Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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Faculty S. D. LARGENT - - - Superintendent of Schools JAMES RAE - Principal ANNE HOULISTON ----... Mathematics MARY E. STONE English JEANNE BUCKMASTER - - - History and Latin CORINNE A. KRAUS - - - - German and History ADALYN L. SEEVERS Latin CHAS. McMULLEN Commercial Subjects MARY E. LEWIS - ------- Mathematics DOROTHY FROST - English GURNIE M. MOSS - - - - History, Athletic Coach C. W. EASTMAN ----- Chemistry and Physics DEAN DRYDEN - History H. D. PARRETT - - - - History JOSEPHINE HARRISON -------- Latin GRACIA L. CHESNUTT Latin MARY SIMPSON History and Geometry CLARA K. SCHAIBLE - - - English and Shorthand STELLA M. BOSWORTH Rhetoric LEAH CRANE - - Gymnasium ELLIE PICKERING Drawing MRS. GRACE A. WAIT - - - Music W. S. TUCKER Manual Training EDNA HAGERMAN Domestic Science

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Published at Great Falls, Montana by the Great Falls High School Seventh Year JANUARY, 1914 Number One Just Folks AX ' S inhumanity to man makes countless millions mourn. And yet, in spite of the good old Presbyterian doctrine of total depravity, inan is not a monster. True, he is selfish, but most of his acts of cruelty are the result not of hid rapacity but are children of two most indesirable parents. Fear and Ignor- ance. Notwithstanding Thermopylea and Bunker Hill, man is a timid ani- mal. The unknown and its inhabi- tants fills him with fear. When, moreover, he learns that the strang- er is in certain respects unlike him- self, his vanity sends up reinforce- ments to aid his fear. H the man is unlike himself, he must of necessity be inferior and is to be despised as well as distrusted. The stranger has become the enemy. This explains the attitude of the street urchin toward little Lord Fauntleroy, of the cow- boy toward the tenderfoot, of the Chi- nese boxer toward the foreign devil. Among the agents which are at work trying to undermine this wall of prejudice between race and race. between class and class, none is more effective than the public school. Here the child finds friends and playmates widely differing from himself. Here Greek not only meets Greek, but English. Irish. Scotch and Span- ish, French, Italian, Dutch and Danisli, and representatives of every other na- tion under the sun. The lion lying down with the lamb was nothing to it, because the lamb, although its feelings are not enlarged upon, must have been distinctly uncomfortable. Long after the more formal instruc- tion has faded with the passing of the years it will be difficult to stir Otto Schmidt, at any stage of his career. into antagonism against the Jewish race when be remoml)ers the patience and loving kindness with which Mosie Fishlander labored with him and guided his first steps through the wilderness of the English language. . nd again, Morris Mogilcwsky will think kindly of the whole irrespons- il)le Irish race when he remembers little Bridget O ' Connor who sat across the aisle from him in the old grade school, her quick temper, her