Longfellow High School - Log Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Jj til id from I iursery to Jjipu oma Naturally, as with all goods, different grades of produce are issued, varying in quality and workmanship. Here the factory-school parallel ends, for if a graduate be found lacking in am- bition, energy, ability to study, or any phase of life touched upon by his teachers, it has not been so intended by those in authority. Nor has it been because of a deficient brand of tool- ing in the try for the finished product. Students share equal opportunities, for schools are the very corner-stone of democracy. That they do not take equal advantage of their chances is a primordial law of human behavior, not to be overthrown by our educational insti- tutions or any other faction. The individual, however, who has been through the schooling mill to the cap and gown extent is a radically different personage than the unschooled one. His chances for success in whatever he may take up are a myriad-fold better; greater is q the intelligence of his civic responses in voting, or in any one of the many privileges and duties entrusted to him by his forefathers who pio- neered America in both a physical and democratic sense. As the early settlers pioneered Americanism, so are the schools car- rying on with new theories to round out the rough foundation based up- on the trials and experiments of the early educators who perhaps failed to conceive that it takes more to cre- ate an intelligent voter than a know- ledge of political machinery and or- ganization. With a combination of the sensible ventures of early American history and recent ideas by the nation ' s great, the new educational philosophy has tak- en root in practicability and yearly bears an ever-increasing fruit of testimony to its sagacity. If the graduate serves to be dwelt upon ex- cessively, it is not unjustly so, for he embodies the result of the years of preparation for worthy citizenship on the part of student and teacher alike. The schools may point with pardonable pride to his mental demeanor, for the three maturing levels, pre-schooling, elementary schooling, and secondary schooling, have con- verged to stand proudly back of their ward. He must kneel to no man, for his grooming has been as carefully gaged, wisely enacted, and timely concluded as that of any person. The world stands before him, awaiting. To the graduate, this book is dedicated. and Cap — Twelve years o study and he proudly wears the robe and mortar board.

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See-Sawmg- -Little hands build household furnishings or their miniature replica of home. i earney LJouth •The Amcri can ideal of eq ualil of opp y assi med or e of its mo St c oncre te orms 1 sysle m of pu bli ' s chool Educ d first in the 1 mit ed terms of old eas. s oon bu rst these ow boun ds. The commo n school was dc velop ed first sr ele Tientary education to all the children le pe Dplc. .ater seco nda ry educs tior was ded a t public expense. Today approximately two-thirds of youths i high-school age are enrolled in secondary school Higher education was first the prerogative of favored few. Now more than a million youti attend the colleges and universities of the nation. ' The Economic Challenge to an American Ide It is the purpose of this book to present a pictorial and philosophic cross-section of Kearney ' s most valued institution, the public school system. City schools may be likened unto factories in their wholesale production of citizens as they are turned out to the consumers — the community group taking over their services at graduation from high school. Each individual goes through a twelve year developing and mellowing process be- fore receiving the O.K. stamp — the di- ploma — signifying that the article has been thoroughly tested and will not be found wanting in any phase of life touched upon by that able body of 102 craftsmen, the school teachers. The diploma is the guar- antee that the product is durable enough to withstand many hardships, possesses the tenacity to overcome many obstacles, and has what it takes to keep smiling through — a guarantee issued by at least a full two dozen instructors who have played no small part in influencing the character of the prod- uct for the better. Booi:s Are Their Tools — Library plan boasts organ- ized elementary libraries in four wards, junior ' and senior high schools.

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Sl!? ' )ij a® :iiisr- ' Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness o mankind, schools and the means of education shall torever be encouraged. — Ordinance of 1787. readin ' 0