Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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THE PHOTOS OF FOOT BALL TEAM, CLASS AND E. W. FISKE ARE BY LAMONT. THE PHOTOS OF CREW AND BOARD OF EDITORS ARE BY MERRILL.

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E. WINSLOW FISKE President Class of 1904.

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WATCH CITY BULLETIN. 15 ing. The saintly Longfellow, with whose lifeievery American scholar should be familiar, said in phrase much quoted : The lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. Let our students first of all know the deeds of the great men of our country. They have made our history illustrious. I need not name them. They are a mighty company. XVe move the world because of the heritage they have left us. lVhen Secretary Hay speaks the world listens because behind his solid' ability stands the concourse of noble actions by the heroes of our nation that have made it mighty in the 'L world. Read of these men. Study their lives. Do not say you haven't time l Try using every minute you can find. You will be surprised at the amount of reading you can do in this way. Only a day or two ago I heard one of the most successful and prominent business men of Waltham say, I read biography and I take every interval of time I can get for the purpose, whether it be five minutes or an hour. That is a good practice and a good example. Take it with' you into vacation and into all your life. It will make you a well informed student, and it will help you in all your life work. f .IOIIN L. iuuvsv. PRESENTIXT . Teachers and pupils of Vlfaltham High School- In behalf of the class of 1904, who on this day reach the end of their four years in this school, I present you with this gift which we leave as we part from you. It has, for many years, been the custom of graduating classes to make a farewell gift to the school-a custom, the purpose of which has been to express a feeling of goodwill and gratitude, and the result of which has been of great benefit to the school in the matter of education and culture. But let it not be felt that it is a precedent which leads us to make a presentation, but rather that our gift, slight as it is, may be looked .upon as a token, not only of the esteem and gratitude in which we hold those who have labored for our instruction, but also of the love we have for the school we are leaving. Our choice of a gift has been governed by many circumstances and conditions. It has been our wish to present that which is most needed and which will produce the most beneficial results. IVe had not far to look. There is but one part of this building which will not bear a favorable comparison to the corresponding department in other high schools of this state-and that, as you all know, is the library. For although valuable additions have been made to it during the past year from different sources, we have by no means reached the point at which our library may be called complete. It is books that we need-to fill the gaps on our shelves, and to meet GN OF GIFT this one deficiency in our school-books, and not pictures or statuary, which have been so gererously provided by the alumni, and with which this build- ing is so plentifully supplied. lVe follow in our selection of a class gift the precedent established by the class of 1903, who, realizing this need, were quick to see their opportunity and to graspiit. As to our choice in books, we have endeavored to to consider the general needs of the school, which books of reference will supply more fully than books of any other kind. For such books are a store-house of knowledge to which pupils in the school may go daily and find their wants supplied. No work of a single author can meet so many varied demands as an encyclopaedia can, and an English encyclopaedia written by eminent Englishmen is likely to satisfy in matters of information, the pupil who consults it, and may also cultivate in him an appreciation of good literary style. Our gift, we feel, is a small one, but we hope it will dpi-Ove itself of some value, for a few years at least, to those who follow usg and we hope that the inscription upon each volume will recall to the user not only the class that gave it, but even more strong- ly the feelings of gratitude toward our teachers, and appreciation bf the school with which it was pre- sented. ic. w. Flsiqn.