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RY IALUTATORY TO THE POST Two years ago our High School woke up and published its first magazine, “rriie High School Post.” It contained a review of the school year. It had athletic notes, alumini notes, editorials, and short sketches. For the first issue, this edition was a credit to any school of our size. In a financial way, the Post” was a few cents to the good. In ’07, the magazine fever again broke out, and the high school edited another Post.” This number was a little larger, and more complete than the year before. The experience gained by the previous year seemed to have made it so. The ’07 issue contained more work of the pupils. Although the merchants and advertisers supported us admirably by increasing our “Ad” space, our two accounts barely balanced. This year we have done our best to make the “High School Post,” a post in reality. Not a post in the sense that it is stationary, and dead-acting, but in the sense that it is the corner-stone, or the main-stay of our school. The ’08 “Post” is the first real magazine that our institution has published. All of the preceding numbers have been large and bunglesome, and the advertising section awkwardly inserted with the reading material. ’These “Posts” were thought by the people to be more of an ornament, than an entertaining, and scientific magazine. This year has brought a radical change. We have Lksi.ie Lewis changed the size, to that of a regular magazine, Of in. by 10 in., and all of the advertising section has been placed either in tlie front or the back. These changes have been a wonderlul help. Patrons now think that they are getting their money’s worth, by catching a true, live magazine, and forget th.it they believe themselves to be helping some charitable institution. Merchants and all men who advertise think that now they have a better chance, and people can more easily read their ads.” By placing the advertisements in these conspici-ous places we have increased this section several pages, even more than the ’07 “Post” increased the “ad section over the 06 number. We have worked on the principal of “work while you work, and play while you play.” By so doing and putting ourselves in the place of the reader, we could readily see that it was a great deal better plan to put the two sections separate. Our '08 “Post” is broader and more complete this year than ever befoie, in that more of the real high school work is placed in this issue. Specimens from nearly every branch in the high school have been inserted in this number, so that by reading, you review the work done during the year. Not intending to say anything harsh against the pre-iousmagazines and their editors, we may refer the “Posts” of the different years to the Positive, Comparative, and Superlative terms in Grammar, the ’06 edition was good, ’07 was better, and ’08 is best of all, and can. never be excelled.
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EDITORIALS It is a recognized fact that there has been a rapid improvement in our school during recent years. The term of ’07-’08 has contributed no small amount to this advancement. This has been brought about in various ways, but in two in particular. Parents are fast awakening to the importance of a high school education. Consequently, pupils are encouraged in their work and are becoming much more willing to grasp the opportunity of a bright future that lies before them. But there is still another cause for the growth of our school, in effeciency, if not in numbers. Ours is one of the many smaller High Schools that have lately been demanding as instructors young college graduates. These bring with them the true college spirit and instill it into the minds of those who are under their instruction, causing them to appreciate the chance they htave to learn and to become ambitious of a higher education in the college. This is true in-deedof our presentteachers who, together with their more immediate predecessors, have done a great deal toward bringing the school to its present good condition. Authorities agree that it is not the text book but actual work and demonstration that is the best source for learning a scientific study. Consequently, to get much from zoology, botany, physiology, and physics, one must have access to an ample supply of apparatus. Much better work has been done in these branches in recent years tlnn before. And this fact is due to the new material which has been added for making experiments. This is especially true of physics, for which a great amount ot new apparatus 1 as been purchased this term. Our library has been enlarged somewhat this year. The English classes are ne longer obliged to buy their own copies of‘ the classics which they use, for a number of each have been placed in the library. We have quite a large addition of English and Ancient History reference books. After Mr Hollister’s first inspection of our school we were given eleven credits on entrance to the University of Illinois. The number required to be fully accredited was then fourteen. It is now fifteen. After Mr. Hollister’s visit in the first semester of this term, we were granted fourteen and a half. We now lack one credit in English. Commercial Arithmetic which we take for one semester is never accredited. We expect to be fully accredited next year. Less than half of the high schools of the state are fully accredited We should feel proud that we are soon to be one of them. For the bench' of some who are getting tired of school we publish the following extract from our first Post: “The average educated man gets a salary of 11,000 per year. He works forty years, making a total of $40,000 in a life. The average
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