Salem High School - Quaker Yearbook (Salem, OH)

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Through The Years in Sports . . . Page 84 “It is well known that Salem is not a basketball town, that our team must not only cope with its opponents but must also meet the discouragement of non-support ' The Reveille-1915 Through The Years in Features Page 98 “When they wanted to have a big time the girls and boys would go out in the woods, clean off the leaves, then some would sing and some would dance and so merrily pass away the time; so we had tame animals as well as wild ones, —Souvenir History of Salem-1906 Through The Years with the Faculty . . . Page 112 “The teachers of the pioneer schools in certain sections of Ohio were selected more on account of their unfitness to perform manual labor than by reason of their intellectual worth. The few schools established in this section were taught by cripples, worn-out old men, and women physically unable or constitutionally too lazy to scotch hemp or spin flax. —A History of Education in Ohio—1S76 5

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Through The Years in SHS . . . Page 6 “The hardy pioneer a hundred year ago, seek- ing to better the condition of himself and to im- prove the prospects of his progeny, left the Eastern home of his ancestors and that of his youth, to find in this green spot on God's fair footstool a location none the less attractive in its pristine beauty than we find it now, after a century of labor and progress.” --Souvenir History of Salem-1906 Through The Years in Classes . . . Page 14 “As a rule, the classics and studies relating to languages have found less favor among the Friend who were the early settlers and the fashioners to a great extent of public sentiment in Salem, than mathematics and the natural sciences ' —Souvenir History of Salem-1906 Through The Years in Activifies . . . Page 48 “The Quaker, a magazine published under the auspices of students in the Salem high school, completes its third volume with the June issue, 1906. It is published monthly during each school year. At the present (1906) Frederick Hole and Fritz Mullins are business managers, and John Mead is editor.” 4 Souvenir History of Salem-1906

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Salem High School 1860-1896 The High School from its earliest days maintained a higher order of excellence, both in dis- cipline and acquirements. Its pupils were taught to think, to compare, to judge for themselves, to regard the education of the school-room as a means rather than an end,” —Souvenir History of Salem-1906 Edifices Change But Spirit of Salem High School 1896-1916 6