Carl Schurz High School - Schurzone Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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WALTER F. SLOCUM, Principal

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TI-IIE RADIO DIPLOMA is a piece of paper signed by the proper officers, certifying that you have completed a certain course of study. Of course, you have not completed anything. What have you done? High school education deals largely with language, science, history, mathematics, and art. The purpose of the study of language, whether it be 21, foreign language or one's native tongue, is to accomplish an easy transmission of thought from one mind to another. Some people speak and write with a clear, direct simplicity, others seem desirous of multiplying syllables until the mind of the receiver becomes cloudy as to the meaning intended. Whenever you hear the words, correlation, rela- tionship, allocation, cooperation, and the like, you may doubt whether the speaker has a clear picture. Lincoln, when asked to give a eulogy on Washington, spoke as follows: A eulogy is expected. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, death- less splendor, leave it, shining onf' MacDonald, one of the greatest ministers of the Broad Church of England, went on board a ship to say farewell to two of his friends who were sailing to Australia. His words are not polysyllabic. HWe were all strong to bear the parting. That great iron steamer went down in the middle of the Atlantic, and I have not yet seen my friend again. These are the closing words of his greatest novel. The great speeches and compositions that have shaped the lives of men abound in simple words. I trust that you have discovered this truth. The purpose of the study of science is to know the great facts of nature and the laws of her operations. The great fact of physical science is gravitation. It can be changed into all other forms of force, heat, light, electricity, and all the more minute manifestations, such as adhesion, cohesion, molecular attraction, chemical affinity, etc. However, I never heard of anyone attempting to derive the human will from gravitation. Can you see the picture of the human will slowly acquiring control over part of this force we call gravitation with the promise of greater control as time flows on? Emerson says. He who sees through the design presides over it. Think of how the human will has trained against the forces of nature in the early stages of civilization until now it .has gained such control that nature, through machinery, threatens to leave no physical work for man to do. I have even heard of machines that add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Are you sensitive to this picture? The purpose of the study of history is to learn of the different and successive efforts of people to live together. Slowly democracy has emerged from the various forms of government. One hundred and twenty million people could not function as a pure democracy, so lNiNu1