Madison High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Madison, OH)

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FOOD FOR VULTURES. By Supt. von Beseler. Under the peculiar title,we wish, if we map,to call our attention to a few ideas, relative to various matters in general and to school matters in particular, which long ago were found to be obsolete and were by thejthoughtful people of the times relegated to obscurity, or, in our homely expression, was passed out as food for vultures. Long ago it ceased to be a general belief that there is any pro- gress in doing things as they always have been done. It merely means stagnation and death. The world to-day is alive, moving, and j those who would be up with the times must cease to worship preced- ent and no longer do things as they always have been done. In con- nection with this comes the thought that what was good enough for me in my day is good enough for my children, and more particularly good enough for other people’s children, in this day. Nothing that was good enough for me in my day ought to be good enought for my children in this day. Everything has changed since then. Conditions, environment, business and professional methods are no more as they used to be than is the modern automobile like the mule-cart of long ago. How strange it seems that in the light of modern progress and advancement in every other vocation aud profession in life there still are a few, and may be more, who believe that the schools ss they were in my day will suffice for schools in this day. It is a false, er- roneous idea. If we want our boys and girls to go out into life well- equipped and amply prepared to meet the problems of the day, we must permit, and not only permit, but insist that they be progressively taught by a progressive and modern system of education. This leads us up to the thought that it is a progressive idea that places education before pennies and not pennies before education. Any thing that is worth the having costs something and the better things naturally cost a little more than do the cheaper. Another idea that is fast being laid aside by the most intelligent in every community is the one that it hurts the children to work hard in school, or, to state it in another wav, that they should be allowed to have a good easy time. We know that there are instances of broken lives said to be caused by overwork in school. In every in- stance wherein these cases have been investigated, the collapse has been traced to loss of sleep, too many parties, too much society, or among the boys to the smoking of cigarettes, the use of drink, or indulgence in other dissipation. When once children have been graduated from college, or at least from high school, there is ample time for society. While they are in school and should be occupied with their lessons Friday and Saturday evenings are enough for “recreation.” The other evenings during the week should be devoted to the important work of seeking an education. Then in reference to work in the schoolroom. The sessions are short, the entire day meaning six hours of applied work for five days in the week and for only nine months of the year. Many business men are confined closely to their work for from ten to fifteen hours for six days in the week, often- times for twelve months in the year. Why shouldn’t a High School room be a place of husiness in which every one while therein should be intensely at work? The boy or the girl who succeeds in life is the boy or the girl who attend® strictly to business. The place to learn it is in the High School if it has not been previousvy learned at home. Again, it is only those who are living in the past who ould have a teacher to take a boy spoiled at home and to make something of him. Three factors, yea,—four are absolutely essential in the devel- opment of a inan. These are an earnest, conscientious teacher to whom conies an honest, hard working boy back of whom is a devoted, self-sacrificing mother. No one of these can accomplish a great deal alone and the best efforts of any two can be successfully balked by the remaining one. All three must work and must pull to-gether for the benefit of each and that fourth factor is God. This is the ideal con- dition and the only system under which the best results can be ob- tained. We should like space to mention many additional points such as might is right, that it really is impossible for somebody else other than ones self to accomplish any thing of good and worth the while, that one should be jealous and envious because another succeeds, that (Continued on page eight.) THE PALM Shoe Store GENEVA, OHIO. Is the place to buy All Kinds of FOOT=WEAR, Dr. Reed s Cushion Sole Shoe, The Treadeasy, The Gibson, and The Ralston Health Shoe are a few of the Stylish, Up=To=Date Lines that we carry. We take SPECIAL PRIDE this season in OUR OXFORDS. G, W. Webster Go.

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06 Junior’s History. President, Harold Wood. Colors: Crimson and Gold. The class of 1906 is composed of ten bright, in- dustrious students who have accomplished much this year. They are a fitting class to take up the vacancies made by the dignified Seniors of 1905. They have worked very diligent during the year preparing them- selves for their last high school effort. Their class is represented in the Literary Society, having Bertha Bates as the president. Harold Wood is the baseball and foot ball re- presentive, while Standish upholds the forensic side of the school w’ork. Wilbur Strock is the mainstay in agricultural problems and Richard Barry, the great mathematician. The third year is always a very hard one because the student is confronted with new studies to master, the most difficult being Ger- man and geometry. But nevertheless they have studied hard and triumphed. The Juniors have been a rather tame lot, doing nothing that was very startling. Although in the fall term they did waken once from their long sl ep and engage in the class rush in front of Phelp’s drug store. But the girls, Ruby and Pearl were the leaders in this and they fought like veteranesses. The Juniors are young and will learn in time. We hope they will get over their Freshmen tricks before next fall. Oh, of course they will! We are glad to say that the Juniors are not “short skates,” for every one in the class subscribed for the Forum. We wish we could say as much for the other classes. Pearl Rand is a fine pianist while Strock, Standish and Collister are members of the Junior Quartet. Standish is also a walking i fashion plate setting the style for the entire school. In the scientific world Collister is a leader. Don is a skillful electrician. He expects to enter Case School after finishing at M. H. S. next year. UJ Z UJ CL 06 Class Yell. Rickety, rickety, rix, Nickety, nickety, nix, We’re the champions, We’re the bricks, We’re the class of 1906. Motto: We like the Freshmen. FURNITURE, GENEVA, OHIO.

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Sophomore History. “Little, but Mighty”, is the term applied to the 1907 class. Although the smallest in numbers it is one of the most prosper- ous. The members have worked untiringly during the past school year and they are well prepared to advance into the places of the Juniors of this year. The class was enlarged early in the year by the entering of Lawrence Hull and Merrell Wood, in school. The Sophomores were represented in all the forms of school life. Wood and Hul. playing on both the football and baseball teams. The girls are very few in number. There being only two. Marion Rood and Margurite Lynch. Nothing is lost, however, for these two charming young ladies.take the place of a dozen others. The Sophomores have not had much trouble this year,except a few instances. In the fall the class, with the Seniors left school in a body on account of cutting the flag rope. There are several first class artists among them. They demoni6- trated their skill upon the fences surrounding the campus one night and the next morning the residents of Madison were surprised to see the inscriptions in mammoth white letters, “’07”—“Down with the Freshies,” etc, adorning their barns and fences. The class is represented in nn agricultural field, having “Wick” Hathaway, and “Heine” Beekenbach as representatives of tillers of the soil. “Ru fiber1 ’ St. John, of P.H.S., is con tern pi a ting entering school next fall. If rumor is true the football team will be greatly strength- ened, for it will be remembered that he is the renowned right guard that Madison played as a ringer at Geneva last fall on that bleak November day. Of course it must not be known that he is a profes- sional, for the board would not let him enter. So keep it to your self. This summer will find most of the class in Madison. Lawrence Hull expects to return to his home in Missouri, wrhile Wood will go to Virginia. President—Margurite Lynch. Motto: “Parva autem magna.” Class Color» —Red and Black. 1907 Yell. 1—2-3—4—5—6—7 All good Sophomores Go to heaven. When they get there They will yell. 1907 fights like- Rah, Rah, Rah, Sis, hoom, Ah, 1907 Rah, Rah, Rah. If You Want Up=to=Date Clothing Furnishings and Shoes CALL ON C. W. Peck Geneva, Ohio