The Snowflake herald., 1914-01-09
SNOWFLAKE STAKE
ACADEMY NOTES

School opened last Monday
morning after an agreeable holi-
day vacation. The effects of
good times are quite marked in
the way of sleepy yawns and
occasional mods. The first hour
Monday was devoted to encourag-
ing talks by teachers and stu
dents on the subject of New
Year resolutions.
We regret that a few of our
students have not returned on
account of sickness.
The teachers report that the
past semester's examinations
were on the whole very satisfac-
tory. However, all did not make
a grade of A. Prof. Crandell
comforted those who did not get
that grade by saying, ct just
denotes that you still have room
for Improvement.
The following is an essay on
New Year resolutions by one of
the students:
The New Year is like a new
born hope. We count on it to
retrieve our errors, to make good
our losses; to renew our courage.
1t is more than a tomorrow,
with a promise of better things.
1t is a succession of tomorroWs,
each promising more than the
preceding day.
To the failure of yesterday the
New Year proffers new hopes
for the future. To the success
full person, it presents new fields
of accomplishment.
The New Year is, indeed, a
messenger of hope and inspira-
ton; but it's opportunities and
rewards are reserved for the de-
serving only.
The New Year will bring with
it just as many opportunities to
fail as the old one gave. 1t will
carry as many temptations. It's
path will be strewn with as many
pitfalls.
If you improve on your past,
it will not be because the future
affords no chance for retrogres-
sion. 1t will be because you, of
your own will power and strength
made the fight to be and do bet
ter.
You have a new chance, not
every year, but every day, if you
will take advantage oft. There
is hope for even the humblest if
he will but try.
A ditch digger is managing
the biggest subway inside the
earth. Immigrant boys are
making laws in the halls of Con-
gress. Ex-laborers are fixing
the price of the worlds steel. A
man qualified is the richest per-
son on earth. These men turn
ed themselves into human dyna-
mos and developed the latent
power within them. They had
setbacks, of course, you can't
have your share unless you do
your share.
Suppose you did fail in the
past, what of it? Every one
fails in some things. No one
wholly succeeds.
The successful man is not the
man who makes no mistakes; we
all make mistakes. The success
full man is the man who does not
make the same mistake twice.
Profit by. the mistakes of yes
terday. Let them serve as
danger signals on the highway
of life. And remember always
that your success depends upon
yourself, and yourself alone.
Only the thought and will-pow-
er developed in your own mind
can do anything for you in this
new year, and the others that
stretch ahead of you.
You have got to make your
own fight, make and keep your
own resolutions, conquer your
own weakness. No body can do
these things for you.
Fifteen hundred millions of
people are beginning a new year
together, and every one of them
depends upon his own effort.
They are clinging as to the
side of a precipice, time is the
whistle that blows to start the
climb of 1914.
Some will climb upward, more
will slip backward. no one will
stand still. Which way will you
go? You can climb if you will.
You are standing at the cross
way of life. Two roads stretch
away before you. One leads to
a happy and prosperous old-age,
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