. The Crescent [1920]. ere alwaysbright: Shadows prove that light is near us, through some need its glorygleams, May its promised radiance cheer us,Till we reach the higher things. When schools last lesson is mastered and the classes are testedand tried; When the wisest student has vanished, and the dullest has stepped aside;We should rest and faith we need it,We shall rest for a moment or two,Till the wonderful school of ExperienceMakes us seew things anew. The Class watches with a smile; our teachers guide each falter-ing aim; They look on all the while, for added laurels to our fame,With fa
. The Crescent [1920]. ere alwaysbright: Shadows prove that light is near us, through some need its glorygleams, May its promised radiance cheer us,Till we reach the higher things. When schools last lesson is mastered and the classes are testedand tried; When the wisest student has vanished, and the dullest has stepped aside;We should rest and faith we need it,We shall rest for a moment or two,Till the wonderful school of ExperienceMakes us seew things anew. The Class watches with a smile; our teachers guide each falter-ing aim; They look on all the while, for added laurels to our fame,With faith in us they give that same old question eye to eye, Lis-ten Students, for what do you live?To seek higher things, is our reply. Annie Ruth Joyner to Mable Massengille: Say Mable,I can just see you about thirty years from now going inthe photographers, saying, How much do you chargefor taking childrens pictures V Photographer: Three dollars per dozen Mable: Well, Ill have to see you later, I havent gotbut eleven STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, County of Craven, Town of Dover. Fellow Citizens: The Class of 1920, about to go theway of all the world, and pass out into the Great Beyond,salutes you, even in the face of approaching death. It is with the most profound regret that I find it neces-sary to bring before your attention this evening theserious—indeed, I may say hopeless—condition of theClass of 1920. We have known for several years that theClass was in a somewhat critical state of health. Therehas been no chance for any doubt about that, for thecombination of disorders under which she has been suf-fering has been only too clearly manifest, and the symp-toms of her disease unmistakable. Indeed for the past four years, her head has been sorapidly swelling with her greedy accumulation of infor-mation in the Dover High School, that it has now as-sumed such gigantic proportions in each of her eight in-dividual parts, as to cause all who know her, or havecome into even occas
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