West High School - Westerner Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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MR. C. W. BIGELOW, B. I.., A. M., Ph. D. Principal. t'What an index is to a book a school boy's character is to his future-life. No boy should think that after acting dishonorably in school he can go out into the world and throw aside those petty crimes and act a true man's part in society. Such a one will fall far short of the demands of the twentieth century. The stand- ards that held ten or twenty years ago will not hold today. The ideals that pupils must meet now are higher than ever before. Man must do the right thing not only because of his duty to self but because of his duty to society. Man formerly asked, What must I do to be saved? He now asks, 'tWhat can I do to contribute most to the well-being of humanity? The boy should ask, 'tWhat can I do to contribute most to the well-being of my school? First, be honorable in all things, second, work. Nothing in life is worth having that can be acquired without work. The gospel of work should be impressed upon the minds of young people today. The pupil who is lazy in school will not change much when he gets out of school. The idea that the men who make good grades in school are the least successful out in the world is too prevalent. The following conclusion, based upon an analysis of the class of 1894 of Harvard, should correct this false notion and destroy the hallucination that there is no connection between examination grades and post-school success: The men who have made good during the first fifteen years out of college are men who made as undergraduates nearly four times as many A's as the average among their class- mates. 12

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GREETINGS Hail! For that Sun who scatters into flight The days before him from our field of might Drives swift along the class eleven and strikes West Denver's seniors with his farewell light. Before our precious High School days are gone We raise our voices in the well loved halls To hid you see the work our class has done ln the four years we spent within these walls. Ye teachers, and ye lower classmen all Behold we place our Annual at your door Ye know how little time we have to stay, And once departed may return no more. Friends, read this hook, and when ambitions star Through the great world's success has led us on Attribute what we do in after years To eflorts spent on honors here we won. Hail! For that Sun who scatters into flight The days hefore him from our field of might Shall soon upon our graduation set Read then our Annual lest that ye forget. One class of many, hut one thought we ask May this our hook from old West Denver High Lead you to keep a place for class eleven Within your memories of the years gone hy. 11

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THE NNUAL BOARD THAD SEARS, Business Manager I,h5l,1hl SKEKHY, Editor-ln-Chief JASPER YOWELL, Asst. Manager ETHEL PALMERTON, Asst. Editor 15