Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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thickets through which he has fought his way, but instead, one broad stretch of mingled color, with every roughness and unequality softened and mellowed by the distance and that shadowy haze that covers all. It is not necessary to recall each detail of the four years now past. Ninety-five has had the common of lot classes before her. There have been the little differences and trials and troubles, and more than these the good times incident to school life, With those placed over us, we have been for the most part harmonious, and itis pleasant to think that for but a few of us are things which, though silenced and put aside, are not so easily forgotten. Things have changed in this school within the last few years. Those who come after us do not notice it perhaps. What they find when they enter they naturally suppose has always been. But one has but to look back a few years and compare that time with the present and whether it be in the different departments of school life or in the general spirit and atmosphere of it all, the difference is plainly marked. This, perhaps, not the time for Ninety-five to boast of what she has accomplished, or tried to do, but we can say that with the spirit of progress and originality in everything, she has worked faithfully for the advancement of the school and by this she has done not a little to raise the general character and spirit of the R. H. S, to what it now is, from its old atmosphere of unprogressiveness and provincialty. One course is now practically finished. A few weeks more and school will close for us, the class of Ninety-Five, the last time, A short two months and a new class enters, and all will go on as well, perhaps better, without us, But what matters that? For the present we are on top. We shall not be in a similar position very soon again, What little glory or honor there may be for a Senior let each one enjoy. Those of us to whom this is the last of school will soon find that away from it and thrown in with the rest of the world they are nothing. Those of us who go away to school will be perhaps something less than nothing, Mr. Julius Cmsar is said to have remarked that he would rather be first in a little Siberian village than second in Rome. We are certainly in the position of the individual in the little Siberian village. We have worked and played for four long years to get here. It will not last long. Why should we not make the most of it? E. W. 8: A. R. 9

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