Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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SCARLET AND GREEN ALUMNI DEPARTMENT l =□ Graduates we of the Alumni, greet you. After following in the footsteps of your predecessors along the educational highway of the Auburn High School, you are about to become members of our host of immortals. This is not particularly your fault, but is the result of a custom dat ing back to that dim and misty past, when the class of 1889 had become possessed of knowledge to such an extent that its further al -sorption in the high school was impossible nay, dangerous. Graduation was the natural result—and the Alumni followed. This class of 1889 was in fact the Alumni mustard seed, which, taking root, has year by year grown with each succeeding consignment of graduates until in A.D. 1907 its dimensions has assumed gigantic proportions. But still there is no fear of there not being room for the new' arrivals. Each spring old Conductor Time asks us to “step up front, please,” and we move forward another year. Laughing and talking, the Seniors swarm aboard our car, waving farewells and shouting good-byes to their Junior companions at the High School. There are a few moments while we give our new associates hearty words of welcome and congratulation. Then our car starts with a jerk, for our conductor does not believe in sentiment, and we are off to the hurry, jostle, noise and hurly-burly of the world—the world with its success and failure, its pleasure and pain, the joy of accomplishment and the dull heartache of hope deferred. And at almost every street crossing in this busy life, some of our meml)ers leave us and on we rush, for Time makes no allowance for stops in his schedule. Seniors sometimes resent the patronizing air and paternal anxiety vouchsafed them by the Alumni. This we always overlook—making due allowance for t heir youth and the jealous care with which they protect what they consider their newly found liberty. We felt the same way once, ourselves, and therefore have due charity. But sooner or later our newly welcomed members of 07 will learn, as have older members of the Alumni. in taking their places in the world, there is a vast difference l etween many a High School theory and the actual practice, shoulder to shoulder with other men in the battle of life. This statement is in no sense a diatribe toward our glorious Alma Mater: she has done the best for you she could in the way of general information, as it is not within her province to dictate your future life work. As High School student you should have absorbed those general instructions: as an Alumnus you must learn to segregate from the total mass that knowledge which bears directly on your chosen walk in life. Unless you choose to be a “schoolma’am you will have to '‘unlearn much so far as carrying into actual life-work all the branches taken as a Senior. The study of botany w ill not help you to any alarming extent should you take up law as a profession: nor will an average of 99 in ancient history or la tin give certain evidence of your dazzling success as an electrical engineer or foreman of a pie foundry. Rut neither will these studies hurt or hinder you. The pioneer class of 1899 is the leaven which leavened the large—and constantly growing lump. In the past eighteen years the ranks of the Alumni have been swelled by the same number of graduating classes. These classes have been composed of varying numbers of students, but have shown a gradual increase the Class of 07 breaking all records in point of numbers. The following is the record as shown by the archives of the Alumni: ( lass of 1890 tt “ 1891 8 tt i it 1892 9 tt tt tt 1893 it tt t. 1894 0 it ii ii 189.) ii t. it 1890 1 ii tt tt 1897 12 it tt ,t 1898 4 ii tt 1899 12 it tt tt 1900 18 it 4 4 M 1901 20 ti it ii 1902 17 • • 4 4 1903 18 ft ft tt it 1904 .. i M t. 1905 20 tt it 1900 “ 4 4 4 4 1907 “ Verily a goodly number, representing today in the ranks of the Alumni many of the alert and successful business men of Auburn and Nemaha county and the rest of the world-and the feminine contingent appearing as the prudent and successful housekeepers, loving wives and help meets, and the fond mothers of the Alumni of tomorrow'. The Class of 07 is soon to become members of our organization and assume their various studies in the great university of life. The personnel of the class justifies great expectations as to their ultimate success in life. Let them not forget their Alma Mater in the busy years to come, but, as members of the Alumni, be ever ready to welcome the yearly advent of new members, proud of our swelling numbers, and with words of hope for the coming success of each new addition. At our annual reception we will leave our various duties in the professions, businesses and trades behind us, and remembering only the pleasures of school life, again. Graduates, we of the Alumni will greet you.

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22 SCARLET AND GREEN irarlet auft (Smnt AArfy fy AAAAAAAAAAAAA Txxxxxi xTTTxTTTxx Published in the Interests of tlie Auburn llitfh School Editor in Chief, JESSIE GONTLEY CLARKE, ’07 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Clara Hickey, Senior Yarro Tyler, Junior Minnie Hath, Sophomore ilallie Workman, Freshmen Walter York. Athletics, ’09 Edward Stoddard. Alumni Business Manager, EDGAR CLIN’E, '07 Martin Souders, Ass't. Bert Parker, Sec. Treas. Price, 10 Cents Per Copy. EDITORIAL COMMENT The class of ’07 has held its place in the High School. It's members have taken active part in debating, athletics and cadet work. For four veal’s they have done their part toward furthering the interests and raising the standards of the Auburn High School. And now that the time of graduation is drawing near there is a feeling of regret that their places will so soon he filled by others. In their pride of what they have accomplished they feel that never again will Senior class wear the dignities of their position as they are wearing them. They are sure the Freshmen were never less green, that never did Sophomores study harder, that the Juniors were nevermore lively than when the Class of ’07 went through those stages. Hut it is a blind class pride. When they stop to consider they realize that each year the High School becomes better, that the facilities are larger, that the work is not going to stop because they are leaving. Let them have their pride now. In later years when they look back on their Alma Mater they will recognize each improvement and feel only pleasure in noting that each class comes nearer reaching the ideal. Any one acquainted with the High School has seen for some time that both teachers and pupils were handicapped to quite an extent, in their efforts to do excellent work, by lack of room. The only ultimate solution is a new, modern, up-to-date High School building, hut the time does not seem to l e ripe to start such a structure, so in the light of these conditions the Board of Education has decided to build a small frame edifice for a lab-ratory and recitation room. This will relieve the congested condition and make the work easier for teachers and pupils. Another teacher will he added to the faculty and the present course changed and enlarged. Instead of offering only one course, there will he three courses, a Latin and a German course, an English counse and the Normal training course. We believe that the change from one to three courses is going to be a great improvement. Latin is a study from which we derive a great deal of value, hut there are some who would rather drop out than undertake it. and we believe that such pupils will remain and l e greatly benefited by taking such subjects as Business Arithmetic. Commercial Law and English in its place. The Auburn High School always sends out a number of teachers each year, which have proven themselves the strongest teachers in the county. The Normal training course will greatly benefit those intending to teach and enable the High School to furnish more teachers. This course will enable graduates to receive certificates without attending Normal school. We believe that the Auburn High School stands at the head of its class among the high schools of the state and this change in the course will place us a step higher in point of efficiency. The attendance, as a consequence, will he larger. The proposed addition is only temporary and if Auburn is to continue in the advanced position she holds as a school town, she must be ready in 1908 or 1909 to build a high school building in conformity with her educational needs.

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24 SCARLET AND GREEN ------------ YELL Senioi s Forever Live Ever Die Never We Never Shall Sever To Win We’ll Endeavor «r CLASS OFFICERS President..........................Roy Ootrell Vice-President..................... Lelia Dirks Secretary and Treasurer..........(Irace Crooker Sergeant-at-A rms.............(Clifford Rot lirock (’lass Colors Champagne and Blue. Class Flower Dark Red Rose. ('lass Motto—“From Ability to Action.” «r NOTICE. A good way to spend your leisure hours is in looking at the senior class pins. Your time will not l e wasted in doing so. C7 The social functions of the senior class were rather scarce the first part of the year, hut we have l een making up for lost time the last two months and a general time, which the class of ‘07 only knows how to have, was reported by every member of t he class who was present at each event. m The “Pie Feast” given by the senior girls, in the club rooms of the court house on the evening of March 0, being something quite unique, seemed to take well with everyone and both old and young came out to enjoy the contest of those good old home-made pies A. .L L. (made by the senior girls’ mothers.) «r The Humboldt seniors were our welcome visitors Tuesday, April Hi. Their attitude during their short stay could no have l een better and we hope they will come again. They were invited out to supper by different members of our class and a hurried reception was given them in the evening, in the club rooms of the court house, which were beautifully decorated for the occasion. They departed at a late hour, each declaring they had had a fine time. On Wednesday, April 17, tlie seniors took a half holiday, which had been earned by perfect days. Some were iniustrious and cleared up the remains of the reception which hid been given the Humboldt visitors, a few prospective school “inarms” visited various schools, w hile a few prospective (?) took lessons in domestic science. c The annual Inter-class field meet took place at the fair grounds April 11. and as was anticipated the Seniors ‘ walked off” easy with honors. Those entering from our class were: Harrison Shafer, Roy Cottrell. William Rowen, James Bellas, Bert Parker, and Way land Hawley. A reception was given in their honor, the following evening by the Senior girls. A fine time was had by all and the refreshments were “doubly” enjoyed by some. «r Rev. Pettit, of the Christian church, will deliver the class sermon on Sunday evening liefore commencement. at the New (h era house. Mr. Pettit is a pleasant speaker and has many uplifting ideas and those who hear him cannot help being benetitted by doing so. A debate was held at Beatrice, March 22. bet ween the Auburn and Beatrice high schools, Auburn l e-ing represented by three of the Senior class, Edna Snow, Bonnie Huffman and Roy Cottrell. Auburn ( Coii tin uetl on pwj