Ben Blewett High School - Brochure Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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agiraruzrorat JEZEEEZN pulses that you and every other boy and glrl has? Or have you a long l1st of al1b1s that you thlnk excuse you? Lastly IS the government all wrong or are you wlllmg to accept It and strrve to correct lt where rt rs weakg If you have read thls far suppose you go back and read the quotatlon agaln I can have no better or truer wlsh for the boys and glrls of thls school than that thls school may vvrth others help you to measure up to th1s dehnltron of an educated person C H Sackett tlx A H I guess I can get by How often one hears this expressron nowadays Many people seem to have adopted It as a sort of if motto for thelr l1ves But lb It a safe motto for any of us I 3 MQ' 0 If we were to look at the hves of any of the men or women who have been real successes ln llfe we should hnd that they are 16Cpl6 who were not content wlth srmply gettrng by Whatever they have undertaken they have acconaphshed by means of therr greatest possrble efforts A bellever 1n get by cannot be a real success IU any llfe Work He 15 the one who mstead of makmg opportunltles for hrmself or preparrncf hrm self for opportumtles when they do come IS dr1ft1ng wa1t1ng for somethmv to turn up Does the successful doctor engrneer or archltect sxrnply try to get by 1n l'11S work? Thmk what catastroph1es would result lf such were the case A engmeer who bullds a bridge does not construct It strong enough slmply to susta1n the maxlmum load lt wrll probably have to bear Instead he bullds a brldge to carry live or ten tlmes the heavlest welght A successful career 15 bullt lrke a secure brldge wth dally preparation not just enough preparatron but five trmes ten tlmes as much To succeed 1n school work rn your work of after lxfe does not mean crcssmg a dehnrte border lrne There lb a twrhght zone where the ordrnary student the ord1nary behever m get by ns left whlle the ambltlous go on to success beyond Not to obtam the coveted word Passed but to obtam a mastery over the subject IS the goal It IS not vvrth the motto get by that the pleasant land of achievement 1s reached G C Forsman l , .ft ' x' , + - ' 1 . 6 I lg I I V ' 5 Y 3 v fr 1 lm ., f?7- 4 ,, A . 1 1. , , . - ' . r' . .4 , sl ' A grxthg , c . 1 . . , , . ' ' kt ' 17 1 n ' V L. . . H ,, M . . . ' ' ' v 3 . rs ' y . r tw .. H A 9 I I . 4 . I1 D 4 . . . , N . M . , , S 1 A . . - N . 1 . ' I. . v ' , s I , V . . . H ,, . i . . . - , Y ., . At A YI ' 1 . ' ' ' li 77

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mam ff In I tluc ltcd PLISUII HAVE just cleaned out my desk here at school and put things in order I don t often do it I fear you may have noticed that fact l XI think buildings ought to be so constructed that desks could be iff 6 tucked away where they wouldn t show Besides after you clean up your desk and put things away you can t find them' But in one httle drawer I found a piece of paper on which I had copied this sentence from the message to the legislature of Iowa by the governor at that time Mr William L Harding I copied lt a year or so ago because nt expressed so well the ideally educated individual This IS the quotatlon The best conception of an educated person today is one whose mind is trained to enjoy and appreciate the best things of life whose hands are tra1ned to do some useful labor well whose heart is attuned to the noblest impulses and whose patrlotism is grounded on the fundamentals of our form of govern ment IRM 9 Principals superintendents and educators in general are criticised some Scmetimes they themselves feel uncertain hard as they are trying that they are furnishing the best kind that should be provided Some people think that the process of educat1on is not a progressive one that because the father studied Latln and Algebra when he entered high school the son or daughter should do likewise Perhaps the son or daughter should and perhaps not It is worth while occasionally to check up our school life against some defined ideal to see 1f we have any right to expect to attam it What are the best things of l1fe to which Mr Harding refers? It is rather difficult to make a list of them but we know what they are they vary with the mdi vidual but in most cases they may fairly be called best thmgs Are you in your school life learning to enjoy and appreclate these or does your school life seem to make you feel as if you were being driven in a deep trench so deep you can t see out at either side but can see only an almost endless path in front of you some day you will be able to get out when you quit school or graduate If so you are losmg out on one of these aims of education Which kind of training are you now getting in school? Is the school teaching you only theoretical things or practlcal as well? And do you do them just so so or well9 Schools are improving all the t1rr1e in this respect and they will improve a great deal more I think that when the author spoke of hands that are trained he meant to mclude all mdi viduals that are tramed and trained not merely to do work of a D or C grade but rather always of a B or A grade So you have a right to ask yourself whether the school is helping you so that later you may do your work according to the B or A standard, And then have you the strength of character to carry out the noble lm I 0 ,ti ' ' A . A 11 in j x 1 1 I A C I , n c I , - - - . s - . , . , , . 5 YV times because they do not provide the proper type of education for children. Q . V l U 4 . V 4 . - . v . H . ,, , . . ' . I . U . ,, n , 1 . - . ,. . . . . ' Q ' l ' If u U ss vv , Q it as It vs ' 4 , . ' nt 'Y tr 91 1 1

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afmttrertt mam SC H001 DAX S I wlsh I were stlll golng to school OW often do we hear older people say th1s to chlldren who growl Vg, 'W and cornplaxn about havmv to go to school? Do grown people Vzl 3 ll mean th1s statement or are they saymg xt to make the boys and wgggfil g1rls feel better about 1t9 Try th1s experlment the next tlme you see a group of adults at le1sure 1n a roorn go to the plano and begm to play School Days and see the pleasure wlth whrch one or more of them will jom you 1n smgmg School days school days Dear old golden rule days Is all of th1s a sham? Not long ago 1n one of our mght schools an old man was asked why he thought It necessary to attend school at hls age H answered I had to go to work when I was twelve years old I know that what I am studymg now w1ll not do me much good any more but ever smce I have been workmg I have always wanted to go back to school Now I am g1vmg myself that pleasure Was th1s pretense? Every summer the col leges and un1vers1t1es are crowded wxth men and women many of them no longer young who come w1th happy hearts to be enrolled once more rn school Look at these figures They will UIVS you some 1dea of the number of grown ups who went to school last summer because among other reasons they wanted to g1ve themselves that pleasure Cahfornla Unlverslty enrolled 7864 Chlcago Un1vers1ty enrolled 6458 College of Clty of New York enrolled 3300 Colorado Unxverslty enrolled 3264 Columbxa UTIIVCTSIIY N Y enrolled 11809 Cornell Unlverslty enrolled 2739 M1Chlg3H Unlversxty enrolled 2797 Mlnnesota Unlverslty enrolled 2681 Texas Unlversxty enrolled 2588 Wlsconsm Unlverslty enrolled 4547 If school days are a per1od of Joy and satxsfactlon to grown people how much more must they mean to boys and Urrls who can glve thelr entlre tlme and energy to them, Are you storlng away for future years happy mem OTICS of your present school davsg Are you enjoymg your lessons rnstead of merely learnlng them? Some day when you are an adult w1ll you be able to slng and as though you meant lt too ichool days school days Dear old olden rule days even though you have had no experlence wnth Readlng and wr1t1nU and rthmetlc Taught to the tune of a h1ckory stlck 9 1 Phxhpme Crecellus n 0 I 'Q ff' If 1 A - . . U 'H ., 1 Y V 1 K A A A K at ' ' ' 99 free - - .,', I x r 'll' mqi' K , 'ff-Y-' ns. ' ' , g : as Ll., Af ' ' ' W. Uv 3 ' as . 5 1,..1 le... ' . ' ' . ' 1' 'fAt s . Q-on ' . ' tt 70 ' ' 1 1 .. , , N A 4 . T Q ' I . C .L , . v , . . . ,, . - Y , . o ' o , . . . 4. ,.. v b - - , ,- ' .- AA 4 . . N - u v U t, . t H . . . , Q . 1 5,1 A w ' ' 7' .-r I