Whetstone High School - Legend Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. Mr. Towers demonstrates trigonometric idenitities. Bertrand Russell The novice is baffled at his early introduction to mathematics. He is unable to visualize the overall arrange- ment, thus the small but essential part that his assigned algebra or geometry plays is not evident. Logical proofs, designed to eliminate his non-existent doubts, seem endless. Gradually, he recognizes the neces- sity of proofs, as he learns to challenge before accepting even those theorems from the mind of a Pythagorus or a Euclid. At this point in his develop- ment, the student finds that each new concept, once mastered, serves to clarify and justify those preceeding it. As that which he has learned classifies and arranges itself in his mind, he realizes how minute is his knowledge. .1335 Marilyn Baker Lafe Dodds Marilyn Mueller Robert Smart Jacob Towers

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Human history is in essence cz history of ideas. History is not what would have happened if . . . but rather the unreconciling chronicle of the lifespan of ideas. History cannot be accosted with speculation, it commands the present posterity's respect and gesticulates toward the mimicking future. Ideas are the tendrils of individual men. To each Alexander, Jefferson, Marx, Whitman, Beethoven, and the endless et al., a responsibility is owed. Any ideas given by predecessors are secondary. More important is posterity's ability Cor inabilityb to emotionally and mechanically assimilate preceding thought. Thus history converges into the present and bears itself as a means with which to predict the future. Human history of individual ideas is capable of being conveyed only by individ- uals. The Past teaches the teachers of the Past and history can be placed in its recep- tacle-posterity-only by verbal means. The teacher, history's tool, whittles im- pressions of learned lessons on the student's consciousness. Centuries of thought, eradi- cated by revolution, remembered fragments hypothetically interwoven, can be known quickly. But the present, even when de- synthesized cannot be grasped even in fragments. History is the passage of timeg time is the personal measure of history's inheritors. Time, dark time, secret time, forever flowing like a river . . . H. G. Wells Joseph Arthur Roy Ault Sue Chandler John Eberly John Hayes Robert Kinney 'l iii! Roger Murphy Norris VanNoy Richard Yurich