East Lansing High School - Ceniad Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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Editorials THE ORACLE once again makes its appearance, dressed in its new garb of '97. VVC cannot, as yet, know how it will be received by the public. Yet, judging by the reception of former ORACLES, it cannot but fall among beds of roses. Each year should show some change and improve- ment, and we believe that '97's ORACLE can mark some advancements in a few respects, at least. We have put on it a handsome cover, filled it with better paper and striven to increase its literary valueg that we have succeeded in this last we can only hope. .al For the past year or two there seems to have been very little of what is known as ponying. The teachers have laid much stress upon straightforward work, and nearly everyone has done it, and, although we conscientiously believe that the past year has been the hardest one which the seniors have seen for some time, We also believe that they have done their best. .29 Perhaps it has never been fully appreciated by all that it is the advertisers who make the publication of THE ORACLE a possibility. The merchants who have so generously advertised in THE ORACLE deserve that their advertisements be noticed and their stores be given iirst choice. Some, or many, have taken advertising space from motives of simply helping out a good thingg others have done so from a realization that they will reap their returns from an increased patronage. But it

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MAUD E. TRACY ASSOCIATE Em1'oR FRANK B. MQKIBBIX BUSINESS IVIANAGER E. LOUISE ALSDORF Associxrlfz ranrrrm ROY D. CHA PIN AIJVI-2N'I'ISING MANAGER

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behooves us, and all who are interested in the schools and in the further publication of this book Qand who is not?J to show the merchants, who have done their part, that TH!-3 ORACLE amply repays those who adver- tise in it. This applies most forcibly to our under classmates, Who, undoubtedly must hope to publish future ORACLES, For them there can be nothing better to insure the success of their publications than to liberally patronize the firms represented in this annual. .H- The Observcr, which was first published by the class of '97 as a semi-monthly paper, has been continued by the class of '98, this year as a monthly. and We trust may be adopted as a junior publication, and we hope the student body will give it their hearty support, thereby assuring its future success. Surely the Lansing High School should be capable of editing a paper as Well as an annual. .al The new plan as adopted last year, for the final orations on Friday afternoons, proved such a success that it was followed this year, enabling more of the public to be present, and a much better literary and musical program to be arranged. .al The kind feeling as shown by our fellow students toward us has been most gratefully received, and We extend our hearty thanks to them, to the freshmen, who so tastily trimmed the assembly room each Week for final orationsg to the sophomores for the exceedingly pretty decorations at the Congregational church for class day, and to the juniors Who have patiently toiled in our behalf to add to the attractions of our commencement. .al Miss Lucy A. Sloan, whose indomitable perseverance brought our English department to so high a standard, last year accepted a position