Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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“WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO.” The question, “What are you going to make of yourself, and what are you going to do when school is out?” is so often asked us that it makes us feel that you are interested in our future careers. If you are, we will try to give you a small conception of what the members of the class of 1911 intend to make of themselves. Do not mistake me to say that these following words are mere pipe dreams, for they are definite facts so far as we know. If each member does not come up to the standard here set down it will be because of some unforseen calamity. Let us see what Fern Masterson, the only girl in the 1911 class, intends to do. Fern thinks that teaching school is the only place for her. She has decided to attend the summer school at Charleston, 111., during the present summer and take the teacher’s preparatory course. We are informed that she has already secured the Meeker school, her home school, for the next term. Next let us inquire about Guy Collins, our classmate from Garrett. He tells us that it is his intention to enter the Milli-kin University at Decatur during the next term as a student of electrical engineering. This is a good college course for a young man, and there is an ever increasing demand for graduates from this course. Augustus South, the only living specimen of a now extinct race of giants, informs us that his bright star will lead him to the Normal college at Normal, 111., at the close of his school year in Atwood. It his chief desire to prepare himself to teach during the next school term. Casper Smith, better known as “Bunny,” has not fully decided just what he is going to do, but he thinks that he will take a course in engineering at the University of Illinois. Perry Rogers has resolved that there is nothing like teaching school. He tells us that a few years of teaching school will do him good and that it will put his pecuniary circumstances in such a condition that he can enter the U. of I. This he intends to do in the near future. Emil Carroll, a sturdy young man of the the famous class of 1911, contemplates entering the U. of I. as an agricultural student. Emil has spent his life on a farm and he realizes the necessity of gaining a college education in order to make a complete success of this all-important business. Tom Terrill, the manager of the 1911 High School Post, bids fair to be our only lawyer. The demand for lawyers and law interpreters is so great that Tom has determined to concentrate his energy to the pursuance of this most worthy vocation. Fred Romine, after considering the different college courses, has at last decided to enter the University of Illinois at the beginning of the next school term as an agricultural student.

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CLASS OK 1908. Lora Biggs, Atwood, Illinois. Myrtle McLain, Atwood, Illinois. Leslie Lewis, student of Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. CLASS OF 1909. Emma Fahrnkoph, student, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Ted Merritt, teacher, Delands, Illinois. CLASS OK 1910. Bernice Barber, Atwood, Illinois. John Livingood, Atwood, Illinois. Maude Blackwell, teacher, Atwood, Illinois, R. F. D. Fred Romine, Amenia, North Dakota. Geneva Gross, Atwood, Illinois. Marie Robinson, clerk, Atwood, Illinois. John VanVleet, Atwood Illinois.

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A Glimpse of College Life. By Harrison Fahrnkoph, ’07. A request for an article for “The Post” comes as a rather sudden surprise, and it is with a mingled feeling of honor and pleasure that the attempt is made to fulfill that request. 1 am glad, on account of the liberal boundaries offered thereby, that you have suggested that “just a glimpse of college life or something of the kind” be chosen. I, being a student registered in the College of Agriculture, would naturally be inclined towards things agricultural. It is but natural, then, that the general trend of this letter would be along those lines. Until recent years anyone who, before a body of farmers, spoke favorably of scientific agriculture, or even hinted at the benefits to be derived from a course in an agricultural college, created not a little comment and perhaps caused many of them to smile audibly. During the last decade, however, agricultural colleges have come rapidly to the front and their great worth to a state is little disputed. Our own college has grown rapidly. About 15 years ago when Dean Davenport came to take charge of the work here, there were about nine men registered as agricultural students. The Dean came in personal contact with every one and at one time had the entire student body and faculty, thirteen in all, at his house for dinner. Imagine what a commotion there would be now if the students and faculty could get together, to dine with the dean. Last year the total registration of young men was 554 and that of the present school year (1910-1911) is 641. Since the total enrollment of the University and Academy, exclusive of the department in Chicago, is 3,604, it can be readily seen that the enrollment in the agricultural college is no small factor in the s.udent population. Of these 641 students in the agricultural col- lege thirteen are foreigners, and the remaining 628 represent the total of 18 different states. The agricultural (olleee in here, it has been growing rapidly and if anything can be drawn from the representative attendance, it must be doing something worth while. It is a difficult task to attempt to explain the various courses offered and the scope of work covered by different subjects. A student may specialize in animal husbandry, dairy husbandry, horticulture, agronomy, or take the course in general agriculture, or he may take the general course for prospective teachers of agriculture. A mountain of difficulty to the prospective student is to figure out from a catalogue the course or subjects he should pursue upon entering the col k’ge. Sul jeet can les i selected that for the first year one does not have to signify his intentions of pursuance in any particular course. In fact, this seems to be desirable, for after being in the college a year, the student learns to know himself, gets more familiar with his work and is more capable of making a fair decision as to the line of work he should pursue. Often students who have not had sufficient preparatory training for entei ing the University or who do not intend to complete the entire course, attend for a year or two only and study those subjects which they think will be the most applicable to their needs. Since the beginning of my course, I have had the question put whether or act I was s.i dying anything besides .Just agriculture.” The agricultural student does pursue a few courses that to some people may seem slightly irrelevant, but if a man is going out into the world as a college graduate, lie must have that training which will enable him to come up to tlu standar i of s-'di. Besides the numoro s sub-