Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Mr. R. W. Barclwell

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To Mrs. Cora L. Eastman Who, after 56 years of effective service as an instructor of Latin, has, during this time, evinced deep interest in all departments of the School, and who, through her deeds of kindly influence as assistant principal, has endeared her- self to us, the students of the Rock Island High School, we respectfully dedicate this, the Watch Tower Annual of 1924

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hhgh School - An Epitome of Lgfe HE four years of high school have been called an epitome of life. Here, for the first time, the individual has met alone the situ- ations of living as he will afterwards jind them. Here he has had work to do,' and he has done this work in the same spirit, and with the same degree of ability, that he will do his worlz in the world in the years before him. Here he has enjoyed hours of pleasure and recreation,' and to the extent that he learned to derive real joy from these pleasure hours, to that extent will the future years hold the pos- sibilities of joyous recreation. Here he has made friends, staunch and stead- fast friends,' and the degree of his loyalty to them and his evaluation of their loyalty to hi1n, will determine the strength and worth of his friendships of the future. In fact, he has found that here in his four years of high school, the same laws of life, of give and take, of sorrow and joy, of failure and success, have prevailed+as they will prevail thruout the years ahead. High school days are therefore not merely a period of education. They are a measure of the youth, and a prophecy of the man. R. W. BARDPVELL.