Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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in the elements of simple democracy and efficiency. Make it just as good as the best. Permit nothing to interfere with its proper growth and work. In doing this one thing well, your name will go into posterity hallowed by the love and gratitude of many. You will not have lived in vain. The community in which you have lived and labored will be better because you lived in it. 'Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee. Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. To silence envious tongues; be just and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's. Thy God's and Truth's. Your Principal, JOHN N. GREER. Page twelve

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To The Graduating Class HE quality and character of a school is measured by the quality and character of its graduates. Whatever Central High stands for should be reflected in a large degree in your efficiency as students, in your ideals of life and in your character as citizens in our beautiful and growing city. As students you certainly have established a record of which we all are proud. 1 he boys especially have raised their average standing by several per cent when compared with the standings of boys in former classes. You not only have the typical scholar, Henry Bruchholz, as your leader and valedictorian, but you have so many others very high up in the scholarship estimates. While your principal is always proud of high scholarship and devotion to study among the students, you have thru your entire course stood for that which is to him above scholarship. You have ever shown the beautiful spirit of respectful obedience, and in doing so, have established new and advanced ideals in the student life of the school. The graduating class reflects its standards and ideals upon the other classes. Whatever it does, the others emulate. Your clean record, therefore, has given spirit and encouragement to the whole building. The school will always be better because you have been students in it. As you go forth from the school, I hope each of you will maintain those standards and ideals in life that you have shown as a class in school. Character is more than scholarship. Our country now needs men of character and high ideals more than it needs any other thing. If our country is to endure as a republic if it is to maintain itself among the enlightened and progressive nations it must depend upon the character and ideals of the men and women who come up thru the public schools. Let me urge upon you therefore, that whenever and wherever you have an opportunity in the future that you do all you can to maintain and support the public school system of you community. Maintain it P gr eleven

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