Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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EDITORIAL whee AREVVELL! W'e feel a tightening of the heart at parting from old VVoodwai'd and our class- mates. A mist we are prone to conceal veils our eyes as we shake the hands of our fellows and turn toward the new sun rising upon our lives. With mingled feelings, half regret, half hope, most of us prepare for enrollment in that stern school, the World, the term of which is for life, while the others will make further preparation for it in higher halls of learning. Here, at the Close of our high school life, it is as if we were the most important company in the world. To us it is no frivolous assumption that we are the company of companies; have we not matched together from childhood to youth. and from youth to the edge of manhood and womanhood; have we not been mothered by the one School, our Woodward? Is not that fact in itself enough to warrant our assumption and seal our comradeship? When we entered VVOOtlwai-d we were carefree, irresponsible boys and girls. Now we find ourselves facing Our responsibilities, for we have almost reached manhood and womanhood. 0111- mantle of citizenship being ready for our shoulders. Some of us may eventually Hy the banners 0f the great and wear the splendid plumes of the mighty. Others Of us Will march in the armies of the unknown. soldiers of life, with never a Chevron to mark 115 from our fellows, much less a shoulder strap or glittering epaulette. But whether we climb to the heights or pursue Our way through the valleys, we shall be brothers, sealed in nineteen thirteen, tender in our love to one another, rich in helpfulness. ever making allowances for mistakes. Yes, we shall all go our various waysl hopeful of achieving the goals of which we have dreamed, for we are tilled with the confidence of youth. It should be the happiest of times. for when a wise Providence fashioned humanity, it decreed that sorrow must enter largely into all plans for it; and pitying that which it made, it gave the estate of youth with the priceless dowry of clean hearts. ambition, icleals and dreams. Yet fondest dreams may be shattered 0111' ideals may be lost sight Of. as we march through the world and come in contact with deceit and frailties of human kind; failure and adversity may batter our hearts until ambition is beaten out of them. but as the boys and girls of lYomlward, 1913. let us keep the hearts that God gave us with 0111' youth, forever Clean and without stain. Some day in the future we shall Suddenly realize that the fire of youth is gone and that we are 0ch

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At that hour our thoughts Shall dwell on the legacy from God, wasted or preserved, as may be. If all has been lost save cleanliness of heart, then we can look into the glass of time unflinchingly, with brave and steady eyes. But if dishonor has been with us, then shall we shrink from the eyes that stare back at us, and furtively admit the weakness of the soul whose windows they are But that is for time to prove. To-day, we have gathered up our knapsacks, hlletl with precious knowla edge, we have our clean hearts, ambition, ideals and dreams, and hope beckoning us on. yet we linger a moment with the dear Alma Mater. N ever again shall we take our places at our desks, never shall we F116 with noisy acclaim into the yard of old Woodward. Here- after we shall be visitors only at this seat of learning, to be gazed at curiously by those who have succeeded us, just as we have gazed curiously at those who sat here before us. So let us take a tender farewell 0f the school that meant so much to us and means more to us now. Let us never, never forget.