Richmond High School - Pierian Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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wmmw You Should Know Four Thin ts YOU should know things. Your en- vironment, the world you have to live in, is of a certain nature, works in certain ways, changes from time to time. You are bound to come to terms with this world and, therefore, you must know what it is like ; hence, you study geography, physics, and other sciences, join travel clubs, and in many other ways get facts about the world. You should know people. People are a part of the world you live in — part of your environment. As the world has been becoming populated, people have become the most important part of your environment. People, too, have a certain nature, act in certain ways, change from time to time. You have to live ivith them, not merely among them ; you must get along with them ; therefore, you study social science, lit- erature, foreign language, have pep ses.sions, work in many different kinds of groups, in order to get informa- tion about people in theory and in practice. You should know ijourself. After all, your main business is to make something out of your own possibilities. You must find out what you are, and what you are not, what you have and what you lack, what you can do and what you can not do, what you like to do and what you dislike to do. And back of it all you should have a definite idea of what you ought to be. To solve all these problems you study physiology and psychology, perhaps, but especially you study yourself by trying yourself out in this and that and then checking up to see what you have done and why your success or failure occurred. You should know how to adjust this self that you have discovered to the ■ivorld and the people that you have also discovered. If you should happen to reread the first three paragraphs again, you would notice that this last point has been suggested in each ; it is really the end of education, the other three being means. You learn things in order to get along with them and to make them serve you instead of enslaving you. You learn people in order to get along with them and to help them build a happy world. You learn yourself in order to know the kind of adjustment you can make, the kind you want to make, and the kind you ought to make. E. C. Cline. Page twelve

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To the Class of 1929 : Every member of the Class of ' 29 expects finally to have success in life. But what is real success? It is the accomplishment of a purpose, the effects of which will live on for the betterment of the human race and the glory of God. Perhaps we can find no more inspiring analysis of success than the following : It ' s doing your job the best you can, And being just to your fellowman; It ' s making money, but holding friends, And staying true to your aims and ends; It ' s figuring how and learning why, And looking forward and thinking high; It ' s being clean and playing fair; It ' s laughing lightly at Dame Despair; It ' s looking up at the stars above. And drinking deeply of life and love; It ' s struggling on with the will to win, But taking loss with a cheerful grin; It ' s sharing sorrow and worth and mirth And making better this good old earth ; It ' s serving, striving, through strain and stress. It ' s doing your noblest — that ' s success! May each of you be a success, and make the very utmost of your life and your opportunities. S. D. Neff. Tools EACH me the infinite significance of the opportunities of life and the infinite insig- nificance of the setting of life. Help me to make the things of life the tools of my spirit and not its prizes; to regard circumstances as only the scaff ' olding on which I stand while I build. This is a noble prayer, and it is a desire that is pertinent at graduation time. High school training and the diploma received for it are opportunities if one makes them so. They are significant of patience, endeavor, and ambi- tion ; however, they in themselves should not be the goal. They should become a setting for higher standards and greater endeavor in the future. A diploma is a thing and so should be a tool, not a prize. True, a diploma is awarded in the spirit of prize giving, a prize for twelve years of work and fun and growth ; but it should not be hung on the wall and looked at as a reminder of the past, but regarded as a spur toward the future. Helen Riggs. Page fourteen