Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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THE 1927 O L Y MAN Man is his own star; and the soul that ran Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, Our fatal shadozus that walk by us still. A human being is a wonderful thing. In fact what is there on this earth of ours which can compare with him? You are not flattering yourself when you say that a comparison is not to be found. The world is made up of many wonderful and beautiful things both living and dead. The living have ascendency over the dead. Man has as- cendency over all other beings as a result of one difference, and that one difference makes all the difference in the world. Flesh and blood and all material things have a limit to their possibilities, to their development, for the very reason that they are material. The difference between the material and the immaterial is God, the spiritual. Inasmuch as material things are bound down by their materiality, so is God contrastingly infinite. Man is a combina- tion of the material and the spiritual because he was given a soul, which is of the spirit of God, in his body of flesh and blood. There is no such thing existing as a perfect man because his possibilities are infi- nite as a result of his having in him something of the infinite. There are no heights to which a man may strive but there is something still higher for him to reach. In the Beginning it was said, Man shall have Dominion — . Little by little he has been achieving that dominion ever since. He is still striving at it and always will be. While I am writing there is a thunderstorm going on outside. Man seems a little thing in comparison, but I do not think it impossible that at some future time he will find means to control the elements. Other things have been impossible and have been accomp- lished, and man has been the agent. Let us look at him. A man is not the product of a moment, a day, a year; he is what his thoughts, his acts, his habits, his strivings through all his life have made him. He can never be a perfect product because there is nothing to which he cannot attain, provided he sees his vision and has the will, the perseverance to strive to achieve. To all students, and especially to those who are now going through a process called graduating the above should be a vision. Whatever a student is trying to prepare himself for, he can make of himself what he will, as from day to day he builds himself through his thoughts, his acts, and finally his habits. For it is very true that — Little drops of water. Little grains of sand. Make the mighty ocean, And around it the dry land. Lester E. Peck 22 Ms {Ml

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m „ i THE 1927 POLY LESTER PECK Park City, Montana Orange, California High School Honor Student Liberal Arts Course Lieutenant Governor, Student Government Editorial Writer, Polygraph P resident, Service Club Gospel Team Glee Club Quartet How Yo ' Goin to Keep ' Em Down On the Farm? RHEA E. KLINE Polytechnic, Montana Academy Graduate Liberal Arts Course Glee Club Quartet Alpha Class Vice-President Just a Weary in for You. ELIZABETH COOKE Billings, Montana Billings High School Liberal Arts Course Glee Club Alpha Class Secretary Let the Rest of the World Go By. MISS FLORENCE SHIRK Class Sponsor Five Foot Two; Eyes of Blue. : Jl 21 i v;

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