The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-05

selfshly.
We shall be blessed by our fellows
who are following the Superman on
their portion of this journey by the pro-
portion which we have beautified and
enriched the backward view and by the
amount of labor which shows to our
credit is leading the greatest number
nearest the heart of the human race.
This institution is not trying to create
new issues under the guise of leader
ship. 1t is trying to intelligently dis
cover the path of development of the
people of Western Kansas-fall into
step with them, live by their side in
their everyday life, live fearlessly and
without deviation from a plain duty
which close, personal and active con-
tact Will point out from the journeys
morning to the evening of the day.
The spirit of this school shall always
be sympathetic, patriotic and demo-
cratic. Sympathetic to sit by the road
side and be friend to man, suffer with
him in his sorrows, shout with him in
his joys, glorify with him in his praises.
Patriotic to state, to school and to the
home. Proud of the sky overhead and
ambitions of the soil underneath. Sat
isfied to live and serve with people
who have fostered and raised US up.
Democratic in taste, in practice and in
teachings. Happy to lift part Of a
brothers. load or accept brothers re-
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neighbor under his views and practices
as you ask him to live under yours.
The social customs shall be clean,
conservative and simple. Clean be
cause of chivalry and respect which
lives in the frontier where worth and
work make up the sum of manhood and
womanhood Conservative in that
nothing, just because it is now, shall
enter into the social fabric and start
the rot which will blemish and mar
lives of purity and joy. Simple because
simple people never grow old. Simple
in mind and practice and the milestones
of life ever offer zest and interest
| Simple because only the simple can be
true.
1t is the earnest purpose of those of
US who are now working in the school
that it shall ever be interpretatIve,
comprehensive and practical. Inter
pretative of the real signs of the times.
Interpretative of the real needs of the
people. Interpretative of essentials
both of materials and realities which
will fill life of full stature Compre-
hensive in giving tools with which TO
enrich and enlarge life to the exclusion
of pettyness and crudity. Compre-
hensive in giving harmony in sound and
color, joy in creation and composition
Comprehensive in cultivating the COM
plete life in music, in arts, in industry,
and in government. Practical in that
al useless and unsuitable tools may be
discarded and efficient and accurate
work be produced. Practical in elm
mating waste in life, IN living and in
producing. Practical in that we shall
intelligently select those things which
/ shall most contribute with the least
waste to the social, industrial, political
and productive life. Practical in that
the education gained in the halls and
class rooms shall place the student in
the labor and at the task he is mentally
and physically equipped to do and shall
set him at this task with the proper
tools and give him such training in
their uses that he shall become an i'm
mediate asset to the life and wei being
Of his community, his state and his ma
ton.
Personal Element-The touch TO which
so many men owe their life long inspir-
alton, the making of an indomitable
spirit, the creation of a clear eyed
optimism, and the foundation of low
able private life. The greatest gift to
any state or any nation-a citizen so I'M
! selfish that he lives but to serve nobly.
These and what they foreten portrays
tbe purpose and destiny of THE FORT
i HAYS KANSAS NORMAL SCHOOL.