Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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THE ORACLE 11 Mr. Harlan E. Hall was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1S70. He attended the country schools, afterward teaching in them tor six years. He then took the teachers ' course at the National Normal University at Leba- non, receiving the degree Ph. B. Afterwards he attended Scio College and Boston University. After teaching Science in Hast Liverpool High School for three years he was elected teacher of Science in the Mansfield High School and two years later was promoted to the princi- palship. Mr. Hall, in addition to devoting considerable time to Summer Schools and Teachers ' Institutes, has found time for the editing and publication of an extensive volume in the ten-volume series on the Natural History of Ohio.

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THE ORACLE The Faculty WE are told that the object of government is to secure the greatest good for the greatest number. All ages and races have had :heir problems to meet but all have not been equally fortunate in laving master minds to solve them. Millions are yearly being expended for the advancement of general education. Rockefeller ' s gift of thirty-two million and Carnegie ' s of almost as much are the most noteworthy recent donatio ns for higher education and will be greatly appreciated by those who can afford to take advantage of what is there offered. But the greatest good for the greatest number is secured through jur public school system. The lessons we learn from our books are not ' A prime importance, those we receive from our daily associations with Dur teachers and fellow students have, perhaps, a more broadening effect. What a blessing are they conferring who are adding stone upon stone to this great bulwark of our nation whose foundations, imbedded in the thirteen colonies themselves, are too broad and deep ever to be shaken. The very simplicity of the structure adds- to its grandeur. The best men and women make the best teachers and theirs is the responsibility that our nation in the future may sustain itself as well as in the past. Our superintendent and his efficient corps of assistants have placed the students under obligations that cannot be repaid in a material way. It is they who have made our school what it now is — one of the foremost in Ohio. Our High School was never more prosperous, has never reached a higher plane, has never been held in greater esteem by pupils and parents. The graduates of our High School enter by certificate most of our best colleges, and show by their work, both there and in the business world, how well our High School has equipped them.

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THE ORACLE Miss Bertha Ruess graduated from the Mansfield High School. She lias taken Chau- tauqua courses and a Pedigogical course at O. S. U. Miss Ruess holds a state life certificate in Ohio and is a member of the board of control (if the state Teachers ' Reading Circle. She has taught in the Mansfield Public Schools and since 1894 has had charge of the German depart- ment in the High School. Miss Helen A. Simpson graduated from the Mansfield High School, attended Wooster Uni- versity and then Cornell Uni- versity, receiving the B. es L. de- gree in 1 891 and the Master ' s degree in 1892. She studied in Paris in 1898 and 1899. She has taught in the Mansfield Schools and is, at present, a teacher of English Literature and French. None knew ihee but to love thee. Xone named thee but to praise. ' he utteretlb piercing eloquence. Miss Margaret K. Feldner graduated from the Mansfield High School. Since then she has at- tended Summer Schools at Grand Rapids, Mich., arid at the Michigan State Normal College. She has taught in the English and German departments and is at present a teacher of German in the High School. Miss ' Feldner has been Sec- retary of the County Institute and County Secretary of the Ohio Teachers ' Reading Association. Miss Mary Aberle graduated from the Mansfield High School. She has taken Pedagogi- cal courses in O. S. U. and has spent three summers at the Har- vard Summer School. One sum- mer she spent at the Cedar Point Lake Laboratory of O. S. U. At present she teaches Elemen- tary Science and History in the High School. ' Her mind her kingdom and her will hei bm . ' llsr soul w ilhin her eyes