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

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In conclusion, a brief account of the material equipment of the Walnut Hills High School. Though a line building does not make an excel- lent school, it goes far to facilitate the work of the educator. The light, airy, cheery recitation rooms of this school, most of which are decorated with artistic and appropriate pictures, are them- selves silent teachers. The gymnasium is one of the completest in the West. The laboratory, for practical work in chemistry antl physics, is fitted up in accordance with modern requirementsv The library, though not yet large, is growing steadily. and it contains a very choice selection of standard books, in history, elementary science, literature, and especially in the Greek and Roman classics, There is also 011 its shelves a valuable series of works in German and in French. Add to all these a carefully selected assortment of cyclope- dias, dictionaries, and other necessary reference hooks. Prohuhiy this library is the best of its size, and for its purpose, of any in the city. The school is supplied with a complete set of excellent maps. A good lantern, with numerous $3 ! ugly L235: 13 stereopticon slides illustrating various branches Of study, has been made useful by some of the teachers. The school paper, a monthly publication called THE GLHML has been conducted with zeal and vigor since the beginning of the year 1mm. There has heen an organized body of cadets maintained by the 13035 ever since the school was founded. The Athletic Association. an organiza- tion to further the practice 01' football and other sports, has taken a sufficiently prominent part in competitive affairs to give the school a high repu- tation 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 first in Cincinnati to challenge and encounter in public discussion :1 rival body of its kind from another city. The motto of the Walnut Hills High School Szirszmz ad Smmnum. should inspire its little army of students to the most persevering efforts for worlhier 'nds. C V H. VENABLE. fun!!! My; $1M Q$L y x

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been transferred to Walnut Hills. Miss Henrietta Reusehel has been transferred to the Woodward colony. Since lEiHl the department of drawing has been under the able direction of Miss Jeanette Fist. In 190?, Mr. Paul Francis XYalkcr was appointed instructor of Spanish; Mr. M. Crane, and Miss Agnes Brown were added to the teaching corps in February, 15'023. Miss Enlalie Artois resigned and Miss Estelle Bode was appointed to take her place in September, lEiUIi. Before the September term of this year Opened Mr. J. Rcmsen Bishop resigned as prin- cipal of lValnut Hills to become the principal of a Detroit High School. Mr. William Taylor Harris, n'hu was the principal ut' the XVi'amln-unl Colony, was appointed to take his. place, Mr. Nel- 51m .L X'l'alkcr was- also added In the faculty. x IX. The steadily increasing attendance of the school has necessitated the establishment of a colony department, which has its present quarters in the Twenty-second District School Building, on XYalnut Hills. colony acconmioclate one hundred and sixty first- year pupils. whose classvwork is supervised by four instructors. Miss Xurzi Ettlinger. Miss Agnes Brown. Mia: King and Miss Johnson. The inn rooms occupied by the The entire high-school faculty, including special teachers, now numbers eleven men and Sixteen n'mncn. 'thm is it that said: discipline must result in a selfegoverning being ?' 'l 'Rcmembcr that 30111- It is the aim of the school meter to forget this injunction of perhaps the greatest thinker in the O l domain of education. Dependence upon the will Of others to force us to decision or action is VlClOLlS in its essence. The high school of to-day ought to be well enough established to put aside Shams of all kintls-to call to itself the hearty support of parents and school authorities. It should be strong enough to pursue its progress towaw the only good worth reaching, self-gov- ernment and selfeactivity, although one in ten of its pupils should thereby be declared, temporarily or pcrnmnenthg poor material for citizenship. This school stands for the freedom of the teacher and for absolute fidelity as the justification of that freedom. Conscience. and not force, will be here the ultimate appeal, :15 soon as circumstances will permit so radical a change from local tradi- In the meantime, progress is to be made in this direction as rapidly as possible. l' The need of having the feelings on the side of action has long been rucugnized as imperative,' says one of our well-known school men. This school aims tn recognize this imperative need, with no Shirk- tion. ing of temporary inconveniences caused by this recognition. Lufty aim, thoroughness of daily mark, hunur and truth in all things, are the watchwords nr 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.

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The Class of Nineteen Hundred and Five ummm .Hdelante, J'iempre, .Hdelante. WWW Wm T HAS been said that the happiest lives are those without a history; but we do not be- lieve that this is true of classes, for our class is happy. and has a history, This history began one day in the September of 11ml. when a jolly crowd of boys and girls ascended the steps ot ll'alnnt Hills High School. That first day will long be remembered by many of us as an eventful one in our lives. for we ex, perienced a feeling of despair and awe Wilul we found ourselves lost in the spacious halls of the building, of which now every nook and corner is so familiar. Vx'e, the joyful members of the class of 1905, claim the distinction of hating eri- tered in the very first year of the Twentieth Cen- tury. During our first year we entertained no hard feelings against our reverend seniors. juniors and sophomores. for almost crushing the little D grader into a corner of the hall, aml preventing him from buying his daily bread. with ham and mustard, at the lunch counter. inexperienced mortals then, and. not knowing our teachers well. did our star-gazing from afar. Ours was not one of those Classes to be crushed out of existence. for we felt that there were high duties in life for us to perform. Thus we always fulfilled our school motto 'tSm'smn ad Slurmuzm. er Were little But to Latin, French and Greek. All those languages we speak. 14 It would be vain to tell of the trials and tribu- lations that we all went through in trying to make some sense out of our Latin lesson for the morrow. Hmvever. we must not lament the try- ing hours which we spent in cramming. for there were hundreds of others before us who did the same thing, and there will be generations of others after us to do it After returning to school in the autumn from our first and happy vacationl we brought a greater amount of vigor and increased energy, which gave us confttlenee for our new studies. Sometimes after working a profound proposition, which nearly brought the grey hairs to our heads, we took our way in a great hurry and Hurry. t0 the Gym. Oh. that dear. delightful, exciting Gym. where so many bells of recreation were spent in obtaining bumps of knowledge by jumping over horses, manipulating Indian clubs. and performing the most wonderful feats that can be conceived of. As we look upon the splen- clid physiques of our boys: the coming Deweys and Roosevelts. and the lithe. willowy forms of our co-etls, the Dianas and Minervas of the future. we feel that we owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Knoch. But to the pleasures! In justice to our sisters and brothers who preceded us, we must not for- get the gay festivities that we partook of when u- were Sophomores. Look back to a night when the Seniors of 1903 tended us a grand en-