Spingarn High School - L Esprit Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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.70 l 'ir il 9 . ,,,,A -Xxx M . 1 ? V35 May We Inherit Your Success He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class. He knows when to speak and when to be silent, he is able to converse, he is able to listen, he can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson seasonably, when he has nothing to impart himself. He is ever ready, yet never in the wayg he isa pleasant companion, and a comrade you can depend upon. He knows when to be serious and when to trifle, and he has a sure tact which enables him to trifle with gracefulness and to be serious with effect. He has the repose of a mind which lives in itself, while it lives in the world,and which has resources for its happiness at home when it cannot go abroad. John Henry Newman, Tire Idea of az Univeryify 191

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190 We Salute the Class of I966 It luniV6rSity trainingl' is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his 4 own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle askein ofthought,to detectwhat is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant. l It prepares himtofillanypostwith credit, and to master any subject with facility. It shows him l how to accommodate himself to others, how to throw himself into their state of mind, how to bring before them his own, how to influence them, how to come to an understanding with them, how to bear with them.

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