Riverside Brookfield High School - Rouser Yearbook (Riverside, IL)

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Climb high, Climb far, Your goal the sky, Your aim the star. WOULD you like to attain the highest possibilities of which human nature is capable? Would you like to be useful and happy, loved and admired? If you Would, then you must achieve that Which, for want of a better word, is called culture. It is Well not to be misled into thinking that by culture is meant good man- ners. Not so. Politeness is fine, but may be only a mask hiding deep seated faults of character. Nor is culture a matter of elegant aversion to manual labor. Those most worthy of the term have not seldom been acquainted with toil. Nor is culture mere learning. Let one not be deceived by the dignity of college and university degrees. The most learned have often been incapable of response to human needs and honest impulses. The parasite as well as he who lives upon himself, unconcerned for the welfare of his fellow beings is without culture. Only that person can be cultured Whose body is obedient to his will, whose memory readily yields up the great truths of life, who demands and maintains in himself crystal honesty in motives and acts, who is in accord with beauty, who has knowledge of the past as a means of understanding the present and the fu- ture, and who respects order and quietness, and the rights of others. He who strives for the good of humanity, who gives more than the pay- check or the time-clock requires, possesses culture. But for this there must' be preparation. There must be breadth of training, and no narrow or partial View of life. Moreover there must be woven into the fiber of his beingan understand- ing of great literature, great art, great scientific truths-all those forces which tend to the cherishing of high ideals in thought and conduct. He who would have culure must associate with che great, he must see -the land he lives ing he must develop a sympathetic understanding of the hopes and the fears of those living in other lands, he must love humanity, he must seek for the highest common good. p Grace C. Tyler

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Baath of hucatiun MR. G1-IORGIQ A. HUGHES NIR. .IOHN P. HARDYMAN MR. JOHN M. CAMERON Prcmlunl MRS. C. T. WATSON M ISS GERTR UDIZ MLCOR M ICK S1'c'l'1'lury MRS. Ii. M. COLLIS MISS TYLER Prizlrlpul

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GRACE C. TYLER, A.B., A.M Prinripal