The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-06-20

School days. Therefore we wish to
make our farewell no lamentation for
the pleasure we are leaving, but rather
to consider the many who have come to
listen to US tonight while we offer our
words Of thanks and regret as we part.
To some of you this event may seem of
little moment, but to those who have
gone before, it will awaken bright men,
ories of the past, while to those who
come after, it will suggest pleasant an
ticipations. In our minds this memory
will ever remain, for is it not the event
we have been looking forward to for
twelve long years?
Little can anyone understand the sig
nificance of this day to four girls, who
can announce bravely that this is not
the end of their intellectual endeavor,
but that we simply pass out from our
years of school life and find ourselves
confronted by problems as great as
those by which our learned masters
confounded US. Indeed, as we look
back upon this hall of learning, we may
be forgiven for feeling that the world
looks q great deal larger in the opposite
direction. Over the sea Of life there
appears q vast field for work, and
moreover field which knows no limit
but that within our own soul.
Probably what thrills US most is the
belief that we no longer have to bend
our stubborn will to any given routine.
Algebra, History, Geometry and COM
position, the inevitable conventionalities
Of High School life, can be cast aside
and the books piled into the attic with
out regret, as we shake our heads
wisely at our smiling teachers and feel
free to choose for ourselves. We have
the choice of life open to US to choose
with our own intellect the making or
marring of our lives.
Choice" the word has fascination
and charm that no person can fail to
understand. Should we choose the
rocky steps to fame, endeavoring to in
fence ten thousand other minds, or
should we just as bravely choose some
mighty duty in our home town? 1t
must in either case be the happy results
of free choice.
Whatever our future work will be, it
should be our aim in life to aspire
towards an ideal and if those who have
gone before have become renowned,
1t should be our object in life to become
greater than they, and when our under
classmen attain the position We are now
holding tonight, we admonish them to
look for higher ideals than we can pos
sibly afford them. Every second, ev-
cry minute, every hour and every year
it should be the aspiration of every in
dividual to raise himself at least one
round on the ladder of fame. This ad-
vice does not only include the learning
of books, but that of being kind, low
ing, generous and moral; to stand
for the doctrines, to remain true to the
teachings and to walk in the footsteps
of the "Man of Galilee." This admon-
ition might seem antiquated to you but
the true harmony of all minds lies in
natures preservation of the best of
mankind and consequently, when ma
ture's innermost secrets are recorded
thru the sayings of some individual,
we must cling to these, even tho they
be million years old. Therefore,
again say, Let US cherish the principles
of love and faith.
Our school life has been so happy
that we grudgingly vacate our places
to the succeeding classes. There is
little of those days that we now wish to
forget, not even the, mischief or the
reprimands would we have erased from
seem to US today part of the jollities
can take the place of dainty candy
school served to relieve laborious study,
and, good friends, the question in our
minds is whether among the teachers
of experience there will be any so near
sighted as our good old professors.
But alas for US those days are gone
while our schoolhouse, that magnificent
structure, built by the generosity and
good will of our townspeople, will re-
main beacon light to the student as
he struggles on the road Of learning.
To the diligence of our school board
and to the kindly interest of the l. 'Anse
people, do we owe the pride we feel in
our school-a school that is recognized
by the highest institutions of the state
and which we feel is steadily growing.
1t is still with sadness that we think
Of parting with so many friends and to
pass out of the circle of schoolmates
and teachers, and yet our own future
looks exceedingly bright as the smiling
faces Of our parents, sisters, brothers
and friends are upturned to us with the
kindest fluctuations and the grandest
good will wishing us God Speed on
smooth and unsullied journey.
As we finish tonight and file out
one by one, we have taken the last
steps weighed down by High
School responsibility; no more will the
old bell summon US up the well-trodden
hill, where young L'Anse will continue
to plod its way to fame. No more
shall we join in that merry procession
for the school says it is done with US,
and we have to make room for others.
But we shall not sit on the parting of
the ways and weep.
Dear classmates, we have studied to-
gether and played together; may we
also rejoice in each others future sue
cess. We are at the parting point but
whatever path we choose let it be the
straight path of honor, integrity and
love for human SOULS. Let US strive on
ward to q higher level trying at the
same time to help our comrades along,
then the farewell tonight will be shorn
Of its bitterness for we know that we
will hold each other in kindly remem-
brance and when any of the names shine
forth on the horizon of fame, let us
rejoice that they came from L'Anse
High School.
Teachers, schoolmates, friends, one
and all the Class of 1908 bids YOU