life: Ah, young love… Ask ten people what their high school years were like, and you’ll probably get two answers, split right down the middle: Best years of my life, five will say. Worst years of my life, five others will vow. In celebration of graduation season, LIFE revisits photos from a 1941 essay documenting a high school graduation — shot by one of LIFE’s great photographers, Alfred Eisenstaedt. Not originally published in LIFE: Mansfield, Ohio, Senior High School, 1941. See the photos here. A fantastic photo series. We recently looked at graduations ourselves—the best commencement speeches of 2012—in the debut of our Tweeter’s Digest feature.

life:

Ah, young love…

Ask ten people what their high school years were like, and you’ll probably get two answers, split right down the middle: Best years of my life, five will say. Worst years of my life, five others will vow.

In celebration of graduation season, LIFE revisits photos from a 1941 essay documenting a high school graduation — shot by one of LIFE’s great photographers, Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Not originally published in LIFE: Mansfield, Ohio, Senior High School, 1941.

See the photos here.

A fantastic photo series. We recently looked at graduations ourselves—the best commencement speeches of 2012—in the debut of our Tweeter’s Digest feature.

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