Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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December Issues Acorn (Alameda, Cal.) — You spoil a fine paper by your inconsistency. Your exchange editor says Above all things, the covers both front and back, should be free from this commercialism (advertisements). Yet your covers are fuil of advertisements. How about it? Adjutant (Mt. Tamalpais Military Academy) — Where are your cuts? Otherwise you have a good paper. Breeze (Gushing Academy, Mass.) — Ads. and athletics get your most valuable space. Clintoria (Clinton, Iowa) — Your literary department can not be criticised, but should football be given eleven-twelfths of the atheltic space. Cogswell (Cogswell High) — There is nothing to find fault with in your Xmas number. Your Technical depart- ment and Girls ' Notes are worthy of imitation. Echo (Santa Rosa High) — Your paper is one of the best literary papers we have seen, but where are your school activities? Your cover seems rather out of place. Echoes (Fort Lee, N. J.) — Your poetry is good, and your Editor ' s Desk is clever, but what school do you represent? Guard and Tackle (Stockton High) — You deserve con- gratulations on your fine paper. The editorial on cribbing is what we need in school papers. Madrona (Palo Alto High) — You have a live paper. We can find no fault with it. Porcupine (Radley High) — You are a great booster for your city. We admire your spirit. 1

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OLLA PODRIDA From the blue hill- tops, From the blue hill tops of CA ening ' . Still, upon the U. C. oval. Ran around in endless circles, lembers of the A. and B. clubs- Ran and jumped and threw the javelin, In the cold chill air of night time. And when dawn broke, crisp and frosty,. All the rooters frozen stiff were All the girls of Berkeley High School, Frozen stiff ' and hard as rock is. And the sun warmed and re dved them. And they ' rose and yelled and rooted, For their favorite — A. or B. club. Once again to west the sun set; And again the moon, fair Luna. Laughed upon them from the heavens. Laughed upon the shivering ' wretches, Running, jumping, in the moonlight. And above, in corkscrew circles. Swung the bird of prey, the aer ' plane, AVatched and waited for the fallen. Swooped, and took them home and fed them. And the sun again at rising. Thawed and warmed the frozen rooters. So this day the field meet ended. Ended the greatest of all track meets ; Two whole days and nights it lasted ; But the score was not kept count on, For the Pale Face. Poppy Clarkie, Had to go home and rock the baby. In the land of the hereafter! When 3 ' ou meet the sun and moon gods,. Ask of each the part it saw. And, in adding these together, Thuswise only may you know the Side that won the . .-B. track meet. 30

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OLLA PODRIDA Oracle (Kern County High) — You deserve to be con- gratulated on getting out such a neat and attractive paper with so few ads. Red and Black ( Salt Lake City ) — Your cover design is all right to waste time in making, but a school paper is no place for it. Russ (San Diego) — Your stories are good, your depart- ments are fine, and your advertisements where they belong. You ' re all right. Skirmisher ( St. Alatthews Academy. Burlingame, Cal.) — The few cuts that you have are fine, but you need more. Your Can You Imagine? page is clever and no ■el. Totem (Lincoln High. Seattle, AA ' ash) — If your first five pages were left out, you would have a good paper. Ads. don ' t belong there. Tocsin (Santa Clara, Cal. ) — You have one ' of the most ar- tistic cover designs we have seen, and your paper is short, but good. Your Xooz is novel and amusing. Trident ( Santa Cruz, Cal. ) is another fine appearing paper. A e wish to join with the editors of the Tritlent and the Acorn in condemning front-page advertisements. If a school paper is primarily a business venture, then ads. l elong there, but a school paper is to help literary and school activities, and to join the students closer together in one central in- terest. Editors and managers, if you can ' t support a month- ly paper without ads. in front, then issue it semi-monthh . Quality before quantity. A ' e have received the Calendar, Bufl: ' alo ; Forum, St. Jo- seph ; Herald, Atlantic City; Jots and Blots, London. Ohio; Joshua Palm, Goldfield ; Lion, La Grange, 111. ; Critic. ] Iac- kensack, X. J. ; ] Iagpie. De AA ' itt Clinton High, X. Y. ; The jMargol, Glassboro, X . J.; Alessenger. AA ' ichita. Kan.; Pacific Star, ] Iount Angel, Ore. ; The Review. Lowell. Alass. ; The Review, Galveston, Texas ; The Red and Gray, Xational City, Cal. ; Student Life, Pomona ; The Tenderfoot, Salida, Colo. 32