Central High School - Booster Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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Glnauzhw MISS MAY V. DUNN Oratory, Declamatory, Dramatics MR. OWEN E. HORNE MR. R. B. CARMICHAEL Athletics Debate Page Number S

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W ' N Egg A Rernosrecr E23 E. ' J THE EDUCATIONAL YEAR BY PRINCIPAL B. E. MCCORM1CKl . r The school year 1913-14 has been a remarkably satisfactory one for the La Crosse High School. Perhaps the most gratifying feature has been the large increase in enrollment over that of the previous year. This amounted to an even hundred, making a total for this semester of eight-hundred-seventy-five students, almost twice as many as were enrolled during the corresponding semester of four years ago. Then, too, the shrinkage has been very small, no more students having withdrawn for sickness, work, on account of leaving the city, and other reasons, than at any time during the past decade. All of this, of course, signifies greater and broader interest and increasing confidence in high school and the work that is being done here. Perhaps no less gratifying than this is the greater number of graduates this year, the class numbering one-hundred-twenty-five, as compared to one- hundred-four a year ago, eighty-four two years ago, and forty-four five years ago. To the analytical mind this has great significance. It shows a wonderful awakening to the advantage of a high school diploma, it means that the com- munity no longer looks upon graduation as an empty honor, of benefit only to those who attend collegesg it means the merchant, the business man, and the tradesman have come to realize that it signifies a certain intellectual attainment on the part of graduates, which gives them the advantage in fac- tory, in shop, in stores, and in office over their less fortunate competitors, and finally it seems that the high school is taking its proper place in the com- munity as a great factor, a great shop to prepare boys and girls for life and good citizenship. ' It seems to me that high schools in general, and especially our own, have made rapid strides during the past few years toward the greater development in students of those things that make for good citizenship and character. I refer to the new method of government and to the new courses designated especially to be of use to those boys and girls who step from high school into the world, confronted by the necessity of making a living. For some few years our high school has enjoyed the freedom of co-operation or self government. From the very beginning it has been a success, and yet the past year has brought about the greatest perfection so far accomplished. That is, a larger per cent of students than ever before have exercised that self control and exhibited that strength of personality so necessary for the success of this method of discipline. It has been especially gratifying to note the increasing readiness on the part of students to accept responsibility and to witness the better judgment exercised by students no older, in fact younger, than those having a corresponding classification some few years ago. Among the new courses that have been especially popular are those in Manual Training, Millinery, and Physical Education for boys. The opening Page Nu mber Seven teen