Springfield High School - Resume Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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T E P BLEC HHS SQ QG A HE remarkable growth of the public High School is perhaps the most noteworthy fact in the - recent history of education. This growth has been realized not because the school is adver- tised far and wide---no school has been exploited less---but rather because no other school of its rank is regarded so favorably by the people. i 355' L If it is asked, f'Why does the school appeal to the people more than others of the same grade?'l it can be answered: 1. The school belongs to the people, and its control is in the hands of a board chosen by the people and responsible to them. 2. Because no other school responds so promptly to the desires of the people. The wide introduction of the Manual and Domestic Art Courses is a fair example of the latter. 3. No other school of equal grade and efficiency costs so little to main- tain. This fact strikes the average American with peculiar force, 4. A very general demand exists for training above that provided in the common school. The High School takes its place without a rival as the people's collegelw If it is asked, '4Who attend the High Schools? it can be answered: The highest types of young manhood and young womanhood are its students. The High School is peculiarly an institution of the middle classes from whom the highest averages of both scholarship and citizenship have always come. If it is asked, What are the purposes of the High School? it can be answered: 1. To provide wholesome systematic occupation for the mind at a time when ideals are shaping and habits are forming. 2. To enable pupils to discover and develop the latent powers within them, powers which otherwise might lie dormant and useless. 3. To enable the pupil to discover to some extent his special tastes and aptitudes. 4. To give the training which will be the graduate's passport to the higher institutions of learning. 5. 'To enable the student to enjoy many opportunities in after years, and render many services, which he could not do without a secondary training. About eight hundred families of Springfield are represented by one or more pupils in the local High School. The Senior class numbers one hundred, and if present tendencies continue, the next seven or eight years will see one thousand young men and women graduated from the school. Can any one question the importance of the school interests located on Jefferson and Center Streets, or begrudge the few thousand dollars annually spent for maintenance?

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QGMMENCEMENT RS M ' ADDRESS OF WELCOME A GEORGE BLAKE JANE ADDAMS ---- - BESSIE WHITE SOLDIERS OF THE COMMON GOOD - MANIE HAUSER LUTHER BURBANK ----- FRANK CAMPBELL MESSAGE OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - GRACE PEPPERDINE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN - - MABEL LAMPE MODERN PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY - - - BENTIE REED VALUE OF IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE IN CHILD LIFE - - - - - - - - - - - GRACE MCCANDLESS RESPONSE EOR CLASS EMMA GIBSON