South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Ye Editors’ Invocation vF OUR delightful school days, and the fruit Of South High learning tree, whose mortal taste Brings light into the world, and all our joys With loss of lessons, till some teacher great Flunk us, then we regain the passing mark Sing. Heav’nly Muse, that in the ample seats Of A room, or of B room, didst inspire Those writers, who first told the graduates In the beginning, how the senior class Came out of South High, or, if essay work Delight thee more, and poetry that flow’d Fast from the pen of the author, we thence Invoke thy aid to our adventurous book. That with no middle flight intends to soar Above all annuals, while it pursues Things oft attempted now in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Reader, that dost prefer Before all novels, th’ upright book and pure Peruse this, for thou know’st, thou from the first May’st read it, and with mighty mind devoted Owl-like, set brooding o’er its mighty depths. And learn its contents, what in it is dark Pass over, what is good read and enjoy That from the leaves of this great argument I hou may’st extract sufficient mental food To justify the price of it to men. — 1 he Editors. (With apologies to Milton’s “Paradise Lost.’’) Page Nine

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THE EDITORIAL STAFF REUBEN A. JOHNSON ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ethel Keatley Imadee Fraiken Fannie Parker Winifred Swift Editor EVELYN PETERSON LESLIE W. FOSTER Art Business Manager

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A Parting Word [HIS message to the June Class of 1909, comes from a full heart to a group of young people peculiarly endeared to me by unusually long and close relations. Together we have studied literature, “the expression in memorable poetry and prose, of life and character,” during the junior and senior years of the high school course. This is the period when the student is awakening to the meaning and possibilities of life; and when he is interpreting character in the light that student and teacher together create. If the student is preparing at all seriously for a useful and happy future; if he is working consistently to that end; and if he is in sympathy with his teacher, the bonds uniting them will be as strong and enduring as life itself. My experience and my heart both inspire me with confident love for this class of 1909. I believe that our Salmagundi Club has developed practical power in its members that promises able, honorable, loyal, and patriotic citizens to our community. Symbolic of fine scholarship and inspiring personality, the Salmagundi banners, held by several of our members, will always float backward to the South High School, but their standards will be recognized as belonging to the wide world for which they strengthened us. Loving sympathy expressed in word and deed, is characteristic of this class, and it must add much to the happiness and brightness of the world when as individuals it has carried its spirit into many social centers. Lest this tribute seem to idealize this fine class more than is just to their human imperfections, let me say, that I have in mind two children who described the same garden. To the one, “Every rosetree had long cruel thorns upon it.” To the other. “Every thornbush had lovely roses growing on it!” I believe with Emerson that every act of the man inscribes itself in the memory of his fellows and in his own manners and face, and my interpretation of the character of the class of ’09 has been but the reading of their “own manners and faces.” Their ideals are sometimes set about by the thorns of thoughtlessness, but the beautiful rose, the noble ideal, is the true character. —Ella W. Bucknam. 'Page Ten