East High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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stage setting was more elaborate and pretentious than is usually to be found in high school plays. No higher tribute could be desired for our play than Mr. XVebster's comment: It was a really good play. the best that has ever been put on in this auditorium. Though the estimate of the HCardinal will be largely a matter of individual opinion, nevertheless the editors have had high ideals and aspirations. They have tried to make the book representative of the whole school-to make it live. interesting, worth while. The best literary values have not been, intentionally at least. sacrificed to wit and humor. The editors have striven to make the humorous material good natured and inoffensive to the most sensitive. yet bright. crisp and to the point. Whatever may be the shortcomings. or perhaps the failures. of the class of Nineteen Hundred Nine. we have aimed high. 9 HERE is to be one departure from the East High School. at this Commencement time, which should not pass unnoticed. .Xfter many years of service on behalf of the boys and girls of Minneapolis, Miss Roe is to retire from teaching. Her departure will touch deeply the hearts of many boys and girls. and young men and young women who in the past years have been moulded and uplifted by her gentle influence. They have gone forth from this school at their various Commencement seasons. as we shall go forth at ours, with clearer heads. kinder hearts and a larger vision because of her part in making them what they are. The passing of such a teacher cannot be marked with words of faint praise. Her rare sweetness. her gentleness and kindly tact. have endeared her to us, and to her pupils one and all. She has been ever ready to give without stint her time and effort to our service. She has required of us, in turn, so much of enthusiasm, of honesty, of directness of purpose. that to be enlisted with her was at once an inspiration and a source of despair. She would see nothing but good in anyone. She expected us always to be at our best. She found excuse. whenever possible. for our mistakes and our failures. and we had to be worthy of her trust. XYe have marveled ever at the loftiness of her spirit. Though her grip on the details of the classroom never loosened. her thoughts were on the highest things only. lt was hard to reach the standard that she set. and expected of us, but we all are better for having tried to attain it. lVe honor her also because of her attitude toward her work, She taught us Latin, but she was interested not mainly in Latin. but in boys and girls, in us. To her. Latin was a tool, a means by which the development of her pupils might be wrought. But Latin was not to her an inert. inanimate thing. a dead language. a thing merely of conjugations and rules and case-endings. lt was alive. lt was a point-of-view. It was the magic key which opened to us the door to a wonderful past, the life and thought of a people different from us. in an age different from ours. NVith her. we saw through Roman eyes and lived in Roman days. And we surely are better fitted to cope with the issues of life here and now because we have had. under her guidance. the wide experience of facing life from the standpoint of the great Roman world. l -13-

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