Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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an-ff ,K . X 1 X2 f 3 d e if .- Ig? K , . Q w t September. 1948. finds students entering the doors of their lchool in much the lame way as did the firlt ltudente in September. 1873. In 1873, however. the building , n 5 was the McKinley building. just completed in Ianuary of that year. A 'iff W t

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I The senior play. Life With Father, takes one back to the late 1880's when dramatics probably started at Lincoln high. However. the earliest play on record was giveh in 1894 by the senior girls dramatic club at the Funlre Opera House. Buckingham. Bickert. and King worlr together to help the iootball team trounce Northeast in their an- nual meeting. Good football is a tradition at Lincoln high. The first game the team ever played was in 1891. when they trimmed Nebraska Varsity to the tune of 16 to IU. B15 4. ,fjgfff o I I KMA . . . imagines that first graduating class in 1874. What a singular group it must have beenl Five students who had never cheered a high school football game. an attraction which didn't come until 18911 Wednesday morning was nothing special to them because the Rdvocate wasn't started until 1895. when it was published by the athletic department. Think of our muscle-men struggling with the intricacies of iournalistic technique! They hadn't the fun and privilege of electing a govemment. That responsibility was added in 1916 with the founding of home room rep- representatives and the student council. Fifty classes graduated before Ioy Night was pre- sented ior the first time in 1925.