East High School - Eastonian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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CCNTENTS Book I, Administration, containing not only the Board and beloved non-depart- mental teachers, but also the much respected Student Councils. Book II, Classes, in which supercilious seniors gaze inanely at the little birdie - smaller fry also bravely front the camera -National Honor Society and Senior Ballot classify the demi-gods. Book III, Departments, wherein short ex- planations of long subjects, through which you have sat, are offered. Book IV, Organizations, including the brilliant literary clubs and the highly in- telligent Cthough not so ostentatiously sol departmental and general clubs. Book V, Activities, in which East and Shakespeare produce some purple pas- sages-high romance and tragic problems of Seventeen -The Old Woman in the Shoe produces a Prince who produces a shoe-P.-T. A. aids the teachers. Book VI, Features, featuring the Last Will and prophetic utterings of a modern Sibyl -future poets, essayists, and short story writers blossom out.

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KUAN YIN With graceful, 'Ianguid hands, and gracious, though slightly supercilious, features, this Goddess of Mercy is one of the best examples of its kind in American collections. Elaborate carvings, a, rich headdress, '-many-folded draperies, and the gro- tesquely contorted rock upon jwhich the figure is seated-these are. theffeatures which, strike the person only newlyiacguainted with Her Chinese Maiesty. - ' i 4 I Nor does this idol, who comes to modernity from the thirteenth century, become less romantic, less beautiful as acquaintcrnceship blossoms into friend- smptfllnlike her human brothers and sisters, whom she seems to disdain, Kuan Yin receives all with a gentle smile in which politeness is dominating.