Braham High School - Echo Yearbook (Braham, MN)

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1-iw? -1411011-ini-vial' 1--141'-ini-niwidili -zuqnnxnqnnqpnao-:ern-mvcmnsi. school education. Many regard this preliminary step in advanced learning the last one required to complete the period of schooling. Here, then, is the need of a correct explanation of the matter. True enough, after the senior graduation, qualifications are attained, the participant is prepared for fa fair start in life as far as primary education is concerned, but he or she is far from being adequately supplied with a knowledge capable of meeting the deeper affairs of the world with success. Here is the definition. High School is a preparatory for higher and concentrated learningg the attainment of which is the final goal of institutional education. Thus we readily comprehend the fact that a High School course is only a preliminary preparation for the significant finish which is to come. One important detail concerning this preparatory step should be dealt with in order that a true understanding of its underlying principles is rendered. The main subjects, English, mathematics, history and science are taught thoroughly in courses of four, three and two years respectively. This plan is used for the very reason that the subjects mentioned are the fundamentals of knowledge which are to form the growing foundations upon which the higher education obtained must rest. The sole purpc se of the plan is to do this in the best way possible. That is preparation and will answer sufficiently for the purely education- al side of the ideals involved. There is another phase of the subject, however, which exists in close connection with the foregoing and which is extended to a greater or less degree in every high school. This is social education and training. Politeness, respect, responsibility, character and correct form, and many other adult qualities are very quickly impressed upon the minds of every Freshman entering high school. Co-operation and system are taught. social association is begun, indispensable keys to health and right living are deliberately offered, in fact all things so important in after life are brought out constantly and vividly to every developing young mind in each particular plan of instruction. This then, is also representative of that one outstanding factor, preparation. Thus it has been proven and is consequently a true fact, that a high school education is mainly a preparatory for higher and concentrated learning and clearly shows the urgent necessity for every high school student's possession of that attainment which is the final goal of institut- ional education. -William Harris A SOPHOMORES VERSION A school may be compared to a rose bush. The Freshmen would then correspond to the green color of the bush. They add greenness and freshness. In the opening of the season, they are not very prominent, but soon they become conspicuous. However, no

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aa-feznzoi 101 1 ioiauis-ioivgugnin-1 ri 11411513 -2101: 1,1 1 iv: in 3 zuioiu ici is in 1- in in 311101-xi- ini 301 is iniuia-1 1 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A SCHOOL ANNUAL? Memory is that which binds us to the past. When we as high school students have completed our course, we will look back upon the days when we tried as Freshmen, Sophomores, Jun- iors and Seniors to gain our credits, that we might the more satis- factorily approach the goal which lay before us in life. The majority of us will undoubtedly remember these days with mingled joy and regret. 'That which is dear to us will cling to our hearts throughout life, but as we grow older our minds will become too crowded with the every- day cares of our work, to entertain sweet memories of the days which are gone forever. Perhaps only at unfrequent moments will we search in the depths of our mind for remiscences of the best days of our life, school days. This is the first year our school has published an annual, but we hope it will not be the last. The purpose of any school annual is two-fold. First we wish to portray school-life to our community, and to picture all the different phases and activities of the students as one body. Perhaps others do not see school-life as we see it ourselvesg therefore we wish to convince them that school work is not an uninteresting routine of studies, but instead it serves as a miniature melting pot, where scores of ambitious. hope- ful young persons come together to increase their knowledge under in- fluential pedagogy, to partake in athletic contest, and so to develop themselves both physically and intellectually. Oh no! we students in Braham high school are not always sober nor do we go about with long faces. Oftentimes comical, striking incidents occur, which give us all a good hearty laugh and which leave in our faces deep laughter-wrinkles fwhich we do not wish to have removed by beauty specialistsj. Several years hence we may say as Holms that those were the lusty days of long ago, when you were Bill and I was Joe. Secondly, we wish to have this High School Annual serve as a memo- randum. for we consider the day when the present is past, when our brows will show the marks of age, when our eyes will be dimmed by the mist of cares and sorrows, when we will have almost completed our task on earth, to pass a weary moment we take out this High School Annual and once more turn the yellow pages, study the pictures of those dear old school-mates, and recall experiences both pleasant and painful, we shall treasure it as it were a golden heirloom. -Ethel Thornberg A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION A definition of the subject in question is mainly essential in be- ginning the discussion of so popular and important a topic as high 1 iviui--1 101

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isiniloioioiniui iuiuiui loin? ini Quark 1 iris-11:1 ici 1:1 one pays much attention to them.. In spite of this fact that greenness is continued until toward the end of the season when it decreases until finally the Freshmen are no more. - The Sophomores would correspond to the roots. Although they do not make up the whole plant, they are by far the most essential part. They are the real workers. They start their work as soon -as possible each season and continue until the season is over. They are the ones upon which the success of the plant depends to a very large extent. They do their work even under very- poor conditions, but when -the teachers for some reason do not do their part, the Sophomores cannot do theirs, and as a result, the bush makes very little progress. They' receive a shamefully small amount of attention. The teachers seem to think that it is only a matter of course that they should work as they do. The Juniors correspond to the stem and branches. Much of what is true of the Sophomores is also true of the Juniors. They are also very important. They have risen to a higher level than the Sophomores and are given more attention. A The Seniors correspond to the fiowers. In the beginning of the season they are scarcely noticed but still they hold their heads up in a very proud manner. As they develop they assume a still prouder aspect and they are changed to a very marked degree. They are -merely orna- mental as they have nothing to do with the welfare of the plant. Seniors receive far more attention than they deserve. They leave the school when the season is over. ' ' The teachers correspond to the leaves. As the leaves control the temperature of the plant, the teachers control the work of the students. As the chlorophyl in the leaf changes the elements of the air and soil into compounds which can be used by the root and shoot, the teachers brain simplifies the knowledge in the text books sothat the students can under- stand it. ' . T -Clarence Mickelson. ' ABRAHAM LINCOLN , No man since Washington has become to Americans so familiar or so beloved a figure as Abraham Lincoln. He is to them the representa- tive and typical American, the man who best embodies the political ideals of the nation. He is typical in the fact that he sprang from the masses of the people, that he remained through his Whole career a man of the people, that his chief desire was to be in accord with the belief and wishes of the people, and that he never failed to trust in them and to rely on their support. - ' U He belongs, however, not only 'to the United States, but to the 'whole of civilized mankind. He is now grown to be a conspicious figure, not only in the United States, but in the whole civilized world. He guided the nation which is now the world's foremost power, through a period of