Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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To Miss Nettie Fillmore Dean of the Girls is this book most respectfully dedicated. 4

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ditorial HRIVING at that point in our careers from which we can look about us from various angles, for the first time we begin to realize how many are the oppo1'tunitics which have been offered to us during our school days at Wood- ward. It is possible that during our school days we have not taken advantage of SOIIIC of these. Why, we ask, have so lnany opportunities been presented to us? Why such a multiplicity of courses? The answer comes: That you might be enabled to see the possibilities' for that particu- lar work for which you have already found your- selves more or less adapted. For those privileges which we have so long enjoyed, we cannot but feel thankful as today we look back, with not a single book from which to prepare something. The same advantages have been offered to all, and among us are ambitious ones, poor as well as those in most comfortable circumstances, drawn to the school because of the advantages offered. Those inclined to mechanical pursuits have been attracted and held by the in- stallation of the technical courses where many of us have already begun to specialize. Specialization, however, again recalls to us the advantages of our varied curriculum. Those un- decided as to a career, as well as those of us who desired a general training, have found satisfaction in the general course. Others have found this course somewhat inadequate and in addition have studied Greek which they found in the classical C0lll'SC. ln the two closely allied courses of Domes- tic Science and Manual Training are those of us desiring not so much theoretical study and classical knowledge as practical training of both the mind and the hands. We have found our wants fully gratified and consequently are equally prepared to continue either in school or in business, or else undertake ideal housekeeping, the modern preven- tive against divided homes. Still others of us desir- ous of actual trade experience have already mani- fested our adaptability along this line, in the Girls' and Boys' Co-operative and Industrial Courses. Yet with all these varied courses there are still a few among us who would not have found them- selves had it not been for the institution of an Agricultural Course. To those with inclinations to farming, this has proved to be the course so long desired. The institution of this new course, how- ever, also serves to illustrate to us the importance of finding ourselves and seizing those opportu- nities which lead directly to our success. This question of finding oneself in a modern high school has grown to be a problem of vital importance, not only to the student, but to the school authori- ties as wellg for what good are tools to a man if he knows not which ones to use? With so many departments open to the entering scholar, he is bewildered in attempting to select a course of study, for frequently he is unfamiliar not only with the subjects in the various courses, but also with the vocations open to students of the courses. - In an effort to solve this problem of vocational guidance committees of teachers have been ap- pointed to investigate the possibilities for aiding the student in making his selection. Most promis- ing results are expected to evolve from the present plan. The entire student body is classified into three distinctive groups: The first group compris-