Evanston Academy - Bear Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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The Policy of the School THE BEAR: Every institution to be successful must have a program governing its ideals and actions. It has been my policy to follow this rule during the years that I have been in charge of the Academy. I have ever had before me the policy of making the Evanston Academy the best preparatory school in the country through equal emphasis upon its three main phases, namely, physical, mental, and moral. These three divisions are old yet ever new and no one of them can be neglected in the school work. I Our equipment in the athletic line and the spirit in which clean athletics have been fostered do not need much emphasis to the friends of the school. The Academy has been very fortunate in having the use of the best gymnasium in America and I believe it has, in proportion to its numbers, used it more than has any other depart- ment ofthe University. We have been fortunate in having such excellent coaches and also in having adequate flnancial backing for the teams. My only regret is that more students have not taken advantage of the gymnasium classes, yet the peculiar conditions under which many of our students have to work and the distance at which they live has interfered with this. As for the mental side one need only know the faculty and the splendid records of preparation and experience which all of them have had to see that this depart- ment surely has received due emphasis. Everything has been done to foster the interest of the teachers and to make their work and atmosphere congenial and conducive to their best effort. It has been my policy to give them full charge of their classes, their own choice of the text books, and to allow them to follow those methods which their experience leads them to believe will secure the best results. That this has succeeded is shown by the remarkable fact that practically the entire faculty returned to their positions this year. The policy has also been to have the class room standards an inducement to the individual students to do their best work. That this has succeeded is shown by the fact that those who come from other schools are unanimous in stating that the work of the Evanston Academy surpasses in content and thoroughness the work that they have had elsewhere. As for the moral, which is the basis of all success, that has been perhaps in my mind more constantly than the other two for I have felt if that were properly con- served the others would develop little that could be criticized. No life can succeed without the right attitude toward God and Christianity, at least that is my belief, and in every way I have tried to yoke the Academy life and spirit up to these great factors in our existence and to that end the chapel exercise has been maintained as a beacon light for Christian thought and practice. Everything has been done to foster the Young Men's Christian Association and a spirit of honor and Christian charity in all our relations. I am sorry I have not succeeded in doing better in this work, yet it is not because I have not tried. Another policy has been that of treating the students as if they were here for a serious purpose, as if they were men and women and could appreciate being treated as such. To that end they have been given as much freedom from faculty super- vision in the school life and enterprises as was possible and I am glad that they have taken this treatment in the right spirit. I have tried to make the atmosphere that of a family and home and instead of the office being a place to be dreaded,one point that I am proud of mentioning to visitors is that it is instead the rallying place for the students. Of course the chief credit of this goes to my efficient Secretary, lVIiss Church, who is indeed the students' friend and advisor. This in brief, has been the constant ideal and policy I have had before me and I feel that it is not boasting to say that the school has gone some distance in reaching the standard set. Whatever the future may be for it I am glad that its past is so securely entrenched in earnest endeavor and successful achievement. WILBUR HELM I I2 l

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Contents Introductory . 7 Policy of the School . I2 Faculty . . 13 Organists . 13 Graduates . 20 Class Vote . ZI Classes . 22 In Memoriam . 50 Societies . 53 Publications 3,5 Sciences 9I Athletics . . 95 Debate and Oratory . . 105 Literary . . . IO9 Equivocator . I27 llll

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