Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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JEANNE SMELTZER TOM RICHARDSON Editor-in-Chief Business Manager a. Foreword T LAST the 1930 Acorn is in your hands and with it rest the efforts of the staff A to give you a reminder of the days which, we are told, are the happiest of our lives. May this book help to bring back to you your favorite haunts about school, and may you, seeing a friend’s face, recall his companionship. We have endeavored to give you a hint of the characters or habits of your associates in the Senior Horoscopes and the Humor Section. We mean it to be a bit sentimental for the Seniors—to give them a representative of their school when they go forth to parts unknown. For those who may still look forward to remaining years of high school life, we have also endeavored to make it an accurate index of infor- mation concerning people and things about school. The pride in our building has be en given to us, the classes of the last four years, as a heritage—we have endeavored to help you to preserve it by incorporating views of the school in our art work. The Events Section, including what was for- merly known as the Drama and Social Sections, has been enlarged, since we realize that these activities rank among the first in importance in the school. With thanks to our advisers for their generous aid, and with the hope that we have succeeded in our aim to please you, we consign to your keeping these pages of memories and laughter, the 1930 ACoRN. JEANNE SMELTZER, Editor. The ACORN

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Fashion in Education 6: har world is celebrating, this year, the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of the great Roman poet, Virgil. There will be many gatherings, many ora- tions, many essays in honor of the dead poet whose work in the golden age of Rome marked the high standard of literary endeavor of that age and whose splen- did genius has reached into our own times. From the Renaissance to the last few years the educated man, in a broad sense, was the man who knew Latin, Greek, and mathematics. These were the fashion in education. These symbolized the highest achievement in poetry, drama, and science. Upon this sacred food fed the mighty scholars for almost a thousand years. It was a firm belief that neither art, nor literature, nor medicine, nor law, nor science could thrive lustily without the foundation of these great branches of learning. Now they have become, at least Greek and Latin, obsolete, and the places that knew them “know them no more, forever.” Hardly a university in the land demands either of these for entrance, and the doctrine of formal discipline, of which these were the founda- tion, has vanished from the credo of education. Homer and Virgil, Pindar and Horace, Plautus and Aeschylus, have alike vanished from the required educa- tional makeup of these modern times. Science, invention, the death of the old gods, and the materialistic ideal in general have relegated these great masters to what seems a permanent place of useless dignity in the halls of the vanished great. And yet, if we examine the literature and the art of the past five hundred years, we will find the spirit of these great ones pervading them in a very real and vital way. As in other things, fz ishions change in education. They are here today and forgotten tomorrow, but the master chords which have been struck by Homer or Virgil vibrate through the centuries and reach to our own time. May I express the hope that in this twentieth century after Virgil there may be a hearty and general revival of interest in the great masters of literature and art, and that we of the Alameda High School may help to keep alive the priceless torch lighted upon the Roman altar these many centuries ago, and that we will pass it on undimmed to our successors. GeorcE C. THOMPSON, Principal. { Page 8 } The ACORN