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

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 These contests were so stimulating to members and so much appreciated by patrons and scholars, that a neat sum of money was accumulated and is now in the bank at interest in the name of Treasurer Peters. While we do have a good time now and then, it is admitted by all that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, as well as Jill a dull girl. Very serious work is done in these societies and in the L. 0. the rule is, “Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may ’ This was exemplified in the last ball programme, under the auspices of the club. No less than four distinguished literary lights submitted original suggestions for the principal number of the entertainment, and while all were of the most exalted order of literary effort, the keen, practiced intellects of the committee ruled on each without fear or favor, and condemned three captains of literature to bite the dust of defeat, and placed the wreath of victory most worthily where it 1x3longed. This entertainment has been declared the best of its class since the beginning. Do we not deserve encouragement to grow into such women as now — direct the wise counsel of the Athe-ncinn and such men as now bravely do and talk in the cause of making Iv. C. a good place to live in ? Loving T. Crutcher. f —31—

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Central Literary Club. HISTORY of any country, association or individual which must be written once each year, and condensed to a limited number of words, must of necessity become as difficult of enjoyment and digestion as a 30-days feast of quail, one taken each day. Glancing over the work of the C. L. C. historians of former years, we find the facts concerning the ancestry, birth and career of this, the leading organi- zation of “Old Central,” repeatedly set forth. The supremacy of our society is fully, and to us, satisfactorily attested by its very name, “Central Literary Club.'’ This indicates clearly that it is “The” literary club, or more concisely expressed, “IT.” More practical proof of this superiority is the fact that up to the time when the right to contest for literary honors was taken from the societies, the C. L. C. held seven more medals for merit than its next competitor. —30—

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SOCIETY OF LITERATURE AND HISTORY.