Hickman High School - Cresset Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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Gfclzolzzrslzgv As knowledge is justly conceived to be the basis of public happiness, the promotion of science and liter- ature is consequently the surest guarantee of a free, effi- cient and equal government. Could this toast, drunk at a 4th of July celebra- tion here in 1831, be the thing that set Columbia upon the road to becoming the noted educational center it is now? Surely all that it implies is true, and it is typical of Columbians to recognize its Verity. Another indication of the fact that perhaps the first thought of those who established Columbia was of education, was the building of a school, located on the east side of 2nd street, one-half block north of Broadway. That first log Goose Creek School House, with its two rooms and puncheon benches, had a cur- riculum of history, spelling, and arithmetic. Its erec- tion marks the beginning of Co1umbia's extensive edu- cational program. In 1835 a two room brick school house took the place of the log cabin. When the Missouri legislature passed a law es- tablishing the first public schools in the state, and Columbia voted to have one, the old Methodist church building at the Southwest corner of Broadway and Sixth was purchased, and used nine years for that school. James S. Rollins, called the father of the Univer- sity of Missouri, introduced a bill into the legislature in 1839 providing for its establishment. Through the efforts of the citizens of Boone County the institution was located in Columbia. Our citizens, numbering less than 14,000 men, women, and children, slave and free, contributed S117,900 to bring the school here. About this time Christian and Stephens Colleges had their beginning, and both have had a long history of distinctive service, of which Columbia may well be proud. Today the educational advantages of Columbia are great: knowledge and culture are its stock in trade. The opportunities for success in any field are here. We need only to accept them to show our realization of and appreciation for the untiring effort which brought them to us. 1211 as 'fill 11 , JVM Q -1- Q1 E2 Vi x ' Q f 1 -3:-E I -. ,5, L 1'-3 xiii ,

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