South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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and kind forbearance to give this creature a name, worthy of such qualities that bring into use the wealth of cultured minds, of warm feelings, of manly courage and of womanly devotion, in a word the mighty influence of twenty-seven true American girls and boys; and however widely they may be separated in the future by mountain, stream or sea, they will ever carry with them the sheaves of knowledge gleaned from many fields. Edith Hannah Hookey.

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which is peculiar to it alone. Every new moon they assume a different color, partaking it now from the modest violet, now from the azure sky, for it is, in truth a lover of nature. The expression of its mouth denotes firmness of character. With the aid of a spy-glass and with the closest observation, there is discernable, around the edges of his mouth, a few quills, closely resembling those of a fretful porcupine, which promise in the future to develop into a bewitching mustache, finished off with a diplomatic curl. We now come to the most prominent feature of its face,—its nose, in which are represented all the different styles of architecture from the classical and intellectual, to the contemptuous pug. Its brain is massive enough to be the source of all the future inventions which will astonish the coming age. The weight alone will confirm this prophecy, it weighing exactly 74 lbs., 3 oz. and 4 pennyweight. The political sentiments of this freak are a pot-pourri of Republicans, Democrats, Alliance, Whigs, Tories, Liberals, Mugwumps, Prohibitionists, Conservatives and Anarchists. Its views in regard to the future life are extremely liberal and so many and varied that we might form a pyramid of them, placing the Baptist at the base, then in order come the Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Universalist, Lutheran, Catholic and Episcopalian. The extreme point of the pyramid being formed of two elements, the Infidel and Mormon. This freak of nature has the unusual honor of many birth places, namely: Ohio, Minn., Penn., 111., Mich., N. Y., Canada, Me., Iowa, and Mo. I must not forget to mention the kind of food this aesthetic creature is fed upon. Its tastes you will think are rather fickle when you hear the bill of fare. To give it an appetite, after being wrapped in the arms of Morpheus, it takes a small dose of Zetagathean elixir to be followed by his breakfast consisting of pickled humming birds’ tongues and butterfly wings, sauerkraut and baked beans, hair pin hash and slate pencil soup, watermelons and wax, birds’ nests and ice cream with a small addition of tin-tag bread. Do not lay this flattering unction to your soul, that we Seniors will disappear from public gaze after to-night. Our future channels have already been chosen. Some will enter the legal fraternity and speak the truth and nothing but the truth, some will enter the medical profession, to either kill or cure, others are going to climb the ladder of fame through the University, two will deal out pills, two will enlarge and improve the field of electricity, and three will survey the broad plains of the West; the pretty type writer or the comely house wife will not be found wanting, and still others will train the young ideas. I must not forget to tell you that when this freak of nature was found there was, pinned onto its clothes, a card tied with a tiny bow of pink and cream ribbon, bearing the words, “ potens et volens ” which translated means “ able and willing. ” If in my description, worthy friends, I have followed the ridiculous and left out the sublime, I leave it to your vivid imagination

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 CL fSS OR ITlOn. WILL OUR REPUBLIC ENDURE? THERE is in the very atmosphere of a free Democratic country something that inspires both mental and physical activity. Freedom is essential to activity, activity leads to development, and development results in perfection. That little band of pilgrims felt that they could attain no high degree of perfection, either mentally, morally or physically without freedom, and, braving the stormy waves of an unknown ocean, they crossed to a solitary wilderness and made settlements where now stand some of the finest and largest cities of this grand Republic. But little over a century and a half had passed from the time they landed, until they had successfully resisted the tyranny of the mother country and } ecame an independent nation. From that time forward there has been but one cessation in the onward march, and even that was caused by being compelled to stamp out a degrading and unnatural evil that had been brought over from the Old World and which had gained such a firm foot hold, that it was not without a terrible struggle, great loss of life, a heavy drain on the treasury and a general shattering of the government that it was enabled to rid itself of that curse and mockery, that for so many long years gave the lie to our very motto and watchword of “ Liberty. ” I refer to the trade in human souls, SLAVERY. But not to pass thus lleetingly over the period between the Revolution and the Civil War, go back to the time when the Declaration of Independence was so bravely and nobly defended, when that Constitution was framed, that Lowell has said, “ Is perhaps the most remarkable monument of political wisdom known to history. ” From the very hour that the country became free and independent its star of fame and glory began to rise and has not to this day reached its zenith, but is steadily ascending. When the patriots of ’76 realized that they had, by their consumate valor and almost superhuman sacrifice, gained their freedom and that the young republic was thrown upon its own resources, they laid down their arms and went forth with ax and gun to develop the hidden resources and spread civilization over the then unexplored wilderness that stretched away to the west.