San Jose High School - Bell Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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with our athletic activities we find our various societies which are such important agents in developing and advancing these social relations which tend to make us more intimately connected with our fellow students and with our facultyg whom we have often disagreed with in the past, but now that our four years' are at an end we see that they were almost always in the right. And now that we are leaving, we, the members of the class, hold all the members of the San Jose High School faculty in highest estima- tion and appreciation for the kindness with which they have treated us and for the patience they have had with us. A Now that our high school course is at an end, the -great question for us to decide is: Are we goingto college or not? Sir Isaac Newton, the great English physicist, has said, To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. We inter- pret this law to mean with reference to our school work, that whatever we put into our studies we are sure to take out, so we think that by putting in four years of good hard work at college we will tend to mount ourselves on that high educational pedestal which will justify us in every sense of the term, in calling our- selves educated people of an educated world. I wish to thank you for the interest you have taken in us. I wish to thank you for coming out this evening and helping us to make this turning point in our lives memorable, and once more on behalf of the graduating class of February 1910, I take great pleasure in welcoming you here this evening to these-our gradu- ation exercises. 5 X f' C Y x A it 'C I I M , ,Y WS 2 g 53 I A I i' , , UA 30

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these four long years, we at last come before -,,-.. T.- I-f 'L.-I-'L.J' 'L..f l. Hs. . 9 Presidents Address. ---Q By D. H. SIM. Y 1 ADIES, Gentlemen, and Fellow Students: i xi On behalf of the graduating class of Feb- ruary, 1910, I take the greatest pleasure in E? welcoming you here this evening to these-our graduating exercises. - - After looking forward to this night during you to bid farewell and take leave of our studies, our teachers, and our high school life. We think-and justly think, that we have here laid a good foundation for that which we intend to make of ourselves in the future. b When we entered high school we all had a certain object in view-that of arming ourselves with the fundamental principles of education which are essential and necessary if we expect to be able to compete with other educated men whom we may meet in after years. However, if' we should leave the portals of this school thinking that book learning and nothing else means educa- tion, we should not have obtained that for which we were sent here. Although education is by far the most important factor, in school life, it is not by any means the only factor. For blended with it we find our athletic activities, and these in my estimation are second only to our studies, for so thoroughly are our muscles developed, so thoroughly are training rules enforced, that we are able to withstand the most severe tests that our strength is put to, in school as well as out. But above this we are taught to play a clean, gentlemanly, sportsmanlike game whether winning or losing, and in the opinion of many it takes as clever an athlete to play a good losing game as a good winning game. Side by side 29

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C1358 . SOFT Rah I Rah I Rah I Rah I 1-0, San Jose Rah I , LOUD Q Rah I Rah I Rah I Rah I 1-0, San Jose Rah I Yell Leader GEORGE C. BRYANT