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

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185 1913 On Thursday the s1xth of February a 11tt1e after two oclock ID the afternoon G1lbert B Mornson our honored and beloved prmcrpal passed away from thts hte Only those of us who have worked wlth h1m from those lanuary days rn 1904 when he came here to organrze and start the Mc Ktnley Hlgh School can feel our great loss to the fullest Mr Morrtson was one of the great est the broadest the most progressrve edu most perfect lnstructors one of the greatest orgamzers and managers but above all one of the truest frankest most resolute men that ver lrved When you ftrst met htm ana saw somewhat of h1s work you respected honored and admtred h1m when you had worked w1th h1m S1d9 by stde through pleasant ways or thorny when you had seen through the ex ternal reserve 1nto the warm heart that beat beneath you loved htm And that love never QW Pt gurnet 7W0mm Drtnclpal 19041913 grew weaker but waxed stronger year by year Now after n1ne years glor1ous labor 1n whrch he has 1mpressed himself deeply upon hrs teachers and puplls and made the name of the McK1nley graduate an open sesame to many places tn the bustness professlonal or soc1al world those of us who remaln be hlnd to carry on h1s work know that h1s place can not be frlled Gllbert Burnet Morrtson was born rn Rut land County Vermont on Apr1l2l 1852 Hrs mother began h1s early educat1on a few coun try teachers added to her excellent foundauon but the ma1n part of h1s educat1on was due to h1s own unalded efforts mhlle he was earnlng h1s l1ve11hood And those who knew h1m well know how thorough h1s self taught learnlng was Ltke many young men of h1s trme he came west and 1n 1876 began teachlng 1n the county schools of M1ssour1 then tn Kansas and back to Mtssourt agaln everywhere mak 1ng h1s mark as an admlrable teacher flrm d1sc1pl1nar1an and excellent manager H was one of the t1rst to develop the laboratory 11S c1a1ms at teachers mstrtutes and conven tlons Although one of the most modest and ret1r1ng of men the sohd worth of h1s class room work the l1terary skrll and clearness of presentatton of hrs lectures and arttcles IH pedagogrcal Journals made h1m wrdely known tn many educattonal C1TCl9Q of our country Gp 14 Q l sg' e , QA I I I 1 . . s., I . , ' - ' ' ' ' .... e I I l - ll . 1 Cqtgrg of Qur timg and Cguntryf one Of the method of lnstructlon fully, and to advocate ' vfty., st-31-.gygt-r 'Tri .1.P.TQ.L.T1CtX:, V 1 Q, Ne. 1, 5. 5,

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L L6Ll'l'l.SQll,y I' Ass1st Drrn 1p,1l l904 l9lJ Pflfl Qlfi l9l4 The complet cons rousness of loss ID the pass1ng aw ry of any rare personal1ty w1th whom we have been or1v1leged to assocxate lS a certarn proof of the surv1val of the lnfluen of that personahty ln oecommg the pr1n 1pal of the lvl Ktnley l-l1gh School 1t was Mr Schuyler s mo t araent w1sh to br1ng the schoo 1nto the same relot1 n w1th the communrty around 1t Fe beheved that he who has once known and nroyed supreme excellence can no more sat1sfy h1mself w1th the med1ocre and the vulgar than he who has tasted the pure cool waters of l1v1ng spr1ng can turn from that to slake h1s th1rst 1n a waysrde pool He deplored the 'nult1pl1cat1on of cheap places of amusement the auest1onable character of the1r enterta1nrnent and the constant tempta t1on to the young to waste the1r t1me 1n the'n and he felt that the only way to check the ev1l IS to put sorr1 th1ng better and more at tract1ve 1n llS place To educate the taste to subst1tute for the ster1le pleasures of the eye and ear the fert1le pleasures of the heart and the brarn appeared to h1m one of the most rmportant tasks of educat1on l-le loved l1berty as he loved l1fe but he be l1eved that perfect l1berty IS the fru1t of knowl edge and self mastery and that only they can know 1t 1n 1lS fullness who can v1ew l1fe IH 1lS relat1on to etern1ty and feel 1ts l1m1ts 1lS worthlessn ss 1n compar1son except as 1t IS a d1sc1pl1ne for the larger l1fe of the 1mmortal sou Nothmg 1n modern l1fe drstressed h1m so much as the tr1umph of rnater1al1sm over the th1nos of the sp1r1t and rn the later 8 years of h1s l1fe h1s thought was chrefly oc cup1ed w1th the means of restorlng 1deal1sm to her throne among the arts He cornbated vrgorously the tendency to f1X IH dogmas the hypotheses of sclence and was never weary of show1ng how 1nsuff1c1ent are all her theor1es to account for the s1mplest phenomenon of 1 e And so stand1ng for that whlch can nelther be werghed nor measured pass1ng among us w1th the breath of a larger l1fe 1nsp1r1ng us w1th a love for those thrngs whtch gave energy to h1s own large act1ve sp1r1t he has left us a her1tage of 1ntellectual wealth of 1ncalculable value Ftsher THE L,Af5llNA lO'Nl Vcl ll N l p G a W - f f ' 'ww ' fs' f . 'N ' ,nr , ,A , , ' fs 1 1 - 1 -zpah . - , me ' 3 V 1 ' . F , , L ' , ' ' ce F l Y l l , c'L c ' 1' , ' , s 1 , W v ,O , . 4. . . . A, lv' .. ,,.,, - ,. Q . A V y V V 1 55-1914 c 1 1 . I , 1 4 1 - 1 ' ' ' ' - A , f . . , . 6 . i W . - , Q I N., A V V , ' ' V V ' t ' , 7 , 9 , ' ' ' ' - Lffcxry' ,.' ' ' T ., ,. , 0. , .9, 'J -'g ' jn.1.15.