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

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EDITORIAL When we arrive at the end of our school year it is productive of a certain amount of pleasure or pain to look back over that year and see what we have done, or what we have left undone. If the realization of victory is enjoyable, we of Central need not fear any pangs of disappointment for the events of the year, for Central has seen unbounded success. In contests of intellectual ability she has swept everything before her. ()f the six prizes offered to pupils of the entire state. Central has received four. Mr. Meade Woodson won the gold medal. Miss Amelia Frauens won the silver medal, and Miss Marian Rider won the bronze medal in the “Sons of the Revolution” essay contest. competing against a large number of contestants from all parts of Missouri. Mr. Kenneth Tapp won the scholarship offered by the t niversity of Missouri to all the high schools of the state for the best debate delivered in Colum-

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F'RESHMEJW- THE class of '11 is composed of what is known this year as “Freshies but when next year comes and vve are “safe, safe in the Sophomore field. then it v ill be the 12‘s that are the “Freshies of old Central. At present vve take algebra, physiology and all of the other first year subjects, but one consolation is that we are not the only ones that arc taking algebra, at least, for there are some people who have been going two and three times as long as we have and who are still taking algebra I. It is true that at first we had some little difficulty in going around the halls with an unconcerned look upon our faces. But now that we are becoming used to the dignified ways of the Seniors, the cool hauteur of the Juniors, and the artless chatter of the Sophomores, we feel that we are to be congratulated on having none of these characteristics. A few things about Central are natural wonders to us; for instance, the janitors. Seemingly their use is only to bother the “fussers and to cry “shift to the “loafers. Another is the fire-escape, which we have observed is more often dusted by Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors and teachers than by any of our number. We used to have a Freshman class organization, but as some of those who did not get an office felt so hurt, we have decided to let the Sophomores. Juniors and Seniors have the only class organizations. Some wise Sophomore has said that only ten per cent of the Freshmen are able to escape the penitentiary or the asylum for the weak minded. W e know, however, that the CLASS OF 'll. Sophomores are not honored with their class name in the locals as often as we are. These people will also notice that we did not call the Luminary office an elevator, or get lost as often as they did last year. This fact proves that we are the best Freshman class that has ever lighted up the halls of Central with their youthful brilliancy. We still have a few green ones among us though, for it is a known fact that a small girl in Study Hall held up her hand and broke the silence by calling out Teacher several times. 1 lowever, sonic of us have never made a worse mistake than to make a wrong turn in the halls, since the new annex has begun to darken them, and it is whispered around school that even the Seniors only avoid collisions by letting their superior knowledge light up the way. We have noticed that some of the Seniors are going to leave us. Js it because they think they could not run the school so easily with our class as Sophomores? We are not quite conceited enough to think this. We look up to the Seniors, as a matter of custom, not duty. But we will congratulate them on the fine examples they have set for us younger ones. The chief ambition of most of the Freshmen is to become more high and mighty than the seniors, more self-important than the Juniors and worse “bluffers than the Sophomores. LYLE HAYES. X. B. This year we have been watching and waiting hut watch out for us next year.

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bia on “High School Day. Mr. Henry O’Brien, against all the high schools of the West, took the University of Chicago scholarship for the best examination in mathematics. So much for state contests. In this city there were three prizes oferec! for the best essays on the art exhibit held here recently. Of these. Miss Ethel Wcngcrt received first prize, and Mr. George Hayward third prize, both pupi’s of Central. But Central students have been active within the school also, 'l'he prize offered by the Daughters of the Revolution for the best essay on “The Santa Fe Trail was won by Miss Amelia Frauens. The Christmas play was produced by Central pupils under the direction of Messrs. Dillenbcck and Gordon. Throughout the year students have in a large measure supplied the weekly assembly programs. The various society and club entertainments and the miscellaneous programs have been instructive, as well as enjoyable, 'l'he inter-society contest, the culmination of the society work was a great success, both as to enthusiasm and as to intellectual merit. However, not only in the intellectual field has Central been successful. She has surpassed other schools in athletics. also. She won the basket-ball championship, and the track championship over her sister schools. e may be justly proud to have been members of Central during the past year. May she continue to surpass is our greatest desire. The time has come when a large body of pupils is to leave high school, never to return as a body of students. W e cannot prophesy the future events of their lives. e cannot say whether they will be successes or failures. e cannot know. W e do know, however, that if failure shall be their portion, they shall have no one but themselves to blame. We know, also, that they will have to bear that failure for themselves. College is a place for men and women; the business world is a place for men and women; and whether these seniors become college students, or whether they go into the commercial world immediately, they must be men and women. They must be ready to encounter and solve much harder problems than they have encountered in school. They must be ready to bear greater glory than they have borne in school, and to bear greater defeat than they have borne here. We feel sure, however, that this class will breast the tide, and will come out victorious, as it has over the trials during this last year.