Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The Freshman’s Vision Page twenty-

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School Spirit the Annual issued by the class of 1906 the wish was expressed that its publication might be continued. That the class of 1907 has so done is grabbing to the graduates of 06. The Annual has a legitimate place in school life. It is not issued so as to provide a plaything for the managing editor and his associates nor for the amusement of the student body, but it is issued for the benefit of the whole school. There are few indeed, I believe, who will deny that it is a good thing for a school to have what is known as school spirit. There should be a strong bond of union between the students, impelling all to work for the glory of the school. That there is little of this spirit at Central we all know. However, I believe the Annual will tend to build up a school patriotism, a patriotism which will frown upon unfair tactics in athletics, which will always be ready to cheer the opposing team and which will be as eager to honor its scholars as its athletes. The Annual is the production of the whole school, each class participating in its publication. Almost everyone- buys it and everybody reads it. In it a high athletic standard is set up. which cannot help but influence the student body. By having this permanent record of the victories and defeats of the foot ball, basket ball, track, base ball, hockey and debating teams, the interest of the student is quickened and the loyalty to his school strengthened. The successful students are given an honorable place in the Annual, their praises sung, and they are held up as an example to be followed. Who will say that this may not influence the lowly Sophomore or Freshman who reads these accounts. Thus I might continue narrating the benefit derived from the Annual but space forbids. THEODORE THOMSON. Class ’06. P,gc twenty «x

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The Freshman HEN we were young, we did as the young, and there was a great deal of similarity in our actions and desires. Through the Declaration of Independence we were to enter this par with enabled world on a others, but the class to belong when we attain adolescence will de- Miss Jean Robertson which we will our majority and pend entirely upon our own efforts. Now we are Freshmen, and presume the verdure is very apparent to those who follow in this publication, but whom in fact, we are following; i. e.: The Sophomores, The Juniors, and The Seniors. How we reverence the names!! If we work manfully in the heat of the day, we too, may become as they, and this is our ambition ; but time alone will carry us to this goal, and time is a road that we can travel only once. Each day, as we pass, is a step further, which, once taken, cannot be retraced. As a class, we have the advantage, for we have the privilege of traveling yet, this road that the others traveled to become Seniors, and we shall obtain seniority only too soon. How we wish we could profit by the experience of those who have preceded us, but we must meet all issues ourself and, as we meet them, so will we rise or fall. Until now, we have lived independently of each other, but entering the High School, as Freshmen, we become an organization which, for four years will bind us. On the surface that sounds very immaterial, until you stop to think how incomplete an individual is. Put a man on an isolated island, away from the assistsnce or companionship Freshmen Representatives otJier menf and what is the result? Rob- inson Crusoe would not have been as successful as he was without the ship, filled with the result of other men’s labor. Andrew Preston Peabody says: We have heard about Page twenty-eight