Medill High School - Medillite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE MEDILLITE 93 Valedictory By Pauline Brodsky To the friends gathered here, to the teachers who have been our guides, and to our fellow-students and classmates, it is my privilege to give a last farewell. It is one of the many red-letter days in our lives as we sit here before you upon this solemn occasion. We know what is expected of us on leaving this institution and we take great pride in the school which helped us better ourselves for that purpose. . .fThe high school was the first stepping stone in reaching that goal :for which we were striving. To many of us, the education received here will be the only capital in starting life, while the others will complete their education by attending college. We have indeed advanced far since entering the Medill High School only four long, but seemingly short, years ago. Now we are not the mere hidden shadows that we were when first we enteredg no more are we the ignorant set of students that we were-but, on the contrary, we are emerging victors ready to take our places in the world and render our services, for Service is our great ideal in life. We heartily congratulate the parents and friends for their good judgment in giving us this great opportunity whereby we could pre- pare ourselves for that Service. To the teachers we owe our deepest appreciation for making it possible for us to grasp that opportunity, and we sincerely hope and pray that their labors will be repaid by the Services that we shall have to offer. Tonight many of us are assembled together perhaps for the last time. Some may meet in later years, others may not, but whether we meet or nottonight with its trials and triumphs will be regarded as an epoch in the careers of some of us, as a day worth remembering by all of us. s FELLOW-CLASSMATES: I can wish nothing higher or happier for us than that through our lives in joy and sorrow, in brightest sun- shine and deepest shadow, there may remain with us the conscious- ness of duty well performed, of suffering nobly endured, of life faith- fully lived. And as the word of severance parts us, let us go out to our labor resolved each' one to' play the part of the scholar and the man. Farewell! V M I ' 1.

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THE MEDILLITE The adding machines flew like lightning adding up the averages of the Senior Class, with the result that Annie Brodsky was Vale- dictorian and Florence Rosenberg, Salutatorian. Come and trip it as you ,go to the Medillite Annual Dance. The masterpieces of Medill's artists are on display in the draw- ing room. Please look them over. Principals of neighboring grammar schools assembled in 107 for luncheon and meeting. What a sight! .Black as night! That's how Rose Robinson looked when she got out of that big puddle of mud. Ain't we got fun! We're speaking of the Chesterfieldian ban- quet. Decoration Day. In loving memory to those who have gone Beyond. S JUNE ' ' What a sure sign that the semester is ending. Girls are bring- ing their Girl Grads to school. ' White caps and aprons-famous nurse speaks to Medill girls on nursing as a profession. Are the Sorosis apeing the Chesterfieldians? No, it isn't a ban- quet, it's a luncheon. 1 The night of nights! The Prom of Proms! What a gala affair it was! . The Stars and Stripes forever. Dada-tum-tum-singing and dancing and a good time at the Freshie Frolic. - e We mourn the death of Joe Tank. Peace to his ashes. How pretty they all looked donned in white. The Two-Year Graduates are leaving their beloved school. ' Graduation! The night we always dreaded and yet longed for came at last. Sorrowfully the Seniors bid their Alma Mater a last fond farewell. ANNIE BRODSKY

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94 THE MEDILLITE A Liberal Education By Angelo Aquila s vMr. Johnson, members of the faculty, fellow students, parents, and friends. 2 .. Education is a problem which arose five hundred thousand years ago and which will endure as long as man endures. The first educa- tion was that of one of our Neolithic ancestors, sitting over the fire teaching his boys how to fashion flints, while his mates were teaching the girlshow to prepare skins for clothing. With this idea in mind, let us consider by way of illustration this supposition: that it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of everyone of us would, one day or another, depend upon his winning or losing a game at chess. Do you not think that we should all con- sider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and moves of the pieces, to have a notion of the gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check ? Do you not think that we should look with disapprobation amounting to scorn. upon the father who allowed his son, or the state which allowed its members, to grow' up without' knowing a pawn from a knight? b 1 Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life,.the for- tune and the happiness of every one of us, and more or less, of those who are connected with us, does depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, everyone of us being one of the two players in a game of his own. The chess- board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call thezlaws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that His play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, that He never overlooks a mistake. 1 To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with thatsortpof overflowing generosity with which the strong show delight in strength.. And one who plays ill is check-mated without haste but withoutaremorse. , Whatfl mean' by education is learning the rules of this mighty game. In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways, and the fashioning of the affec- tions and-tlie will into an earnest and loving desire to move in har- mony 'with those laws: , i' 1- ' i , That inan, I think, has had a liberal education, who- has 'been so trainediiiif-youth that his body is the ready servant-bf his willy-and does -Withfeasel-and pleasure all the work of which fit is' capable: iwhose intellect is like a steam engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth-working order, ready, too, like an engine, to be turned to any kind of work,-to spin the gossamers as well as to force the anchors of the mindg whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her opera- tions,--one who is full of life and vim, but whose passions are trained