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Linden Lake High School
Linden Lake, Houghton County, Michigan
"The Blue and Gold"
1917 Yearbook

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The Blue and Gold - 1917 yearbook cover for Linden Lake High School
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THE BLUE AND GOLD. '17. the University of Michigan Inspector with the result that the Lake Linden High School has been on the accredited list of the University of Michgan for a long period. The high school work was approved by the North Central Association in 1909, and just recently notice came to the office that the school is to be continued on the approved list of the association. This gives graduates of the local high school the prvilege of entering any college or university in the Northwest without entrance examination. As soon as the new building is ready for occupancy the high school course of study will be extended and enriched. It will then be possible to offer work in the following departments: Regular academic. 2. Commercial. 3. Industrial for boys. 4. Hndustrial for girls. 5. General art course. 6. Night or continuation courses. Hn addition to the regular school work it will be possible to offer work in Corrective Gymnastics, Games and Military Drilling. The auditorium will provide adequate facilities for public demonstration of choral societies and dramatic clubs. Board of Education : Samuel Eddy. president, served since 1910. Dr. G. W. Orr. secretary, served since 1900. Joseph DesOrmiers, treasurer, served since 1908. Louis Thurmes, served snce 1908. Henry Fisher. served since 1878. Anyone desiring detailed information pertaining to the schools should communicate with the: Secretary of the Board of Education or the Superintendent of Schools. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT. Until the last decade the avowed and traditional aim of the high school was to prepaer its students for college entrance. Only to the intellectual aristocracy did it hold out any attraction or inducement. Tts curriculm consisted almost wholly of the classics. mathematics, a little history, and text-book courses in pure science. It was essentially a class institution. A very small per cent of the pupils who finished the elementary grades entered its halls of learning. Asa distinct tax-supported educational institution functioning in a democracy, this type of school was doomed to be displaced by one with a broader aim. High school education is now a functional activity of society itself, frankly utilitarian as well as cultural and academic. Ht aims to cater to all classes with the ideal of serving every student as a means of discovering himself and getting in contact with social forces. The Lake Linden High School has not been tardy in recognizing the changed ideal in secondary education and has made considerable progress in the organization of courses and methods of instruction. But unlike most of its neighboring schools, it has been seriously handicapped by a lack of a suitable building that might enable it to keep to the forefront in all respects With a small and poorly arranged assembly room it has been unable to present musical, dramatic, oratorical, or other educational productions. Without a gymnasium it has been deprived of practically all indoor physical training instruction, whicb is much needed in' a region where the weather during much of the school year is incomputable with outdoor sports. Lacking a manual training department it has not furnished its students with prevocational instruction in the manual arts and trades. The problems of high school management. because of these inadequacies. have been multiplied. But the completion of the new high school building will mean a new era in education for the Torch Lake towns district. The school will function with more real value in the activtties of the community and will doubtless become the center of its social life. Its field of service will be greatly enlarged. New courses in the esthetic branches and the industrial arts will be offered, gymnastic training will become part of the curriculum and evening and continuation courses will be organized for those unable to attend the regular day classes. It will. we hope, soon measure up to the new conceptions of an efficient modern high school. PRINCIPAL L. C. HOWARD. That Professor made me feel as if He'd been left at the station. Howzat ? H didn't catch his train of thought !Gargoyle.
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