Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Central at Present

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Classes of 09 T he classes of ’09 deserve our heartiest congratulations. You came into Central when we began to feel the presence of numbers too much increased. For three years you bravely and without complaint stood the ever increasing throng, until in your junior year you could scarcely find your friends each day. In your senior year only have you known what it is to have things comfortable and roomy. When I consider your merits from all the different standpoints, I am very proud of you. Your scholarship is excellent. Your conduct is all that I could ask. Your spirit and good will is a “triple plus.” You passed through the period very annoying to us all. when the “frats” were exterminated. You all now agree with me that there is not a feature of the real work of the school but that is much improved because the “frat” is no more. Every one has noticed and spoken of the “united spirit; everybody works and cheers for Central.” Old Central is united and herself again. The knockers seem to have disappeared from every class room. For all this we are greatly indebted to you who have been in the very midst of it all and borne it as true soldiers, battling for the right. Besides you lost a full third of your number by the opening of the West. It was not easy to let so many good friends go. They, however, have gone forth to establish a worthy standard in a new school. You have not faltered, but closed up the ranks and made good for Old Central. No class, even though unbroken, has made a better record than you. I want you to know that your principal and faculty appreciate it. You will soon go forth to advanced work. Old Central expects you to do your duty. I hope no “flunk records” will come back to me from your different colleges and universities. 1 his will not happen if you will only c’o as you have been so often urged to do. Do all you can to help Central to get “remodeled.” Come and visit us when you can and give the undergraduates a “boost” when they need it. Do stanch and strong work wherever you may go. Be stanch and strong men and women for truth’s sake. Affectionately, your Principal, JOHN N. GREER. 9

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A XC ord to the WVse I shall try Id say net much more than a word and we will take it for granted that you are wise. An appropriate topic for me to discuss would be. I think, “ I kings As They Ought to Be.” “ I hings As They Ought to Be,” constitute the stufl of which creams are said to be made. I here is not one of you who has not had such a dream, and the quality of that dream has set for you a standard of noble living. Your conception of what things ought to be is going to determine for you the measure of your success or failure, ycur happiness or disappointment in the days that are before you, and very largely, too, will it determine the same elements in the future of these with whom you come: in contact and whose lives yours will influence. So, when you dream, dream noble dreams; let your aims be high, your purposes lofty. Consider nothing as worthy of your interest and effort unless it makes you ai d those about you better and truer men and women for having participated in it. Vale! Vale! Vale! 11 l. n. McWhorter.