Warren G Harding High School - Echoes Yearbook (Warren, OH)

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1 The Board of Education

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l TJHIE ECIHIOJES CCD? W G. llNCf IEIUQIGIFH SCTEIQJQQL l The Development of the American High School Across the seas our people came to make new homes in a new land. to establish a government dedicated to a new principle. They early established schoolsedame schools where children were taught to read, Latin Grammer schools where youth was prepared in foreign languages and in mathematics, colleges where the selected groups were trained for leadership. Over the mountains our people came to make new homes in the worldis great garden. to make our practice match our ideal in government, and to push across the great moun- tains to a land beautiful in color, clime and spirit. Everywhere they established the one- room school, the academy, and the college. Away from the country-side our people came to the urban centers. called by com- merce and industry, to make new homes in crowded places. They kept their faith in schools. The graded school with its enriched curriculum under trained teachers helped the younger children to learn to live under the new. complex conditions. The high school open to all youth supplanted the academy restricted to a favored few. ln truly marvelous numbers. youth has accepted this new opportunity and forced the erection of new and larger buildings. Open to all the children of all the people. the present day high school is obligated to recognize the claims of every distinctive type of pupil and to take into account the complex and changed conditions of our modern life. High school objectives. therefore, have come to be as follows: Health, Accurate Knowledge of Com- mon Fundamentalsg locational Preparationg Profitable Use of Leisure: Training for Consistent Home Membership: Practice in Good Citizenship: and a Basis for Ethical Character. Vision of Life to be Acquired in the New School As goodness is more than a form of religion, so a school is more than the building in which it is housed. .lust as it takes a heap of livin' in a house to make a home. so it takes a great deal of life to make a school. Pupils here are not just preparing to live, they are living. ln order to truly live. the soul must have a vision in three dimensions. back toward the past, out in the present. on the far horizons of the future. lngrate indeed is he who never bows his head in reverent gratitude for all the great gifts that have come out of the past. Foolish is he who tries to live today without first coming to a mastery of the day's confusion by finding therefor some simple. satisfying principle of conduct. Altogether futile and wasted is his life who makes no worthy contribution to the future through a wise investment of influence or through unseltish service rendered without hope of material reward or gain. l hope that in this school boys and girls may learn to appreciate in some measure the rich gifts the past has given in language, literature. art, music, drama. science, mathematics. history. I hope they may appreciate the rich heritage held here in store for him who earns it. l hope that the boys and girls who live in this school-home may master an under- standing of the present. not to be wafted here and there upon its froth and foam. I hope that through the practice of good citizenship and helpful service here these boys and girls may take a worthy beginning in that wisest of all forms of thrift, saving the best part of every day for a worthy contribution to the future. Ten

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1' he Faculty