West Night High School - Echo Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The Class History W, .-L C. ,10 HERE is born with every one, so it seems a desire to seek beyond the bounds of our environment. This is but faintly felt at first, an impulse that is not clear, making us creatures of varied natures, according to the influences which are brought to bear upon us. Then our natures broaden, new forms and fancies struggle to express themselves, a larger vision is unfolded to us, and who can say that any one has never felt the desire to seach out those things that shall bring to us something better than we have yet attained. the desire to achieve greater success, to command a higher place among our fellows and make our influence more strongly felt. Such is the feeling that has caused us to strive harder to master those things we have come in contact with along the way, and as the love of success is strong with us all, We hope that all that has been accomplished has been successfully done and with much profit to us. It was with a feeling of hesitancy that we approached the beginning of our work, and the ultimate end and goal of our ambitions was not at all clear that the numerous branches of study It is possible that at that time we did not wholly realize just how much elTurt and hard work was necessary to a successful ac- complishment of all, but each succeeding year, with the inspiration of things accomplished and the knowl- edge that waiting to guide us to a most successful end of all our efforts, was the school faculty, which has proven to be individually and collectively to us in our four years, a wonderful source of help and strength. We believe that to them, in the unfolding to us each succeeding year, the stores of knowledge we gained much that caused us to more readily and gladly continue the studies which we had chosen. In the pursuit of learning, an early acquaintance was made with Algebra and shortly afterwards with Geometry. Many were the perplexing problems that we met with, causing untold disturbance to 0111' state of mind and much toil to grasp their intricaties. But with perserverence these mazes of mathematics were made clear to us and it was with a feeling of relief that the end was reached. The field of literature, always abundantly filled with Choice and wholesome works by men whose expressions made at times long ago upon the world are still felt, afforded us numerous opportunities for a Cleaner knowledge of the good that books contain, we can all most gladly profess that the hours spent thus, will remain among those we like most to recall, and which mean most to us. But tonight at the close of our work, we feel that each of our studies was necessary to make the whole of them, a delight to us, and that in having explored the side-paths, and the main branches of study, we have become richer in experience, and of a greater and better development. And also quite clearly know, that this has been just the beginning, that life is ever an education to us, and that to take a prominent place among the men of today we must be ever learning new things and struggle each day to be better men and women. 25

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Oration 3. Hi HERMAN POSSIBILITY T is a glorious night. One hundred graduates are launching their hopes upon it .xea of dreams- dreams of happiness, dreams of achievement, dreams. of fame. Not a Senior but hopes and believes that he will be of use to the world Are they idle dreams? Are such hopes to he smiled at? No! These dreams will one day be reality. They are the presentiments ol the future. In an age when the lightning flash is subdued, when space is annihilated antl one converges with a friend thousands of miles away, when the voices of these long since dead are reproduced by small instrument, when man, like jupiter of old, grasps the thunder bolts, throws them into space and bids them carry messages to lar off shores, when light is made to penetrate the human body and give an exact photograph of the human skeleton, when the Very air we breath is reduced to a liquid of intensest colclein such an age what things are impossible, what dreams absurd? Three hundred years ago the greatest of dramatists could say, What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how inhnate in faculties! In form and movement, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a Godf But now, in the early morning of the Twentieth Century, man uieltls more power than was even attributed by the ancient Grecians to their god'si How has he acquired this power? Simply by dreaming? No. More than dreams were necessary. And so it is with the graduates. They dream great dreams, see great visions, but they know that more is necessary for the realization of their hopes. They believe with Napoleon, that Providence lights on the side of the strongest battalions, 'tGod helpg those that help themselves? They will not be content to wait until opportunities Come to them, It hate been said, though not exactly in these words, that waiting for things to happen is waiting for moonebeams to turn into silver. Do nothing and nothing is the product. Multiply even billion by a naught and a naught is the result. Three key words unlock the secret of their future achievementsiLabor, Energy. Will. No great product is spontaneous. Webster's hnest outbursts of eloquence were carefully polished in his study. Patrick Henryts immortal speech in the Virginia House of Delegates was not only carefully composed but the very gestures were studied and practiced. Coupled with Labor is Energy. Energy took Columbus to America. Energy is the word which explains the marvelous career of Napoleon. His motto was, ttI press on. When told that the Alps stood in his way. he cried, HThen there shall be no Alps,H and the road across the Sunplon Pass was the result. But Labor and Energy are both eclipsed by the power of the Willi The men that rise are those who will to rise. We have been taught to look over the events of history and have learned who caused them. Men of will. We have been taught that there is no mystery about fortune. Nature gives it to him who wills. Two young men, students of Yale. were one day discussing their future when one of them declared he would be a member of Congress within six yeurx. The other laughed. Within six years this young man, John C. Calhoun became a member of Congresst '37