Sentinel High School - Bitterroot Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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THE BITTER ROOT--------- On Meeting {he Senior President “Behold! And who is this we see, This husky youth of rosy hue?” “The Senior president is he, And Senate Secretary, too.” “Oh! Call him here that I may look With eagerness upon his face. To hear his voice, so like a brook. Would travel I, oh, any place. “lie comes! He comes! What shall I do? I know not where to flee or hide!” But he his arms around me threw— I stood in comfort by Ids side. “I. bight B. Miller, known of old, Most hold and wondrous deeds have done. I'was I who made the Arctic cold; 1 put the sunlight in the sun. “I orate lohg and loud and well; I play a wicked saxophone; My tenor voice (clear as a bell) lias gained for me the muses’ throne.” I looked aghast; I reeled a bit; I looked to him, both pale and wan ; I could not quite get over it. So dizzied had become my brain. lie took a look at my sad ease And knew that he had gone too far; He turned to mirth his sober face And smiled at me as from afar. Then did i feel a great relief To find that all had been a .jest. So now all hail to our class chief— A kindly heart beats in his breast! Lewis Nichols, ’22.

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THE BITTER ROOT- GREETINGS To tlio Hoys and Girls of (lu High School: High school students are suffering from the same unrest that is afflicting the country as a whole. To many of us, textbooks have never seemed so uninteresting and the daily routine so tiresome. If others keep on leaving ami you quit studying and keep on begging, your parents will probably give way and let you leave school. But remember, it is the whole long road you are choosing, through forty, fifty or sixty years, not the first few miles alone. Your choice now decides your destiny for life. If you leave school now it is almost certain that your high school work will never be resumed. That fact and others should he seriously pondered. You lose your chance of college training or of entering any of the great professions. You throw away your chance of gaining influence, prominence and leadership in the fierce competition of twentieth century American life which is too complex for the untrained to understand, far less to lead. In the mere matter of income alone a man’s earning power is so increased by every year in high school that for the average hoy a year represents ifstlOOO of invested capital. You will also serve your country best by training yourself for the great work of the next generation. In this era of ferment and reconstruction it needs trained men and trained women as it never needed them before. 1 shall hope to welcome back in the fall all of you who are not graduating. + PaKC.) — — —

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