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

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'Ir 'lr 'lr DEDICATICJN f E dedicate this Eighty-fifth Anniversary number of our yearbook to two esteemed graduates who, exactly seventy years ago, joined the ranks of Central's illustrious Alumni, Mrs Washington E. Fischel of the Class of 1868 Wife, Mother, Citizen and The Honorable Charles Nagel of the Class of 1868 Diplomatist, Iurist, Statesman INCE something of the lives of those honored is found on other pages, we, who have known and admired them so long, can pay them no greater tribute here than to pause a moment and express the fervent hope that their mantles of love, loyalty, and devotion may eventually pass on to a host of successors who will uphold the high standards of these honored ones. 'A' 'lr 'A' :eev-:4v-lvvsreersw-ov-4-0-r::NAvw::awvN::NvvvNv-:xNNv:r

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P R O L,0 G U E SCHOOL yearbook might be expected to portray only that which is fleeting and to occupy, from the standpoint of time, only that interval justly claimed as its own. This one, however, draws back the curtain of time and presents a glimpse of the development of eighty-five years-long or short, depending upon one's viewpoint-of our Alma Mater, Central High School. T is our hope that this Eighty-fifth Anniversary volume may, within its limitations, review cherished memories that deserve to be kept alive and revered as long as the friends of our school meet and mingle to reminisce. E now consign to your keeping the Red and Black of 1938, believing that it will occupy a place of honor and historical record in the One I-lundredth Anniversary year of the founding of Public School Education in St. Louis. Ava! 4-0-lv-lv-r :vw-I-cvs: :vvslvv-0-r-0-lsr-ow -:+:.-feililiwee:::++N3+'SNN:+:::+N:+.-.-

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Alcxa d jk onoradfe CHARLES NAGEL It is difhcult to set down in words any spiritual image of a distinguished man that will seem just and adequate to the many with whom he has come in contact. Perhaps the best that can be done is to rely, in the first place, upon his history and accomplishments, with the inferences deducible therefrom, and for the inner and more intimate things, to set forth, as a sort of witness, the impressions etched upon one's own experience by personal contact and observation, aided by the contacts and observations of others. Charles Nagel was born in Colorado County, Texas, on the ninth day of August, 1849. His father, Dr. Hermann Nagel, was a native of Prussia, a graduate in medicine of the Uni- versity of Berlin: his mother descended from a long line of Lutheran clergymen. They left Germany in search of greater spiritual and political liberty. They went to the recently admitted Lone Star State, where Dr, Nagel undertook the practice of his profession, and where his son was born. In 1863, Dr. Nagel found it prudent or necessary to leave Texas, and came with his family to St. Louis. Charles Nagel became a student at Central High School, completing his course in 1868. After spending two years in a course of general reading, he took up the study of law, obtaining his degree from the St. Louis Law School fnow the School of Law of Wash- ington Universityl in 1872. The next year he spent at the University of Berlin, where he took courses in Roman Law, Constitutional History, Political Economy, and other subjects. At Berlin the influence of Rudolph Gneist deepened and confirmed in him that profound regard for the English system of government and that admiration for the great English states- men and publicists which had been inculcated by his reading. Returning to St. Louis he began the active practice of law, which he has pursued ever since, without interruption save for the four years spent in the National Capital as a member of the Cabinet. In the field of civil law his work has covered a wide range, and has had to do with many large questions, both of public and private import. He has an innate sense of moral values and an unusual ability to envisage an entire situation and foresee its probable result. His P