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

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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

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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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T41 l i The Conquering Will. By R. W. FISHER. 143 HERE there's a will, there's a way is Poor Richard's expression of the truth that the will by makes the path to victory. To reach any end by XZ will power one must overcome sinister and un- S V Z welcome obstacles by courage and endurance. Q0 The will of a person is measured by the amount of effort put forthg the power to say yes or no , or the power to say yes, I will or no, Iwill not , and then to act in accordance. Concerning effort Dr. James says, He who can make none is but a shadow, he who can make much is a hero. Everyone has a wish to conquer, but wishing and willing are not always the same thing. There are two kinds of will 5 the im- pulsive and the deliberative. With an impulsive person it is true that to wish is to actg a thought is followed by immediate eiort. He acts without realizing whether the move he makes be wise or unwise. Many valiant and brilliant deeds have been performed in this way where the impulse has been a right oneg but, on the other hand, untold misery has come from rash action. A person having a deliberative will studies before performing any deed, so that when he acts he knows his course and the result which will follow. He weighs the consequences and reasons out his course of action. The first character can solve a problem more quickly, but the second can solve more accurately. The second is less liable to make mistakes, but the first is better able to retrieve them. From the beginning of life the will is called into action, and even in the child we see oftentimes the conquering will. In our American schools a common sight is a young man doing what is 32