The Yucca, Yearbook of North Texas State Teacher's School, 1924 Page: 78
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Class of '29
PREP days, prep days, dear old Second Year pep days! We
know you are the days of real sport even if you are the ox-cart
days. You are the days of youth, jollity, love, romance, dreams,
ambitions, successes, and failures. You surround us by one big ring
of happiness and future hopefulness, and that ring is class spirit.
We love you, Second Year Days, because you have given us pleas-
ure, but we will love you more because we realize that you are the
stairway by which we are slowly but surely climbing into college.
We came to you unprepared, and you took us in, and we ap-
preciate it, because we realize that you are preparing us to be "wise
and intelligent Freshmen." We may seem hopeless now. We
do admit that we look blank, act blank, and are blank, but some day
you will see the result of the work you have done for us.
It is true that many of us lack seriousness and purpose, but
the high school echo is still within us, and it is difficult to break
away from those go-lucky, irresponsible, thoughtless ways that
characterize the high school student.
There is a gradual change going on within us that is hardly
noticeable from the outside. We are taking on different views;
we are getting new ideas; we are breaking away from the desires
and longings of youth and forming new and broader ideals. We
are steering our ship away from the safe home harbor out into the
fog, which is the future. But whether in that fog are derelicts or
icebergs, we cannot tell. We can only hope to reach a new port
safely by consistent effort. Perhaps some day we shall stand
on the aft-deck and look back over the days we spent in N. T. S.
T. C. It is then we shall fully realize the value of our "Prep
Days."Seventy-eight
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