Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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i. 50-Yard Dash. Time: 5 3 5 seconds. 1. Dial, Granite City. 2. 11. Mathews, Alton. 3. Jno. Snadden, Collinsville. 2. Shot Put. Distance, 39 ft. 8 in. 1. E. Howe, Granite City. 2. A. Degenhardt, Alton. 3. R. Arth, Collinsville. 3. 440-Yard Dash. Time: 56 seconds. t. E. Enos. Alton. 2. J. P.aker, Madison. 3. Jno. Beatty, Granite City. 4. Pole Vault. Height. 9 ft. 4 in. 1. E. Yarnum, Granite City. 2. E. Griffey, Upper Alton. 3. D. Collins, Collinsville. 5. 100-Yard Dash. Time: 10 2 5 seconds. 1. Dial, Granite City. 2. S. Allen. Alton. 3. F. Coulter. Upper Alton. Events. 6. Standing Broad Jump. Distance, 9 ft. 11 in. 1. E. Enos. Alton. 2. F. Fisher, Edwardsville. 3. O. Kanim, Highland. 7. 120-Yard Hurdle. Time: 16 3 5 seconds. 1. E. Varnum, Granite City. 2. E. Griffey, Upper Alton. 3. S. Allen. Alton. 8. Running High Jump. Height, 5 ft. 3 in. 1. E. Varnum, Granite City. 2. F. Fisher, Edwardsville. 3. C. Bierman, Alton. 9. Half-Mile Run. Time: 2 minutes. 13 seconds. 1. Jno. Beatty, Granite City. 2. 11. Goudie, Alton. 3. C. Sargeant. Upper Alton. 10. Hammer Throw. Distance, 125 feet. 1. A. Xeininger, Alton. 2. F. Fisher, Edwardsville. 3. D. Collins, Collinsville. 11. 220-Yards Dash. Time: 24 4 5 seconds. 1. E. Enos, Alton. 2. J. Baker, Madison. 3. E. Thompson, Granite City. 12. Running Broad Jump. Distance, 19 ft. 2 in. 1. C. Parr, Granite City. 2. H. Mathews. Alton. 3. C. Long. Collinsville. 13. Half-Mile Relay. Time: 1 minute, 31 seconds. 1. Alton. 2. Granite City. 3. Collinsville. Total and Final Score. 1. Granite City, 55. 2. Alton, 48. 3. Collinsville, 12. Upper Alton. Edwardsville, 10. Madison, 7. Highland, 1.

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“THE T A T LEK.” 21 hourth Annual Meet of the Madison County High School Association, At Upper Alton, May 5th. 1906, INTELLECTl AL CONTEST. Oration 1. Roland Griffith. Granite City. i. 2. I oii Hell Jolly, Collinsville. 2. ?. Harold J. Baudy, Madison. 3. Granite City. Edwardsville, Madison, 1. Essay. Alida Bowler, Alton. Jean Streeter. Upper Alton. Mary Krome. Edwardsville. Score. 10. Alton. 6. 1. Collinsville, 6. Upper Alton, Declamation. 1. Gertrude Thomas. Granite City 2. Lena Blaha, Collinsville. 3. Blanche Cartwright, Alton. 3- athletic; contest. Score. Granite City, 45. Alton, 42. Edwardsville. 9. Highland, 1 Upper Alton. 8. Collinsville. 6. Madison. 6.

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“ T 11 E T A T L E R.’’ 23 T II E MISSION O F IIIST O R Y . ISTORY is a mighty chain, forged, link by link, upon the anvil of time, binding the past to the present and safely mooring many a ship of state that might otherwise drift away on a disastrous cruise in unknown seas. History is a Delphic oracle, exerting a powerful influence on the conduct and fate of governments and men. when they comprehend its prophecies and arc heedful of its warnings. Readers who find history drv and uninteresting consider it merely a mixture of dates and facts; but the bare facts are not the real history. To depict the life of the time, to impart its spirit, to win sympathy for its people, to trace the causes preceding the leading events, and the effects resulting from them, to show how these events combine to form the whole—an outline of the progress of the human race—this is the purpose of the true historian. And it is the special mission of history to serve as guidepost to the future. Tt has been called “philosophy teach- ing by experience.” (ircat minds of all ages tell us that we can judge of the future only by the past. Epoch and surroundings may change, but human nature is the same “yesterday, today, and forever;” and the same conditions that have made and marred nations in the past will make or mar a nation today. Review your history of Rome. Behold her, the obscure rustic village on the Tiber, rising to a position as “mistress of the world.” But with this sovereignty her citizens acquire enormous wealth and, utterly dependent on their vast households of slaves, become indolent, immoral, and corrupt. She falls, a victim to the deterioration of her national character. At fearful cost America has wisely cast aside the yoke of slavery, but let her look to it that her citizens preserve their strong integrity, lest she fall, even as Rome fell. Examine the state of affairs in France in 1789. Observe the great inequality in the conditions of the classes; the aristocrats, pampered and privileged, living in luxury and splendor; the lower classes, cruelly harassed and oppressed. forced to yield to the extortions of the tax-gatherers the scanty proceeds of their bitter toil, while they and their families suffer from famine cold; and see how inevitably the Reign of Terror, that awful carnival of blood, re-