Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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pupilseare square. How could they help being so With such a founder? The students uniformly agree that their instructors d0 deal With them honestly and fairly. This honesty and the attitude of sincerity and trust adopted in all their work react potently upon the students themselves. Very rarely do we iind them using unfair means to any end, such actions being scorned as unworthy. We should not wonder, then, at finding in boys and girls passing from the healthful atmosphere of our school, a strong sense of fairness; a strong belief that the honest course is immeasurably the better and a firm determination to cling to our sig- nificant and well-known motto, HEsse quam Videri. The method used in Woodward in assisting one to meet in the best manner and to solve satisfactorily the mighty problem of making a livelihood is both logical and highly practicable. The plan provides for natur- ally and gradually developing in the students the fun- damental qualities Which a successful worker must possess. Next in importance, perhaps, comes the per- sistent efforts on the part Of the school to demonstrate the material value of work. This the pupil is taught by personal example and precept daily during four strenu- ous years. So, generally speaking, long before he is ready to graduate he has forgotten any distaste for work Which may have been in his heart at the beginning of his career in Woodward. He has reached the point of recognizing it as a saving factor in his life. It is true that a few may consider this habit of working of some- what trifling importance, yet we sincerely believe that any one of them would find it somewhat difficult to satisfactorily demonstrate the virtue of a contrary course. Almost anyone With experience can easily prove the inestimable merit of plodding industry in 10 promoting success. Of course, at first some are not so thoroughly nor so well impressed with the idea of hard work, but given the right conditions, such as Woodward supplies, there could, in the student body, rarely de- velop a desire for complete inactivity. Our school offers yet another quality of tremendous consequence in any undertaking. I refer to the ability to gain the best results through labor, together With the least possible expenditure of energy. If a Wood- ward pupil but recognizes his advantages he may be- come quite skilled in the paying practice of giving spe- cial attention to essentials and their relations to each other. Students of high-school age can not always readily recognize essentials When they appear mixed With a great mass of detail and comment; so the teach- ers take great care to emphasize the constituent prin- ciples of their several subjects. By this means the stu- dents develop a properly critical attitude and their minds are keen to find out the essentials of the subjects in which they are interested. The ability to separate the grain from the chaff, Which in its own time serves a Wise purpose, weighs mightily in the balance of pros- perity, because of its utility in grasping a problem and arriving at a sane and logical conclusion. Facts, today, point out very forcibly the supreme need in the indus- trial province of logical, practical men and women who have learned by the proper use of energy the conserva- tion of their own lives and their own happiness. In the race for a livelihood in this straining age, a man needs every ounce of strength put to the right place and he needs it all the time. The school, equipped with the besteboth of in- structors and 0f the conveniences needed to eliminate all material obstruction to educational progresseis

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Woodward Spirit Promotive of Best Citizenship 1. HE inquiry is often made by persons referring . to one school or another: iiDoes it really pre- pare young men and women for the more serious aifairs of after life, or does it merely afford a superficial polish that may easily be rubbed away in the rush and strain of living? In other words, the questioner wishes to find out how the school endeavors to fit its students for the most use.- ful citizenship in community or nation. In applying the question to our institution, let us try to show that the various carefully selected courses will be productive of a firm, industrial and cultural foundation for work in the sundry occupations of the complex business world. Woodward wishes the public to understand that she essays a cultivating as well as a polishing process through which those taking her training must pass. We all know that her moral interests and purposes are of the highest and we feel that words concerning him, whose purposes she was given to promote, can not here come amiss. Not that it is necessary to substantiate our l'Grand Old Man in any way, but that we may for a moment recall to our hearts and minds the ideals and practical good accomplished by the generous gift of the founder. How near to his heart must have been the happiness and progress of those poor, untutored children for whom the school was originally established! We all under- stand in some degree the attitude of pure brotherly love which prompted such an action. Never robust in body, Mr. Woodward might have refused public trusts of any kind and no one could have rightly censured him; with him there was no shrinking from duty, no cowering before hardship, no hesitation in the doing of a generous deed. Coming to Cincinnati in 1791, when it was a small but already thriving village founded by hardy men from across the Appalachian Mountains, he set up his tannery and went to work. At the same time he entered into the real estate business, making money enough in this way to warrant his consummating plans for publicly aiding the poor children of Cincine nati. In the year 1826 he entrusted a tract of seven acres of land to his staunch and sound-minded friend, Samuel Lewis, and a nephew, Osmond Cegswell, who were to act as trustees of a fund for the support of a free grammar school to be erected thereon. Childless himself, he loved children and gave to their cause with all his generous heart. As one studies his life two principles stand forth quite distinctly-his faultless honesty and his thrift. They seem the main springs of all his actions, and make of an otherwise quiet and uneventful life an example worthy of imitation. Knowing these facts it is but logical and correct to conclude that the principles of such a man consistently illustrated by his life, would neces- sarily impress themselves upon our institution and through it upon all life given to it for development. Indeed, it is a recognized fact that our benefactorls ideals are the ideals of the great school he founded, and that training towards them will always be one of the leading forces in the work of the institution. There surely is great reason for rejoicing that the machinery of our institution e the instructors and the

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also now better prepared to supply practical training to all her children than ever before. For a long time the thinkers in education failed to take into considera- tion the undeniable variation in need and inherent ability Which occurs in different children. Some time ago, however, the fact began to be recognized, and now in high schools we find an important change. Wood- ward High School now Offers a choice of several excel- lent courses of study which should not fail to provide for the natural unfolding of abilities peculiar to almost any pupil of high-school age. She has installed in her splendid new home, physical and chemical laboratories that adequately supply a means of acquainting the stu- dents 'With the laws governing the natural processes going on about us daily and of which the inventor and the manufacturer make use in solving their problems. Domestic Science is taught to the young ladies as a factor of tremendous consequence in home economy and happiness. Stenography and typewriting are recent additions to the school curriculum, supplying a long-felt need. There are also mechanical and free-hand draw- ing, subj ects Without Which the schoolls full aims would certainly not be accomplished. A chance for young men to lit themselves for shop or other practice in busie ness is offered in the Manual Training and Bookkeeping courses, the former of Which includes constructive work in wood and iron e a training which it would be superhuous to state has been proven both comprehen- sive and thorough. A glance at the foregoing, together With the knowle edge that there are taught, besides, a host of other equally interesting and important subjects, sufliciently 11 shows that Woodward gives an opportunity to each and every one Within her walls to develop that peculiar in- dividuality with Which everyone is blessed. In fact, there exists a tacit understanding among the instructors to sensibly accept a scholar as he is and to shape his activities into what seems to be his destined course. But Woodward does offer other benefits to her pupils than those that tend toward making for honest success in business. She recognizes to the full that men live by and with each other, and therefore wisely urges her course in the direction of establishing a healthy, nor mal relation between community and citizen. From the democratic ideals set forth by the teachers, the gen- eral feeling of good fellowship and justice in the stue dent body and especially the interesting course in Mu- nicipal Civics recently inaugurated by the school, there is established a desire and determination to stand for earnest, sympathetic service to the community and possibly e as has already occurred With a certain Woodward boy e to the nation as a whole. Thus does Woodward serve humanity as she faithe fully teaches her pupils to serve heresincerely and with incorruptible honesty. She would have her children be- come citizens, imbued with the deep and abiding sense of a true citizenls duty and his responsibility for the well-being of his neighbor and himself. With this spirit fully at heart, there stands no limit to the wise and effective work which he can accomplish in the individ- ual position that he occupies in the community. And so will he reflect the noble Spirit of Woodward. -HOWARD STANLEY MADDUX.