Santa Rosa High School - Echo Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

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20 THE PORCUPINE the song left open before us on the rack. We are swept out upon a sea of infiniteness and are saved from wreck by the thought that we are to meet again and for always. “ % % % % % % % % We return to school. It was a system of tasks and rules. It is now a world of boys and girls—the best boys and girls of a community. It was obligation to parents; it is now opportunity for pupils and self. It was duty; it is now life. High School, our work-a-day world. A world of the best, for the best, and toward the best. We are happy and busy in it. We are loyal, loyal to our world with a motto, “Veritas,” and loyal to ourselves, with a motto, “Esse Quam Videri.”’ (pies : Exchanges The exchanges at hand for February show a great va- riety in many respects. As a whole they are attractive in form and are creditable. Publication space does not permit criticism of each one, and some of the best have been passed over without comment. Let us omit this month the mention of those papers: which are attractive mainly for covers. Such praise seems rather weak for a paper which aspires to represent the life of a school, The first number of the Manzanila is an attractive pa- per. We hope that the “little apple” will fiourish and Tow. The Cardinal, published by the students of Corning Union High School, is a bright little paper. The author R, 4 Moodey sigh

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se ene THE PORCUPINE 19 this fave expresses to each observer a different meaning. If the stern guardian of the hillside seemed sometimes to regard me with a frown, was it merely an excited fancy of my own, or did he, perhaps. resent the untrained ef- forts of an invading westerner, who was withal only a high school graduate? Perhaps some of my readers may some day study his phinx-like expression for themselves and find the real truth of its meaning. —— — a Our Work-a-day World Our work-a-day world is school. The one we are now interested in is High School. We hate it. It confines, restrains. It compels, enforces. It encloses within wall- ed and sunless space even at a time when all nature grows, jumps and laughs. It suppresses to silence when the fibres tingle with activity. It forces to colorless ef- fort when the outside world glows with practical action. It bears down with small rulings when the air seems la- den with freedom. No reason is given nor seen for this enthraldom, It is ali that is unnatural and thoroughiv disagreeable. We leave it in disgust, or are held to it in dispai % i Ta Time passes. We yisit in the country and enter the rchool house. The clock in silence looks down upon emp- ty seats. The stove is cold. A pall of dust covers the room. Here is a sign, a mark on a desk, a note on the floor, a muffler on the wall. At the window we look down upon the playground, and then to the white fields and vray hills beyond. At the organ, we sit down and play Piws. DAVIS Prescription. Druigceist F hone Main 3 The Place to Buy Drugs Drugs and Prescriptions Delivered to You Without Fxtra Charge

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THE PORCUPINE 21 of “A Scheme’ That Failed” is gifted with a remarkable imagination. The February number of La Plume is very good. The magazine as a whole is attractive and ranks high in com- parison with our other exchanges. The illustrations in the Sea Urchin from Pacific Grove make it a very attractive number. The articles are nearly all good and the general appearance of the paper is very creditable. The Poly is a well organized paper. “The Men Who Lied” promises to be a very good story. ‘“The Mile Run” also deserves nention. Merit is not confined to the liter- ary department. 'The many other divisions of the maga- zine deserve a share of the praise. We are glad that the students of the Orland High School are again publishing the Atheneum. The paper has our best wishes for its prosperity in the future. The Oracle from the Oakdale Union High School de- votes several pages of its February issue to articles deal- ing with Washington. The number as a whole is good, and the school has reason to be proud of it. Hewman’s Fer PURE DRUGS Cor. 4th and Mendocino Sts ¢ i Ae e . DRO REED, Dentist Office in Masortic Block, Fourth Street Office Hours:g a.m to4p.m. Sundays, 8 to 10 a. m. Singer Sewing Machine Co. C. W. FISK. Managing Salesman 210 Fourth Street Santa Rosa, California