Marshall High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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00 onlal Lf 0ara0naI SCENE III September 76 the first Marshall High football game was played The game was with West The score Marshall 7 West O SCENE IV The first senior play The Romantic Age was gtven by the 24-M class on the evening of December 5 SCENE V The first Commencement Exercises were held on the evening of January 27 Helen Jackson valedictorian read an essay on The Foundation Myron Rosskopf salutatorian read an essay on The Future Structure Ruth Botts Margaret Mork Emil Edwards and the Senior Orchestra presented musical numbers Superintendent W E Webster Principal of East High for many years gave the address An Ideal for This High School Dr C M Jordan presented the diplomas SCENE VI The first Cardinal Dance sponsored by the l925 Cardinal Board was given on the evening of January 23 in the girls gymnasium SCENE VII days was given in the auditorium on February I9 Several prominent women s patriotic organwations took part The women presented John Marshall with forty nine fiags forty eight small flags for the forty eight advisory groups and one large fiag for the auditorium SCENE VIII On Friday April 3 the first Easter Cantata Life and Death by Shelley was presented by the students of the music department SCENE IX On April 24 Marshall played its first baseball game The game was with Edison I-Iigh The score was Marshall 12 Edison 4 SCENE X Friday May l5 the 25 class presented If I Were King as its class play SCENE XI Cn June 5 the first Cardinals were distributed Ihe day was Cardinal day and ended with a dance in the evening SCENE XII Lo now the next act upon the stage Childhood was clothed in green and in his hand the hour glass new begun Then youth came up in pride of countenance Next early manhood comes in a grate xx ay as one that cares for good report the class of 75 to recene their diplomas The curtain falls END OE ACT I E O O - - l - . . - . 3 . ' ' AA ' Y! V 7 . Al . . ' y ' I1 , . The first patriotic program celebrating Lincoln's and VVashington's birth- . y C Y I K I . HA' ' A Y Y

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,Q 001011101 V? gdfmlldl JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL A DRAMA IN MANY ACTS PROLOGUE John Marshall H1gh School 1S the first permanent junxor semor hlgh school 1n M1HH98pOl1S Every other JUHIOI' sen1or hxgh school in the clty will even tually become a senlor hlgh school Whlle the school 1S an integral part of the Minneapolis school system It is qu1te closely assoclated wlth the College of Educat1on at the University of Minnesota No one IH this school makes any particular claxms to super1or1ty of methods Nevertheless ll IS true that certam modern methods and experiments are carrled on at Marshall In an mtervlew glven to The Journal last July Superintendent Webster sard that Marshall Hlgh School would be a school where the newest practlcal methods of teachmg would be put 1nto regular use and demonstrated to the hundreds of teachers who annually come to Mmne apolls for study He also sald It will be the most v1s1ted of any school 1n the c1ty and it wxll be a demonstration school with the best teachers obtamable There will be no aflil1at1on wlth the UHIVQFSIIY but John Marshall and the UFIVQFSIIY H1gh w1ll work together for thelr mutual advantage That means that teachers go1ng out of Mmneapol1s out of the State and through the Northwest w1ll have their practlcal tralnmg much lmproved after the study whlch they will have had at John Marshall Hugh School ACT FIRST SCENE I School started on Tuesday September 2 Mlmeographed sllps were assembled 1n ten of the larger rooms of the bulldmg where teachers directed them to the proper advlsory groups By 8 30 every student except those who were tardlly regxsterxng in the office was ln his advlsory group Each of the forty advnsers gave durmg the hour between 8 30 and 9 30 the necessary routme and mstructlon At 9 30 students moved to their first perrod classes During the first day perlods were limited to fifteen mmutes Th1s t1me was enough to provide for the taking of the roll and the assigning of the lesson Wednesday mornmg students were m classes recltmg as usual No one would have reallzed that a new school was being opened Marshall Hlgh School got a flymg start SCENE II The formal openmg was held in the evening of Wednesday September I7 The program was under the auspices of the P T A The audlence sang the Hrst stanza of Amerlca Mr A P Ortqulst Presndent of the Board of Educat1on presented the buxldmg to the publxc and the acceptance was grven by Mr Ph1l1p Brown Presldent of the P T A Mr Glen Memmen graduate of East Hlgh School sang two selectlons Superintendent W F Webster made the prxnclpal address The new prlnclpal Mr Ross N Young was mtroduced to the audlence In h1s brlef speech Mr Young emphaslzed h1S pol1cy 1n regard to John Marshall High School E O S I 1 ' I - ' 9 handed to each student as he entered, by boys of the Hi-Y Club. Students , V , ' . '. ' . . , a

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CLASSES Thrs Bemg an Excerpt from Promolzon f Learmng Amona the Pzlarzms DEFINE classes as those pert ods zn Izfe whzch serve only for four years accordzng to the tzme of zndenture and the custom of the school The law IS that zf students be under szxteen years of age and not tn a class they must thezr age adjudged and from the age they are judged to be of they must serve zn a class untzl they reach the age of szx and ten But rf they be adjudged upwards of szxteen they are then rn classes by zmpulszon rather than by compul szon gl . . ,, . it 0 . . . M . , wg '- W . . . ll J! ' ' lg . gt be brought into court, to have y I I Q li . . ' I t ' W - . l I , . l . ' lf ts i its li ll tl 111 lt