Main Avenue High School - El Sombrero Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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SIDNEY BROOKS L'EE HALTOM ALBERT HAYS Hayden meyers IRA OGDEN WENDELL PRIME HARRY RHODES BAYLISS ROYSTER ROGER WALKER BEDFORD WEAVER EMIL ZUHLKE EDWATRD VANCE DEDICATED NOVEMQER 10,1919 PRESENTED BY JUDGE C. P. CARTER accepted by mr. j.f. Howard UNVEILED BY MISS DOROTHY McCAMPBELL Thirteen

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CENTRAL BUILDING 11ST across ihe bridge from the Main building is the Central building, covered on one side with vines, and containing?—the Library! Walls lined with books, floors covered with some noisless material, windows filled with growing ferns—who does not delight in spending his study period in this peaceful, altho so very educative, retreat? Notes (we blush to say it) are passed surreptitiously, under cover of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, or perhaps, “The History of the World”! but the pupils do have a dandy time in there, and perhaps the atmosphere makes them learn things. Who can tell? There are history and civics classes in this building, too, where political questions are hotly discussed and great men or great deeds reviewed. There are Spanish, French and Latin rooms here, too, where poor American children try to learn something not at all connected with their mother tongue! And away down at the end of the hall is the room where trig, the crouching ogre, devours innocent High School students. In the rooms of this building the club meetings arc held; Dramatics, Phils, Haynes, and many more. Here also the classes meet, from timid Freshmen to learned Seniors. Voices arc heard front these rooms on meeting days, arguing questions pro and con, and blue smoke, that authentic omen of excitement is seen issuing from the doors! This, then, is—the CENTRAL BUILDING.

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□ S a farewell message to the students of the Main Avenue High School to whom 1 am indebted for two of the pleasantest years of my life, I would urge them to take full advantage of the wonderful opportunities being presented to them in this splendidly equipped plant and exceptionally strong faculty. Not only should they prepare themselves for their furture careers by application to their studies and by the cultivation of those habits that will be invaluable to them in later life but they should enter into the spirit of the life they are novf living and so live it that they may leave the school with the knowledge that they have contributed somewhat toward the betterment of the school. The development of character is the fundamental aim of the school rather than the acquisition of information and the effort of the administration to encourage self-control through the introduction of a system of self-government should receive the hearty and cordial support of every student of the school. By this means it is hoped that every student of the school will do the right thing because it is right and because he wants to do the right thing rather than because some higher authority will punish him for not doing it. May the school thrive and prosper and finally attain those ideals toward which those who love and cherish it are striving.