University High School - Cub Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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The Popular Student---Hovv to Become One ITH a little observation you will see that the most popular students are those who are hustlersg always wide-awake, ambitious, and ready to take a hand in any activity. How can you be this sort of a person? You don't have to be. Be yourselfg but try to take a little interest in what is going on around youg don't let the other 'fellow do it allg get in and helpg do your share. In a little while you will not have to force yourself to take interest in the diferent school activitiesg the interest will come naturally. Then you can be assured that you have a little pep in your system. Keep up the good work and you will find that no longer will you have to hunt for friendsg they will hunt you: they will be drawn to you, a vigorous personality. Do11't make the mistake of confining pep to your school life alone. Put pep in everything you clog whether it be at school, at home, or in business. A pepful student at school is the fellow who runs things , who is captain of his team, who is leader of his class in seholarshipg who has influence among his fellows. At home, he is not the sort to loaf around and read a book and wish that something exciting would happen Q he is out in the garden cutting the lawn, or hard at work painting the porch. He doesn't wait for something exciting to happeng he goes out and makes everything that is happening exciting every minute of the time. ln the business world the person who does not put vigor and enthusiasm into every transaction is a failure: while the person with pep is bound to succeed. He is so full of ginger'l that he can't be kept downg he is right on the job every minute. It should not be necessary to remind you of all thisg you must see for yourself what a splendid thing pep is to have. This is the best time in your life to acquire this asset, for a man who tries to do so after twenty years of his life spent in comparative inactivity, both mentally and phy- sically, has a hard task before him. Look back over the time you have spent in high school. Have you really put as much pep', as you should have in your actions, or have you acquired a habit of doing everything you do mechanically, and under compulsion? lf you have, wake up. Don't be a cream-punt!

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l-HS little journal, the second edition of the Cub to be printed, is pub- lished in an attempt to convey to you, the students of University High, some idea of the excellent work in literature, art, and athletics that is daily being done in your midst. This publication, a radical departure from the ordinary type of high school periodical, is compiled with three ideals in mindg namely, that the Cub shall contain only the best work in literature and art that the school is capable of producing, that all con- tributions be accepted on a competitive basis, giving' every member of the student body an equal chance to see their work in printg and that the journal be made as nearly self-supporting as possible, without the aid of advertisements. Don't you think that a paper of this kind is more truly representative of the school than one in which merely cartoons and athletic events are featured? Upon this type of periodical, as they are published by almost all the high schools around us, the student body loses approximately 2002, per copy. Surely it is better to cut down the number of photographs and cartoons in our paper rather than have such a state of affairs exist. Besides, the Student Council has so many other ways to spend the small amount in the treasury each term that it should seem but logical to make the Cub break as nearly even as possible. And about the athletic write-ups. Athletic success is a great thing, and one which keeps up enthusiasm to the top-notch, but still, one doesn't feel very happy, even if he does make the team, if he Hunks in his studies. To reverse the statement, one who fails to have success in the athletic way can still console himself with the fact that his marks in scholarship are all that they should be. ln a few words, the big ideal, i11 coming to school is not to make your block letter, but to get a little book-learninf Donlt you think, therefore, that is a bit more natural to make efforts towards literary perfection constitute the greater part of the Cub,'l rather than accounts of eiorts towards athletic perfection?

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A Bouquet for Ourselves AVE you ever stopped to think of the many advantages we enjoy here at University, simply because the school is so small? W'e are indeed fortunate in many ways. The group habit is the curse of every large high school, or institu- tion of any kind. You have seen, in the large schools near us, how the shop gang , fellows who simply take a straight shop course, go around together, never show up at games or rallies, and seem to form a separate part of the school. This is the group habit in its broadest sense as it applies to school life. lkfhen conditions are analyzed, it will be discovered that most schools are really divided into numberless cliques: groups of individuals who pal together, snobhishly ignoring the other schclars. Although high school fraternities were abolished long ago, the frat spirit exists as strongly as it ever did. The gods give us joy, for in our little high school we seem to have escaped the curse. The factional spirit may dominate the schools around us, but the students of University stand one and all for The School. under the Leadership of the Xlfisest and the Best. The Gentle Art of Bluffing OME of us are born bluffers, some schieve bluffing, and some have bluffing thrust upon us. Very few of us are born bluffersg some of us achieve bluffing, while perhaps most of us have bluffing thrust upon us. Bluffers are divided into two classes, confirmed or veteran bluffers and novices, or those who use the art only occasioully. On the whole very few of us really desire to be called a good blufferf' Among students the chronic bluffer is not admired at all, for bluffing is only pretense and no one likes a hypocrite. Among the teachers, once a reputation of being a bluffer is acquired, a person is queered. ln fact, every time a person bluffs, he loses some of his self-respect, for when he bluffs he tacitly admits that he is deficient not only in the knowledge required but in moral courage as well. In the last place, hluffing is cowardly, for it admits that the bluffer lacks the courage to stand up and take his medicine. Therefore, study and succeed or don't study and 'Alluulcfl but don't bluff. It does you no good, and lowers everyone's opinion of you in the bargain. HAROLD lVlATTlfll2XN7S, ,Tune '19.