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

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are also failures clue to intempernuce in other things. Re are careless in our eating, drinking and exercise, and the fatal results are just as certain as those of alcoholic drinks. If we wish to succeed we must keep our bathe: well. A noble mind cannot exist in a carrupt body. The joy and pride which we are experiencing this even- ing can be said to be due to our industry and ambition, Each has some ambition which has led him or her through these four years. Let us cherish and kindle this ambition and work earnestly to realize it. Perhaps the realization may not be possible in the immediate future, li-ut let us not lose sight of it, for we will l'md that it we apply ourselves- dlligently to its attainment we will have time for nothing else and we will not go far astray. And now, as the curtain has been rung down on the last scene of our scholastic careers as a class, let us recall that we have fought our battles side by side. Let us recall that the joys of our conquests, as well as the bitterness of our defeats, have been share and share alike. V.'e have met; we have mingled; now we part. May it be that our parting shall cause a ripple to protrude upon the attrface of our memories that the destroying hand of time may leave un- marred,

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VALEDICTORY R. M. GERBER. Ezllow Pupils, Teachers and Friends.- It is with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow that I per- form this duty tonight. Joywheeause after four years of earnest and diligent effort we are to reap the reward Four years ago we gathered, many of us for the first time in this building, With a thirst for higher education and a determi- nation to faithfully attend this school for the full four years. Have we not then just cause to be jOyful and proud that we have had sufficient perseverance and ambition to carry us through these four years? And who will say that these years have not been fruitful ones? We have been comrades in a common cause, and through our little trials and strug- gles twe can call them little Howl have formed many friend- ships which will always be sweet memories to us. It is with sorrow, therefore, that at the crowning of our efforts we must part. With the parting we shall put away our Old work with its associates, and new enterprises will call for our attentions. Therefore it is well thzit We look to-Lhe future. lVe shall meet new conditions and iiitelividual prob lems, and, in the absence of our former aesistance and encouragement, we shall be compelled to rely upon our own resources. It ha: been saicl that we need not so much to be informed :19. to he reminded. Let us then recall some of the things upon which we can build our future. The struggle for existence is becoming keener daily, and only the strongest succeed. We Find about us every- where numerous physical and moral bankrupts. Benjamin Franklin is the authority for the statement that nine men in ten are suicides, that nine men iii ten are assassins of their own happiness. We journey through life over the beaten pathS, forgetting that we are the creation and the creators of our environments. NVe seem to think that the attainment of wealth will bring all happiness. lVe little realize what we sacrihce through this desire. We make FOl'TlpaniOUS of people whose actions are based wholly upon mercenary gains, forgetting that wealth in itself is hot the end. but a means to an end; namely, happiness, There are many who are hot receiving all. the joy and happiness. which nature allotted them through their iIItEIU- permice. Many a man has sacrihced himself upon this altar. The addiction to zilcoholic drink is evidenced everywhere. 1ts results are pronounced; but, 011 the other hand, there

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am the 312mm: of the igeneh'nlent :lfatber of QII, Qmen: We, the Graduating Class of 1914, in consideration of toil, labor and for divers other good causes and considerations, being of sound and disposing mind, have given, granted and continued and by these presents do give, grant and confirm, unto the C1355 of 1915, all and singular, the privileges, distinc- tions and glory and such that were possessed by the Mighty Seniors of 1914, to have, to hold, and enjoy, all and singu1ar, the said possessiohs of Class 0f1914. We give, devise and bequeath: FirstiThe building known to 311 as the West Night High School, which has been the seat of learning for many and through whose portals strode the Mighty Seniors with gladsome smiles and documentary diplomas. SecondWiThe said Class of 191'; to assume the management and editing of the popular and illus- trious EVENING SCHOOL VOICE, and that the aforesaid c12ms devote their leisure time to the encohrage- ment and editing of the said EVENING SCHOOL VOICE. In Addition to the Foregoing: Be it Reso1ved, That they maintain the honor and glory of the good old West Night High, her Hags and banners left in their hands. Be it further Resolved, That they help and endeavor in whatsoever way possible to increase the attendance of said schooI, Finally, That they encourage and advance With might and main the furtherance of athletics, and endeavor to maintain the record established in this held In Testimony VVhereof, XVe, the said Graduating Class of 1914, of the West Night High Schdol, have afhxed our names, contained 011 one sheet of paper, this the fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and of the Independence of these United States the one hundred and thirty-eighth.