Prescott High School - Hassayamper Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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I MISS LOUISE R. GIBBS, Matheiraties and History MISS HELEN M. EDWARDS, MISS HELEN VORCE, Language and History Language and English MR. W. D. BAKER, Latin MISS ELLEN CLEMENS, MR. FRANK HART, Business and Science Science and Mathematics c

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should not be ascribed to the current criticism that the high school leads nowhere except to the university. Aside from the more strictly acamedic courses the school has, to the extent of its resources, responded to the industrial idea, which has had such rapid growth during the last few years. It offers a special two years’ course in commercial sub- jects for those who are from any cause not adapted to the strain of a four-year course leading to graduation. Further than that, in its manual training course, mentioned above, it offers work in carpentry, wood turning, metal art work and mechanical drawing, while cooking and advanced sewing are promised for the near future. It does not require Greek oracle to foretell that this idea is destined to develop much farther, as it has already in older and wealthier communities. However we believe that this industrial idea should not be over emphasized to the extent of overshadowing our interest in the artistic and the purely intellectual, if America is to develop an intellectual and artistic supremacy of her own : that young men and women should learn to honor the man of learning as he would the captain of industry and prize the possession of wisdom and philosophic insight as they would the technical skill required for constructing a steel bridge. After all civiliza- tion is a complex matter and no one idea either in politics or education will solve all the problems that it presents. As a wise old Roman once remarked : “Wide is the field of action in a state, and for many an open highway unto glory.” Per- haps the sanest view is that young men and women should acquire and assimilate a full share of the world’s truth and beauty and equip themselves to play an efficient and worthv part in the society that is waiting to receive them. W. D. RAKER.

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PRESCOTT RESCOTT WAS the first permanent Ameri- can settlement in the Territory of Arizona, having been established in 1862. When Arizona became a political subdi- vision under United States jurisdiction, the seat of government was removed to this city, February, 1864. Following the founding of Whipple Bar- racks, a military post just outside the present corporate limit of the city, the settlement grew very fast: so that by 1871, it had become the commercial center for the northern part of the Territory. Tt has maintained this prestige, growing more and more as the years passed, until, today, its prominent men are the representative citizens of the Southwest, not only in the learned professions, but in every walk of life. In 1900. a disastrous fire swept the city, destroying a large portion of the business community and necessitating the entire rehabilitation of the mercantile quarter. The reconstruction has been carried out with an idea of architectural harmonv and beauty, which gives Prescott unqualified prestige as the most ornate and substantial business community, for a citv of its size, 6,000, on the American continent. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. in 1898. Prescott was the first city in the Great Southwest to furnish its cpiota toward the formation of the historic “Rough Riders, placing in charge as its captain. Willnm O. O’Neill, then major, and affectionately known as “Buckey” O’Neill, who died a hero in the engagement before San Juan Hill, and whose life-size equestrian statue in bronze in the plaza is one of the characteristic sights of the citv. Next to its situation, surmounting the very heart of the so-called '‘arid region, at an altitude of 5347 feet. Prescott’s climate is its chief lure. Nestled among mountains on all sides, in a thickly-wooded pine belt, it is insured against severe sand-storms, so prevalent in lower altitudes and protected to a very large extent from winds. The water supply, coming from living mountain springs twenty miles distant, is marked by clear, healthful and pleasing to the taste and has been pronounced pure bv the Government Chemist at Washington. The climate of Prescott is ideal. At all seasons of the year, the temperature is pleasant. July and August, the hot- test months, are thoroughly enjoyable, a blanket being re- quisite every night, while the winter days are delightfully mild, bright and sunny. The relative degree of humidity is