Prescott High School - Hassayamper Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. PRESCOTT. ARIZONA

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The Editor sat in his easiess chair And his brow was furrowed deep with care On desk, chairs and tables, scattered about. Lay material for the “annual soon to come out. And as he scanned each manuscript page “Such rubbish,” he groaned in despair and rage. “Senseless twaddle —“trash —“worse and worse Were his comments— Of all the blank verse This is the blankest. Such witless wit, Such pointless jokes. No one will be hit, And this prose is the prosiest ever— Not even good English and not at all clever— I wonder if there is an item that could, In justice and reason, be really called good, The annual must and SHALL make a hit If I work day and night; and with never a bit Of support from our brilliant class of ’i i Who would scrap outside the gates of Heaven. The brain and pen of Horace Greeley Is needed to make this venture a “really And truly” success. And to fail--------” (The horrible thought made the Editor pale) I'll be gray—or bald—before 1 am through Even now I may be. (Then forth he drew His pocket companion—tried and true) And as he gazed at his own reflection His face lost its look of care and dejection In its place came wonder and glad surprise. “How beautiful” he impulsively cries, For the locks above his brow had risen In martial array and graceful precision— “ I he pompador of my dreams come true And still it stands like sentry true. Pledged to see the annual through.”

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Retrospect and Prospect “Felix quo potuit rerum cognoscere causas. “Happy the man chose steadfast eye surreys The whole worlds truths, its hidden works and ways. APPY. too, the boy or girl who lias made at least a beginning toward an understanding of the processes of nature and a knowledge and appreciation of human achievement. In this jubliant mood the Prescott High School is now sending forth its seventh graduating class and may be pardoned if it calls the attention of the public to the service it has rendered and promises to render in the future. Forty graduates have gone forth from its class-rooms, about ninety per cent of whom have entered some higher institution of learning, either technical or normal school, college or uni- versity. They are scattered all over this broad land from Stan- ford to W ellesly, and. and with one exception, have been ad- mitted everywhere without examination, upon the school’s recommendation. 1 he foundation of its curriculum is a uniform requirement made up of four years’ work in English : two in Ancient, Med- ieval and Modern History: two and one-half in Mathematics: two in Physics and some other science: and two in foreign language, either ancient or modern. In order to graduate a pupil has to supplement this with three and one-half units from elective studies. His choice of electives determines whether he is to graduate from a Latin-Scientific, Scientific. Literary. Latin-Modern or Manual-Training course. Systematic work in various forms of public speaking is a part of the work in Eng- lish and one hour a week is devoted to choral music. Not the least important is the care and attention given both to indoor and outdoor athletics and to the social diversion of pupils, whenever these are carried on under the auspices of the school. The average American High School makes its chief claim to excellence on the basis of its record as a preparatory school. Yet we are confident that the few. who. have been obliged to give up their intellectual pursuits upon graduation, have at least taken up lift’s problems upon a higher plane, with better dis- ciplined mind, with fuller knowledge of the world’s treasures, with greater reserve power and with higher ideals of conduct than those who dropped out at the completion of the elemen- tary course. 1 herefore we believe that too much importance