Hyde Park High School - Aitchpe Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The Senior dramatics have come to be a fixed institution of the school, and much time and labor are spent in their prepa- ration. Really brilliant work is done each year, and the occasion bring-s much g-ratification to the friends of the school. During- the past year an Alumni Association has been formed. Such an association, if wisely and vig-orously conducted, as this no doubt will be, may become of g-reat assistance to the school, and it is hoped that each class, as it g-oes forth after g-raduation, will retain its loyalty and enthu- siasm for the school, and that its support may always be GYMNASIUM. g-iven to every movement which tends to advance the interests of education in this and every other section of our great city. The next g-raduating- class will be the larg-est that has ever g-one out from the school. Upwards of 100 will be g-ranted diplomas, and of this number more than a third will continue their education in various hig her institutions, althoug-h the majority will enter our g-reat University to which the Hvde Park High School furnishes more students

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has been, and perhaps still is danger that they will distract the attention of a larg-e number of boys from the proper work of the school, but this dang-er is fully appreciated and is very g-enerally guarded against. When athletics are prop- erly correlated with the other work of the school, there is no doubt that they add much to its scholarly attainment. Our literary societies have done excellent work during the year. It is not possible for me to speak of them in detail, but it is certain that they have done strong work, and it is unfortunate that the opportunities which they offer have not FREE HAND DRAWING ROOM. been taken advantage of by a larger number of students. I would like to see a revival of the old-fashioned debating societies, for, although there was some reason for the ridicule which has been heaped upon them, they did much to induce logical and vigorous thought, as well as to cultivate the power of ready expression. The schools as at present constituted, are not able to give the necessary training in this direction, and it is therefore important that the literary societies receive a hearty and enthusiastic support.

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than any other preparatory school. The record of this class has been an honorable one, and it has not in any respect fallen below the hig-h standard set by preceding- classes. The hig-h schools are meeting with serious opposition, and in some places their very existence is threatened. Yet the best interests of every community demand that they be encouraged and strengthened. They offer to the poorer classes opportunities for advanced culture which they could not obtain in any other way and of which they are eag-er to take advantage. The g-ood that these schools are accom- plishing- throughout the length and breadth of the land cannot be overestimated, for they are both adding- to the intelligence of the community, and doing much to raise the standard of morality and citizenship. Every blow that is aimed ag-ainst them is struck directly against the best interests of the g-reat masses, and should call for vigorous defense at the hands of all good citizens. Death has entered our circle this year and taken from us one of the brig-htest and best beloved of our young- ladies. Miss Marion Hubbard was a member of the g-raduating- class, and had won for herself a multitude of friends among- the teachers and pupils by her unfailing- courtesy and geniality and her loyalty to the school and the duties which it imposed. Her brig-ht young face disappeared from our midst in Octo- ber, and the news of her sudden death brought genuine and abiding- sorrow. Brig-hter, fairer far than living-, With no trace of woe or pain, Robed in everlasting- beauty, Shall we see thee once again, By the lig-ht that never fadeth. Underneath eternal skies, When the dawn of resurrection Breaks o ' er deathless Paradise.