Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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(The Society of literature att history. MEMBERS: Colors—Purple and White. Mary Alexander, Carrie Bacon, Russell Bartlett, OFFICERS: Inez Clark, Mary Coon, President, - Alfred Seddon Almon Copley, Vice-President, Marie Alexander Bessie Daniels, Ernest Davidson, Secretary, Mabel Jenkins Lorenzo Dewey, Treasurer, - - Fred Elliott Gwendolen Edwards, Fred 11. Elliott, Critic, - Nellie Milam Margaret Elliott, Sergeant-at Arms, Ed North Roy F. Harrison, Geo F. Hax, Samuel Lucretius Historicus, - Ralph Morrison Mablc Hax. Otto E. Hirsch, Reporter, Gwendolen Edwards Walter Clay Hyatt. Mabel Jenkins, Harold P. Kuhn, William H. Maclaren, Ruth McMillan, Ralph K. Morrison, Grace Medes, Nellie Milam, Florence Merry man, Ed. North, Fred W. Pabst, Winnifred Patton, Olive Richardson, Clement Richardson, Gertrude Rockfeller, Florence Ross, Albert M. Scddon. Gene Smith, Chester Swan, Carrie Stoner, Maud Swygard, Archibald Smith, Alein Triplette, Allan VVayman,

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The Society of Literature and History. Photo by 'ohnson.

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THE S. DREVIOUS to March I School dragged on a 21, 1892, the Central High wearisome existence with a fortitude and perseverance that was truly remarkable. To be sure, the Glee Club pounded their guitars and sang most dolefully, the Platos and C. E. C.’s held their insomnia-curing contests, yet there was no real life to be seen, no S. L. H. to keep things going. At that time many of the pupils and teachers felt the need of a society which should have for its object something more than dancing and “running the school.” Accordingly on the twenty-first day of the calendar month of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred four score and twelve, about twenty-five of the best pupils in the school organized a new society. To this organization they gave the rather formidable Latin name, “Societos Letteras Historiaquc,” which has since been translated “The Society of Literature and History,” or the S. L. H. These members, with the help of a few who left the other societies, went to work. Their first and second open sessions were held in the Auditorium and Coates L. H S. Opera House. These were undoubtedly the greatest and most successful undertakings ever attempted by any society. In the years of ’94,’95 and '96, the High School competed in the Interstate Oratorical Contests. In all three of these years S. L. II. members won in both the preliminary and the interstate contests. Since then the other societies have deemed it wisest not to compete with the S. L. H., but t 1 hold little contests of their own, in which they can get at least even honors. During the seven years of the existence of the S. L. H. the Glee Club has expired in agony, the Choral Club has howled through two operas and died, little infantine Freshmen have become grave and reverend university students, “frats” composed of boys sometimes wise, but oftener otherwise, have risen, fought their little fights and subsided; the ferocious cadets have fired their terrific volleys of blank cartridges and then silently retired to the hidden recesses of the cellar; yea, verily, even the much ridiculed Manual boys have beaten old Central to the score of 51 to 39. But through all this turmoil and confusion the S. L. II. lias stood firm as the towering Gibraltar, unconquerable as the “raging Raw,” and so will it ever stand. When old age be our gray heads to the ground we shall s see our grandchildren wave the pur and white, and hear them yell Boom-a-laca! Boom-a-laca! Boom! Boom! Bah! S. L. H.. S. L. H.! Rip! Ray! Rah!