Hellgate High School - Halberd Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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8 THE BITTER ROOT l etrijam Oberlin, 1899, A. B. Equal opportunity for all the children of all the people is the watchword of the modern high school. As social and economic pressure is removed, the high school will provide this opportunity, in so far as it is possible for it to do so, through parallel and properly differentiated courses of instruction for the future farmer and mechanic and home maker as well as for the future doctor and lawyer and minister. And it will do this not by way of cheapening culture, but as a, certain means of providing for culture a firmer and saner basis. Recognizing as it does the true dignity of labor and the true worth of manhood, the modern public high school embodies and reflects the composite spirit that dominates Amer- ican life, and is at once the most genuinely democratic and the most thoroughly representative of the institutions yet devised and established by American genius.

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THE BITTER ROOT 7 Wf)t Jfacultp 1st row—Bailey, Jessup, Ketcliam, White, Sanford. 2nd row Noll, Hanson, lionan, Scott, Barden. 3rd row—Mann, Noble, McLaughlin, Kinney, Perkins, Colvin, Dyer. 4tli row—Steere, Brown, Chadwick. Christiansen, Johnson, Rich. McKenzie. As the days flit by, bringing nearer the time when the ’20’s will graduate, we review a trifle regretfully, perhaps, the happy clays spent in the high school, the good times we have had, the friends we have found. We realize what a great debt of gratitude we owe to each and every member of the Faculty, Their unlimited patience, kindness and sympathy have tied a knot of friendship strong as bands of steel. In the heart of every Senior there is erected an everlasting memorial to the teachers who have guided us so faithfully through our high school career, who have helped us over the rough places forward on the paths of knowledge. —B. P., ’20.

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