Roosevelt High School - Sagamore Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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L 5 - nj- THE MIRROR 5 Zfuremnrh are the. pioneers of a new school. Not only is it a new school in a new building: it is a new kind of school. Iflever before .has Minne- apolis established a Junior and a Senior High School in the same building. More than that, this Junior and Senior High School is being conducted as one institution, rather than two. Under this experiment, the pupils from the seventh to the twelfth grades, inclusive, will be given their education during the next few years. While it may not be the intention of the educational authorities to make this form of school organiza- tion permanent, or to ever try the experiment again, it becomes the duty of the pioneers of this institution to make this new form of school organization a complete success while it is in operation. i This can be accomplished in but one way-by absolute team work on the part of all the pioneers of our school. Already the pupils, teachers, oliice force, janitors and parents have demonstrated a marvelous capacity for team work and co-operation. If we continue to co- operate and pull together during the coming years as we have done during the irst year of our school's history, the new experiment will be a success, and no one will be able to say, truthfully, that it is impossible to conduct a Junior and a Senior High School in the same building. The destiny of our new Alma Mater is in our hands. Shall we do our part in proving to the world that the little red school house must go the way of the old oaken bucket: that in place of the traditional one room school must be built the larger school: that this larger school must be thoroughly equipped in every department: that it must be supplied with well trained and com- petent teachers, and, that it must furnish the enriched curricula? Shall we demonstrate to the world that the larger school, with its up-to-date equip- ments, has room for that student only, who is eager to secure an education, and has no room for the idler? Shall we make it plain that we are thoroughly conscious of the fact that our chief business these days is to secure a thorough education? We do not subscribe to the doctrine that education is merely a preparation for life. We believe that our school days are, and should be considered, a very vital part of life itself, And so, as we go about our business in this new school and new kind of a school, wearing the maroon and gold as our school colors, we, the pioneers, pledge, upon our word of honor, to our new Alma Mater, to the community that has furnished the new school, to the State and to the Nation, that the money which is being spent on our education, shall not be spent in vain, but that the investment shall return rich dividends. PHILIP E. CARLSON.

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THE MIRROR 7 An 1Hn111ritie11 Svrenarin OW should you like to go to a movie called The Story of Fortieth Street and Twenty-eighth Avenue ? This film in beautiful pictures, would give some high lights on the history and changing fortunes of the school district and especially that part of it whereon our fine new high school now stands. Our own boys and girls might be trained to act in such a picture and what stolid Indians, gay Frenchmen, dignified Englishmen and dashing Spaniards they would make! The scenery could be that around our famous Falls of Minnehaha. We could surely borrow a dozen or two fat buffalo, throw in lots of striped gophers, have a few scalpings and stage a buffalo hunt. This history could extend back ages and ages ago and, skipping over time lightly, close with a grand climax on a certain September morn, in 1922. The first picture might be called No School Today, and it would show the present site of our high school deep buried under the ice sheet of that huge glacier which in some remote age covered the northern part of North America. Just think! In the mind of no creature then living did there exist the idea of a high school at Fortieth Street and Twenty-eighth'Avenue. Br-r-r! That's too chilly. Let's have the next one. Minnesota, Land of the Sky Blue Water, flashes on the screen. Were there ever such skies with such cloud squadrons sailing over them? The ice sheet has melted. Time passes quickly at a movie. To explain the name, thousands of lakes flash by each as blue as the sky' above them. Now comes the title, Hiawatha Enters the Kingdom of the West Wind. A grand picture of the Falls, with water a foot deep swirling broad and white down fifty feet of sheer descent and dashing into foam on the crags below. There should be a Hne roar manufactured to accompany this scene. Not another high school in the city, maybe in the state, maybe in America pos- sesses such a wealth oftradition, poetry, legend and romanceas does ours. When Nature has given us such falls. we surely ought to be able to furnish the roar to go with them: ' A A picture of Longfellow at the Falls would be interesting but the fact is he never saw more than a rather poor picture of them taken by a Chicago man, Alexander 'Kester, August 15, 1862. This picture was given the poet by his friend, Senator Sumner. So deep an impression has the poem made on the imagination that one is unwilling to think that Hiawatha and his Star- light perhaps never existed. . lt is difficult to get the right titles inimovies. The more words you have, the greater the expense. How about The Wooing of Starlight, Moonlight, Firelight, Sunlight? A bit long, but it sounds so nice and dreamy, don't you think so? 4.1