Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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xv xv' Class Offrcers Harrison McCall,Pres. Ellen Garlock, Vice-Pres Margaret Thomson, Secy. Louis Hahn, Treas.

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o ,. YYSKSQPZZQQ ins.. 4' Room Principals We Have Known H. C. Richardson L. N. McWhorter Thos. E. Hayward Margaret Siddall Helen G. Allard Fanny Forester Ida Probett Andalusia Brooks Page Hfleen

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A LAST WORD Honor and shame from no condition riseg Act well your part: lhere all lhe honor lies.fPope M us ask ourselves this question seriously for the Q I A whole course of our future lives may depend vi . upon the ideas and purposes which are em- ,X ' bedded in our minds during the process of Qj . School Life-What has it meant to us? Let if . ' our earlier training. It is a noble thing to start out in life with the determina- tion to attain the mark set. But this resolve is not in itself sufficient to insure a young man's future. The mark must be worthy of an effort and the effort must be worthy of the mark. The young man who chooses what he is reasonably certain of being able to attain may reach his mark, but he will go no higher. How different it is in the case of the young man who takes for himself the highest ideal, who sets for himself a mark difficult of attainment. Though his greatest purpose may never be consummated, yet in the struggle he has gained strength and in striving for the greatest he has achieved the great. It is often said That college is the place where the only true and lasting friendships are formed, and where lasting and valuable impressions are made upon the mind. But this is not always true. We cannot get away from the influence of our earlier education and training. The one who starts into High School with no definite pur- pose, and with no desire but for acquiring an education, may come out at the end of the course with much book learning, but he will not have acquired that development of character and mind and have attained to that decree of excellence which a High School course is intended to give. The very ease with which a higher education can be ob- tained now seems to turn us from it. We think it is not worth the struggle. This condition of affairs should not exist, for the Page seventeen