Central High School - Optimist Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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In honor of the National Celebration of the passage of the Or- dinance of 1787 and the establishment of the Northwest Territory, we submit this DEDICA T I ON and commemorate particularly this clause in the Ordinance: Relig- ion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged. The principles which set our government apart from those of other nations came, not from poli- ticians or statesmen, but from the men of Lexington and Bunker Hill . . .Valley Forge and Yorktown . . .who, with peace assured, had the time for the consideration of their own and the nation's future. For at their behest, Congress adopted the Ordinance of 1787 . . . which gave government to that large region which now comprises the six midwestern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, VVisconsin, and part of Minnesota .... The principles of that ordinance became the first ten amend- ments to the United States Constitution .... As the nation moved westward from sea to sea every state constitution reflected the influence of the Ordinance. Among the exceptional provisions of the Ordinance of 1787, free schools . . . free churches.. free soil. . . free men, none was of greater significance than those relating to education .... Here was laid the foundation of free public education. This land. . .carved from a wilderness-. ..had no wilderness of mind or spirit. There was to be something more than a bare existence gained from the axe . . . the hoe . . .and the rifle. . . . In the hearts of every pioneer was the same dream . . .equality of opportunity for every man .... Thus, as soon as the emigrants touched the soul of their new homes, schools sprang up. In these rude shelters were the lamps of learning lit. The time that has elapsed since 1787 has wrought changes in the Old Northwest which would have staggered the imagination of any man then alive. Here began the political expansion of the United States . . .here the principles which made possible the future development of the nation as we know it today were tirst concretely applied. Such is the historical significance of the Ordinance of 1787. E21