Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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The School . . The high school of today-radiant with youth, life, bustling activity. Its terraced campus and the nearby park give a htting setting for the simple, red-bricked structure. But let us go in, through these Amzzml pages, and visit the sunny rooms Wherc what is known as the fine art of living is taught, jostle our Way through the buzzing hallwaysg smell the familiar odor of the chemistry room, listen to the band music, the staccato clicking of the busy typewritersg watch the student artists at work, at- tend a meeting of the literary society, a playlet by the dramatic students, or a debateg but before we leave we must go to see that basketball game in the gymnasium - and then call it a day.

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The Park . . Idle Ease end. Change . It is pleasant in spring and early summer to stretch out comfortably under thc trees that fringe the pond in Hum- boldt Park, so nearly within the shadow of the school. Nothing seems to bring on drowsiness quite so quickly as watching, through half- closed eyes, the sunlight file tered into tiny golden stars by the trees-winking sauci- ly on the barely moving water. Just as pleasant is lying on some earthy-smell- ing hill and seeing the tips of the trees seem to dip into the water and set the tiny rip- ples chasing each other from shore to shore. And all these beauties, almost a part of the school campus, are enjoyed. The green lawns lure students during their lunch periods. The lake tempts to a half hour of canoeing. The tennis nets, stretched tautly, sug- gest a swift game or two. Often on a particularly love- ly day the entire park is dot t e d with art students sketching industriously some tree or clump of bushes that strikes their eyes, or, as is more often the case, just loll- ing on the grass pretending to gaze about them in search of inspiration. The biology c l a s s e s, too, periodically swoop down on the park, very systematically, in search of Qhorrible word that seems to banish all the beauty and change the park into a vast laboratoryj bugs,'. Mem- bers of the creative writing c l a s s occasionally saunter along the winding paths, per- haps to find suggestion for a poem in a slowly opening Water lily or material for a, story in some i n c i d e n t brought to mind by the War Memorial. Thus the beauty of the park serves the school.

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leasant retreat, where two slender poplars Cast their afternoon shadows, weaving blue wickerwork across the lawn, while the wind playfully whispers tllrougll the leaves.