Central High School - Prospectus Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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The Class of 1912 is about to face a new set of conditions. No longer shall we obey the summons of the school bell. Our text books will soon be closed, not to be reopened and high school days will be over. Yet we shall not cease to be students. We are closing our geometries and histories to learn theorems in the greater geometry of life and to enact history in the conditions that surround us. We are only going “out of school life into Life’s school.” In this greater school, as in the one just completed, we shall succeed or fail in proportion to the effort we make and the ideals we set before ourselves. There will be those who succeed; there will also be the “hunkers.” Which each shall be rests with himself. But our best efforts will avail us nothing unless we direct them toward the attainment of some definite purpose. “They build too low who build beneath the stars.” While our positions after leaving school must inevitably be very unlike, yet to all of us is given the one great equal chance—to aim not lower than the stars. Indeed, we can do more, we can labor toward the accomplishment of that aim. And he cannot be a failure who earnestly strives to attain a high ideal. The editors wish to thank the several members of the faculty, and all others, who have aided them in making this book a success. They are especially indebted to Miss Lilian Gold and Miss Mary S. Seymour, faculty members of the Staff, for valuable suggestions and criticisms. The Staff also desires to state its appreciation of the painstaking efforts of Mr. Becker, the Class photographer.

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Copan, (the Jfimtottcn (Citii By The Hon. Fenton R. McCreery, former United States Minister to Honduras When Cortez landed in the Western World in 1519 he found Mexico ruled by Montezuma, with Tenochtitlan or the City of Mexico as his Capital. The Aztecs were a semi-civilized people, agriculturists, stone-workers, potters, warriors. The Great Temple of Mexico was a marvel in the eyes of the Spaniards, as was the splendor of Montezuma’s Court and Palaces. The ability and strategy, the arque- buses and powder, the horses and armor of the Spaniards soon overthrew Monte- zuma and planted in the Kingdom of the Aztecs the standard of Castile and Ara- gon. As the Dominion of Spain was extended to the North and to the South re- mains of Cities which had been deserted for centuries were discovered. These Cities were overgrown by the tropical forrest long years before Montezuma ruled in Mexico. There were Uxmal and Chichen-Ytza in Yucatan, Palenque in Chiapas, Quirigua in Guatemala and Copan in Honduras. In July of last year I traveled on horseback seven days, from Guatemala City to western Honduras to visit the ruins of Copan. We took a couple of mules for the baggage and a guide. When night came we swung our hammocks in some wayside hut and occasionally indulged in the luxury of a cot in some hamlet. Before daylight we were on the trail. From the modern town of Copan we were taken by the Alcalde to the ruins of the ancient City two miles away. Emerging from a corn field we came into an opening covered with high brush. The machetes of the ten men brought by the Alcalde cleared a path through the brush. We came to a stone pillar fifteen feet square. On one side was carved the figure of a man with an elaborate head dress, ear ornaments, bracelets, a coat extending below the waist, sandals and orna- ments just below the knees. The face was round and smooth, the eyes slightly suggested the Asiatic. On the opposite side of the column was another figure carved in the stone. They may have been Kings, Chiefs or Sages. On the other two sides of the pillar are inscriptions which have not been deciphered, in fact none of the many inscriptions found in Copan have been deciphered. There were two rows of these monoliths with carved figures facing each other. It may have been the Acropolis or the Via Sacra of this long forgotten Na- tion. This Avenue led into a Plaza or Square on the four sides of which were truncated Pyramids of earth with stone steps covering their heads. Here was a pyramid the size of our High School cut off square at the second story. On the top were ruins of buildings, temples probably, into the walls of which enormous trees have grown. From this Plaza avenues led to other Plazas around which were temple-crowned pyramids and remains of buildings. At the base of one of the Pyramids was a frieze of death’s heads with a large sacrificial stone a few feet away. There were a number of altars evidently for sacri- fice, among the ruins which extended along the bank of the Rio Copan for two