Central High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Uhr Nveh nf EI Ziuninezz Qlnurm in Q9nr High Svrlgnnl HE AGE in which We are living is largely commer- cial. The people of our Nation are to a great extent dominated by this commercial spiritg We feel the throb of business life about us on all sides, Business life has become very alluring to the majority of young people, and there is an ever increasing tendency to dispense with classical culture. Never before in the history of this country have the girls in our schools felt so constrained to equip themselves for business lifeg for upon their shoulders frequently rests, to a degree, the support of the Whole family. Labor-saving machinery has in a great measure blocked the avenues that were once open to young men of untrained minds. Then competition is now so keen that the man who achieves success in busi- ness life must obtain necessary equipment. Impressed with these facts the boys and girls, failing to enjoy in the graded school advantages for business training, drop out before they have reached the high school course. By so doing they deprive themselves of the classical training that would be acquired if they completed the high school work. The introduction of a business course at the begin- ning of the seventh or eighth grade, and its continuation through the high school would serve to retain many girls and boys Who, under existing circumstances, leave the school in search of business education. This results in the incurring of greater expense to the young people, a loss of possible culture, and a measure of just reflection on our graded school system. The conclusion is unescapable that our graded school system, while doing excellent Work in many respects, does not fully meet the requirements of present day conditions. LILLIAN SHAW, '10. 14

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sents a school from its different points of view. This was our first attempt at anything of this kind, and we were discouraged by the multitude of obstacles that presented themselves, but after some hard work we managed to sur- mount them. This alone would have been a featherin our caps, if We had done nothing else, for the work connected with such an enterprise is anything but easy. It may appear to those that read these facts that We are trying to leave the impression that we have accom- plished something out of the ordinary, but such is not our intention. What We do mean is to show that we have Worked to make our school what other high schools are, and What our's should beg to create an interest in the school that it may obtain more studentsg and to more clearly set forth our attitude towards the welfare of our school. JAMES I. MCCALLUM, JR., '10. :-UNL 2NxN.,fff'-- - - ' . -' XS,-jzfa 'wigs-0 mer, W' ' -,I f 'f 5 J, W 13

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GRADUATING CLASS, '09