Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Brotherhood The crest and crowning of all good, Liles hnal star, is Brotherhootlg For it will luring again to earth Her longylost Poesy and Mirthg Vv'ill send new light on every face, A lungly power upon the race. And till it comes, we men are slaves, Antl travel downward to the dust of graves. Come, clear the way, then, clear the way! Blind creeds and kings have had their Clay. Break the dead hranches from the path: Our hope is in the aftermathf Our hope is in heroic men, Star-led to htnld the world again. To this event the ages ran: lvlalce way for Brimtherhoocl--make way for lvlanl - EDWIN MARKHAM. Edwin Markham, horn April 23, ISSZ. is the author ol the famous poem, Lincoln, the lvlan ol' the People. But even greater than his Lincoln poem is Mr, Markham's 'AThe lvlan Witlw the Hoe, writ' ten on his lavorite theme, Brotherhood. This poem not only hrought its author lame over night, hut it started a new twentieth cenf l.lll'y movement in poetry emphasizing IvIan's obligation to Society. Eleven

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Central l-ligh School H. H. Morgan ........ ...,..,,. F ebruary, '66 February, '86 Brandt V. B. Dixson ,,,, February, '86 hlune, '87 Frank Louis Soldan ....... September, '87 September, '95 W. J. S. Bryan .....,.....,,,.. November, '95 June, '08 Chester B, Curtis .,.,.,.... September, '08 February, '20 Stephen A. Douglass ....,. September, '20 lvlay, '36 D. H. Wcii'.. . ..,..,. September, '36 CENTRAL 1-1161-1 SCI-ICCL. ' A lot located on Grand avenue near Finney was purchased in April, 1885, for the site of a new high school. For a while there was considerable doubt as to whether the location was not too far west. Carefully gathered statistics showed that about twofthirds of the students lived within a radius of a mile and a half of the selected site. In the fall of 1886, contracts for excavaf tion and foundation wall were awarded, and the work of building was begun. Cn account of the lack of funds, the foundation stood until 1890, when an interest in the new high school was revived and the erection of the building on the old foundation was begun. In September, 1893, the building was ready for occupancy. It contained sixty rooms, of which eight were large study halls, each accommodating 170 to 200 pupils. Thirteen hundred pupils could be seated in the new auditorium. The building was dedicated September 2, 1893. To truth and its holy cause, to the dissemination ol the noblest and best treasures of human knowledge, to intelligence, to the development ol every civic and private virtue in the young, to the rehnement of thought and manner, the people of our city have dedicated these halls. Mary the efforts of teachers and pupils in this building be evei devoted to the best service of the people in thc cause of education. -Mvartii Paoifnhr, '33. Thirteen