Montevideo High School - Purple Gold Yearbook (Montevideo, MN)

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The Nlohischan l 93 I ,il The result is a nation rich beyond former dreams, swarming with motor cars, inundated with baths, and swaddled - - half of it, for a portion of the year - -in fur coats. Our manufactures and our coin- merce lead the world, and our agriculture has to its own detri- ment out-distanced the consuming powers of its markets. A rich nation, indeed, but we put it to you, a nation which is a husky young adolescent among nations, muscular, mechanically skilled, but u.ndeveloped mentally and spiritually. Qffoniinued on next pagcj Published By SENIOR CLASS 1931 Montefuideo High, School V

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f-7 7 ' ' ' ' K Foreword As to factual content, our yearbook has for its primary purpose the portrayal of the school year's activities. The Mohischan of 1931 presents to you in Summary form the essence of Montevideo High Schoo1's organization and achievement for the past year, in the hope that the book will become a cherished repository of happy memories. Because education is the tool wherewith progress works, our theme is the modern viewpoint, which in its finest aspect we take to mean the renewed realization and application of age-old humanitarian principles. V

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Dedication rl There are in America motor cars, bath-tubs, and fur coats in happy profusion, but there are also slums, hunger, and weary, dragging feet in less happy numbers. And even among the occup- ants of the motors, the tubs, and the coats there is restlessness, selfishness, and absorption with material values, all of which go to starve the spirit. Industrialism, indispensiblo bringer of mat- erial wealth and the potential basis for spiritual happiness, exacts a toll upon the unsuspecting nation which bankrupts the spirit. fContinued on next page! V