Excerpt from The Axis, 1923, Vol. 1: North Adams Normal School To her never - failing efforts, is due the fact that she given to us through literature a better understanding of life, and a truer appreciation of the beauty and meaning of the everyday things, which surround us. On account of this, we are leaving North Adams Normal School with new and higher ideals. Not one of us will be content until we have accomplished the best and finest of which we are competent. In loving appreciation of our benefactor and friend, whose personal interest and enthusiasm in our life at Normal has ever been present as a constant help and inspiration to us, we, the class of 1923, fondly dedicate this paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.