1933 Cedrus Yearbook

FOOTBALL TEAM First row: Finney, E. Spencer, mgr., Hargrave, Tindall, Thomas, Christian Second row: R. Murray, Kitchen, Mc- Knight, L. Ross, Mills, R. Ross, Rife, V. Garlough; Third row: Chamberlain, mgr., Ensign, Coach Ault, Ferguson, Taylor, P. Garlough, Richards, Tedrick, Irons, assistant coach. butinwardly he is the opposite—a character thatis vile and sinful. A paste diamond,large and brilliant, may gain the admiration of the unwary spectator, but it cannot. respect itself. A professional athlete who has posed as an amateur may be carried on the shoulders of a college crowd in triumph, but he know3that he is notsincere,and he does not respect himself. Ruskin tells us that in oim corner of a Venetian church he found the statue of a great leader, with the side toward the audience elaborately finished, while the side toward the corner was left rough. On the public side, the forehead was carefully wrinkled, the cap beautifully chased, the ermine robe scrupulously imitated; on the dark side the marble was unwrought. "Now," says Ruskin,"comes the very gist and point of the whole matter. This lying monument is at least veracious, if, in nothing else, in its testimony to the charcter of the sculptor. He was banished from Venice for forgery in 1487." How many such living models are there in the world to-day? We see how the insincerity of the sculptor's character was represented in his work. Be sincere. Do your tasks neatly and completely—for you, too, may show your character through faultless work. Ambition is also an important factor in determining character. Through ambition we overcome obstacles and scale great heights. No goal is too indistinct for the ambitious person. As a young lad, Paderewski longed to be a great musician. His teacher told him his thumbs were stubby and his fingers short,that he had better learn to play a horn. But the boy had visions of some day playing the piano before nobility in grand concert halls; and he would not be side-tracked. He dreamed and he practiced. At his first public recital he forgot, became badly confused and was compelled to make up parts of the music. At sixty, a man of noteworthy character, he was the greatest living pianist, and the first President of Poland. Through his visions and ambitious practicing he overcame obstacles and reached his goal. The trait of kindness should be found in every one who hopes to attain a good char- acter. A word of kindness is a seed which, when dropped by chance, produces a flower. Kindness makes sunshine wherever it goes; it finds its way into hidden recesses of the heart and brings forth golden treasures. Write your name by kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the people with whom you come in contact year after year, and you will never be forgotten. Kindness is stored away in the heart like rose-leaves in a chest, Page Forty-one 11111n.-._