West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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back. They are an education in themselves and are much enjoyed. We have reason to be proud of our high school. The future seems hopeful and bright and we ask our alumni to be loyal to their Alma Mater. If they are not willing to be helpful to the school, who will? The best possible preparation for life’s work is a good education. Realizing this as all must, will you not give the Saginaw West Side high school your personal co¬ operation and make it the best institution of its kind in the State?

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become an established custom. Each class has tried to out do the other, n ot, we regret to say, in displaying their literary ability, but in the display of tempting viands, until it almost seems as if the literary part of the banquet lias decreased in the same ratio as the splendor of the banquet has increased. In 1889 we moved into the new high school building. How bright, how clean, how beautiful it was and how we did enjoy it! but alas, it proved a disappointment for it was soon found to be too small. The school has already outgrown it. Every nook and corner are tilled with energetic pupils eager for the advantages which are offered them. The first principal in the new building was Mr. VVooley who remained but a year and was followed by Mr. Sage, whose name will always be an honored one in our history. He left us last June for wider fields of activity and his successor, Mr. Way, has taken up the work with enthusiasm and has given new interest to both teachers and pupils. December 25, 1893, Hon. Arthur Hill gave his munificent gift to the high school, a Christmas present such as few schools are fortunate enough to receive. It consists of four perpetual scholarships in the University of Michigan, each pupil to receive two hundred and fifty dollars a year for four years, thus enabling him to receive his college education free. Two pupils have already been graduated from the University, through the generosity of Mr. Hill and four are now in the University enjoying its benefits. But not only do the pupils who win this glittering prize derive benefit from it, its in¬ fluence is felt throughout the whole school. It is awarded the pupil who has the best scholarship for the Senior year, but even the Freshmen, realizing that the battle is to the strong, put forth all their efforts so that they may be better able to compete with their classmates during the last year. Smaller but not less welcome gifts have come to the school from time to time. In 1898 the Saginaw Reading Club pre¬ sented the school with two casts of sections of the north and west frieze of the Parthenon. One represents young men •carrying sacrificial vessels; the other, young nobles on horse-

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Hon. Arthur Hill.