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

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EDITORIAL. is school spirit, and no one can deny that that is a good thing for the school. Since they have been taken away, [there has been a noticeable lack of school interest. Even the athletic contests do not bring the desired result. What the pupils want is to see an entertainment given by their own schoolmates in their own school; they can go out and see a ball game any time. A school with its nine long months of study, without a little fun here and there, does not rest well on the average school pupil. We sincerely hope that some day in the near future, the old entertainments will be revived and that there will be a little more enthusiasm than now exists in Central. ■j ATRIOTISM is an essential factor in a na. tion’s progress. Love of country, inspiring a common aim in the breasts of men, obliterates all party lines and thus binds the nation together into one great united body. No country can prosper unless there is a deep spirit of patriotism permeating its citizens and it is due to this fact more than any other that the American people stand to-day peerless in their progressiveness. Patriotism is just as essential to a school’s prosperity as it is to a nation’s, and Central lacks nothing quite so much as she docs broad school spirit. Perhaps no one thing tends to stir up school spirit as much as athletics and they should, therefore, receive our heartiest support. Mr. Bainter by his skillful management of our teams, has done the school inestimable good. This Spring he also provided convenient training quarters for the track team thus inducing many boys to go in active training. This is the kind of school spirit that counts and it is the kind we need. We must learn to sacrifice more of our personal interests and desires to the welfare of “Old Central.” This spirit will make us ever victorious on the platform, unconquerable on the track and on the gridiron. Looking back on an enviable record we must draw inspiration to surmount present obstacles and advance onward remembering what has gone before and determined to increase the honors of our proud heritage. Whatever our hand findeth to do Ictus do it with our might, not now one faction and then another but all together. Let us make Central High School a “good place to live in” and when we are graduated we will go feeling the inward satisfaction of having done our work well. —18—

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y President, Mr. Edgar Lovejoy, Vice President, Mr. Roscoe Potts Secretary, Mr. Diller Wood.v' Treasurer, Mr. Arthur Dew, ' Class Prophet, Mr. Will Hogsett, Sergeant-at-Arms, Miss Ethel Murphy, '' Giver of Class Gift, Mr. Roy D. Bradbury, y Class Historian, Miss Maude Neal,i Class Declaimer, Mr. Joseph Ellis. —20