New Ulm High School - Lavender and White Yearbook (New Ulm, MN)

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xx ,., ,A Z' - f a : ix ZA iflletter 7 rum 0Bn1f Soloist principal 39 Co., I0 Tr. Bn., l58 Depot Brigade, Camp Sherman, Ohio, April 27, l9I 8. Dear Friends of the Class of 1918: The invitation to write a letter for the Lavender and White brings back a whole host of memories that have surged through my brain often during these past eight months. It's a most pleasurable sensation just to dream about 'ithe good old days when I commanded l..et's 'have it quiet, to picture historic evenings at Woodmen Hall, to recall roof-wracking basketball games followed by Wiener feeds in the high school or chop suey sundaes at Eibneris. I seldom 'think about the hours I spent in marking papers and red-inking caustic thoughts upon them, or those feverish flurries of plain grindstone labor that came every month when I prepared the reports that were greeted with smiles or tears. It goes Without saying that I have often wished I could be with you this year as I planned last spring. But circumstances elected me to something different. I didnit enter the army for education or experience or adventure, 'but I am learning many lessons that I confidently believe will make me a more efficient man in my profession as a teacher than I might otherwise be, for the army is a school in which men are educated and drilled to proficiency in the old and honorable profession of arms. Almost unconsciously I find myself always comparing it to a school, noting good instruction and poor, seeking out ideas that I can take back to civilian life with me to make more successful the schools which prepare us for peaceful pursuits. I have come across some officers here who are the best instructors I have ever known. Captain Owen, a Britisher, came here last fall and has taught this whole division the English system of 'bay- onet-fighting. I-le's a veritable dynamo of energy, a most capable organizer, and he certainly is a pedagogue in the real sense, for he surely understands the principles of pedagogy, and gets results from instruction. Then there's l..ieut. Colonel Sandy lVlcNab, a gruff-voiced, red-headfed Scotch- man, whose hobby is shooting. In the common sense of the term, he's a bachelor, but in reality he chose the Army for his bride years ago and has been loyal to her for twenty-four 'hours a day ever since. Heis a tireless worker and has evolved a system of individual riHe instruction that has brought phenomenal results. By a careful analysis he has made separate and distinct each detailed act in correct shooting, and then he drills and drills his men to what the German General Staff calls a miraculous exactitude of detail. The man who only gets the form 95 per cent correct won't get 95 per cent results on the target range ,by any means. I-le mu-st be so schooled in the use of that rifle that he will unconsciously handle it correctly in the excitement of battle, so Sandy demands l00 per cent efficiency. I found it a liberal education to take a course in which the standards were so high. If it werenit for making my letter so long as to be tiresome, lid tell you all about a wonderful British colonel who delivered three long lectures to the officers of the division with a spirit that recalled to my mind, 'historically inclined as it is, that long line of Britishers who labored for liberty: Hampden, Pym, Eliot, Burke, Pitt, Gladstone. Don't tell me that you have forgotten who those men were. But I'm Writing too much of my own interests. Let it suffice to say that when the American army goes back to civil life, it will take with it a love of native land and an ardor for America that will amount to a hair-trigger patriotism. Thatis not merely the sentiment of a shave-tail second lieu- tenant, itis the spirit ofthe draftees themselves after they have been in the service for a couple of months. I have been able to follow events in the N. U. I-I. S. through The Graphosn fairly well and have noted with pleasure the fine record of both basketball teams. Redwood Falls still seems to have a strangle hold on debating supremacy as far as New Ulm is concernedg that always worries me, and Victor will remember the high resolves which he and I made a year ago concerning R. F. But apparently we must leave that stump for the next generation. At whatever place I may again take up teaching, I hope to find such friends as I have in your class. I canit forget you people as a group or as individuals, and wherever I see you again, in New Ulm, Chicago or Paris, there will be a glad meeting and fond reminiscences of 'ithe good old days. All that's finest and most worth while in life is what I wish for you. A P. W. I-IUTSON.