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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 THE RIGHT KIND OF SPIRIT . (Continued from page 1) en. Those who are bound to win never think of be ing defeated. We all believe in the boy or girl who persists, sticks, hangs on when others let go. Tena city of purpose gives confidence. If you stick to your purpose through thick and thin, if you have the gen ius of persistence, you have the very first qualifica tions of an achiever. Thousands of people all over our country are in poverty and suffering who found out after they had given up that they had been almost in sight of success when they surrendered; who saw those who took up the work where they had dropped it win out very quickly. There may come a time in your life when you will have no idea what to do next: when you may not be able to make an intelligent move, when you can see no light ahead. Then is the time simply to hang on and refuse to give up. We hammer in this lesson to you students time and again because it is the very first lesson you should learn. You should "keep on,” "keep on,” always "keep on.” Without this tenacity of purpose, education—brilliancy, even geni us—will not amount to much. With it any one of you here will succeed. It was holding on three more days that enabled Columbus to discover the new world. It was holding on that took Peary to the north pole. The same is true of many wonderful things. The world owes more to the persistency that never gives up than to almost anything else. This is a proof of your greatness: Students, when you can stick to your aim, can accomplish your pur pose in spite of all embarrassments, irritations and dis heartening conditions. Many of our grandest men and women started out poor, without friends, had no backing, had no capital but pure grit and invincible purpose, and we urge each of our readers to be dominated by some mighty aim while at Chemawa, to have a fixed purpose to get everything here, something definite, a plan, and you may be sure every employee and student here will be glad to stand by you. Clifford McLeod is now engaging himself on the track. He trains eveiy night with Gideon B. Grub and says that the seniors will be sure of one point any way. We have recently heard that this year’s class will not graduate, but will get promotion certificates. We are glad that two more grades will be added to our course, so we may get the best out of this school. As Mr. Coon says, "we are the class of ’27.” The class of ’25 had the most fun of their lives when they had their picnic in the woods. Games were played, and after breakfast was served a program was rendered. The most humorous number was a solo given by Charley Moon. He won a reputation for himself as a soloist. Another attractive number was a fairy dance. JUNIOR NOTES Exams are coming nearer all the time, so we sleep with our books under our pillows. When you see a Junior talking to himself you will know that he or she is doing memory work. Evelyn Whitebear asked three questions in assembly last Wednesday. They were all answered by Juniors. Lena Cordova, Emily Ivanoff and Vera Korter have been taking turns taking charge at the laundry. They all manage to keep up their work at the domestic sci ence, too. We have just finished "Julius Caesar” and have started reading "The Lady of the Lake.” We can’t help but enjoy them with Mrs. Leavensworth to ex plain everything. Though for all our studying we may still be Juniors next year and maybe Sophies, but at any event we are glad that we will be able to graduate from the twelfth grade when we do graduate and not have to stop half way. The Juniors have adopted a new member; Violet Johnson was voted by the class to be our little Junior sister. She arrived last Saturday and spent four days with her sister and brother, Odessa and William Johnson, both jolly Juniors. DOMESTIC SCIENCE NOTES SENIOR NOTES Last Wednesday Dr. Wedge related to us a story about John King as a servant to Dr. Russell Conwell. Kendall Northrop had the pleasure of asking ques tions in Current Events for the first Division last week. We heard that school will close the first part of June, so every one of us is working hard to prepare for the coming examinations. Henry Bowker is having a little bad luck at present. He is at the hospital undergoing a minor operation. We all hope he will be around soon. This is our third week here, but we have never be fore had the pleasure of reporting. We enjoy every bit of the work, but more especially the meal planning and "consuming.” The Freshmen feel proud that two of their class mates, Tillie Walkingbear and Mary Trail, have been acting as night nurses at the hospital during the last few weeks. We miss these girls from the cooking class, but we are glad they can fill such a place. One of our girls had the misfortune to use a cleans er instead of baking powder. Needless to say, that family went without biscuits. T he M erry F reshies .
