Los Angeles High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Harry A. Walton Helen L. Day Marguerite Henderson john T. Cooper

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Elma flDHlI6I'. VERYONE should be interested in what we, as a school, have done during the past year. All should be glad to see our victories in athletics. Our football team has won the cham- pionship of Southern California and Arizona, and in the recent tournament we won the tennis championship cup of the southern part of the State. All should study our methods and observe our daily work at school to see whether our advance along literary lines does not rival our successes in the athletic field. It is there- fore our desire to bring before the public what we are doing and what our aims are g we want to rouse the interest of the citizens of Los Angeles in our attainments, and are always glad to see visitors to the different departments. We are especially desirous' of interesting our friends inone of our needs. There are among us hard-working students who are not afraid of earnest effort, and whose clean records and lofty ambitions assure us that they would make brilliant students in college, but who are forced to forego the attainment of their aims because of the lack of one necessary qualification-money. We think if the public could see this they would surely help such to a college education by giving scholarships. It is too bad that our school, as large and renowned as it is, has no method of help- ing the meritorious poor student. If four thousand dollars were put at six per cent interest, the income to be used for this pur- pose, one person could be kept in college, and perhaps a different one each year, for all universities have scholarships open to those students who, during their first year, have shown themselves capable of doing good work. Scholarships are the more neces- sary from this school because we are so far away from the col- leges. For instance, the boy who lives at Berkeley can go to the University and board at home, and outside of school he can find work, because he is known, but anyone from this part of the State has no such advantage and must give up his ideas of going unless someone aids him. So it is with us, in regard to all the universities. There are many of our patrons who, if they thought of it at all, would be convinced of our need in this direc- tion and would help us gladly. Two hundred dollars would be a godsend to many a pupil with high ambitions and low purses. Let someone take the lead and others will surely follow, and at some time we will have a system as good as Harvard's.

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Another thing that would strike the visitor would be the bare walls 5 we need works of art to make rooms more beautiful. A classic picture is inspiring, and we need inspiration. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. We are approaching our object slowly, and would be glad of any help from the outside. It has become a custom for each class at its graduation, to present a picture to our Alma Mater, and the history classes give a histori- cal scene, or portrait, which, you may be sure, we prize very highly, but we want more. Here is a chance for liberal persons to put their money to good use, and receive the gratitude of the school. Several times during the last semester, lectures have been given in the auditorium to raise money for pictures, and we have made small sums this way. We should be very glad to have outsiders come also and swell our picture fund. On March 17th, Geo. L. Cole, who has made a study of the prehistoric races of Arizona, gave us a very interesting talk on the cliif-dwellers, and showed us over one hundred stereopticon views, from photographs which he himself took of the ruined buildings which were the homes of the cliff-dwellers centuries ago. At another time Mr. Stevenson gave a lecture on Scot- land in Song and Story, which made us realize some of the beauty of that land, and what it was as Scott knew it. It was rendered all the more interesting by the reading of Scott's novels we had done. Our Star and Crescent Society is still upholding its reputation for good programs under Miss Henderson. At one of its meet- ings of the last term, Mr. Rolfe, of Chicago University, gave us an interesting talk on Oxford, and illustrated it by many views of the college and its surroundings. At another meeting we had a Kipling program, when many of Kipling's writings in poetry and prose were read and enjoyed, the more because we all had a closer interest in him on account of his almost mortal illness. Before the Parliament, our new debating club, we have had a talk on Harvard, by Mr. Coleman, one of the faculty of our school, and again a lecture on University of California by Mrs. Frick, our vice-principal, both of which lectures gave us an in- sight into what life will be when we enter college. Once Lee Emerson Bassett gave us several selections from Riley, and again Miss Florence Field, an example of home talent, entertained us with recitations in that irresistible way of hers. C. K. J., S. ,QQ.