Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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THE MIT E8T02JE. 13 principles and has always been a powerful agent for good. As an educational institution, it is acknowledged first in the state, its graduates taking higher rauk in the great eastern colleges. Ten professors and instructors of highest merit aud reputation compose the faculty. The curriculum provides facilities for thorough classical, scientific, normal and business courses, besides the conservatory of music and department of art. The college buildings ure three in number, Merrill Hall, Ladies’ Hall and lioswell Observatory. The library of 7,.'»00 volumes and pamphlets, cabinet, labratory and armory are in Merrill Hall. We have three good literary societies, and society work is counted as equivalent in value to any one study. It seems to me that a literary society would be a valuable aid in the High School. There is no need of speaking at length of the sports, of base ball, foot ball and tennis, of the ladies’ gymnasium, the Light (iuards and many other things which give such a jolly aspect to college life. Although I may not be able to complete the course, I hope Norfolk High School will always be represented at “old Doane.’’ Crete, Neb., April 26. Fred W. Leavitt.

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12 THE MILESTONE. The following Thursday the class again met with Miss Lilian (ierecke, for permanent organization, under the name of the ‘'Alumni Association of the Nofolk High School.” Fred Leavitt was elected president; Kdith Hays, vice-president; Lilian Gerecke, secretary and treasurer. The constitution drawn by the committee was read, revised and accepted. All classes graduating from the Norfolk High School are expected and heartily invited to become members of the Association upon their graduation, the former members reserving all rights to make the initiation a performance never to lx forgotten by the ‘‘new-comers.’ Of courae our membership is still very small, numbering only five. Upon the entrance of the ’90's, should they find the courage to join us, we become eight strong. As the years go by, may the list increase. May the blessings of the prosperity of the school, so richly showered upon us, continue to fall still more abundantly on the worthy heads that follow ns, and each year as the old members greet the new ones may they revive their love for alma mater and join in a rousing hurrah for old Norfolk High School. Ixmg may she live and prosper. FROM DOANE COLLEGE. Leak Friends ok the Milestone:--------- We gladly accept an opportunity to contribute something to Vol. II of the Milestone. The founders of this publication, who embarked upon their first journalistic enterprise with considerable trepidation, are most heartily glad to see it prosper and will ulways take a kind’y interest in this and every other effort of the alma mater, The class of 89 have been alumni hardly long enough to know just how it feels to be out of school. In fact, the feeling was so unpleasant that we must all needs return to our books for a little study, though not all of us are so fortunate as to study behind the desk. Perhaps a few observations on my home for the past year may be of inte rest on account of its being at a greater distance. Doan College, while unseetarian, is conducted upou distinctly Christian

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Prize OratioH- By Miss Ai.ik I. Johnson, ‘JO. |Tlie fo,lowing Oration won the (»oM Mods in the North Nebraska Oratorical Contest, at Norfolk, December 27, i tl'.). J HEKO WORSHIP. ‘‘History is the biography of great m m. Arising ubjve the common tide ot events that have enlisted the myriad of multitudes of human hearts and hands, along the march of destiny have been unveiled massive monuments of men. Like great guide-posts along the line of progress, every era is marked by their presence. In every epoch to them the linger of history points as an index of their time. Janus-faced in their majesty, a twofold declaration is read upon their brow. Upon their front is-piece behold a name! A name that is revered. A name that has in its time, moved the whole spirit of a people. Hut while that majestic monument bears upon it the epitaph that commemorates a life glorious with renown, in symbolic duplicity it speaks to the passing generations tin sentiment of a people; the sentiment of its age. The people pause before it, and there see deeds ot valor, of sacrifice, of heroic devotion, love and philanthropy, and in the great patriotic heart of mankind a hero is produced to be worshipped. A hero, worshipped indeed by all succeeding peoples. It has been wisely said, ‘‘Heroism is the divine relation which at all times unites a great man to other men. 1 rulv great human links in all past ages have bound together the swaying masses of humanity, and borne them onward. “Hero worship is the underlying principle of progress. Scarce