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

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POST-GRADUATES

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THE POST-GRADUATES. Helen Pearl Shin nick. HE picture of last year’s graduating class lias now taken its place beside the pictures of other graduating classes. It is not yet doomed to the oblivion to which former classes have been consigned, for it still has its representatives at the school. Pupils while looking at this picture and commenting on the many athletic victories and on the winning of scholarships by its members, may notice the pictures of people who are in some of their rooms. Although the post-graduates have received their diplomas, many of them returned to Central “in order that others seeing their good work” might profit by their example. The class also contains graduates from other schools. Though not as large in numbers as the others, it makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity. All look up at them with awe and wonder. The Seniors gaze upon them with admiration and are inspired to know that they had such illustrious predecessors. Especially are the post-graduates wondered at by those Seniors who started in with them; but who were persuaded by the love, which their fond teachers had for them, to remain another year l e-fore graduating. The Freshmen seeing them, became dumb with amazement: while the Sophomores and Juniors, not hanqjered by fear of comparison, or by too deep a reverence, look at them with mingled pride and respect. After leaving school this year, some of the post-graduates will never return to any school, judging from their experience this year, that further learning is unnecessary. Others will go to higher schools to join classmates who are already at these institutions: they will not be “green” like other Freshmen, but will make their presence felt there as it is now felt here. This class, always the cynosure of all eyes, still maintains its place, and even after its departure, its influence will be felt. Others, although they may never be able to equal it. will do well to endeavor to follow in its foot-steps.

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THE, SE,NIOR. Judith Connelly. N the eyes of the Faculty, the Senior, like faith, is the substance of things hoped for. He came to them a low-minded mass of Philistine clay, and lo! they have moulded a creature of ideals and aspirations. No longer does he accept their dicta in awed silence; he has honest opinions and convictions of his own, though tactful enough to air them only on auspicious occasions. Life, he has learned to regard in a large way. Accepting the popular theory that schooling is but the preface to the real book, he gives as little attention to it as is usually devoted to a preface. He understands, also, that grades are not such vital matters—that the development of character is the true thing, hor the purpose pf better securing this end. he is often constrained to linger an extra year in school. Though scarcely believable in one of his years, he has formulated his philosophy—carefully extracted it from the English poets. A few of the most satis-factorv specimens have even discovered their purpose in life and it is indeed gratifying to observe that in almost every case, their end is humanitarian. No sordid plans for earning a livelihood trouble the Senior. He enters upon life with the aim of serving the world. Much of his time is spent in trying to put salt on the tails of his ideas. If he is so fortunate as to capture one. it is ardently cherished and developed, and finally embodied in his commencement oration, his donation to society. Yes, in the eyes of the Faculty, the Senior is the substance of things hoped for: in his own eyes, the Senior is a compromise, a mosiac of pet theories.