, II 1' M l.liXlNG'l'GN MANOR, LEXINLYILON, MASS, Presidcnl Physiology of Exercise, General Kinesiology Marching, Director of Camp Q65 SUM

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FACULTY

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QGSSUM Prc-3siclon't's Mc-:ssaqo To the Class of l932, who are about to embark upon the troublesome road of life: You are about to take the Hrst great step along that road. You have passed many obstacles but there are many more to overcome and many lessons still to be learned. ln the words of Dr. Crane, I say to you, learn to adjust yourselves to your situation. More people have suffered because they did not know how to adjust themselves than for any other reason. The happiest people are those who have the knack of adapting themselves to whatever happens. Begin with your relatives: one might easily conceive of a better set of aunts, uncles, cousins, and brothers, and so on, yet destiny gave us precisely the relatives we need. We may not want them but we need them. Likewise with one's friends, acquaintances and fellow workmen. Every man's life is a plan of God. Fate brings to us the very souls out of the unknown whom we ought to know. If we cannot get along with them and be happy and appreciative, we could not get along with another set of our own choosing. A person who is looking for the ideal human being to make up his circle of friends, might as well go and jump in the river. The God of things as they ought to be is a humbug. There isbut one God and He is the God of things as they are. Half of your problem is yourselfg the other half is circumstances. Your task is to bring results out of the combination of the two, Life is not a science to be learned but an art to be practiced. Ability comes by doing. Wisdom comes not from others: it is a secretion of experiences. Life is not like a problem in arithmetic to be solved by learning the rule: it is more like a puzzle of blocks, or wire rings: you just keep trying one way after another until finally you succeed. Maybe it was Josh Billings who said that in the game of life as in a game of cards, we love to play the cards dealt to us and the good player is not the one who always wins, but the one who plays a poor hand well. We are sorry to see you depart from under our guiding hand, but glad in the knowledge that you have the quality and the stamina that results in success. Your student days, the happiest of your life, are now over and this book will ever be a reminder to you of those associations you have made that will last throughout life. With the best of luck l wish you Godspeed, HARRY NISSEN. l19l