Rome Free Academy - De O Wain Sta Yearbook (Rome, NY)

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8 THe Sentor ing, of mines opened, of factories vocal with the hum -of machinery in motion. He sees that the realization of that vision demands just one thing; and that if he and those whom he can influence will supply that one thing, then not to the benefit of untold only will that vision be realized millions, but that an adequate return will be made to himself and his partners for their enterprise in assuring its realiza- tion. He projects, therefore, a great trans- continental railway; in due time it is built, and the’ vision becomes a reality. Remark this: The reality would never have been realized, but for the vision seen before. Discoveries are sometimes made by accident; but great enterprises require The your house before he builds it for you. plan and purpose. architect sees Nothing can be done intelligently, except by the person who knows beforehand what he intends to do; and no step in ad- vance can be made, except by one who has a mental vision of what does not now exist, but which he purposes to bring into being. When a model has once been made, or an example set, there are multitudes who can imitate and repeat it, who can perhaps vary it a little in adapting it, but who can Such useful; they keep up the routine, but they go no further. persons are most make no progress; they do: not advance because they have no visions, they ‘have only patterns to work by, Original -work —the work which is a distinct advance on what has been done before—the work that pushes the world ahead—this demands vision. We call it by many names, but it It is genius in the artist, it is inspiration in is the same thing under all of them. the poet, it is invention in the machinist or engineer, it is foresight in the projector of great business enterprises, it is insight in the moralist, it is farsightedness in ‘the statesman, it is faith in the Christian; but ANNUAL. whatever name we give it, it is just this faculty of seeing the possibility and ad- vantage of doing something beneficial which has not been done before; and of following that vision with the persistence the opposition of the obstructionist, and fire and enthusiasm which bear down the heart of the progressive. It is the great spiritual force in the mind of the human race. The poets are not all dead. They are not writing so much in books as they did years ago, but they are making life their poem, and filling the great heart of human- ity with aspirations for the realization of the vision of spiritual power and beauty in which the age we live in is to culmi- nate. When the object for which we work presents itself in the radiant glory of such a vision, we labor for it with delight, we joyfully endure suffering and privation for the sake of it; if need be, that it may be realized; we we accept Inarty rdom, know that even to lose our life in such a cause is, in the truest sense, to find it. But there are visions and visions. Two visitants from the world of spirits stood, we are told, upon the top of a high moun- tain, and beheld “all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.” They saw the same sight, but their visions differed. What was the vision of each? Think that out for yourself. Who’s Whoiin the High School. School Grinds ?—Riehards Brothers. School Dude—W. Pendell, School Politicians—Armstrong, Me Mahon. Ladies’ Man—Ed. Atkinson. Proudest Woman—Natalie Jones, Fattest Member ?—Oswald Backus. Most Generous Man ?—- Stuart Groff. Biggest Head—Loyd Golly. The Coming Man—Jennie Countryman. Most Inquisitive Person—Mary Noble. The Fastest Racer ?—Stevens. Shirtwaist Man—Jesse Bartlett. Prettiest Color—Edna Boff. A Ransome(d) Girl—Lillian Marsh.

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THe Senior work of purely imaginative truthfulness, humorously mocks at himself in the well known lines: “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman; the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet’s eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.” like a strikes the keynote of But true Amazon as Hippolyta, woman, she is, the conception in her rejoinder to her mat- ter-of-fact lord and lover: “But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so together, More witnesseth than fancy’s images, And grows to something of great constancy; But howsoever, strange and admirable.” Theseus takes the narrative of the ad- the mere imaginative fiction; Hippolyta, with ventures of the lovers and rustics as truer insight, sees into its meaning as an adumbration of an unseen world. The- seus has sight, Hippolyta has vision. In this age, ge, which prides itself upon being above all things practical, we do not take kindly to imaginative thought. We have a word to designate the person who sees visions which is somewhat dis- paraging. We call him v sfonary—which is the same as saying that he is unprac- tical, that his visions are illusions, and that the hard which resolutely sets visions aside, and pract ical common sense deals only with what it calls facts, is the In the face of this general persuasion, I feel inclined to only sure guide to success. support the paradox that the power of see- ing visions is a most potent factor in achieving great results; that the progress of the human race depends largely upon ANNUAL, the imagination; that progress, in fact, is but the realization of visions seen before hand and pursued with arduous and enthu- siastic effort—not only in the special realms of poetry, art and religion, but in the realms of statesmanship, of social improve- ment, of scientific research, of mechanical invention and world-wide commerce, of material and moral advancement; and that when these visions cease, and the higher qualities of the mind—the imagination, the inventive faculty, and the insight of faith collapse, then civilization decays, the race becomes effete, and the people do perish. In every line of advance the pathway forward is dominated by the men who see visions. It is true as regards material progress and achievement. Christopher Columbus saw a vision of lands beyond the Atlantic, and gallantly sailed his ships unknown search of them, into space in and we know what has been the result. A man has a vision of the possibilities of steam as an aid to industry; he invents the steam engine, and so gives the initial impulse to the immense expansion of man- ufactures and commerce which is charac- teristic of the present age. Another man has his attention drawn to the phenomena of the thunderstorm; by. pondering upon it and upon related manifestations of an occult force, he has a mental vision of a something which he calls electricity, which no man has seen or can see; that vision appears to other men, with other visions of the same sort and inspires them to such good purpose, that we have this electricity harnessed and working at our bidding, and giving promise of unlimited possibili- ties of service in the future. One sees a vision of a vast region now a wilderness — he sees a vision of that region teeming with an industrious population—of farms under cultivation, of cities built and build-

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THE 1904, The array ol talent in the class of 1904 We have circus clown in the person of Mr. Thomas is indeed startling: a budding Connell, a tragic actress in Miss Cheney, Mr Mr. Searle will ere long apply the mental dis and a scientist in Hopkins. cipline he obtained in Geometry to the easier study of law; we confidently pre- become chairman of the Miss Ida Jones will in the near future go as a mis Miss Mabelle White Dress Reform and Misses dict that he will Democratic National Committee. sionary to China. will lecture on Anna and Katherine Jones will edit a new Cresar and Cicero for Miss Bielby to use Academy, together in her Young Ladies’ with a series of Mathematics written by Miss long Ph. D. and M. A. business woman. Bielby. It will not take Mr. Byam to collect the degrees LL. D., M. D., Miss Willson will make Mr. Arm- strong’s executive ability will expand and a successful expand until it may fill the office of Mayor Miss Dewey should give dan- Mr. Ely, M. A., Mr. Serip- ture, A. M., and Mr. Evans, B. A., colleagues on the next Board of Regents. of Rome. cing lessons. will be Mr. Marcy may choose between a lk etor of Divinity and writing a six-inch volume on Church and State or the life of a profes- sional athlete, and Mr. Gawkins will take time from his arduous duties as a farmer to teach his and his neighbors’ children foot ball. Mr. Richards will become a Socialist and self-made man the noble art of in the course of time, so “why should he Miss Huth and Miss Hughes will open a school study, why make himself mad?” for Modern Languages. Mr. Countryman will teach Geometry at Greenway. Miss Nisbet will teach Deportment, Miss Wheeler, Elocution and Miss Roch, Phi- Miss Noble and Miss McDaniels Miss Waldo lowe yphy. will become philanthropists. SENIOR ANNUAL. and Miss H into into busi 1e88 as Miss Marsh will be the inspiration for a pictur will g Oper other things, in partnership thers with which M1 A. Finlayson will turn the upside down And all in one class of Rowena, al artistic world this ability, talent and genius Think of it! Quotations for Juniors. gave thee Nose, nose, nose, nose, and who that jolly red nose.— -—-dr—--—n F-nl-ys-n. | am a soldier.—L-l— M Tis good to be a post. trym—n. R-ch. sub- Come, woo me, woo me.—J—nn Mrs stantial smile. A bold bad have a wife. In came Fezziwig, one vast B- -tr-e rt—n. man.—Ch-rl-s R-—ch Th-m-s C-nn-Il. -l— M-rey. can not tell what the dickens his W-lt—r Sh As huge as high Olympus. H-——p-r. rds. a Jew.- L | I am | name is.- nkb-rry. Renunciation. To Gladys fair I said today, “Sad Lententide’s not far, dear; I’m sure you'll give up many things, Pray tell me what they are, dear.” “Oh, yes, indeed!” she smiled at me And lifted her long lashes, “I’m going in for fast and prayer, For sackcloth and for ashes “T shall renounce all foolish songs, The latest waltz and measure; I’m going to give up bon bons, too, And every bit of pleasure. “I’m going to give up’’—here she paused. “Well there’s no need to parley, I think my mind’s about made up To give you up, too, Charley ba “Oh. that’s not fair!’ I cried, heartbroke, But Gladys answered, “Clearly, You don’t quite see. I’m giving up Just things I love most dearly.” —From Judge.