Randolph High School - Vergisz Mein Nicht Yearbook (Randolph, OH)

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WE WVANT TO BUY SEVERAL GOOD FARMS If your farm is for sale and is a goocl one, come to our office and give us the cletails, or write us and our farm manager will come and see you. Address Farm Depaffmeni Spaite-WI1'ight Realty Company ON TIIE GROUND FLOOR AT 136 S. lVIain Street Nlelnbers Dayton Rcnl Estate Board DAYTON, OHIO Tl-IE BROOKVILLE The BRIDGECQMPANY First National Bank MANUFACTURE - - BRooKv1LLE, oHio F arm Bridges with Permanent Floors The only National Bank lt will pay you to investigate before rebuilding . the old wooden structure lfl lVlOHtgOI'l'lel'y County, HERMAN 5, Fox, Manage, north of Dayton, solicits THE BROOKVILLE BRIDGE CO. your patronage. OFFICE PHONES RESIDENCE Bell Main l25l Bell Main 256l Home - 6237 A W. H. MILLER ATTORNEY AT LAW 24 Callahan Block DAYTON, OHIO 28

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT MISS GRACE M. KALTER Principal Randolph High School WITHIN R. H. S. WALLS fGrace M. Kalterj The German philosopher Kant tells us how at one hour there came over him, with greater force than ever before, the thought, I am - the realization of his own indi- vidual existence. Every boy and girl needs to come to the significant moment when he realizes fully that among all the millions of people in- habiting this world he is a separate and distinct individual, and that it is his business to make the most of himself and of his life in the nob- lest sense. ' There is probably no period in one's life when the great realiza- tion of I am by the individual impresses one as during the high school age. Only those who are in daily touch with boys and girls at that age can appreciate the ways, both ludicrous and serious, in which it expresses and asserts it- self. To guide and direct in the reali- zation of the I am is perhaps one of the greatest lines of usefulness of the High School. In this en- deavor the agency of education and the companionship of others in attaining it is of priceless value. Education gives to one knowl- edge to cope with his environmentg it gives insight into the great dis- coveries and an acquaintance with the masters in every art and sci- ence, it brings to one the thoughts of the noblest thinkers. It is sometimes asserted by the unedu- cated in scholastic lore, that edu- cation is needless, 'and that certain

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT great persons have realized the I am without itg they tell us what Abraham Lincoln did and a few other great people. Abraham Lin- coln did not become what he was by sitting on a stump and gazing into the fire, but by stretching forth his hand to the shovel and charcoal and studying with severe application whatever books he could obtain. And it is safe to say that there are not many Lincolns among us who, with a colossal will and by their own strenuous efforts, secure for themselves mental efli- ciency, but most of us need to be forced and compelled to betake ourselves to that hard study and prolonged concentration which alone brings the best development of the human faculties. In the realization of the I am, the High School aims to secure not only mental development, but also a development of the sympathies that will be world-wide. It is said of Mr. Gladstone that he had more interests than any man of his dayg he was interested in every great public question for fifty years or moreg he thundered in Parliament and read prayers in Hawarden Church, he was the greatest au- thority of his time on Homer, and he responded sympathetically to every art and industry. He was a man who looked not out of his nar- row prison through a knothole, but as a great free human being with a far-seeing mind. The High School believes that the realization of the I am means an active engagement in manual labor and the appreciation of the honorableness and dignity of man- ual toil. In America we do not be- lieve that either brain work or hand work deserves all the re- wards, but that both are the nec- essary forces of civilization. Tol- stoi thinks he sees a better day for the world, when all of every age and class shall give a portion of their time to cultivating the mind and a portion to cultivating the soil and working at the trades. The building and the grounds of Randolph High School are, without doubt, approaching the ideal for the realization of the I am in the life beautiful. The love of quiet, simple, unadorned beauty, in which the aridity and ugliness of one's surroundings blossom into the grassy lawn and the shady road- side, the beauty which appears as one looks to the eastward over the beautiful Stillwater Valley, to the north to the well-cultivated fields and comfortable farm-houses, to the south to the cheerful and bust- ling village. It is not where life is lived, but how, that counts. In asserting the I am, the greatest work that the High School can do for its boys and girls is to build up in them a thought and feeling which shall hold its own against the tide of the materialism of the present age. I would make more and more the appeal to every High School boy and girl who feels within the ability for good and great things in any of the fields of scientific and religious truth, in literature, in science, or in any of the industrial arts, to devote his powers to them as a sacred duty,