Goshen High School - Crimson Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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Modern Knighthood These are peculiar days in which we live. They are so peculiar that most every writer or speaker on the topics of the day, attempts to characterize these curious days. Each one as he sees the times, measures current customs and practices by his own standards. One says these are wicked days, and he refers to the newspaperj rilled with accounts of robberies, murders, and suicides. Glenn Frank says, The great American game is not baseball, but addition. We have a positive passion for measurement ; our national coat-of-arms might well carry a statistician caressing an adding machine. He goes on to show that we are so busy adding numbers and reporting our growth and great- ness, that we haven ' t much time for real work ; that because of our passion for growth and bigness, we are always harping about our size and importance, and are not giving sufficient time to the doing of things worth- while. Another thinks that the youth of today are jazz crazy ; and some youth think that the old fogies are more numerous than in any period they find described anywhere in history. To some this is a bright day, and a wonderful day in which to live ; while others think the clouds never more completely cut off the sunlight of promise. It certainly is a day, too, when there seems to be little unanimity of purpose or endeavor. Many fine organizations are floundering around with fine purpose but no objective. Give some great task, and see how chivalrous the world becomes. In the chivalrous days of old, every knight had his fair lady for whom he was ready to dare and to fight. She was his big idea. And so it is today, only a great purpose is neces- sarv to provoke great deeds. When the Lusitania was eoing down to certain destruction, men sacrificed their lives instinctively and unflinchingly, to save women and children. And one brave woman, no less chivalrous than the bravest of the men, refused to go out in safety, and leave her husband. She preferred to sacrifice her !i e with his, that others might live. Some fifty years ago, Jacob Bunn was engaged in private banking business in Springfield, Illinois. During the panic of 1873, this bank failed with liabilities amounting to $800,000. After everything had been realized from the bank ' s assets, there was still a some $228,000 due the depositors. A settlement was then made through the bankrupt law whereby the Mr. Bunn was not legally under further obligation to pay another cent. But Jacob Bunn was not satisfied to meet only his legal obligation. He spent the rest of his life in an honest endeavor to pay the re- mainder of his debts. After his death in 1897, his children assumed his debt. They carried on for more than twenty-five years until they had paid every cent of the prin- ciple, and 5% interest for the entire time. That was what we call modern chivalry, or chivalry of service. — Superintendent J. W. Foreman. THE CRIMSON

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Our Bou.s and Qirls More than a hundred years ago, one of England ' ? greatest generals, the Duke of Wellington, said the- battle of Waterloo was won on the cricket fields of Eton, won by men trained in Britain ' s famous public school. I wonder, if it cannot be truthfully said today, that every battle in American history, from Lexington to the shell scarred fields of France, has been won by the school boys and girls of America. So, too, on the great battle fields of business and profession, the victory has been won by the boys and girls who have been trained in that great preparatory school of Amer- ican citizenship, — The American Public High School. For in the high schools of America the boys and girls learn to know and to judge that which is noble and pure, and right, and equitable in the lives of the great men and women of history. And it is in the schools that they emulate these examples, and form the ideals that carry them through the battlefields of war, commerce and industry. In this day of modern invention and rapid living comes the cry from the lecture platform, the press, and the pulpit, What will become of the present generation of young people of high school age? Seemingly the question is asked without an inves- tigation as to the validity of the question. The scientific investigation conducted by educational agencies have revealed that the high school boy and girl is moral, is truthful, is honest, and a lover of justice. We who are with this younger generation know the above statement is true. We be lieve that progress is being made, and this generation is an improvement over the past generations, and that future generations will improve so that it may always be said that the victories won in war, in business, and in the professions will be won by the boys and girls trained in the public schools of the land. — Prinxipal O. L. Walter. THE CRIMSON