Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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were not made somewhat inattentive at practice by the constant temptation to spend their time to better advantage in enjoying the landscape. But if you have any curiosity to know more of this university, ask Miss Doan or Miss Wentz, who have been here, or John Frenzel in June (if he does not decide to stay all summer). They can tell you better than I can, and without taking up valuable space in the Annual. Very cordially your friend, A. P. Winston. Teachers ' College, Columbia University, New York, April 10, 1900. My Dear Miss : May 1 ask you to carry for me many happy greetings to the friends at the M. T. H. S. I often think very lovingly of Indianapolis and the school which was my home for four years. I fear I can tell you little that is new of Columbia University. We all ad mire the beautiful library building which is the center of the group of buildings on the Acropolis, as the hill is often called. I wish you could look with me some sunny morning from my window over the house-tops toward the East River, which lies like a streak of silver in the distance. That view is all that makes me realize that the great throbbing heart of the nation is so near. A ride of about an hour on the surface car will take us down Broadway almost to the sea — to the Battery. Our students are so centered in Columbia that we are like a little city by ourselves. My year has been of great value to me. It has been one of seeing rather than doing, for I was forced to give up all outside study. 1 have attended regularly, absorbing all I could or would. The subject 1 have enjoyed most is Household Chemistry. The bright spring days have come and one is tempted to ride on the trolley, the ferry, and to go awheel in the parks or even afoot, just so one is out in the sunshine. With the best wishes for the health and success of my friends of the M. T. H. S., 1 am. Very sincerely, Mary B. Vail. The following are extracts from letters of former students. Carl N. Klass, now of Wabash and who represented that college at the last Oratorical Contest, writes : I always feel a pride in having attended the M. T. H. S. I feel grateful for what she has furnished, not only in the study courses but also in attention to those things that help the aesthetic side of the student. I believe, as a rule, the students of the M. T. H. S. appreciate and take the advantages offered. I could go on in a reminiscent mood and recall the pleasures of the years spent within the dear school walls, but no doubt many from whom you receive letters have spoken of such things and 1 will forego further men- tion. With kindest regards for M. T. H. S. John P. Frenzel, Jr., of the June, ' 99, now of Cornell, writes : You and every one else know how I feel toward good old M. T. H. S. If it had not been for her I should never have reached Cornell. 1 can not express all I feel. The M. T. H. S. will stay stamped indelibly on my memory long after I have forgotten many

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■r CORRESPONDENCE 7b ?€■ Principal and Pupils of the M. T. H. S. : I find that, as a message to send you through the Annual, I have only the well-worn, but here very sincere message — good wishes, and the best wish I can offer is that the M. T. H. S. shall continue to be as it has been, the best school I know about. If you ever come to Cornell you will wonder at first why this big school was perched up on a hill four hundred feet above the lake and the town, so that you are more weary after climbing to the top than you would be after the longest hour of a hot summer after- noon in a west-side recitation room of the M. T. H. S. And when you get to the top and pause to rest in the cool breeze which never stops blowing over that high space, you begin to wonder why anyone puts school buildings or any other buildings anywhere else than on such high places, so long as the supply of hill-tops is not all in use. There must be nearly a hundred square miles of valley in sight, stretching ten miles to the north along the lake and nearly as far into the hills, southward, with hundreds of farms and orchards on the slopes and the town straight below so shut-in and over-hung that you scarcely notice it. is said that the Cornell athletes would become invincibly strong by hill climbing if they

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later happenings of my life. I can never think of it without a strong sense of regret that 1 could not remain on and on. We had hard times, easy times, good times and better times, and I doubt whether I shall ever have much better times anywhere else. But 1 can not say it for the Annual; Miss Foy, you know how i feel I am sure. I sincerely hope the M. T. H. S. athletes escaped C or D. 1 am very much interested in their suc- cess. They must keep that cup. 1 hope your Mirror will continue as successful as it has been and that you will come out 0. K. on the Annual. Best regards to all at M. T. H. S. Walter Jack Duncan, of June, ' 00, class, now of Art Students League of N. Y.: And so the carnival, the M. T. H. S. carnival class ' 00, was a rip-snorting, unpre- cedented, howling success — wasn ' t it? Yes, I read of it in the papers and I was every bit as glad as you were, if not more so. The class should be congratulated and I gladly give three cheers in unbounded appreciation for its good work (do you hear them?), wish- ing only that I had been there to participate in the festivities. And the Hobos were one of the main features in it, so the papers said, which was quite natural and did not surprise me in the least. I ' d bet that they worked harder than any one else in the class and deserve a big share of the honor the same as in the days when we supported the room paper. Of course there were a few energetic girls who did their share of the work. You must relate to me those insignificant interesting points of the proceedings that the news- papers never speak of. With best wishes to all the fellows. George Scott Olive, January, ' 99, now Harvard, ' 03. The so-called university spirit, that of democracy, is carried further here at Harvard than at any other American university — too far, it is claimed by some critics. Upon the student there are scarcely any restrictions. If he wishes to succeed he must do it through his own exertions; everything is voluntary. The first impressions of a man joining such a large community are almost inevitably discouraging. He comes with a profound sense of his own importance, is thrown among men holding diverse opinions and becomes a member of a class of five or six hundred students. It is very disheartening to find him- self only one little piece of a great body. With the training received at the M. T. H. S., however, one is fully prepared to overcome the difficulties, even at America ' s greatest university. Heidelberg College. As a center of learning Heidelberg, Germany, is famed throughout the entire civilized world, for it is the seat of the famous University of Heidelberg. Another of its important schools is Heidelberg College, conducted by Dr. A. Holzberg, M. A., Ph. D., and A. B. Cathy, Esq., M. A., prizeman at Christ ' s College, Cambridge. Heidelberg is a school for English boys, based upon the great system of the English public schools. Its immediate purpose is to fit English lads for competitive army, naval and civil-service examinations. The candidates are sent here to be especially fitted In French and German, and the reports from the Royal Military College, as well as from Oxford and Cambridge, testify as to the thoroughness of this preparation.