- Lingering over the pageantry of an age that is gone, we have
journeyed back into the twilight of
- antiquity, piercing the vistas of distant enchantment in
quest of the chivalric ideals. Out of the magic and glamour of
those far away days, the vows of the knights of old echo back
to us.
- "Utter hardihood, utter gentleness, and loving, utter
faithfulness in love and uttermost obedience to the
- king."
- Devotion to the ideals of courage, kindliness, fidelity,
and respect for authority we avowedly share in
- common with the picturesque knights of "The Round Table,"
but
- "The old order changeth, yielding place to new"
and
- "Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."
- We have tried to embody with the qualities basic in the older
conception of knighthood, a twentieth
- century code of ethics with which to govern our work and
play. By the standards of this code, printed on page 112, the
student body has tried to measure representative members of its
personnel. The pictures of those students, who, by reason of
high personal ideals combined with ability to lead and serve,
seemed, in the opinion of their mates, to most nearly meet the
requisites of the code, appear on the following pages. The fact
that these individuals were chosen as representative however,
does not indicate that there are not many more members in the
student body who possess to a marked degree many of the characteristics
specified in the code. Moreover, we are equally confident that
there is no one in Janesville High School who has been so totally
untouched by the spirit of the school as to be wholly devoid
of any of the essential qualities.
- The form of the code is static; its spirit is the best that
you may read into it in the way of idealism,
- service, and self sacrifice. If it helps you to capitalize
your potentialities, it will have justified its being. While
it may not be given to all of us to actually see the "grail"
of service, nothing but our own personal disinclination will
prevent us from joining the quest.
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