Central High School - Cehisean Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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High on her velvet terraces, Against the cloucl-Heckecl sky, Stand Central-stands our well-lovecl school school. While swift the years go by. The ivy green caresses her, And all the sunlit clay The young trees on her laroacl, smooth lawn ln dancing breezes play. Sometime, perhaps, those little vines The building will o'errun. The merry trees grow tall, and shade Our Central from the sun. But the mem'ory of her we'll revere As in her youth she stands, And for her welfare, evermore, We'll offer hearts and hands. --By Roberta Grahame

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Message N VVhile experiments of almost unlimited variety are being carried on in our public high schools, and while the school itself is undergoing various changes and mod'ificationS, yet we can say, 1 think, with contidence, that public secondary education is no longer an exper- iment. The growing popularity of the public high school of today is due to an insistent demand for democracy in education. Our ideal of equal Ollpor- tunity for all is rafpidly beeing reached. my this we mean the giving to every individual his opportunity, thru education, to develop whatever capacities he may posses-s. These capacities, differing in pupils, have made necessary present day differentiation in schools and courses. Every high school is faced with two great problleims. We 'must locate the pupil in the course best fitted to his needs. VVe must also, some- IIOW, persuade the pupil tu take advantage of his opportunity. The solution of these two problems depends in large part upon the pupil himself, The finest buildings, the best of equipment, a well trained and enthusiastic faculty are aids and incentives, but a pupil Willing and anxious to learn is a prime necessity in the edu- cational process. Scholarship is, of course. the first consideration of our schools. The functions of a modern high school, however, have been greatly extended. The school of today is attempting to develop in its pupils the atti- tudes and characteristics which will make them valu- able citizens in their community. The problem con- stantly before the individual school is the extent to which this aim is being realized. ln this respect Central has many things to which it points with pride. Some of them are pictured or described in this annual. Others are exemplified by the achieve- ments of our graduates, now numbering several thou- sand. The Whole school with its vas-t opportunities is placed within reach of each individual pupil. His problem is to take advantage of this situation and make the institution minister to his needs and require- ments. Are you, the reader of these lines, getting out of your school all than you can, both in knowledge and in those things not learned from books? J. E. MARSHALL VL- ,I