Salina High School - Trail Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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Uhr Enarh nf Ehuratinn. When the class of '07 graduated from the grade schools they were pre- sented with their diplomas by Mr. Wilson, as president of the school board. The board at this time was composed of Messrs. Wilson, Cravens, Bulk- ley, Hull, McAdams, Kimball, Arnold and Metzger. Mr. Kimball had re- cently been appointed to occupy a vacancy caused by Mr. Daum's resignation. During the following year, 1904, there were no changes in the member- ship of the board, but in 1905 Mr. Swanson was elected to Mr. Metzger's place. In 1906 Mr. Martin succeeded to Mr. Arnold's position, and Mr. Van Trine was appointed to Hll a vacancy caused by the removal of Mr. McAdams from the Second ward to the Third ward. At the expiration of his term, in 1906, Mr. Wilson retired, having served as a member and president of the board for ten consecutive years. I-Ie was succeeded by Dr. Neptune. The election in 1907 resulted in only one change, Mr. Smith being elected to the place previously occupied by Mr. Martin. Mr. Cravens was elected to the presidency of the board upon the with- drawal of Mr. Wilson. Mr. Cravens is agraduate of the law department of the University of Missouri, and has served on the board for nine years. Mr. Kimball is a graduate of the high school at Quincy, Illinois, and has been an active worker on the school board during his term of four years. Mr. Wilson was a member of the class of '82 at Ann Arbor Law School, and was first elected to the board in 1896. Dr. Neptune attended the McPherson high school and the Dunkard Col- lege, also situated at that place. He took up the study of medicine, attending the Starling Medical College, but completing his course at the Kansas City Medical College. Mr. Bulklcy attended the Agricultural College at Manhattan, but did not finish his course there. He has served on the board for the past four years. Mr. Walter Cravens was appointed clerk of the board in May, 1903, and still retains that position. During the period extending from 1903 to 1907 many improvements have been effected in the Salina school system, among which manual training may be mentioned. In 1904 a new building, the Phillips school, was completed, and two years later the new South Park school was opened, the building which formerly occupied the same site having burned the year previous. HARRISON M. CLARK.

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algebra and geometry. They illuminate arithmetic for all, and are useful in every sort of craft where measurements are to be made, and to those boys who are to take up engineering courses they are absolutely necessary. History and Economics-It is impossible to understand clearly the pres- ent-day civilization without looking back into history and tracing its develop- ment from the beginning. To study history is to enrich our life with the expe- riences of all mankind through all the centuries. The study of history makes for the highest citizenship by acquainting us with the forms and functions of government and bringing us under the inspirational influence of the highest ideals. Nowhere is it so essential as in a free country like ours, where each individual has the opportunity to be a sovereign. The subjects of history are subjects of universal concern, and ignorance in this field always stamps one as illiterate. As for the other subject in this department, Economics, in these days of gigantic industrial enterprises and consequent new governmental and economic problems, its importance is growing rapidly. It is imperative that our high school graduates, who are to constitute the largest part of the intelli- gent class of our people, should understand the laws of the production and distribution of wealth. Commercial Branches-The branches offered are Commercial Arithmetic Bookkeeping, Commercial Law, and Commercial Geography. These branches have a minimum of cultural value, and are offered chiefly for the accommoda- tion of those who feel the need of making their high school course count as much as possible toward preparation for earning a livelihood in the counting room. Manual Training-This is a new subject that has quickly come into favor in all the best schools. Psyschology has taught educators that the use of the hands has an educative value, and it is now thought that all students should be required to do some manual training work, although it is of special value to the boy or girl of the non-literary type, a few of which there are in every high school. Science-The sciences are finding a larger place on our school programs than formerly, and with their rapid growth and increased importance they well deserve it. Man is in the midst of a physical environment, organic and inorganic, with which his exsitence is intimately related. The study of the physical sciences-Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy and Physiography-on the one side, and the biological sciences-Botany, Zoology and Physiology-on the other, leads him to appreciate the significance of that environment and discover his relation to it. He becomes aware in a very real sense that the physical world, including himself, is God's creation, and it is all very wonderful, indeed. Such an investigation of the natural world gives man a grip on the forces of nature which he turns to practical uses and at the same time goes far toward giving him a sane and sound philosophy of life. It will be seen that a graduate of our high school has made excursions into all the realms of knowledge, and has acquired the fundamental principles of each. The high school has opened up to him the whole realm of scholar- ship, and, if it has done its best for him, has placed his intellectual life on a sound basis and sent him out into the world a prince among men. JOHN LOFTY, Principal.

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mrmhvra Qnarh nf Ehnratinn. R. P. CRAVENS. E. S. SWANSON. G. M. HULL. D. A. VAN TRINE.