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

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CE.NTRAL H O higher tribute can he paid to the nobility with which the people of Kansas City have responded to the demands which Central High School has made upon their resources, than the photographs on the opposite page, portraying the remarkable growth of that institution. The story which they tell is of an evolution so rapid as to be incredible in any section other than the great and growing W est. And how has Central High School responded to this munificence on the part of Kansas City? It has sent forth some three thousand graduates, to become her best citizens. Moreover, owing to the lack of a higher institution fitted to give a broad general education, Central High School has grown to be the people’s college” of Kansas City. Well does it merit that title. Few colleges proper (if we except the large universities) have a larger or better trained faculty, or more extensive institutional facilities. As for the first, it is well known that no teacher can hope to obtain an instructorship in Central until he has demonstrated his ability, and has gained considerable experience elsewhere. Furthermore. nearly every member of the faculty is a college graduate, and many can boast masters’ degrees. All these qualifications furnish a teaching stafl’ where effectiveness is devoted not alone to the daily grind in the present iittle sphere of education, but also to furnishing a deep inspiration for those who would drink longer and deeper from the Pierian spring. But the most distinctive feature of Central is the completeness of her equipment. To begin with, the observatory, which affords practice for the classes in astronomy, gives an excellent view of the heavens in all directions, and is a better feature of its kind than that possessed by most of the colleges. IGH SCHOOL The trigonometry classes, too, enjoy the use of a set of surveying instruments, thus placing their work upon a more sound and practical basis. Nor must the library be overlooked. It is particularly to be noted that the recent addition of a large number of history l ooks has greatly widened the scope of the outside reading done in that department. The feature most to be remarked upon, however, is the laboratories. Passing over the biological and physiographic laboratories, in themselves of no little merit, we come to the physics department. It is no matter of speculation to say that the testing instruments and demonstrative apparatus furnish to the student an opjxirtunity for work but little below the university standard. The chemistry laboratory is fully as complete in its equipment. The fan system of this room, by which the irritating and offensive gases produced during experiments are constantly drawn off, is a very unusual thing in a high school. Nor is this growth to cease with the past. According to plans already drawn up and approved, we are to have a new nine-room addition on the east. On the first floor will Ik a gymnasium with a twenty-foot ceiling; it will have, when completed, few equals among the high schools of the West. On the second floor will be established a large commercial department; the third floor will lx? devoted to the ever-increasing needs of the art department. The importance of this stef) cannot be over-estimated. So, let us, who are about to graduate, hope that Central's pre-eminence may not cease with the present, but that, in the still further progress which the past suggests, she may continue in the van. E. W. F.

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E. C. Whitk, Vick-Principal. “The hoary head is a crown of plory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.