Hemingford High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Hemingford, NE)

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 5 C. lA Elkins Supt. of Schools RADUATION from High School marks the successful completion of one educational period in your life, and the completion of that period brings with it a new and greater responsibilities to be assumed in life’s journey. One may, and in time will, forget many of the things learned in school, but the ability to investigate, study, and acquire knowledge in any field of life has been given to you and this Ls the key to all the progress and learning in the world. You have been taught how to reason and to execute. Those of you who do this have the promise of becoming one of our nation’s citizens. You have a heritage that is priceless. You will tower head and shoulders mentally and socially above other people. The integrity of our high school graduate is the measuie which governs that leadership of tomorrow. It is your duty in life to sc live and contribute that the world will be better for your having lived. If you fail to do this your life has been vain and entirely useless. All that there is in the world was created by thought. “May you use the v.onderful mind and soul which Heaven has endowed you with to do great things for yourself and those around you! Character is the gem of life.” n W

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Chapter 1 Administration

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manual Arts jllE Manual Arts subjects as taught in a general shop, because of their adaptability and individual instruction and project teaching, afford a better means of vitalizing the school cirriculum and providing an op- portunity for the general development of the seven cardinal principles of present day education than any of the other school subjects. Mechanical drawing is a graphic language. A course in mechanical drawing is valuable to any high school student even though he never expects to use his knowledge of the subjects in connection with the industries. The study oi i his subject will develop the ability for clear and accurate thinking to see and expiess constructive details and also stimulate constructive imagination. Th ability to read a drawing or a blue print is of itself valuable to anyone, whether in the home or in the active duties of the commercial world. The shop offers to many boys, whose school privileges are limited for vaiious reasons, an opportunity of training in the use and repair of industrial products, or service, common in home life and leisure-time activities which are v% ma ifAnn f Iama 1 i 1% a