Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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Editorials This year, on the whole, has been a healthy and normal one for our High School. All the social functions were decided successes, our athletics were in no sense a failui ' e, and all enterprises of the school were loyally supported. Then, too, in various ways, M. H. S. has risen and will continue to aspire to a higher standard morally and intel- lectually. Who could ask more? This year our school library was greatly increased, due to the need of more reference books. The Reformatory, in return for fiction contributed by pupils, sent many valuable volumes, mostly of technical nature. The library committee appealed to the study clubs of the city for aid. Some books were contributed by outsiders interested in the movement, making a total of about twelve hundred volumes. An index system on a regular library basis was introduced. Pupils have used the books for reference con- stantly throughout the study periods and after schools hours. There has been a circula- tion of about seventy-five books daily. But this is only the beginning. We hope to have a real library in our new High School. An eighth period was added to the school day to give those who had been absent an opportunity to make up their work, and incidentally to decrease the percentage of absence. The result was successful both from the standpoint of scholarship and attendance. High School Spirit! How glorious and inspiring it may be; how petty and con- temptible. As surely as a nation is stamped by the character and ideals of its people so our schools are the revelation of our ideals and the reflection of our spirit. What kind of a spirit has M. H. S.? Is it worthy? Or indifferent, selfish and divided? M. H. S. has upheld the ideal of clean athletics, has stood for good sportsmanship and loyal support of all activities. The classes have not cultivated a jealous or antagonistic spirit. In any dissension which arises, the student body is willing to stand for what is right. There is a more serious attitude toward school work than formerly, a greater feeling of personal responsibility, of unified spirit, of patriotism toward our school. We are proud of our spirit and our ideals. May they ever live. A novel and democratic system of conducting history classes was introduced this year by Miss McClure. Each class drew up a constitution, and elected for terms of three weeks by ballot a chairman, vice-chairman and secretary-treasurer. The chair- man presided over the classes, parliamentary law prevailing, and appointed the follow- ing committees: literature committee, which reported on literature pertaining to the times studied; current events committee, which reported and assigned topics to the class; and critic committee, which should observe all faults in the conduct of class dis- cussion, inspect the notebooks of the class and take charge of make-up work. This system was a great improvement over the former, for not only was it more interesting, but at the same time it was a training in the knowledge and duties of citizenship. ' 21 once entertained the hope that it should be the first class to graduate from the new High School. Soon, however, this hope faded, as it became evident that there were no signs of a new High School. Now we leavj our old M. H. S. with the satisfac- tion of knowing that we have helped to gain that which we have not had the privilege of enjoying ourselves, and we wish for our under-classmates the best and biggest school that Mansfield is able to build. We surrender to your hands this, the fourteenth volume of the Annual. Great difficulties had to be overcome this year. For the first time the Annual must pay for itself. Realizing the great responsibility, we have endeavored to produce a book which would fulfill not only this condition, but which would, in itself, be a worthy representa- tive of our school. How well we may have succeeded, you yourselves must judge. Be lenient to its faults, we pray. We wish to express our gratitude to those who have aided in the composition and publication of the Annual, especially Mr. Whitehouse, Miss McClure, Miss Patterson, Miss Shires and all who have aided either by contribution or typing.

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PRIZE A WARDS Prize Senior Story Edwin Palm Prize Junior Story Hurst Anderson Prize Sophomore Story Louise Hancock Prize Freshman Story Bertha Seyecld Prize Drawing Ruth Miller Honorary Mention Esther Wood

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Superintendent H. H. Helter Superintendent H. H. Helter received his degree from Ohio Wesleyan University (B. A.), and from Columbia University (M. A.). His superintendency of our Mansfield schools dates back thirteen years. Under his careful super- vision the schools have prospered and rank among the best, and his efforts for the better- ment of higher education are much appreciated by the faculty and student bodies. Mr. Frank Wiiitehouse Mr. Whitehouse is an alumus of Ohio Wes- leyan University. He directed many High Schools throughout Ohio and elsewhere before he came to Mansfield three years ago. His leadership has proven a success in every vi ay and it is to him and his able corps of teachers that the activities of M. H. S. have thriven, and to his progi-essive spirit and high ideals that our High School has been raised to a higher standard of scholarship.