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

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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,

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT no matter how strongly financial gain in other pursuits may draw him. I am means self-reverence, and the self-reverencing person reveres all mankind, its best achievements, its best possibilities, its work, and its goal. To every boy and girl now in Randolph High School, and to all those that have passed from its portals, I would say, assert the I am, make the most of yourself and throw your whole force in the work of life with all of your heart and let it be your own very best self and your own very best work. SUSE!! Extract From the Address by Dr. Geo. Goodhue to Pupils 'of 1883 on the Value of an Education Grasshoppers may ruin wheat, drought may bring on famine, the hurricanes of Wiggins may devas- tate everything in its trackg but an education perishes only with death, nay, even then the lustre of its in- fiuence will shine farther and far- ther in ever broadening circles un- til the end of time. There is no in- vestment that pays so high divi- dends as money invested in obtain- ing an education. This world is a world of competition, it is a grand race course, and brains, combined with muscular strength, are the es- sential elements of victory. I would rather prefer to leave a boy with an education than to deliver into his hands the accumulated treasures of a lifetime. Education has more than pecuniary worth. It makes life worth living. It raises his thoughts above the plane of animal existence. When not en- gaged in the active business of life, he is seeking mental food, some- thing that shall ennoble him and make him more of a man. Do not pursue your studies sim- ply because some one wants you to, do it of your own free will, under- standing that your success or fail- ure in school affects yourself alone. The most important habit to ac- quire during your course of study is thoroughness -the habit of grasping the subject in hand with a determination to search it to its very foundations. The habit of close and searching thought is worth more than all the knowledge you will obtain during your school days. To get your minds well dis- ciplined should be the object of your study, the obtaining of facts is only of sebondary importance. Another habit which every pupil ought to acquire is to study with his whole mind. Aimless imagery unfits the mind to grapple with the hard realities of life. It is the thief of time and lessens mental vigor. Another grand thing for a student to acquire is confidence in his own power of reasoning. The ability to reason accurately and quickly is an essential element of success. Every step forward in the march of progress is due to independence L. A. ALBERT, NOTARY PUBLIC, Englewood, Ohio 31