McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE SCHOOL or LIFE --5SIi2IIQ5-- The 5212001 of LQ? Every man, woman, and child has or has had at some time in his or her life an ambition to do or be something. This earth could not exist if there was no ambition in its peoples. Ambitions vary a great deal with each individual, but there is One ambition every person should have, that is, the ambition to learn and become educated. It is ambition that has made this world what it is to-day. From the very beginning it was the desire of man to live that has created within him the ambition to learn and become educated, for his life depended on this desire. The world has become educated from the experiences of others. If it were not for Robert Fulton's ambition as a boy to learn what steam was, and its possible forces, we would not have the steamboat, the railroads, the large manufacturing concerns, and thousands of other businesses that rely on steam for their very existence. Think what a great set back the world would be witnessing if it were not for Sir Isaac Newton's ambition to learn why the apple fell from off the tree. Truly these are causes for the advancement of education as is brought about in the public schools of to-day. It was the ambition ofour noble forefathers to migrate to the shores ofthe new America. Just stop and ponder over what this noble ambition of theirs has really meant to us. It was also their ambition to become independent, in which they were successful after a century and a half, that made our glorious United States of to-day possible. All of these facts which I have mentioned were purely and simply their ambitions to become educated. Our desires to learn, however, are more easily acquired now than in former days. In this age, modern science and mathematics and other educational studies are more developed than formerly and because of this development, the community has been able to build more schools and promote education, so that our ambition to learn is much more easily acquired. We are also favored in this undertaking by a splendid Board of Education, which has uppermost in its mind the promotion of education. Although we have all these wonderful advantages, yet there are obstacles in the road. We are offered charity scholarships by various community organi- zations, but despite this there are a great number of boys and girls who are unable to further their education because of seemingly financial difficulties. Even as great a set back as this does not stop their ambitions to learn, for they will work night and day to earn their way through school. Truly this is ambition at its best. One might say OH'-hand that the greatest amount of education is received at school, but a more thorough investigation will prove that the greatest amount is acquired after school days. Where would the medical world be to-day if the young doctor did not keep abreast of times by reading the medical journals? Indeed there would be untold suffering, if he failed to keep up to the minute on his professional work. So it is with everybody, a great amount of education remains to be acquired after leaving school, for the education acquired in schools is only a foundation for that acquired in the School of life' LOUIS H. NIEBLING

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--agfazjgiw T H E 0.4 R NA TI o N what the 55FT6flZZ'65,, T-772.726 of Us l VVhat was your first opinion of this high and mighty edifice the first term you were here? Could you honestly say the things that many of our new juniors are saying? But you will ask, What do they say? That is just what I am going to tell you. Frances Truelove has instilled in herself the true spirit of McKinley. She says, McKinley is a very wonderful high school, I think one of the finest, and its principles and teachers are of the best. What more could we ask. Laurine Wittendorf said that she thinks it great here. They surely do know how to make things pleasant for the new pupils, and that's what I likef' ' Then Marguerite Farley told me that she thinks high school much more enjoyable than grade school. To be sure, that is saying a great deal, for, as I have heard from many pupils, Marguerite had a very lively time at grade school. Fine, replied Corine Kerner, Marie Moran, Mary Ross, and Charlotte Stiener to the standing question. They even added Uscrumdeluviousf' I hardly know where they found the word, but if its derivation were given it would mean more to us than this preposterous word. However, by the time they have attained the honor of being seniors, such words will vanish from their vocabularies. However, Alice Aeissle seems to know more about it than the rest, for she says, We have many more liberties here and we can do many things not permissible in grade school. Be careful, Alice, don't take too many privileges now, you had better wait awhile. A group of girls including Vera Mertin, Charlotte Valentine, Helen Marie F ruth, Celeste East, Georgia Flower, Margaret Murry, and Ruth Augustine, when asked if they liked it here, answered in a chorus, Well, I should say so, it surely is '.vwe!!'. But best of all are the answers of Cecilia and Monica Halloran, our fresh twins. They said that McKinley to them is beautiful and they want to enter into every activity they can in order to be known throughout the school. We love the principal and teachers here, then, too, we enjoy having the honor of attending McKinley, broke in Cecilia. Here's wishing every new junior all the success in the world for his remaining years in High School and I sincerely hope that all of you may have a taste of every activity of the school. No matter how insignificant you may seem now, remember that some day you are going to be the leaders of the school so prepare now for the steps that are sure to present themselves. ' -MARVEL BA RNETT