In 1861, Harvard College yearbooks captured the faces of America's future leaders—doctors, lawyers, ministers, and merchants. For young men like Leslie Waggener, this formal portrait marked a turning point: the moment education opened doors to adulthood, profession, and social standing.
You sit rigid in the photographer's chair, chin raised, eyes steady. The camera shutter clicks. This image will travel home to your family, will announce to the world who you are becoming. In this single pose, your education and your destiny feel almost the same thing.
Reflect
What moment of your own education do you wish had been captured this way?