Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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4.VD YOU SHALL HAVE FOR CHAMPIONS STRONG AND TRUE, MY KNIGHTS Has made this favored school a monument Of human service, noble, gentle, true. Westward the tide of empire takes its way And ere the span of live short years is run, A wondrous building fair to look upon, Is reared, by lovely homes environed And westward Mother Central sends again The march of learning's youthful pioneers To build anew another school whose fame Is soon to equal that of Mother School H And elder Sister Schools in South and North. The name of one whose fame throughout the land Is linked with Education's progress wide Is now bestowed upon this glorious school To uphold the standards of the old and new, SOLDAN! School of Opportunity! QEnter SAINT LOUIS: I bid you joyous welcome, Soldania, Thou Beacon Light of inspiration fair! In gentle dignity benign and poised, Thou'rt like a goddess, yet a woman fair. ED UCA TION: The fairest of all is she, O mighty King, Soldaniaj A woman young in years, but learned in truth With all Athene ever knew of old. She shall well teach the children at her side With knowledge shall she fill their hungry minds. With gentle, sweet persuasion shall she seek 18

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nsmnmgmm ss.'z.e-f,-4 ummm., 43: 1 lE! MOTHER SCHOOL AND ELDISR SISTER SCHOOLS 1.V SUIVTII ANI? NORIII CENTRAL HIGH: Mother of Schools am I, and of my best I gave to those new schools whose very life Was life of my life. My faculty I shared And youthful sons and daughters without stint, To South and North and West in turn I gave. fEn ter McKin1eyiHighj First, McKinley, eldest daughter fair, Bearing the name of martyred President, In majesty, her lofty towers reared, And from her doors sent forth in numbers strong Noble sons and daughters to attest her fame. fEn ter Yea tma Then she, who bore the gentle name of him Who stood for civic worth, and made his life Synonymous with great philanthropy, Came into being to perpetuate The fame of Yeatman, noble citizen. His spirit like a benediction 17 n High,

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. 5 6 11715.-ILS SH.-ILL liOI'l5R.X' .f1CTU:lL DEIEDS. To reason with the youth whose eager minds As gardens beauteous are consecrate To nurture in the radiant light of Truth. And she will lead,-they follow up the road,- The toilsome road of high endeavor to The heights, for they shall strive to leave The world enriched in beauty and in light. SOLDANIA: As Education says, so may it be, For all who enter Soldan High shall learn A truth majestic in simplicity- 'Tis only things of Spirit that endure. So shall my sons and daughters all be taught This lesson from the Past-they who seek self Alone in Life's superb adventure, must Lose life and sink in deep oblivion whelmedg Who freely lose that self, in deeds of love, Find life, and have it more abundantly. Who enter in my house of learning shall Sweet quietude of thought enjoy, and they Shall come away with priceless knowledge got. Mine shall forever be an institution Ageing not thro' countless years of toil In building minds and souls. Mine shall a school Eternal in its influence be, where high Ideals shall govern actual deeds: and here Thro' everchanging years the Makers of Tomorrow shall be taught their lives to lead In usefulness, that they shall make the earth 19