North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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A REVELERS REVELATION OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION IT HAS been our extreme pleasure to have graduated from an institu- tion which boasts the mysterious title of Progressive Education. Just what this Progressive Education implies nobody seems to know. We have, however, bent our every effort and delved deeply into the matter. The Education part holds a small mystery in that it comes from the Latin, Educo, to lead out, and education pounds things into our heads as no sledge hammer could. The real problem is in what the Progressive adds. We are told that the student who is so lucky as to be the prey of this phenomenon is made to love his work. That immediately brings up the question, What is love? The Senior Girls tell us that love is a feeling of strong personal attachment. An attachment is a connection. A con- nection is something that has something to do with something else. So Progressive Education has something to do with something else, Zoology no doubt. So we are treated as animals. (We certainly seem to be on the right track.) There are many kinds of animals. Some have four feet, others have many more, like bugs. People say some bugs are helpful, oth- ers aren ' t. Most people don ' t like bugs to crawl on them when they are asleep. Some don ' t mind because they sleep so soundly. There are many reasons why some can ' t sleep. Coffee, for instance, is very bad. We Sen- iors realize this and drink sodas (and things) . We all get them at Cooley ' s. There are three Cooley ' s but the other two are not so popular. There are also Coolies in China. They are yellow and wear their hair in long things -24—

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iiiS! Rsia mis SENIOR RETROSPECT WE HAVE RISEN AS THIS, our Senior Year draws to an end, And we prepare to enter the common trend Of the high school grad to college days; We begin to look back on the precious daze That never will ever be lived once more, The trials and triumphs at old North Shore, The joys, the thrills, disappointments, chagrin, As we struggled upward and strove to win, We Seniors wish to give a word of advice And urge our successors to think more than twice Before you begin to talk back to the faculty Or try in vain to dress too immaculately Or break any windows, go around bragging About your abilities when there ' s something lagging. And we firmly believe that a word to the wise Is, in this case, sufficient, we firmly advise You to heed our warning in the manner it ' s given, Bearing in mind the heights to which we have r ' sen. -23-

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called cues. (Ah, here is a cue which is a clue to the mystery.) They love to drink tea in China though some prefer it in tin cups. The Seniors used to have tea at Leicester Hall, but now we don ' t. From the window of Leices- ter we could see all the trains go by. (Again we are on the track!) They go to Milwaukee. That is a Socialistic City which was looked upon with favor during the first decade of this century by Bob La Follette who was a Progressive ! He was the Adam of Progressive things and he ' s dead, but Progressive Education isn ' t, because it is that man ' s child, like Phil and young Bob. There we are ! Progressive Education is one of the La Follette boys, do you see? —25-