Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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Zin Chapman. Jim McKinstrv. Principal of Training School. Old man Nesbit, don ' t lick me l ick that fellow behind the tree. (Quoted from one of his pupils.) Model Teacher. Short and dark, her name is (Ireen Seldom talking, seldom seen. Never laughing, never heard. Flitty, flighty, like a bird. Ac.xbs Montgomery, Supervisor of Primary Department. Born and bred in old Kentucky. She considered it |Uite luckv, She is surely very plucky Plump and round just like a ducky. Is our dear old friend Miss Ruth. She ' s the lioss of all the kids. When they’re bad. she pounds their ribs. When they ' re good, she pats their lids. Does our dear old friend Miss Ruth. Margaret McKixnx, Psychology and Pedagogy. 1750 Born in Pay County. Ice¬ land. 1752 Acquired a story of personal experience for every occasion. Clairvoyant, mind reader, and med¬ ium. ( 22 )

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Hbr Smutty of tbr JJrnituhmt T H K next era will mark the most wonderful advancement in invention that the world has ever known or hoped for. so vast will the advance he that we can now have scarcely any conception of its scope. Thomas A. Kdison predicts that towns and cities will he built that will make Turners pictures of ancient Home and Carthage pale into nothingness; the locomotive will pass out of use. and all our railroads will l e operated l v electricity; a new fertilizer containing a large per cent of nitrogen will l e drawn from the air by electricity, and will wonderfully in¬ crease the arabilitv of our lands; there will lie a successful aerial navigation with a practical working basis; a greater realization of our coal supplies so that ninety per cent of the efficiency will not be thrown away as it is today; and, finally, all machinery, which is today only ten per cent perfect, will lie tremendously improved so that articles of luxury will be produced in enormous numtiers at such small cost, that all classes will lie able to enjoy the benefits of them. Because of Mr. Kdison ' s wonderful accomplishments we are forced to believe what he predicts, and expect the next era to bring forth advantages that will make those of today seem as nothing. I.et us glance at the progress in the United States during three periods, the first from the founding of our government to the close of the civil war; the second from the period immediately following the civil war up to the present time; the third the era following the present. In the first per, ' ] our people were iust beginning the attack on chaos; just beginning to build what we see today—a government, one in speech, character, and idea. Work was diversified, man was engaged in obtaining the personal necessities of life, in supplying the immediate needs of his country, he was everything in one from a blacksmith to a senator, hence the investigations along scientific lines were scattered, some here, some there, with no great concentration, and the inventions came almost by accident in many cases. They call for more genius, however, than those following, because they were the beginning, they sprang from so much less. The second period marks the settling of our foreign relations, peace with our¬ selves and the turning of all efforts and energies to the unravelling of the mysteries of our three million square miles. The inventions were perfected in one way, then another, then another, until the results were amazing, all the world was startled at what it saw. Steam began to dot ouf waters with vessels, railroads began to make our hills echo the advance of man. they stretched their arms further and furlher into the wilderness, they scattered people over our productive regions, who in their (24)