Adrian High School - Sickle Yearbook (Adrian, MI)

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CHARLES S. JAMES. BOARD GF EDITCDRS. SARAH E. EDWARDS. A WILF-'RED B. SHAW. susmzss MAI-ucrn. FLORENCE BENNETT, GRANT T. DAVIS.

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1. ROFESSOR DE Mo1V11E's great great great grandfather was an Huguenot refugee from France, who came to Lo11g Island near the close of the 17th century, and established the first professional black- . s1nitl1 shop on the island. He was known as Richard DeMotte, tl1e blacksmith of Lo11g Island. giiviz? The descendents all along the line, have been sober, industrious men, distinctly loyal to America, and active in all reform work of education, state a11d church. A large percentage have been ministers ,,.Y..ffi' and teachers. 'WMA i Professor DeMotte was born in a Methodist parsonage at VVareland, Ind., in 1848. He enlisted o11 the day he was I5 years old fron1 Rochester, Ind., in tl1e One Hundred and Eighteenth Indiana Volunteers, was honorably discharged in the following springg was a teacher for two years at Lafayette, Ind., and in 1872 was made principal of the Preparatory Department of the Indiana Asbury C now De Pauwy University, from which institution he graduated in the classical course i11 1874. He was at once taken into the faculty and given the chair of Mathematical Physics, which position he resigned in 1891, to accept a desirable offer of work in a larger Held of usefulness, with the Redpath Lyceum Bureau of Chicago and Boston. His lecture lists for last season and the present one are larger tl1an those of any otl1er person in the field. He received his A. M. degree incursu, and his M. D. and Ph. D., upon the basis of work do11e in Germany, mostly at Bonn and Heidelberg. He came into the lecture field with the feeling that the A111erican public wa11ts something higher than mere amusement, and tl1e list of his Gllg9.gC1HG11tS is sufficient guarantee that the better class of our people would prefer to tl1ink alo11g lines helpful to society, tl1a11 111erely to be amused. When Professor DeMotte entered tl1e lecture field i11 1891, Adrian was one of his first engagements. He has since lectured three times in our city, always to crowded houses. Two years ago our people listened, for the second time, to that grand and most helpful lecture upo11 Character Building. Whenever it l1as been possible, Professor DeMotte has visited our High School a11d given our you11g people such talks as might fall from the lips of a father who is bidding farewell to the son leaving the parental roof for the first time. He has endeared himself, in so many ways, to the old a11d young alike in our city that OIIC is 11ot surprised to learn that he has been adopted as a citizen of Adrian, and has been presented with a key to the hearts of his loyal friends. Long live Professor DeMotte to preach the doctrine of right livi11g, and to inspire the youth of our la11d to the attain- ment of high ideals.

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The Senior Sickle. Of the Adrian High School. .....lDubIi5heb bp the 021355 of '99.... ...Editorialsm gg USTOM, once established, is very tenacious. Sometimes, indeed, it may lead to pernicious results, but such, it 5 seems,can hardly be the case in regard to the publishing of annuals by graduating classes. An annual is read with interest by the alumni, by the many friends of the institution, and by the general public, as well as by the students of all classes. In this way the work of a school is brought to the notice of the public and an impres- sion, favorable or otherwise, is created by its publications. To the student the annual, while perhaps a source of much pleasure and enjoyment at the present time, ought to be valued greatly in after life, for without it many pleasant memories of High School days would be lost. Nearly all the larger schools of the state observe the cus- tom of publishing an annual of some sort. Adrian High School has but recently begun this practice, however 5 and, while previous to this production we have published but two annuals, we are pleased to note that the SICKLES of '97 and '98 were equaled by few, and excelled by no High School in the state. We, the editors of '99, have tried to present as good an annual as We were able, and one which would not only be of interest now, but would serve as an acceptable souvenir of Adrian High School for the year 1899. If we have succeeded in doing this, we feel that the time and labor spent have not been in vain. Of its merits you yourselves must judge. eiedeslealle ZITHIN the past school year a sentiment, heretofore entirely foreign to the walls of the old building, has arisen among the several classes of the high school. We have reference tO the clearly defined and somewhat ques- tionable class spirit which has been manifested throughout the school year, not by the legitimate and accustomed feeling of friendly rivalry, but by lawless depredations which at first committed entirely on class lines, quickly degenerated into pranks unworthy the term practical jokes, committed by members of all classes. We wish here to draw sharply the line between harmless jokes and the wanton destruction of property, which has ensued as a result of the earlier rivalry. We have been enter- tained by samples of both species of humor. The former were passed over with a tolerant smile by students, teachers and the public, while the latter gained, as they deserved, only severest condenmation from all.