Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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Cemples of Pwstum N olden-time poet of France wrote a ballad, in which 1e questioned what had become of Thais and He of Joan and Bertha—heroines who changed histories in their lives. and who now are but grace ful names to quicken imagination. Villow’s answer yrtal question, “But where are the snows ot yes Since this mad scamp of the Paris gutter was a -, he may have known of the rose gardens i Paestum, sixteen centuries before and Ovid and Martial wrote of them. that was molder- ’ ' ro21 ne oid had its stirring history and has live as a name in literature through centuries in which its actuality 1ad been fe i to-day makes the somewhat unusual coast of the Gulf of Salerno, he finds three te between the mountain and the sea. This f twenty-seven centuries ago, the Roma: =. Pesto ¢ found on the Calabrian coast great forests of lear rivers. They cut the trees for man’s les to their gods. They made the level t; they climbed h and burning. The melting snows iters brought down richness from in fatness and Poseidonia grew pods heh -d and grew sluggish and the coast , ya ™ Sa eae ae he: , Lg A the mountains for forests a fever-breeding marsh; Greek and Roman ships no H- HINCK. oored in its shallowing harbors; and gaunt men moved