Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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CHARLES N. STINE “Be firm; one constant element in luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck.” Track team ,08-’09-,10; Senior play '10. ROBERT C. WEBB “I have fought a good fight, 1 have finished my course.” Track team 07- 08-' 10: mixed chorus 06-’07; oratorical contest 'OS; Senior play 10; literary editor Annual; class prophet. BOYD H. WORK “Always laugh when you can: it’s cheap medicine.” Football '08-’09: baseball 09; manager track team 10; vice president class; delegate to County Athletic Association meeting 10. 13

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LUCY H. OLDS “Success crowns labor.” Gloe club ’10. ARA D. PITCHER “The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands esteem.” Senior play '10: commencement speaker; editor-in-chief Annual. CARLTON A. STEVENS “Taste the joy that springs from labor.” Chorus ’06-’0S-’09; oratorical contest ’OS; Senior play 09-10; business manager Annual '10. 12

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Salutatory RECENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Tin i ra of ignorance and skepticism lias passed. An era ol political, religious, industrial and educational activity has taken its place. Education is playing an individual role in life’s great drama. And what a progress it is making! Such an advance that when we hut pause and glance over the histories of nations and compare the educational facilities ot a century ago with those that now exist, we behold a difference between them so vast that we scarcely comprehend it. The Spartan youth was taught only along those lines which would make him a soldier competent to do his duty even in the very face of death. The less fortunate Spartan maiden did not even receive this limited education; her lot was to remain at home and humbly perform the many household duties. However such is not the case now. Opportunities for a sound education are open on every side to the girls and boys. hat-cver profession they wish to take up is full of possibilities. Concerning the methods, direct ions, tendencies and needs of educational effort anew work is being emphasized and discussed among the Presidents of the various universities in the United States. President Hall of Clark University says; “The greater educational need is a higher grade of University work and better University ideals. It should be a matter of national disgrace that the apex of our educational system is in Europe, particularly in Germany, where so many of our beat graduates have to go.” These men of high educational standing are anxious to procure for us the very best methods in education that can be hail, to supply the many deficiencies in the school system, and in so doing raise the standards of educational progress even higher. Already within the last three years educational societies have sprung up in the United States for this purpose alone. Societies for the advancement of Industrial. Scientific. Technical, Agricultural and common educational interests. Does this not mean progress? There is also developing to a marked degree an international movement in education. An interchange of teachers from foreign Universities is being made between the United States. Europe and Asia. Not only is such rapid progress being made in the United States, but also in Russia, where the authorities arc striving to introduce better educational con- 14