Lansing Central High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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our thanks and high appreciation for these contributions which add so greatly to the beauty and Hnish of THE ORACLE. it H 96 The school this year loses one of its most able supporters in Prof. W. M. Wheeler. In his three years' stay in Lansing as principal he has worked constantly and faithfull 7 in the 5 interest of the school and has in many ways broadened its scope and raised its standing. He D has inspired the students with high aims and has kept up throughout the entire school a high tone of scholarship. His intention to leave us at the close of the present year was learned with ,universal surprise and regret, and he will bear with him to his new Held of work the good will' and best wishes of the entire school and his many friends in Lansing. At the present rate of increasing attendance, the question of a new high school building will soon force itself to some kind of settlement, or we shall be obliged to follow the example of a northern town and keep out new students with a police force. That the Lansing High School is in all probability unexcelled by any in the State is no doubt to a great extent the reason of this increase. Greater attendance means more funds, more teachers a broader field, and better appliances for work. The present building could now be entirely filled by the lower grades. THE ORACLE stands firmly for a new High School. if if 95 In the entire school life of our class, no- harder stroke has fallen than was the death f o Florence Porter. So earnest in her work, so bright and genial in her nature, she had endeared herself to everyone, and there was not one in the school but felt the deepest personal loss when the d t h sa rut was so suddenly and unexpectedly broken upon us that she had been with us for the last time. . if if 5-6 ' The editors desire to the preparation of THE ORACLE, and also those members of the different classes who have k. dl . . . . . . . in y assisted in collecting items of interest from the various recitation rooms. thank Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Hoyt for much valuable assistance in

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they positively declined to meet the Lansing boys at wrestling. The day was greatly enjoyed by both sides and by t-he many hundreds of enthusiastic friends who came to witness the contest. The occasion has its lesson and well illustrates the thought of Hvaulting ambition which o'erleaps itselff' The eagerly arranged stipulation admitting first yearls alumni to the games admitted some able men on the side of our opponents and gave us the pleasure of seeing several prizes fall to them. It is believed that if these sports are to be continued from year to year, as it is highly desirable they should be, it will be found altogether more satisfac- tory to make them strictly school affairs and require the participants to be carrying a certain number of studies and doing good work in them. This plan is followed in our best colleges and is found to give better results all round. Two years' trial of Greek in the school has been most gratifying in its working. The earnest plea of 79278 ORACLE for its introduction had its effect, and 'now the opinion of S793 that it was a valuable acquisition is only strengthened. The new coursegthus arranged has been approved by the University and now Lansingfs diplomas admit without examination to any course in that institution. It broadens the school and raises its already high standing among the many excellent schools of the State. E ' 96 if 96 ' , The annual Junior exhibition has been a very successful and entertaining part of the school program for three years past and ,THE ORACLE believes it can be made much more so in the future. With such strong classes as we now have, an entertainment of first quality in all particulars can beiarranged, and if properly advertised and given in the opera house, would draw a l-arge audience. Hundreds of people have staid away from these entertainments not because they did not wish to attend but because they knew the great difliculty of getting seats in the High School assembly room, or did not want to climb the stairs. ' . V 1 . vr 1+ 75 The original drawings for illustrating THE GRACLE this year are from the pencil of Miss Ruth Shank. The lettering is done by Miss Edith Sellers. We desire to express to them

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ID1l.8'ffOI'111 - HE ORACLE Board in convention assembled aliirms its belief in the following principles, ' and advocates the following policy in their application to our school: 1. The High School should be a public school, in that it should meet the needs of all the public so far as possible. ' A 1 ' To serve the needs of the various classes which compose this public it must offer several distinct lines of work, to students aspiring to a college education it should give-a preparatory course. This we do. To those who would supplement the High School course with music or travel, it should offer modern languages, especially French and German, literature, and possibly some theory and practice in music. These demands we supply in part. We Zfztk French and should have it. To the large class who golfrom the public schools to active life, most of them to some kind of manual labor, the schoolsowe a duty as yet unheeded. Manual training should be found in our High School for two reasons. It is a preparation that would be of .great service to all boys who become artisans. It is also a good educational agent. Many minds are most receptive to truth coming to them by way of the fingers 2 The High School work should be thorough and inspiring Truths learned should be correctly mastered, so that no zmlemfnmg will afterwards be needed Great principles of science and society should be presented so that the young mind, eager for a field of effort, may be captix ated by them and inspired to do some great work or be some great worker 'lo effect this requires teachers of broad culture and enthusiastic, earnest, truth loving minds Such men and women need the best educations available Our High School faculty should be recruited from the best colleges of the land 3 Our High School work should be wo: 12 No business demands more careful attention or more diligent and active work The teacher who does not make his subject laborious 1S a misnt The student who shirks his work should lose his right to a place in the school fhe vast majority are there for business, and it is unjust that their interests should be prejudiced by the interfering presence of an unappreciative minority