Walnut Hills High School - Remembrancer Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Though a fine building does not make an excel- lent school, it goes far to facilitate the work 'of the educator. The 1ight,airy, cheerful recita- tion rooms of this school, most of which are decorated with artistic and appropriate pictures, are themselves silent teachers. The gymnasium is one Of the completest in the west. The lab- oratory, for practical work in chemistry and physics, is fitted up in accordance with modern requirements. The library, though not yet large, is growing steadily, and it contains a very choice collection of standard books, in history, elementary science, literature, and especially in the Greek and Roman classics. There is also on its shelves a valuable series of works in German and in French. Add to all these a carefully selected assortment of cyclopedias, dictionaries, and other necessary reference books. Probably this library is the best of its size, and for its pur- pose, of any in the city. The school is supplied with a complete set of excellent maps. A good lantern. with numerous 6 stereopticon slides illustrating various branches of study, has been made useful by some of the teachers. The school paper, a monthly publication called THE GLEAM, has been conducted with zeal and vigor since the beginning of the year 1896. There has been an organized body of cadets maintained by the boys ever since the school was founded. The Athletic Association, an organi- zation to further the practice of foot-ball and other sports, has taken a suihcientiy prominent part in competitive affairs to give the school a high reputation for systematic bodily training, The debating society is of vast benefit to its members and is a credit to the school. This association was the hrst in Cincinnati to chal- lenge and encounter in public discussion a rival body of its kind from another city. The motto of the Walnut Hills High School, Surmm. ad Szmamum, should inspire its little army of students to the most persevering efforts for worthier ends. W. H. VENABLE.

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Miss Henrietta Reuschel has been transferred to the Woodward colony. Since 1901 the depart- ment of drawing has been under the able direc- tion of Miss Jeanette Cist. Other new members of the faculty are: Mr. Paul Francis Walker, who was appointed instructor in Spanish in I902; Mr. A. M. Crane, and Miss Agnes Brown, both of whom were added to the teaching corps at the beginning of the last term. The steadily increasing attendance of the school has necessitated the establishment, during the past year, of a Hcolony department, which has its present quarters in the Twentyesecond District School Building, on Walnut Hills. The two rooms occupied by the colony accommodate one hundred and htteen hrst-year pupils, whose class-work is supervised by two instructors, Miss Nora Ettlinger, and Miss Agnes Brown. The entire high-school faculty, including special teachers, new numbers ten men and sixteen women. The principal, Mr. John Remsen Bishop, 3 Harvard graduate, who, in 1882-3. was teacher of Greek in St. PauPs School, Concord, N. H1, in 1884-7; principal of Princeton, N. J., Prepara- tory School; and from iSHH to 1895 instructor in Greek and Latin in Hughes High School, has strenuously labored to carry into successful opera- tion, in the new field to which his energies were assigned, the pedagogical theory and practice suggested by the following words from his own pen: HXVllO is it that said: tRemember that your discipline must result in a self-governing being?y It is the aim of this school never to forget this injunction of perhaps the greatest thinker in the domain of education. Dependence upon the will of others to force us to decision or action is vicious in its essence. The high school of to-day ought to be well enough established to put aside shams of all kindseto call to itself the hearty support of parents and school authorities. It should be strong enough to pursue its progress toward the only good worth reaching, self-gov- ernment and self-activity. although one in ten of its pupils should therebybe declared, temporarily or permanently, poor material for citizenship. This school stands for the freedom of the teacher and for absolute ftdelity as the justihcation of that freedom. Conscience, and not force, will be here the ultimate appeal, as soon as circum- stances will permit so radical a change from local tradition. In the meantime, progress is to be made in this direction as rapidly as possible. H tThe need of having the feelings on the side of action has long been recognized as imperativef says one of our well-known school men. This school aims to recognize this imperative need, with 110 shirking of temporary inconveniences caused by this recognition. Lofty aim, thorough- ness of daily work. honor and truth in all things, are the watchwords of our progress. We shall thus win to our support all who have good ethical impulses and give full exercise to these qualities. Many who are ethically weak we shall, through exercise, strengthen. No one will leave this school without an increased respect for right doing and high thinking. We shall teach love of learning, as well as learning, and shall hope to see the future of our work, not in school records, but in noble lives? In conclusion, a brief account of the material equipment of the lValuut Hills High School.

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Senior Class am?! 157 -;- e, Yell One yell, two yells, three or g CLASS MOTTO-Nullz' Senmdus. four 01' Eve yells! 3 CLASS COLOR5 Blark and Gold. Who yell! we yell! g $ Class of Naughty-three, yells! QWWWQ OFFIC ERS - WEBSTER B. HOLMES, . . . . V . . . . . . V . . . . . . President FRANK P. ATKINS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viceipresident. CONSTANCE SORIN. . . . . . . . . . . . N . . . . . . . . Secretary. E. GERTRUDE Away, . . . . A . . . . . . . , . . . . . .Treasurer. WEBSTER 1:. HOLMES. FRANK P. ATKINS. CONSTANCF. SORIN. E. CERTRUDE Avm'.