Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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THE LINCOLNIAN 9 ment of our riper years, that manhood and womanhood are more than dollars and cents ; that while we need carpenters, and nurses, and cooks, we need more inteligent and thought- ful fathers and mothers; we need men as well as workers; that the man can become a worker more easily than the worker can become a man; that the, only limitations to be placed on the individual is the limitation of his capacity ; that the indus- tries are but aids to culture and civilization, where the “life is more than meat.” ANNA H. JONES. ALUMNI NOTES. • • Mr. David Crosthwaite is still “following the gleam” at Perdue, Indiana. - Mrs. Fannie McCampbell Peck, ’98, wife of Rev. W. H. Peck, a charming young matron, is doing excellent work as president of the “Grant Social. Club.” Miss Cora Carr, class ' 07 , will spend the summer in Kansas Citv. ' — j Dr. Ernest McCampbell, 04, is now the proud possessor of a little son, to whom he has given the name of Thomas III. Miss Alberta Wells, class ’0 7 is attending Wilberforce University, where she is studying music and taking a business course. . Misses Izetta Farley, Estelene Greer, Wirtie Blackwell and Mr. Ed Baker are all doing good work in Kansas Univer- o o sity. V- A little daughter has come to brighten the home of and Mrs. Chester Walker. Mrs. Walker was formerlv Mary Richardson, class ’06. Mr. Hugh Jones, ’01, has saved enough money to pay expenses through a four-year college course. Pie will ent Kansas University in September. Miss Wilmer Campbell, ’04, is doing successful work as a pharmacist in The People’s Drug Store. Mr. Henry Collins, 02, is now at Wilberforce University. Class of ’09 has a record for having the largest number ta enter college, the number being nine. Watch Class of ’10 beat it. — Misses Maglon Tyndal and Edna Herndon, 09’ have done successful work at Howard University this year. Mr. Frank Vincent, ’09, is studying in Manhattan, I as., where he is taking up engineering. We guess Mr. Arthur Johnson, 08, is waiting to enter the school of matrimony if Miss M. A. is willing.

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8 THE LINCOLNIAN Even this partial retrospect encourages the workers in Lincoln High School to feel that the work has not been in vain, nor in the wrong direction. A large percentage of the young people have “made good” — to use a forceful phrase of the day, and it is a rare pleasure to keep in touch with many of them, to watch their ambitious upward struggles. What would have been the fate of these progressive young people under a suggested vocational course? Must the one-third, the saving “remnant,’’ the future leaders, be lost to the race that the remainder may make a larger salary upon graduation? Let us have all the vocational schools that the community can afford, but not at the expense of the Eligh School course. The object of education is the. development of power in the indi- vidual. Which education best gives that power? The courses that have for a thousand years been used in training the bright- est intellects of the nations of Europe, or a course in domestic science, nursing, carpentrj” or agriculture? Which course will most quickly lift our youth to the level of modern civilization ? While we know that the moral and social regeneration of a race is the work of centuries rather than a few short years, still it seems that we might learn a valuable lesson from that most progressive little nation of modern times, Japan. For the past sixty years they have been sending their brightest young men to the most civilized nations of Europe, entering their universities and getting the highest and best that each country has to offer. As a people we are a part of American civilization, the wealth of learning, in science, in literature, in art, handed down from the centuries of the past and increased daily by do- nations from the present, is within our reach. Shall we de- liberatelv shut out the vouth of our race from this storehouse on the ground that the majority of them could not use it in making their daily bread; that their ancestors had been taught to work merely for 250 years, and that that regime was a very simple and successful one; that it were best to continue it even though the labor unions and prejudice shut them out from the higher departments of work, they would be better fitted for the lower departments of work and could make ? living in a shorter time? The men and women who half a century ago came down from New England bringing the best that America had to offer, brought both culture and thrift, a larger share of the former — who can say that their work and their judgment was in anv sense a failure? Then let us be true to the dreams of our youth; to the ideals of our young manhood and womanhood, and the judg-

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10 THE LINCOLNIAN DOMESTIC SCIENCE. This science is too important a factor in human life to be left behind in the march of events. Its influence is too wide, too deep, too general, for us to ignore. During this long period of progress the moving world has carried with it this seemingly unmoving or unprogressive factor; the man special- izing in a thousand industries, the woman still limited to her domestic functions. The importance of this science is becoming fully realized by both sexes, as can be seen by the attention devoted to it on. every hand. Numerous books are being written ant magazine articles published daily by men and women of the world. Of all the arts and all the sciences, this should be classed as the noblest of them all. All over the country one may observe that buildings are erected especially for this purpose. It is now introduced in schools, institutions and agricultural colleges. It covers such a broad field; including domestic functions of everv kind, sew- ing, cooking and housekeeping in its every sense. An ignorant, overworked woman cooking for her family is not able to know what is best for the innerman ; the average woman, learning from her mother, has been able only to hand down to us the habits of a dark, untutored past ; but with the help of science, the homemaker is accomplishing wonders. The mothers of yesterday performed their household duties in a way that would seem drudgery to the scientific woman of today. To her. science enters the home and can be applied to every nook and corner. By her intelligence the home is be- coming economical, healthful and comfortable. The preparation of food is very important, and this is where woman’s labor is most demanded; on it depends the pleasantness or disagreeableness of the day’s routine. Some have looked upon this work as being inferior, only to be per- formed by menials ; but it is being daily studied and practiced by the wealthiest women of the day. Too much can never be said in praise of this study, and it is made doubly interesting by our most efficient instructor, Miss Sprague. As interesting as she makes the work, she in- forms us that she could accomplish much more along this line if she had at her command a laboratory fitted up especial ' for this purpose. ith this we could perform manv demoi. strations and experiments that would be of infinite” value to us. We hope som day in the early future will see this depart- ment ecjipped with a laboratory, dining room and any other necessaries for a finished course. Miss Sp ' ague has so inspired us as to the nobleness of this part of woman’s mission that