Winslow High School - Eskimo Yearbook (Winslow, IN)

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W. H. S. The Champion 1924 MISS ABELLKS ROGM , I N - MISS KENNEDY'S ROOM 44

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1925- Mflfhfe Chgmpion .-S -I I I MISS WILLIAMS' ROOM MRS. PIRKLE'S ROOM 1 43

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1924 The champion W. H. S. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Early in the year we, the Seniors, were informed by Miss Falls of a nation-wide contest to win medals for writing essays on Lincoln. The writer of the best essay in the Senior class of each school, that expressed a desire to enter in this contest, was to get a bronze medal bearing the pic- ture of Lincoln on one side and the name of the winner on the other. The medal allotted to Winslow High School was sent to the Cooper Drug Com- pany for display. The essays were written and handed in on, or before, Lincoln's birthday. ' Miss Falls, at the suggestion of the Senior class, selected Mr. Abbott, Mr. Beuchele and Mr. Sakcl as judges. The papers had no names on them, only numbersg so, there was no chance of partiality. Seven essays were entered. The judges decided in favor cf the number that proved to be Lucille Soderling's. The medal was presen1 ed to the proud and hafpy win- ner a few days after Lincoln's birthday. A VERNON LYDEN. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN I Nature they sav dcth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-rut plan, Repeating us by rote: For him, the Old-World mrulds a 'de slie threw And choosing sweet flav frrm 1 -e liveest of the undaunted West, With stuff untainterl shapefl a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the slirengxli cf Cod. and true. Thus speaks Lowell of the first great American. It is the greatest men whose fame cannot be wholly accounted for by their public acts. What Linc-oln was is far greater than anything he did. Pre-eminent as is his place in history he conveys the idea of duty rather than glory. flnimdral height and in human service he measures up to the immortals of all ages. So he looms ever larger in the perspective of time. We constantly marvel and rejoice, that he does not recede to a dim legendary figure, but grows clearer in outline, closer in human sympathy. His simplehonesty, kind- ness, duty and love for humanity we revere and know that we may emulate. Nothing else ever happened that so justifies the belief in the capacity of the common people for self-government as the fact that Lincoln's great heart and brain sprang from poor, unlettered ancestry and were nourished in the soil of the backwoods. Born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809, the pioneer .era with its comparative comforts was just emerging from the Indian-fighting and hunting period of Daniel Boone. His log cabin home with its dirt floor was but little better than an Indian lodgeg his food and clothing were more of the trophies of the chase, than products of the soil. The school was nearly five miles away, and the teacher only competent to teach reading. writing and arithmetic. I At twenty-one Lincoln possermfl c 'v fir' 'i N' Yvblc. Pilgrims' Progress. Aesozfs Fables, The Arabian Nigfils. A life of Washington and the Statutes of Indiana. He had also, from seeing an occasional Louisville or Vincennes paper, committed a number of Henry Clay's speeches to mem- ory. The conditions of life in Indiana, where his family moved in 1816, were as primitive as in Kentucky. lferc C21 the if ITS :war G31'g y-x 1' w :nw Lin- 45