Mendota High School - Atodnem Yearbook (Mendota, IL)

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,N was necessary to get what we have, before we can get what we must have. The time is close for decisive movement in new directions. We have distributed ourselves rather broadly over the ground, now we must strike our roots deeper into the soil and we must grow taller. Our work claims two more additions to the main building very imperatively, but quite as loudly it demands that some of our present departments shall be better equipped. This is especially true in the commercial and manual training de- partments. We ought to have at least a thousand dollars at once for our library. We could spend it wisely and profitably this year in books which are needed to reinforce our work. The same might be said of apparatus. We need a new department of physical education with a competent instructor in charge, to include the girls as well as the boys, and this course should be made compulsory for every able-bodied student. We have no need for more students. In fact we might well dispense with some of the foolish ones we have so that the more serious ones might have more attention and wider swing. It is no reflection on the instructional force to say that there are some students who might well spend more time in inten- sive study that they may learn to bear the strongest kind of hand in genuine school work, in real school leadership. The time has come to determine that we will pursue a very conservative course about attempting more enterprises and a more aggressive course toward the strengthening of thoseeourses we have already undertaken. We want the stimulating atmosphere of hard and deep scholarship here in even fuller measure than we have had it. I can say these things without effort and with courage, because I know that the better and overwhelming sentiment of the school and community accords with them. I am quite sure that there would be no dissent from the proposition that what has heretofore been 'done was, i11 the main, well doneg that the school need abut no part of the rational pleasures with which it- salts and spices its workg but that it shall stand for order, for!-steadiness and stability, for deeper study and yet higher scholarship, and 'for a foremost place in the high school work of our state. If this is to be done it involves thinking in some new directions, it calls for the setting up of some new stand- ards, it means a new sense of gratitude and a new measure of devotion, and it will be accomplished by a splendid and common impulse acting upo11 our life from one end to the other. Are we all ready and anxious for it? Then let us go forward and upward. S. J. Haight, President of the Board of Education. of ' u N 'ine

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