Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

Page 21 text:

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

Page 20 text:

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

Page 22 text:

time is near at hand when a man without a college education will be as helpless, and as inefhcient as a soldier without arms. Moreover we are placed here with a definite purposefto leave the world better for our having lived in it. If we hope to carry out this purpose it is necessary for us to make our lives as efh- cient as possible. Our achievements may be small but should our reward be less if we have struggled manfully? A man's real success in life should not be measured by the world's standard which considers only the visible results. If we develop our talents to the best of our ability, surely our lives can not be called a failure. HARRISON H. MCCALL, President Class of-Iune, '08, THE BUSINESS ACCOIVIPLISI-IED 'ERHAPS the business of the nineteen-eight 'tiki' class of Central High School would not be TTT interesting to any who were so unfortunate as not to belong to that class, yet in our own V9.2 world we have done much for which we are justly proud. After having become firmly established as Seniors, we turned our attentions to elections, that most absorbing of inter- ests to classes as well as to nations. The fateful event arrived on October twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh. The successful ones were Harrison McCall, president, Ellen Garlock, vice-president, Margaret Thomson, secretaryg and Louis Hahn, treasurer. The first need of the class was for a constitution, by which to govern itself, and various committees to carry on special work. The executive board with the aid of Mr. Pass- more, after some mental exertion, evolved a constitution that Page eighteen