Rensselaer High School - Crest and Shield Yearbook (Rensselaer, NY)

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COLLE GE lectures. His mind will be sufficiently developedgto enable him to go to college after several years' absence from school without any serious loss. Now to those who intend to go to college next fall. We will be rather isolated during our freshman college days. We will be rather green, much as We were in our freshman days in high school. To you, I say, have confidence in yourself and trust your nerve. Nerve has pulled many people out of an uncomfortable position. I mean nerve that is honest and proceeds from deep convictions, not the kind of nerve which We.. associate' with loud boasting, daring and the like. Do not be content with just getting by g have high ideals. Make every day at college justify itself so that you will have sufficiently pro- vided for your after self and will say that your college days have 11ot only been glorious, but also truthfully educational as Well. A. G., ,29. ...nf if , Q --.. i l 'a1 v l6l

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THE ORACLE JUNE, NINETEEN TWENTY NINE DI OBIHII COLLEGE Many of us are not far distant from college. What glorious impres- sions that word immediately conveys to our minds! Some may be so unfortunate as not to be able to go to college immediately after they graduate from high school. They must work a year or two and then proceed to college. One day I chanced upon the biography of an insignificant man-so insignificant that I cannot tell you who he is. This man was ,graduated from high school immediately before the out- break of the Wo1'ld W31'Q he was drafted, and after he served several years, decided to stay in France and become better acquainted with it. Seven years after he had graduated from high school he entered col- lege-one of our leading universities. This man did it. Doubtless he had forgotten many things he had learned in high school that were essential in his college curriculum, but he was young and had developed his mind by himself so that it could readily grasp things. He had the will and ambition to go through col- lege, and he did. So do not pine if you cannot see your way clear to college. Authori- ties say that we receive more education, that is, we are capable of absorbing more between the ages of eighteen a11d thirty lllilll any other time of our lives. If one does not go to college immediately after leaving high school, he need not waste his time for he may come in contact with eminent people, he may read much and attend educational l5l

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GLIMPSES OF 1929 IDA XVIXSOM : Philanthrophies of 19293 Secretary Senior Class, Vice-President, Sophomore year: Vice-President of Honor Society, Secretary of ORACLE, Senior year, Reporter of ORACLE, Freshman year: Archery, junior year: Soccer, Senior year, Choral Club, Honor Society four years. And her voice, it tinkles gaily As a silver stream may rung And her smile is always present, For she's brimming o'er with fun. CHARLES NEVILLE: President of Class, Junior year, Athletic Editor of ORACLE, Senior yearg basketball four years, Varsity two years, Interclass two years, baseballg Treasurer of Class, Senior year. He's very athletic, And joins in games of every sort, In basketball or baseball He always plays the sport. ELIZABETH FELT: Valedictorian3 President of Theta Sigma Nug Honor Society four years, Contributing Editor, ORAC,'LE, Senior year, ORAKTLE reporter, junior year. The queen of all the Senior girls, A natural leader is she, just made for all these social whirls, As you can very well see. FLORENCE DoRN: Salutatoriang Treasurer of Theta Sigma Nu, Honor Society four yearsg Baseball, Senior year. A faithful worker, tried and true, Deserving of our praise: Never failing in her task. Thorough in all her Ways. l9l