Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Buifding Fifteenth strectts mansarct-roots-it piie The new irig lop on the oid circus grounds ff , , n confuzuoua o afcahol Twenty-tiith anniversaries attect atmost everyone, and in varying ways. A husiness tirm may make them an occasion to get rid of some stocic which the other guy got in tor Christmas: estahiishments with Repuhiican ieanings may put the tact on their ietterheads as marie ot endurance and a chaiienge to the New Dealers: Democratic owned enterprises wiii do the same and ciaim it as evidence prov- ing that husiness is tnehind the President. A score-and-tive years ago Lincoln was just opening a new huiiding, one not tong from the schooi hoard tahte and tax proposais. Students entering the new schooi twenty- iive years ago, in the fait of 1915 couid hardly imeiieve it just a school. Shining marhie stairs and railings, pientitui rooms, exciting new taciiities-iew couid find any tautts, except the fact that it was Hmiies trom nowheren for some. Attending the new paiace huiit on the city's oid circus grounds was Wondertui. Each day hecame an adventure. Leaving the oid mansard-rooted piie at Fifteenth street with its wooden iioors and awkward, unhandy arrange- ment was not diiticuit when you considered that it was over forty years oid, and had none oi time moderniy attractive points that the new school possessed. Noon l'UCl'CiltiUI'l lllijkCS ii IICXV USC i0l' CIHSSTOOIHS

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'rom 75558 ggczff 37110291 Xvhen the first white commercializers crossed the prairies to these salt springs. O street could not even hoast ot having been a Cow path, as Wall street can. The site was shunned somewhat, so his- tory telis us, as salt Hats were the redslcin equivalent ot no manis land, and any copper colored gent seen on other business than salt gathering was iiahie to he plagued hy liint poisoning. After the salt wells were tound to he merely an indifferent supply of slightly hriny water and the ticlcie easterners had pushed on tor uthem thar hillsi' and points west, a hand ot hut thirty persons ot mainly agricultural means was lelt. These were'-history again-a rather disgruntled lot anyway, just lilce Los Angeles citizens it Hollywood were suddenly depopuiated. This then was Lincoln in I-867, when an enthusiastic state assemhiy made it the capital. Vvhen those eastern commerciaiizers lett town. the Lincoln ot' today, an educational center with smolceless and noiselree sides was horn. We hecame the capital city, the university City, a small new metropolis of unindustrialized learning. How actually does Lincoln high matte itself a part of Lincoln? Students through school coopera- tion worlc part-time in various local enterprises. Police come to the school to safety-educate, to reg- ister hicycies. to explain regulations. Students regu- larly show hest wort: and methods ot achieving it at open house, when parents and patrons see how things are coming. Lincoln has grown trees instead of smoice staclcs, school hells in place of live o'cloclc whistles. Thus today is heing prepared tomorrowis Wir. Smith and ixiiss Jones, perhaps a President Smith'-even Spring- lield was surprised. lxiodern prohlems students ahsorh inliormatinn on law-matting lWl'0lll the ivxlrony ol' ilu- unirumernl rhamher, The town's ll0lllf'S lend travel treasures to illustrate a sclmul hooli. Police license students' hiryrles in school shops. Rohcrt ixietcall, rlis- trihutive trmlvs student, gains cxpcriciiu' at Bryan lxlcmorinl hospital. OOU72 CLEC! gcgoof

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tance IQI5 at fgia acfcffcamn The two ciecacies ami a iiaif do not weigh on our inuiiciing. Xviiy iiie cioesnit even iuegin to ioegin untii tilirtyi L. H. S. is imareiy oi voting age, not Hoid L. H. ivy a iong, iong. si1ot. indeed. tile piace iias improveci, grown ami meiioweci, iet us say. Tiie auto meciwanirs, printing, eiectrir, ami woodwork silops and ciassroom iafiiities in the addition imring opporf tunities never cireameci oi by tile originai occu- pants of tile imuiiciing. XN7il6I1 nationai defense neecis caiieci on Lin- coin iligil tile ivuiiding was aimie to responci. Now iormeriy unused ivasement spaces iiave ioeen turneci into fiassrooms for vvoricers wiio wisil to iurusil up on a nalionai defense tracie, and after reguiar sciiooi ilours time program moves upstairs to time simops. Ever aciapiant to new eciucationai cieveiop- ments, tile SCi'l00i refentiy instaiieci lilC sound system, anci now raciio programs, announcef ments, and student ciramas are pipeci into time classroom. A score or more of graduating groups iiave ieit tiiese doors, cioors opening stiii to more oi young Lincoin, doors that iiave seen the un- imowing iaeeome eciucateci anci laice tiieir piaces in tile eternai sfileme. How cilangeci from the oici earnivai times, and iiow weii cilangecii Bulge! 9 Pnui Sriiupimril iwrourirasts tile morning announremenis Simps twring unriroanleri ni' oppurtuniiic' Biacii and wilitc in tile sluciio