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

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To Main IIigii’s Senior Class : The student, above all others, has an opportunity to serve his country. “We delight to honor courage, but it is questionable whether the most distinguished services of our country’s generals a re to be compared with the services of her scholars.” Nations that have attained pre-eminence in many lines of industry have always done so as the result of scholarship. Hence iho good scholar may well be the good patriot. Pane te

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Main Avenue High Fifty Years Ago TIIE year of 1929 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Main Avenue High School. Not at first, however, was it located on its present site, nor did it have its present name. Many changes have occurred since the year 1879. At that time the high school was operated in conjunction with the old Central school where all grades were housed under one roof. It soon became apparent, however, that there would be a distinct advantage in separating the higher from the lower classes. Accordingly, the former were transferred to the old Fireman’s llall on Broadway, where, remaining until they outgrew these quarters they were then moved to the old Temple Bethel at Jefferson and Travis Streets. This building also proving inadequate, a further move was made to the old government barracks building which stood at that time in the rear of the old Mahncke Hotel, the present site of the Gunter. In these old barracks, the pupils continued until in the early eighties when the new structure on Main Avenue was erected. When the high school pupils moved in, there were only enough of them to fill the third floor, but they were highly content to think that they were through with rented buildings and at last owned their own home. Much has happened since then. Although in 1929 Main has three buildings at its service, it is stiM faced with the problem of what to do with its incoming freshmen. That question may bo answered by the building of a newer and more pretentious edifice located on another spot to the north of the city.

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 Dear Students: That great American, Theodore Roosevelt, once said: “Greatness comes only to those who seek not to avoid obstacles, but to overcome them.’’ I have come to believe that the idea that the student should not be required to do much of anyhing he doesn’t like is all wrong. This idea emphasizes one’s likes and dislikes instead of emphasizing work. Rig things in the world are accomplished by work. Actual work is done through determination to finish the job. Some people are under the impression that an education enables one to go through the world without work. One of the fundamentals of an education is to teach boys and girls not only to work but to work hard, intelligently and cheerfully. Main Avenue High School has endeavored to teach you the fundamental work habits necessary for success in life. It is now up to you individually to go out in the world and write your names upon the tablets of time. I feel sure you will accomplish great deeds. Yours truly, Principal, Page 28