Riverside High School - Mercury Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Sfc4 . of democratic organization. Our school is composed of many classes ranging from wealth to poverty. This condition only proves more conclusively that democracy prevails at Riverside, for this mingling tends to strengthen the principles of equality. It is to be expected that a family of such sturdy foundation the individual will be in no way hampered. In fact, the pupil is even helped to express his individualism, for Riverside strives in every way possible to prevent her students from being formed in a common mold. The problem is to find a means to bring out the differences and abilities of every student to his own best advantage. This heavy burden falls for the

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customed to a school of rigid discipline, in which there could be no sociability, and aghast at our noisy good fellowship be- tween classes, pronounced it prattle, not to be tolerated in a high school. The very thing she was denouncing is one of the in- fluences which have made study at River- side so delightful. A direct outgrowth of this sociability is the freedom we are priveleged to enjoy. It is primarily a freedom of thought and expression. The high school student en- joys nothing more than to formulate and express unrestrained his own ideas which are the desirable result of study. As socia- bility and freedom are the basis of democ- racy in the country, so they are in a school -a- r f

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% most part on the teachers. That they rea- lize that they are not merely machines teaching stupid children how to master certain things, but rather that they are verj important factors in teaching self expres- sion and in revealing the latent abilities of every pupil is to the great advantage of the school. Unlike many of the modern youths, we still cling to our ideals and the individual- ism that we so proudly possess is of prime importance in the shaping of these ideals. Our athletic traditions are so glorious and have been recounted so many times that it seems needless to develop them thoroughly again. For the last twenty-five years, they have signified unbounded achievement. It