South High School - Southernaire Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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CARI. T. VOLLMAN. Scicntific-Gcrman. VIOLET A. WARRINER. Commercial HARRY F. ZULAUF Scientific-German. Class day speaker. Annual play. 22

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HAZEL L. SWEDERSKY. Scientific-Latin. PUEI.LA SYKORA. Scientific-German. NNA G. THOMPSON. Scientific-English. Philalcthe n. HOWARD VAN ALLEN. Scientific-German. 21

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WHY A STUDENT SHOULD GO TO HARVARD. 7i JT K. Dooley in one of his talks with Hennessv described Georgetown Uni I i versity as the winter quarters of the Georgetown baseball team. There are many persons, no doubt, who with Mr. Dooley, believe that colleges exist primarily to foster athletics, and whose estimate of higher institutions of learning is based on the proficiency and skill of the various athletic teams representing those institutions. Harvard University is almost never ranked by such a method. Its high place among the universities of America and Europe has been won on other merit. Harvard is the oldest college in America. Founded in 1 GAG. almost three centuries ago. by the Massachusetts Hay Colony in Xcwtowne only three miles from Boston, its history has l een inextricably woven into that of the origin and growth of our great nation. In the first year or two of its existence, the college received a large gift of hooks and some money from the estate of Reverend John Harvard, and in honor of its first benefactor, the college was given the name, Harvard. After several years Xcwtowne was changed to Cambridge after the old English University from which many in the Massachusetts Bay Colony had graduated. Founded for definite purposes by the Colony, the college was liberally supported. and prospered. Today it holds the proud distinction of being the largest university in America: largest in number of students and of living graduates. The endowment of Harvard University is exceeded by that of only one of two universities in America; its plant and equipment is excelled by none. The Harvard College Library is exceeded in number of volumes only by the Congressional Library and the Boston Public. Its museums and laboratories, developed by Gray n