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

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and how refined his tastes, lighted as they were with the play of wit and fancy. In his person lie illustrated the gentler and more elevated side of that strong race of men who have come to our shores from the great German fatherland. And 1 know that if he is sentient now, there is no public association of his name which would so please him as to connect it with our annual graduating exercises, with the music and the fiowers in which he found such fine delight, and the gathered youth, with eager, glowing faces. And so it shall be. I have attempted here, gentlemen, to do homage to friend¬ ship, and to unselfish public service, but this is only incidental to my desire to quicken the intellectual pulse of the youth of the city which has been my home from early boyhood. And 1 trust it will not be deemed unbecoming when I say, that whether the days that lie before me be many or be few, there enters into them with this act a singular serenity, grow¬ ing out of the nature of the thing done. Looking forward, I see from time to time, some humble scholar—and true scholars are humble, all—with eyes lifted across these scholarships to that lofty mountainpeak of learn¬ ing, our great state University, and I see that scholar, having higher aims, gaining higher ends. Not that scholastic learning is everything, for the chiefest attribute to a complete nature is a heart generous beyond mere giving. But the student who goes up to one of our great seats of learning becomes one of the heirs of the best tho ughts of the best men of all the ages, and both mind and heart are enriched thereby. And the student meets there the intellect¬ ual elite of the nation. Friendships are formed which endure as long as life, and to consort on equal terms with these choice spirits develops chivalry, humanity, as well as intellect¬ ual brightness. The field of university teaching continually broadens, so that today the leading mechanical arts are taught in all their essentials and, moving along these new paths, the student constantly finds new sources of an honorable livelihood. And so it is that, year by year, when the mellow October days shall come, I have the hope that some bright-faced young man, or sweet, clear-eyed young woman, will have found in this modest provision an inspiration and a purpose and will enter the college portals to their great and lasting gain. If this shall be, then, in their persons 1 shall tread the old halls again and, garbed in perpetual youth, shall realize my present dream of immortality. Yours respectfully, Arthur Hill. Saginaw, Dec. 25, 1893.

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CLASS OF 1900 MOTTO: POSSUNT , QUIA POSSE VIDEN TEN ” YELL: We, we, long sought 1 One, nine, nought; nought; Chickety, Clackety, Sis l Boom! Bah I 1900! Rah! Rahil Rah!!! COLORS:—Red and White. FLOWER:—Carnation. OFFICERS President—Helen Clark. Vice President—Edna Hackett. Secretary- Will. Morgan. Treasurer—Leo. Fitzharris. Marshal—Raymond Cooper. Critic—Genevieve Purmort. FORMER OFFICERS. President—Will. Morgan. Vice President—Frances Traber. Secretary—Zuella Srober. Treasurer—Genevieve Purmont. Marshal- Edith Beach. Critic—Jessie Hitchings.