Yale High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Yale, MI)

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It is worth while to play fair from start to finish no matter what may tempt you to do otherwise nor what the apparent advantage may be; to show the world a smile and stiff upper lip even though indi- gestion or some other cause has drained your cour- age low. Confidence in your ability to do things will go far in convincing the world that you are able to make good. Each is in a large sense his own maker, the arbi- ter of his own fate and it is worth while to take yourself in hand and mould yourself so that you will be what your Creator intended you to be — a com- plete man or woman, clean, sweet and true in body mind and soul. It is worth while to remember that pluck means infinitely more than luck and that op- portunity knocks at every door. Happy indeed will you be if when opportunity calls she addresses you thus, “Here is a man who has made use of the mind and the hands the Almighty gave him — who has not dissipated his talents — who has cultivated every one of his faculties as the modern conservationist culti- vates his land.” As the evening of life approaches and your sun nears the western horizon it will certainly be worth while to be able to look back and feel that each hour in your little day has been improved in the enrich- ing of your own and other lives. Then, best of all, to look forward to the great tomorrow with the conscious assurance that you have developed a quality of life that can no more disappear in God’s great universe than He Himself.

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Things Worth While By N. J. Drouyor. It is worth while just to live in a world like this that has so much of beauty and music and harmony and love to sweeten and brighten, even though dark- clouds do show prominently here and there. And it becomes more and more truly worth while just in proportion as we learn to live truly which means the putting of ourselves into perfect harmony with the great forces which govern our lives. Jt is worth while to spend the first third of life in the schools drinking from the fountains of knowl- edge that, during the remainder of life, we may the better appreciate every phase of it and be able to contribute to the intelligence and happiness of our fellowmen. I here is no royal road to learning. The path is long, often rugged and steep, and many fall by the way but he who becomes really learned is a king and must wield a mightier influence than he who inherits kingship. Today, probably more than ever before, splendid opportunities for the young are offering on every hand and the demand for keen, alert, trained young men and women in many lines is far greater than the supply. There is always a crowd of unskilled, untrained workers for every position open and in the days to come this is bound to be more strikingly true. But for every well-trained, skillful man there are a dozen places anxious to have him. A manu- facturing concern that wished to add 1000 common laborers at $2 per day could do so almost anywhere in the country on short notice but when any of the great institutions of our country want men, as they always do, that can earn from $5,000 to $25,000 a year they find it exceedingly difficult to fill the places. Men do not just happen to be worth $5,000 or $25,000 a year but they have come to be so valu- able through years of painstaking effort, mastering the minutest details of the business they have en- gaged in, till they are more expert in their line than any competitor. The day has passed when the Jack of all trades can hope to win a high place anywhere. It is worth while to make yourself absolute master of the one thing, which after mature study and deliberation, you feel yourself naturally equipped for. When you have done this you will be asked to name your own salary. Some one has said, “If you learned even to make a mouse trap better than any other could make it, though you lived in the wilderness far from any habitation, the world would soon have a well- beaten path to vour door.” ‘The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes. Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.”

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Senior Class-- 1 909 Officers. President, - - Pearl Smith. Vice President, - - Norman Ellor. Secretary, - - Ethel Martin. Treasurer, - - Mabel Phillips. Class colors — Green and Gold. Class motto — Outward Bound. Class Roster Clara Cooper, — “How pretty her blushing was and how she blushed again.” Shirley Owens, — “And now his mustache becomes almost visible to the naked eye.” Ethel Martin, — “I like your silence; it the more shows off your wonders.” Pearl Smith, — “A brain she has that never errs.” Olive Goheen, — “I love to wind my mouth up, I love to hear it go.” Sadie Houghton, — “Shy she was, I thought you cold ’ Norman Ellar, — “A jolly old pedagogue, tall and slender, sal- low and dry.” Faye Welch, — “She glides serenely on her way.” Grace Danielson, — “A sweet attractive kind of grace.” Vernon Shaver, — “Your the best of little fellows.” Mabel Phillips, — “As prone to mischief ; as able to perform it.”