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

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as instructor of English at Hillsdale College, and is next year to have the chair of English Literature and become preceptress in Mt. Pleasant Normal School. THE ORACLE is confident that she will ably ill the position and wishes her all success in the new field. .al The one session plan has been carried on this year with less tardiness than previouslyg to be sure it sounds early to say Ha quarter of eightfl but simply because it is standard time does not necessarily imply that it is any earlier than before. Should this plan be adopted for all the year and not only for the two months following the spring vacation, it would be much better. One is not only brighter and able to accomplish more in the morning, but it allows more time for laboratory work and preparation of the next day's lessons. .19 The drawings which adorn Tlils: Oli.ACI.li have come, for the most part, from the pens of Miss Frances Farrand and Miss Maud Tracy. To the former, who is not a member of our class, we wish to publicly express our thanks for the care and pains she has taken with her productions, which we feel has added so much to the attractiveness of THE ORACLE. .al At the first of the year we made an offer to the several reporters, to give to the one who handed in the largest list of jokes and general information at the close of the year, a copy of THE O1cAcI.E, and we take pleasure in presenting Merle Urquhart, 1900, with an QNACLE as a result of this offer. We also feel greatly obliged to the other reporters and those who have helped us in any way. .al One thing which has added a greater interest to the program of the

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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

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Senior Orations has been the musicq the class has greatly enjoyed and appreciated the various selections of the musicians who so kindly rendered them, and desires herewith to express its gratitude. .20 The Senior Class, although it is practically bankrupt, has still done all in its power to give THE ORACLE a most liberal support. The pictures of the class, which were paid for by its members individually, While making THE GR.-XCLE much more valuable to themselves, Will also. we hope, make it more attractive for all friends and patrons of the school. .al It has finally been deemed Wise by the Board of Education to elim- inate Greek and Mythology from the High School courses, and hereafter these studies will not appear in the school curriculum, but those who have commenced Greek Will be allowed to continue it for one year. This will necessitate a change in the arrangement of classes, and when this is made, the number of hours per day Will probably be short- ened a little, and Mythology taught with the regular English work. .al The school can number one more organization, formed this year, in the Greek Letter Fraternity, the Phi Alpha Delta. Much smaller schools have fraternities and we see no reason why this cannot be made a permanent organization of the school. '