Central High School - Prospectus Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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• These are unusual days. Ordinarily, the high school graduate plans on attending college or getting a job soon after gradua- tion, but now that jobs are few and funds for college scarce, the plans of many must be changed. The real test of every indi- vidual is whether conditions are used as an excuse or an opportunity. No one need be idle. If college must be postponed or a job secured later, there is ample opportunity for further preparation. Many skilled in law have laid the ground work for success in obscure study in the office of another; the architect designs and plans ahead; the chemist spends days in his laboratory ex- perimenting: the skilled mechanic has trained his eye and his hand long before his skill is recognized. May every student of Central High School have the courage and the will to be busy on something worth while, whether in college, employed in business or industry, as an unpaid ap- prentice, or in home study. L. H. LAMB Superintendent oj Schools • The Muses were gifted with prophetic power. The Prospectus is a Book of Youth, and therefore a Book of Prophecy, 'i outh is always a Prophecy of better things ahead. The Muses were first called by a Greek word which meant The Remembrances.'' The Prospectus . . . now a Book of Prophesy . . . will, with the years, become a Book of Remembrances. The Muses were represented as combin- ing Seriousness and Gaiety. The Prospectus is a history of school days . . . days of Serious Purpose com- bined w ith much of Gaiety and Happiness. The Muses were the goddesses of Poetry, of the Arts, and of the Sciences. They guarded and fostered the finer things of life. The Prospectus is a guardian of those opportunities and traditions of Central High School w hich add these finer things to our school life and which send us on with an ability to appreciate and to enjoy them. The Ancients called upon the Muses for inspiration in their Poetry, their Art, and their Science. Whatever was worthy, they dedicated to them. The Prospectus has chosen well in making the Muses the theme for 1933. J. E. WELLWOOD Principal PAGE 15